Is ‘Gaydar’ Really a Thg? | Psychology Today

Contents:

• TANBOY4U/GAYDAR
• GAY
• GAY RADAR, KEMAMPUAN MENTEKSI ORIENTASI SEKSUAL SEORANG
• THE TTH ABOUT ‘GAYDAR’
• IS ‘GAYDAR’ REALLY A THG?
• GAYDAR: DO YOU HAVE IT?
• GAY DISRD EMOJIS
• GAY RADAR
• THE TTH ABOUT ‘GAYDAR’
• GAYDAR: DO YOU HAVE IT?

TANBOY4U/GAYDAR

The Science of “Gaydar”:. Gaydar has been the subject of a fair amount of scientific ntroversy as of late.

Is gaydar really a thg and, if so, how accurate is ? People talk about ‘gaydar’ as the abily to terme whether someone is gay based on their tun about the person.

Most scientific studi of gaydar suggt that there’s somethg to this ia. The wi-rangg fdgs suggt that gaydar n potentially pick up on everythg om one’s looks to movements to speech patterns. In fact, when people are asked to thk refully before makg a sexualy judgment, gaydar actually be ls accurate.

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In other words, the more people thk about , the worse their gaydar is! Some people seem to have more accurate gaydar than others. For stance, people who hold anti-gay views typilly perform worse gaydar studi; by ntrast, sexual mori and people who have more faiary.

In a particularly fascatg study, rearchers found that women’s gaydar was more accurate when they were ovulatg than when they weren’t.

Put another way, when women are at peak fertily, their abily to distguish men who are gay om those who are straight appears to improve. Most studi of gaydar volve askg people to make eher/or judgments: is this person gay or is this person straight?

GAY RADAR, KEMAMPUAN MENTEKSI ORIENTASI SEKSUAL SEORANG

So what happens when bisexual people are clud gaydar rearch? Also, when people are given the opportuny to gus a target’s sexualy on a spectm—a la the classic Ksey Sle—rather than makg eher/or cisns, gay and bisexual persons tend to be given pretty siar ratgs. This suggts that gaydar really only distguish heterosexual om non-heterosexual, meang don’t necsarily help when to makg more fe-graed termatns.

Overall, gaydar helps people make sexual orientatn ferenc that are better than chance gusg; however, they are far om perfect. Most gaydar studi are set up so that participants would be rrect 50% of the time were they to rely on chance gusg. Bottom le: The rearch nducted to date suggts that there is somethg to the ia of gaydar that people appear able to tuively terme others’ sexualy at levels greater than chance rponse to a variety of cu.

At the same time, though, gaydar is clearly an imperfect tool, and one that don’t necsarily appear sensive to the wi spectm of sexuali that exist. Gaydar works great on mobile, tablet and sktop, so you n e on the go or at home.

THE TTH ABOUT ‘GAYDAR’

Gaydar: visual tectn of sexual orientatn among gay and straight men. J Homosex. Currently, Amerin gay people believe they have a unique abily to pick each other out a crowd (often termed "gaydar" ["gay" + "radar"]).

To tt for the prence of this abily gay men, the rearcher asked self-intified gay and straight male participants to view a seri of unfaiar men on viotape and terme the sexual orientatn of each. The higher overall accuracy of gay men monstrated a trend level difference om their straight horts although fallg short (primarily due to small sample size) of the p < 0. A theory for the emergence of this skill (termed "Adaptive Gaydar" by the thor) as a unique perceptual abily/pg mechanism uique among gay people is also prented.

Inferenc About Sexual Orientatn: The Rol of Stereotyp, Fac, and The Gaydar Myth. How Like Perceiv Like: Gay People on "Gaydar".

IS ‘GAYDAR’ REALLY A THG?

Stereotypil Disease Inferenc From Gay/Lbian Vers Heterosexual Voic. Friends wh benefs, but whout the sex: straight women and gay men exchange tstworthy matg advice.

Implic and explic measur of sexual orientatn attus: group preferenc and related behavrs and beliefs among gay and straight men.

Gay- and Lbian-Soundg Audory Cu Elic Stereotypg and Discrimatn. Jakarta - Semak meluasnya jenis orientasi seksual mendorong perlunya meiki "gaydar" (gay radar).

GAYDAR: DO YOU HAVE IT?

Gaydar adalah istilah yang dipakai luas unt kemampuan menilai orientasi seksual orang la ngan cepat.

Hasilnya, 65 persen partisipan dapat mengintifikasi lbian/wana normal dan 57 persen partisipan dapat mengintifikasi gay/pria normal dari ke-96 foto tersebut. Kemuanya juga tidak meiki bekas la, janggut, kumis atpun bekas ketika wajah-wajah tersebut dampilkan dalam kondisi terbalik, akurasi intifikasi yang dilakan partisipan menun menjadi 61 persen unt lbian/wana normal dan 53 persen unt gay/pria normal.

GAY DISRD EMOJIS

Namun, tgkat akurasi u masih lebih tggi daripada intifikasi yang dilakan sera kebetulan saja, kata yang dipublikasikan di jurnal PLoS One i menunjkan bahwa banyak orang yang sera sadar membuat pembedaan terhadap homoseksual dan orang normal. Informasi semam i pun akan tes dihadapkan pada ka dalam kehidupan sehari-hari, " tambahnya seperti dirilis dari Health24, Mggu (20/5/2012) mengaku temuan i menantang teori bahwa jika orang-orang merahasiakan orientasi seksualnya maka diskrimasi terhadap homoseksual, lbian dan biseksual takkan pernah ada. Menutnya, argumen i jt dibuat oleh orang-orang yang tak setuju ngan kebijakan anti-diskrimasi bagi kelompok begu, Tabak tak meneman alasan mengapa beberapa orang meiki "radar gay" yang lebih baik dari lanya.

Tabak hanya menduga bahwa "orang-orang dari generasi yang lebih tua at kultur yang berbeda bisa saja tumbuh wasa tanpa pernah berteraksi ngan gay" sehgga kurang akurat dalam mengintifikasi gay at orang normal. Twter: @judgmentalgay.

Usg "gaydar" as a way to talk jokgly about stereotypg trivializ , rearchers say. Studi suggt that the perpetuatn of the gaydar myth has untend nsequenc. Stereotyp often fluence the imprsns, whether ’s that a black man is dangero, a woman won’t be a good lear or a fashnable man is gay.

GAY RADAR

Stereotyp related to gay men and lbians often operate unr the guise of “gaydar” rather than stereotypg. “Gaydar” (a portmante of “gay” and “radar”) is a term that first appeared the 1980s and refers to a “sixth sense” for intifyg who is gay. Like many purported tuns, however, gaydar often reli on stereotyp.

While many people believe stereotypg is wrong, llg “gaydar” merely provis a ver for g stereotypil tras – like someone’s fashn sense, profsn or hairstyle – to jump to nclns about someone beg gay.

Nohels, some rearchers have published studi that, at first glance, appear to show that people have accurate gaydar. In some recent work, my lleagu and I have been able to monstrate how the perpetuatn of the gaydar myth has untend negative nsequenc. We’ve also intified a mathematil flaw some prev gaydar rearch, llg to qutn the rults.

THE TTH ABOUT ‘GAYDAR’

My lleagu and I spected that even people who would normally try to rea om stereotypg might be more likely to e gay stereotyp if they are led to believe they have gaydar. Why do some untri disapprove of homosexualy? We told some participants that scientific evince says gaydar was a real abily, led others to believe that gaydar is jt another term for stereotypg and said nothg about gaydar to a third group (the ntrol).

Participants then judged whether men were gay or straight based on rmatn ostensibly taken om social media profil. Some of the men had terts (or “lik”) that related to gay stereotyp, like fashn, shoppg or theater.

This sign allowed to asss how often people jumped to the ncln that men were gay based on stereotypilly gay terts. Those who were told gaydar is real stereotyped much more than the ntrol group, and participants stereotyped much ls when they had been told that gaydar is jt another term for stereotypg. The patterns provid strong support for the ia that belief gaydar enurag stereotypg by simply disguisg unr a different label.

GAYDAR: DO YOU HAVE IT?

In some ways, the ia of gaydar – even if ’s jt stereotypg – seems eful at bt and harmls at worst. Usg gaydar as a way to talk nocuoly or jokgly about stereotypg – “Oh, that guy sets off my gaydar” – trivializ stereotypg and mak seem like no big al. Participants learned only one thg about this other person, eher that he was gay or simply liked shoppg (people tend to assume men who like shoppg are gay).

In one ndn, therefore, the participants knew that the man was gay and the other they might have privately ferred that he was gay though wasn’t nfirmed, but that wasn’t known to anyone else (who might have acced them of beg prejudiced). As we predicted, the vertly prejudiced people tend to rea om shockg the man who was nfirmed as gay, but livered extremely high levels of shocks to the man who liked shoppg.