{"id":2148,"date":"2013-02-28T01:45:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T01:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gay.blogs.cam4.com\/?p=2148"},"modified":"2013-02-28T01:47:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T01:47:00","slug":"study-why-straight-women-and-gay-men-are-totes-bffs-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/2013\/02\/study-why-straight-women-and-gay-men-are-totes-bffs-for-life\/","title":{"rendered":"STUDY: Why Straight Women And Gay Men Are Totes BFFS For Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/files\/2013\/02\/Screen-Shot-2013-02-21-at-3.09.57-PM.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2149\" alt=\"Screen-Shot-2013-02-21-at-3.09.57-PM\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/files\/2013\/02\/Screen-Shot-2013-02-21-at-3.09.57-PM-300x165.png?resize=300%2C165&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Screen-Shot-2013-02-21-at-3.09.57-PM.png?resize=300%2C165&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Screen-Shot-2013-02-21-at-3.09.57-PM.png?w=656&amp;ssl=1 656w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Psychologists at Texas Christian University developed a fictional Facebook personality, \u201cJordan,\u201d and evaluated how participants related to this persona.<\/p>\n<p>For the 88 straight women involved in the study, \u201cJordan\u201d was either a straight man, a straight woman or a gay man. For the 58 gay men who participated, Jordan was alternately a straight woman, a gay man, or a lesbian. Jordan\u2019s sexuality and gender differed from subject to subject, but everything else about him\/her was constant.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After getting to know Jordan by reading his (or her) profile, the subjects were asked to imagine themselves in a number of hypothetical scenarios with their new, hypothetical friend. The situations took place at a party, in which Jordan would offer them \u201cmating-relevant advice,\u201d such as commenting on their interaction with a potential romantic interest.<\/p>\n<p>How trustworthy did they theoretically find their fake friend\u2019s advice to be? And how likely did they think Jordan was to help them in nailing down \u201ca fling,\u201d \u201ca date,\u201d or even \u201ca potential relationship\u201d?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">As you might expect, the study showed that straight women were more trusting of \u201cmating advice\u201d from a gay man, and vice versa. (The results indicated, though, that gay men and straight girls don\u2019t think the other is particularly helpful in helping them land a man.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The theory put forth by lead researcher Eric M. Russell is that gays and gals connect because we see each other as \u201cuniquely trustworthy sources of social support.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/study-why-straight-women-and-gay-men-are-totes-bffs-for-life-20130221\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/files\/2013\/02\/Screen-Shot-2013-02-21-at-3.09.57-PM.png?ssl=1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Psychologists at Texas Christian University developed a fictional Facebook personality, \u201cJordan,\u201d and evaluated how participants related to this persona.<\/p>\n<p>For the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12003],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-humor","news-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2148"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2153,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions\/2153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}