Women trust gay men more than straight male friends
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 03-12-2015
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"This provides novel experimental evidence that there is more to the gay male-straight female friendship than just what we see on TV - certain social psychological processes are, indeed, driving these relationships in real life," explained Eric Russell, the paper's lead author from the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA).
The findings shed new light on why many heterosexual women develop close friendships with gay men.
To reach this conclusion, the research, which comprises four separate studies, involved nearly 700 heterosexual female students at a major public university in southwestern US.