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"I See Gay People" Gaydar Abilities In A Real-World Distribution, Benjamin Patrick Skillman
"I See Gay People" Gaydar Abilities In A Real-World Distribution, Benjamin Patrick Skillman
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“Gaydar” is the colloquial term for identifying someone’s sexual orientation from physical cues. Past literature has shown that people can identify someone’s sexual orientation at above chance levels. Past literature has used a 50/50 split of gay and straight faces and used non-standardized images, which can induce confounds in the results. The present study examined gaydar accuracy in a realistic distribution of straight and gay faces using standardized images and examined facial morphology for differences between gay and straight men. Participants were not found to have above chance accuracy for identifying gay faces. PCA did not identify reliable shape differences …