{"id":26469,"date":"2014-06-24T08:38:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T13:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26469"},"modified":"2014-06-24T08:38:25","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T13:38:25","slug":"stereotypes-gaydar-and-sexual-orientation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/06\/24\/stereotypes-gaydar-and-sexual-orientation\/","title":{"rendered":"Stereotypes, &#8220;gaydar&#8221;, and sexual orientation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In (of all places) the <em>Toronto Star<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/2014\/06\/24\/gaydar_works_and_conservatives_have_more_of_it_says_u_of_t_researcher.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Platt<\/a> says that &#8220;gaydar&#8221; is a real thing and that it works better for conservatives than for liberals:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In less than the blink of an eye, your subconscious \u201cgaydar\u201d makes a judgment about someone\u2019s sexual orientation based entirely on facial traits \u2014 and it\u2019s usually right.<\/p>\n<p>So says the research of Nicholas Rule, a University of Toronto psychologist giving a talk on the subject this week as part of WorldPride. \u201cThe gist of it is that people can accurately judge someone\u2019s sexual orientation from very minimal information about them,\u201d Rule said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou only need to see a face for less than 40 milliseconds to judge sexual orientation with the same level of accuracy that you get if you take all the time in the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo put that in perspective, it takes 400 milliseconds to blink your eye.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Facial \u201cgaydar\u201d is 65-per-cent accurate on average, according to Rule and his co-researchers at U of T\u2019s Social Perception &#038; Cognition Laboratory. These judgments can be reliably made based on the eyes alone, though facial shape and texture are also big factors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConservatives are more accurate than liberals in making these judgments when they study a face, because conservatives are more likely to use stereotypes,\u201d Rule said. \u201cOf course, stereotypes are often wrong, but they do have what we call kernels of truth. Liberals tend to not want to use stereotypes in making judgments, and it impairs their accuracy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In (of all places) the Toronto Star, Brian Platt says that &#8220;gaydar&#8221; is a real thing and that it works better for conservatives than for liberals: In less than the blink of an eye, your subconscious \u201cgaydar\u201d makes a judgment about someone\u2019s sexual orientation based entirely on facial traits \u2014 and it\u2019s usually right. So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,16],"tags":[196,139,255],"class_list":["post-26469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomness","category-science","tag-lgbt","tag-psychology","tag-sexuality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6SV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26470,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26469\/revisions\/26470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}