Individual Differences in Perceptions of Gay Men’s Sexual Role Preferences from Facial Cues
Research has demonstrated that the sexual role preferences of gay men can be perceived with accuracies that exceed chance guessing from viewing photos of their faces. This research was conducted with only heterosexual perceivers making the categorizations. We therefore examined whether men who have...
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Published in | Archives of sexual behavior Vol. 43; no. 8; pp. 1615 - 1620 |
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Main Authors | , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
New York
Springer US
01.11.2014
Springer Nature B.V |
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Summary: | Research has demonstrated that the sexual role preferences of gay men can be perceived with accuracies that exceed chance guessing from viewing photos of their faces. This research was conducted with only heterosexual perceivers making the categorizations. We therefore examined whether men who have sex with men (
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= 121) were able to perceive sexual role preferences from faces and, critically, whether perceivers’ masculinity, femininity, homonegativity, and own sexual role preference affected their categorizations of targets as “tops” or “bottoms.” We found that men who have sex with men, like heterosexual perceivers in prior work, perceived gay men’s sexual role preferences accurately. Furthermore, men who self-identified with a receptive (bottom) role were more accurate in their categorizations and male perceivers who self-reported higher levels of masculinity were more likely to categorize other men as bottoms. These findings suggest that men’s masculinity could serve as a lens through which people perceive others and interact with the world. |
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ISSN: | 0004-0002 1573-2800 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s10508-014-0319-x |