Department of Anthropology, Charles University, Husnikova 2075, 1500 Prague 5, Czech Republic.
Arch Sex Behav. 2011 Dec;40(6):1145-52. doi: 10.1007/s10508-011-9818-1.
Studies of North Americans suggest that laypeople can judge the sexual orientation of others with greater than chance accuracy based on brief observations of their behavior (i.e., "gaydar" exists). One factor that appears to contribute to these judgments is targets' degree of masculinity-femininity. However, behaviors related to sexual orientation and to masculinity-femininity might vary across cultures. Thus, cross-cultural work is needed to test whether judgments of sexual orientation are more accurate when targets and raters are from the same culture. American and Czech male targets, 38 homosexual and 41 heterosexual, were videotaped and brief segments of the videotapes were presented to American and Czech raters. Overall, raters' judgments of targets' sexual orientation were related to targets' self-reported sexual orientation. However, the relationship was stronger when targets were judged by raters from their own country. In general, results suggest that there are both cross-cultural similarities and differences in gaydar and in cues related to sexual orientation.
研究表明，北美人可以根据对他人行为的短暂观察，以高于偶然的准确度判断他人的性取向（即“同性恋雷达”存在）。似乎有助于这些判断的一个因素是目标的男性化-女性化程度。然而，与性取向和男性化-女性化相关的行为可能因文化而异。因此，需要进行跨文化研究，以测试当目标和评估者来自同一文化时，对性取向的判断是否更准确。美国和捷克的男性目标，38 名同性恋者和 41 名异性恋者，被拍摄下来，并向美国和捷克评估者展示了录像带的简短片段。总体而言，评估者对目标性取向的判断与目标自我报告的性取向有关。然而，当目标由来自自己国家的评估者进行评估时，这种关系更为密切。总的来说，结果表明，同性恋雷达以及与性取向相关的线索存在跨文化的相似之处和差异。
