Russell Eric M, Ta Vivian P, Lewis David M G, Babcock Meghan J, Ickes William
Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Arlington, Box 19528, Arlington, TX, 76019, USA.
Department of Psychology, Bilkent University, 06800, Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey.
Arch Sex Behav. 2017 Apr;46(3):763-773. doi: 10.1007/s10508-015-0648-4. Epub 2015 Nov 17.
Previous findings indicate that heterosexual women experience a greater sense of comfort and trust in their friendships with gay men than in their friendships with heterosexual individuals. In the present studies, we tested a hypothesis that not only explains why women exhibit increased trust in gay men but also yields novel predictions about when (i.e., in what contexts) this phenomenon is likely to occur. Specifically, we propose that gay men's lack of motives to mate with women or to compete with them for mates enhances women's trust in gay men and openness to befriend them. Study 1 demonstrated that women placed greater trust in a gay man's mating-but not non-mating (e.g., career) advice-than in the same advice given by heterosexual individuals. Study 2 showed that women perceived a gay man to be more sincere in scenarios relevant to sexual and competitive mating deception. In Study 3, exposing women to a visualization of increased mating competition enhanced their trust in gay men; when mating competition was salient, women's trust in mating information from a gay man was amplified. Study 4 showed that women who perceived higher levels of mating competition were more open to befriending gay men. Together, these converging findings support our central hypothesis, which not only provides a distal explanation for the trust that straight women place in gay men, but also provides novel insights into previously unidentified contexts that facilitate the formation and strengthening of this unique bond.
先前的研究结果表明，异性恋女性在与男同性恋者的友谊中比在与异性恋者的友谊中感受到更大的舒适感和信任感。在本研究中，我们检验了一个假设，该假设不仅解释了为什么女性对男同性恋者表现出更高的信任，还对这种现象可能发生的时间（即，在什么背景下）产生了新的预测。具体而言，我们提出，男同性恋者缺乏与女性交配或与她们竞争配偶的动机，增强了女性对男同性恋者的信任以及与他们成为朋友的开放性。研究1表明，女性对男同性恋者关于交配而非非交配（例如职业）的建议比对异性恋者给出的相同建议更信任。研究2表明，在与性和竞争性交配欺骗相关的情景中，女性认为男同性恋者更真诚。在研究3中，让女性接触交配竞争增加的可视化情景增强了她们对男同性恋者的信任；当交配竞争突出时，女性对男同性恋者提供的交配信息的信任得到放大。研究4表明，认为交配竞争程度较高的女性更愿意与男同性恋者成为朋友。总之，这些趋同的研究结果支持了我们的核心假设，该假设不仅为异性恋女性对男同性恋者的信任提供了一个深层次的解释，还为促进这种独特关系形成和加强的先前未被识别的背景提供了新的见解。
