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Original research article which the Daily Mail story is based upon:
Sexual orientation biases attentional control- a possible gaydar mechanism
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From a more general perspective, our findings add to previous observations that being a member of a particular social group seems to shape cognitive-control operations in specific ways – whether this group is defined by shared culture (Nisbett and Masuda, 2003; Nisbett and Miyamoto, 2005; Boduroglu et al., 2009), religious practice (Colzato et al., 2008; olzato et al., 2010 under revision) or, as the present study suggests, shared sexual orientation. Even though more research is necessary on the establishing conditions and processes, it makes sense to assume that social groups provide selective reward for particular types of behavior, which again imply, suggest, or require the adoption of particular control strategies or cognitive sets (Colzato et al., 2010 under revision;Hommel and Colzato, in press). Once a strategy or set is sufficiently strengthened, it may generalize to other, actually unrelated situations and bias information processing accordingly. There is no reason to assume that this scenario is restricted to culture, religion, and sexual orientation, suggesting that our observations reflect a very general mechanism. As implied by Nisbett and Miyamoto (2005), any kind of socially guided practice may have the same potential of inducing systematic cognitive biases.
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I hadn't heard of different religious groups as having different levels of attention to detail before, but then again I don't study such things.
It will be interesting to see how long it takes before various homosexual pressure groups take umbrage at having homosexuality compared with religion in this study.
All you have to do is go up to a guy and say “clang, clang.” If he answers, “where’s the trolley?,” you likely have a homosexual on your hands.
IOW, the behavior and values we learn are those we exhibit. This says nothing about inherent homosexuality, only about learned behavior.
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"The study, carried out at over six hundred municipal public parks in large US and UK metropolitan areas..."
So if ‘gaydar’ is proven then I wonder why homos such as democrat Jim McGreedy and others have to lurk around the public bathrooms, parks and rest stops in order to find each other.
Of course. Even when gay men are attracted to straight men, it’s only because those straight men are in denial about their homosexuality, see?
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I don’t see how attention to detail translates to “gaydar”. Or at least I wouldn’t restrict the findings to just being able to tell if somebody is gay. The conclusion seems to be that gay people pay more attention to detail, which may include noticing whether somebody even slightly manifests stereotypically gay behavior, but it could include countless other details, such as rectangles within squares, etc.
Even non-gays can spot gays. Odd that the author doesn’t know this.
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Crap! I went in to buy a new suit at lunch and this skinny salesman with a spray on tan and this weird hair that was blond at the tip, but brown underneath came flouncing up to me all lispy and with overly dramatic gestures trying to convince me that I needed some Euro cut skinny suit.
I thought he was super gay. Maybe he thought I was gay. Could have sworn I was straight since I’m enormously attacted to scoopscandal in the best way. Did like “Les Mis” tho’. Food for thought.
With the risk of being politically incorrect, I think this is similar to how pedophiles seem to have a sixth sense in how to choose the most vulnerable children. Homosexuals may have developed a similar intuition or sensitivity to those who radiate a similar demonic energy or perverted lust.
Puts a whole new twist on June's question: "Weren't you a little hard on the Beaver last night Ward?"