Is Gaydar Affected by Attitudes Toward Homosexuality? Confidence, Labeling Bias, and Accuracy

Brewer, Gayle; Lyons, Minna

doi:10.1080/00918369.2016.1244443

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“…The current findings cast doubt on the existence of an accurate auditory gaydar for female voice. This result is in contrast with findings on facial features, where the detection of SO for female targets was found to be quite accurate and better than for male targets (Brewer & Lyons, 2017; Lyons et al, 2014; Tabak & Zayas, 2012). This raises the interesting question of whether different cues may have distinct communicative meanings as well as different weights in revealing personal information such as SO.…”

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“…One may argue that findings for male voices can be generalized to female voices. However, research on visual gaydar indicates that individuals are more accurate in judging women’s than men’s SO (Brewer & Lyons, 2017; Lyons, Lynch, Brewer, & Bruno, 2014; Tabak & Zayas, 2012). At the same time, it is commonly believed that people are better at recognizing gay men than lesbian women using voice cues (Fasoli, Hegarty, Maass, & Antonio, 2018) and, when judging SO, they are more prone to label a man as gay than to label a woman as lesbian (Lyons et al, 2014).…”

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Auditory Gaydar: Perception of Sexual Orientation Based on Female Voice

Sulpizio

Fasoli

António³

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We investigated auditory gaydar (i.e., the ability to recognize sexual orientation) in female speakers, addressing three related issues: whether auditory gaydar is (1) accurate, (2) language-dependent (i.e., occurs only in some languages, but not in others), and (3) ingroup-specific (i.e., occurs only when listeners judge speakers of their own language, but not when they judge foreign language speakers). In three experiments, we asked Italian, Portuguese, and German participants (total N = 466) to listen to voices of Italian, Portuguese, and German women, and to rate their sexual orientation. Our results showed that auditory gaydar was not accurate; listeners were not able to identify speakers’ sexual orientation correctly. The same pattern emerged consistently across all three languages and when listeners rated foreign-language speakers.

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Auditory Gaydar: Perception of Sexual Orientation Based on Female Voice

Sulpizio

Fasoli

António³

et al. 2019

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“…We considered three dimensions of essentialist beliefs about auditory gaydar; the use of vocal cues to infer others' SO. Research has considered whether heterosexuals' prejudice predicts SO categorization and accuracy (Brewer & Lyons, 2017;Rule et al, 2015), but not how essentialist beliefs about SO cues relate to prejudice and stigma. As Gertler and Thorpe (2014) documentary makes clear, belief in auditory gaydar presumes voice discreteness; the belief that LG and heterosexual speakers have categorically different voices.…”

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Stigmatization of ‘gay‐sounding’ voices: The role of heterosexual, lesbian, and gay individuals’ essentialist beliefs

Fasoli

Hegarty

Frost

2021

British J Social Psychol

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Voice-based sexual orientation (SO) judgements can prompt group-based discrimination. However, the relationships between stigmatization and essentialist beliefs about vocal cues to SO have not been researched. Two studies examined heterosexuals' and gay men's and lesbian women's essentialist beliefs about voice as a cue of SO to uncover essentialist beliefs' role in the perpetration and experience of stigma. In Study 1 (N = 363), heterosexual participants believed voice was a better cue to SO for men than for women, and participants' belief in the discreteness, immutability, and controllability of 'gay-sounding' voices was correlated with higher avoidant discrimination towards gaysounding men. In Study 2 (N = 147), endorsement of essentialist beliefs about voice as a SO cue was associated with self-perceptions of sounding gay amongst gay men and lesbians. Sexual minority participants, especially gay men, who believed that they sounded gay reported more anticipation of rejection and engaged in vigilance in response. Essentialist beliefs about vocal cues to SO are relevant to explaining both the perpetration of stigma by heterosexuals and the experience of stigma for lesbians and gay men.This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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“…Here, heterosexual and non‐heterosexual perceivers showed equivalent levels of accuracy. In multiple previous studies, however, gay and lesbian perceivers demonstrated greater sensitivity to others’ self‐identified sexual orientation than heterosexual perceivers did (Johnson & Ghavami, 2011; Rule et al., 2007; but see also Brewer & Lyons, 2017). Speculating, we wonder whether the particularly intergroup nature of thinking about sexual orientation in terms of categories (vs. as a continuum of attraction, as done here) may help to stimulate the group‐based thinking necessary to lead to a minority‐group advantage.…”

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Beyond categories: Perceiving sexual attraction from faces

Bjornsdottir

Cheso

Rule

2021

British J of Psychology

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Although people can categorize others' sexual orientation (e.g., gay/lesbian vs. straight) from their facial appearance, not everyone defines their sexual orientation categorically. Indeed, many individuals within the same sexual orientation category experience different degrees of own-and other-gender attraction. Moving beyond sexual orientation categories, we found that perceivers' judgments of individuals' sexual attraction correlated with those individuals' self-reported degrees of attraction to women and men. Similar to past work on sexual orientation categories, facial affect cued sexual attraction in men whereas gender typicality cued sexual attraction in women. Moreover, asking participants to categorize the targets as 'not straight' versus 'straight' revealed a linear pattern distinct from the discrete category thresholds typical of other social groups (e.g., race). Facial appearance thus reveals nuances in sexual attraction that support sexual orientation categorizations. These findings refine understanding of social categorization more broadly.

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Is Gaydar Affected by Attitudes Toward Homosexuality? Confidence, Labeling Bias, and Accuracy

Abstract: Previous research has largely ignored the relationship between sexual orientation judgement accuracy, confidence, and attitudes towards homosexuality. In an online study, participants

Cited by 9 publications

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Auditory Gaydar: Perception of Sexual Orientation Based on Female Voice

Auditory Gaydar: Perception of Sexual Orientation Based on Female Voice

Stigmatization of ‘gay‐sounding’ voices: The role of heterosexual, lesbian, and gay individuals’ essentialist beliefs

Beyond categories: Perceiving sexual attraction from faces

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