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There's Something Queer about That Face

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Although I've always wanted this particular superhuman power, I've never been very good at detecting other men's sexual orientation. Findings from a recent study published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, however, offer I may be underestimating my gaydar abilities.

The January 2008 study investigated people's ability to identify queer men from pictures of their faces alone. In an initial experiment, researchers Nicholas Rule and Nalini Ambady from Tufts University perused online dating sites and carefully selected 45 straight male faces and 45 gay male faces. All of these photos were matched for orientation (only faces shown looking forward were used) and facial alterations (none of the images contained jewelry, glasses or facial hair). To control for context, the faces were also cut and pasted onto a white background for the study. These 90 faces were then shown to 90 participants in random order, who were asked simply to evaluate the target's "probable se

Gay-face IS real: You can tell a person is homosexual just by looking at their features, state experts

Do you think you can tell whether a person is gay or straight simply by looking at them? Well, you could be right, speak experts.

Two science educators hold scoured the research behind so-called 'gay face' — the theory that homosexuals have certain facial characteristics in common.

And, according to science, it is a real thing — with some of us enhanced at spotting it than others.

The phenomenon was investigated Mitch Moffit, a biologist, and Greg Brown, a science teacher — who both happen to be gay — in a bid to unearth the facts.

And surprisingly, the pair discovered that 'gay-face' isn't anything to do with looking masculine or feminine.

Gay face is term used by some members of the LGBT community for being able to see someone isn't straight simply by looking at their visage, and according to experts it's a authentic thing

Multiple studies spanning over a decade have explored the phenomenon as adequately as who is improved at spotting the features that make a deal with 'gay'

Gay face has been the subject of study for over a decade.

Early studies dating back to 2011 found h

Preference for Male Facial Masculinity as a Function of Mental Rotation Ability in Gay and Attracted to both genders Men, but Not in Heterosexual Men and Women in China

Introduction

Masculine male facial characteristics (e.g., a pronounced brow and large jaw) are positively related to the circulating testosterone levels (Roney et al., 2006) and they may be regarded as a cue to great health (Gangestad and Simpson, 2000; Rhodes et al., 2003; Thornhill and Gangestad, 2006). Various factors contribute to individual differences in male facial masculinity taste in women, including relationship status (Sacco et al., 2012), self-reported attractiveness (Little and Mannion, 2006), sexual desire (Jones et al., 2011), sociosexuality (Glassenberg et al., 2010; Stower et al., 2019), and menstrual cycle (Penton-Voak et al., 1999; Johnston et al., 2001).

In general, gay and bi men prefer masculinized faces over feminized faces (Glassenberg et al., 2010; Zheng et al., 2013; Zheng and Zheng, 2015). However, some studies found no overriding preference among homosexual males for either masculine or feminine facial features (Valentová et al., 2013; Welling et al., 2013). There are also extensiv

Facial Hints Sharpen People's 'Gaydar'

People can assess with surprising accuracy whether someone is gay or linear — even when they're looking at a black-and-white photograph, cropped of hair and identifying marks, and presented upside down.

The findings from a University of Washington study imply people use a combination of clues from individual facial features and from the way those features fit together to make snap judgments about sexual orientation, said researcher Joshua Tabak, a graduate student in psychology.

"We may be doing this so efficiently that we may not even have to aim to make this judgment," Tabak told LiveScience.

New AI can guess whether you're gay or direct from a photograph

Artificial intelligence can accurately guess whether people are gay or straight based on photos of their faces, according to new research that suggests machines can contain significantly better “gaydar” than humans.

The study from Stanford University – which initiate that a computer algorithm could correctly distinguish between gay and straight men 81% of the second, and 74% for women – has raised questions about the biological origins of sexual orientation, the ethics of facial-detection technology, and the potential for this kind of software to violate people’s privacy or be abused for anti-LGBT purposes.

The machine intelligence tested in the study, which was published in the Journal of Ego and Social Psychology and first reported in the Economist, was based on a sample of more than 35,000 facial images that men and women publicly posted on a US dating website. The researchers, Michal Kosinski and Yilun Wang, extracted features from the images using “deep neural networks”, essence a sophisticated mathematical system that learns to evaluate visuals based on a large dataset.

The research set up that gay