Men Are More Attracted to Female Friends Than Women Are to Guy Friends: Have You Ever Been Attracted to a Friend?
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2012/05/07 19:36:27
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It's the age-old question: Can a man and a woman just be friends? A new study suggests that they can't -- at least as far as the guy is concerned. Men are more sexually interested in their female friends than their female friends are in them, LiveScience reports.
Not only are guys more likely to pine for their platonic female pals, but they're also more likely than gals to think their friends are romantically interested in them, too, even if they aren't. "Men over-infer women's sexual interest in a variety of contexts, and I definitely see that extending into the domain of cross-sex friendships as well," study researcher April Bleske-Rechek, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, told LiveScience.
However, being attracted to your BFF isn't always such pleasant experience (as many of us have learned the hard way). Study participants were much more likely to list attraction as a "cost" rather than a benefit of their opposite-sex friendship (though men were less likely to see it this way than women).
What do you think? Is being attracted to your friend a recipe for disaster? Or could it possibly lead to love?
However, being attracted to your BFF isn't always such pleasant experience (as many of us have learned the hard way). Study participants were much more likely to list attraction as a "cost" rather than a benefit of their opposite-sex friendship (though men were less likely to see it this way than women).
What do you think? Is being attracted to your friend a recipe for disaster? Or could it possibly lead to love?
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Yankee Traveler 2012/05/07 20:55:23
To a woman, a male 'friend' makes sense. Very few straight men keep platonic female friends with no prospect of intercourse.
Sorry but you do not understand the male mind.
Also most my male friends have had girlfriends on and off, but spent time with me without any intention of cheating obviously.
And I've also been attracted to a male friend of mine before but got "friend-zoned" so to say, even though we had a lot in common, because he was more interested in someone else.
I think that rule applies to many girls and their guy friends, but when it comes to my friendships with men, they've always been a bit of an exception. Probably because I grew up with guy friends, they've seen me more of "one of them" rather than someone they are trying to sleep with.
I always get the "you're like a sister to me" treatment more, and I view most my male friends as brother types too.
C'mon.