It really only had to do with one thing: dating and relationships. In other words, it’s not like straight women totally trusted gay men on all matters. It turns out straight women only trusted a gay man’s advice about a potential boyfriend more than the same advice from, say, a straight man or another straight woman. This time, however, I wanted to see if women would only trust gay men’s dating-related advice as opposed to other types of advice. For the first study, I wanted to replicate the finding that women trust gay men more than straight men or straight women. We titled the four studies “Why (and When) Straight Women Trust Gay Men: Ulterior Mating Motives and Female Competition,” with the hope of better establishing why straight women trust gay men and when straight women would be most likely to seek out gay men for friendship and guidance.
