Can Men And Women Just Be Friends Essay

In this assignment I have chosen one the primary article which I feel best interest me research by Buss Lab Website, and his colleagues. I decided to read the article titled “Can men and women just be friends?” This article discussed certain things that men and women seek in opposite sex friendships and why they sometimes end. This article was trying to address why people seek and develop same sex relationships. The hypothesis of this study was that the relationships were actually an evolve psychology of opposite-sex friendships. They predicted for women were “For men and women, a function of opposite-sex friendship, more than of same- sex friendship, is to provide information about the opposite sex.” (Bleske 3)The research activity was conducted

The women seek things such as things such as advice about the opposite sex, provide resources and provide protection. The men seek access to the opposite sex or access to future mates. The benefits were different based on the sex of the person who was seeking the friendship. “In support of Hypothesis 1, categorical-level analyses revealed that men evaluated the potential for having sex with their close opposite-sex friend as more beneficial than did women. This effect was found for each of the items comprising this category. Our second prediction for this hypothesis was that men more often than women would report experiencing attraction toward their opposite-sex friend with no attraction in return. This prediction was indirectly supported. Compared to men, women more often reported having an opposite-sex friendship in which their friend was romantically attracted to them but in which they were not romantically attracted to their friend. Our third prediction was also supported by the frequency analysis. Men were denied sexual access to their opposite-sex friends more often than were women.” (Bleske

“Other results suggested that friendships can interfere with men’s and a woman’s mating strategies. Both men and women reported that competition to attract members of the opposite sex was a costly aspect of same-sex friendship.” (Bleske 16) The conclusion of the article also suggested that those friendships cause jealously, status confusion, and not being loved in return like they want to from their friend. Same sex friendships have any benefits, but also have a plethora of loss. There are certain questions that should be asked when determined the validity of same sex friendships and if the study is ever conducted again it should be in the environment where there are a different variety of subjects. Men and women can very well be friends, but at what cost and it based on the sex of the person you ask. Looking at the previous article from Fiske I have gathered some major important points among some similarties and some