Can men and women be just friends

By A. Bleske, David M. Buss. 2000

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Opposite-Sex Friendship: Sex Differences and Similarities in Initiation, Selection, and Dissolution (2001, unknown): “Friendship initiation. Participants received a list of 63 benefits of opposite-sex friendship (see Bleske & Buss, 2000 ).”
Casual sexual relationships: Identifying definitions for one night stands, booty calls, fuck buddies, and friends with benefits (2014, background): “Researchers also suggest that women place more importance on the friendship aspects of Friends with Benefits, whereas men place more importance on the sexual aspects of these relationships (Bleske & Buss, 2000; Jonason, 2013; McGinty et al., 2007).”
Gender-related reactions to gratuitous sex appeals in advertising (2008, background): “…is sympathetic of the view that gender is a primary determinant of such attitudes (e.g., Baumeister & Twenge, 2002; Clark & Hatfield, 1989; Oliver & Hyde, 1993; Symons, 1979), other views point to within-gender sources of variation as well (e.g., Bleske & Buss, 2000; Gangestad & Simpson, 2000).”
Gender Rules: Same- and Cross-Gender Friendships Norms (2012, unknown): “According to Hall (2011), the findings support evolutionary theory (e.g., Bleske and Buss 2000), suggesting that females develop elevated communion expectations due to their relatively extensive investment in offspring, and their need to maintain female coalitions to assist in rearing children.”
Sex differences in friendship expectations: A meta-analysis (2011, background): “The different desires of males and females for sexual access in friendship may complicate cross-sex friendships (Halatsis & Chrisakis, 2009; Weger & Emmett, 2009), but predictable differences in cross-sex expectations may guide future work (Bleske & Buss, 2000; Fuhrman et al., 2009).”
Friendship standards: The dimensions of ideal expectations (2012, methodology): “expectations, echoing the value placed on similarity in past research (Furman & Bierman, 1984; Lusk et al., 1998; Sprecher & Regan, 2002). La Gaipa’s (1987) self-disclosure subscale retained nearly all of the original items and incorporated two items from other subscales. The importance of communion”