The study shows that humans are susceptible to gender and cultural stereotypes. Men want to be around the stereotypical male, women want to be around the stereo

The study shows that humans are susceptible to gender and cultural stereotypes. Men want to be around the stereotypical male, women want to be around the stereotypical woman - but only in the culture that this study was taken in. > Across three studies (N = 745) with U.S. participants All this tells us is there's a trend in heterosexual friendships in the US. If they ran this study in multiple countries with different cultures they'd get different results. > Indeed, a fruitful avenue for future research would be to examine friendship preferences across cultures.