Attraction between friends of opposite sexes

Close friends of opposed sexes, is it possible for to be platonic?

---> Close friends of opposite sexes—is it possible for it to be platonic?

or will they enable to be a sort of uncomfortable subtext of attraction.

---> Or will there inevitably be some sort of uncomfortable subtext of attraction?

Researchers surveyed more than 80 man-woman paws and they found that men were more attracted to their female friends than vice versa. 

---> Researchers surveyed more than 80 man-woman pals. They found that men were more attracted to their female friend than vice versa. 

Men also consistently and mistakenly assumed that their female buddy was attracted to them more than they actually were.

And perhaps even more surprising, men's attraction to their woman friends was not detered if they or the friend were already romantically involved with another person.

---> And perhaps more surprising, men’s attraction to their women friends was not deterred if they, or the friend, were already romantically involved with another person.

Women, on the other hand, reported having much less desire to date their male friend if they or he were already romantically engaged with another.

So, how to handle the complict of attraction between friends.

---> So how to handle the conflict of attraction between friends? 

In another survey, the researchers found that overall participants are 5 times more likely to see it is as a burden than is not.

---> In another survey the researchers found that, overall, the participants were five times more likely to see it as burden than as not.  

Although the scientists reported gender difference here too, turns out that men felt there was more to gain from attraction of friendship and women felt there was more to lose.

---> Although the scientists spotted a gender difference here, too. Turns out men felt there was more to gain from attraction in friendships, and women felt there was more to lose.

So much for the fantasy of friends with benefits.

출처: 60-second Mind 팟캐스트

http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=attraction-between-friends-of-oppos-12-07-22

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subtext: the implied message or subject of something that is said or written

spot: (v) 발견하다, 찾다

friends with benefits: people in a casual relationship which involves sexual interaction

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재미있는 연구다ㅎㅎㅎ 원래 논문은 아래 제목인 듯.

Bleske-Rechek, A., Somers, E., Micke, C., Erickson, L., Matteson, L., Stocco, C., ... & Ritchie, L. (2012). Benefit or burden? Attraction in cross-sex friendship. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 29(5), 569-596.