Bromances: What are they good for? Well, according to scientists studying rats in a University of California, Berkeley, laboratory, the answer is: stress relief! At least that's the takeaway ...

“A bromance can be a good thing,” said lead author Elizabeth Kirby, who started work on the study while a doctoral student at UC Berkeley and continued it after assuming a postdoctoral fellowship at ...

After winning Olympic gold in the men’s synchronised three-metre springboard last year, British diver Jack Laugher ran, in only Speedos, to his diving partner and housemate, Chris Mears, for a ...

Whether it’s a movie starring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, or it’s Joey and Chandler from Friends, Hollywood tends to portray male friendships in a comedic light. But a good ‘bromance’ offers more ...

Critical Bromance A third distinctive feature of bromance, in the 2018 study, is that friends don’t judge each other. As Beck puts it, “A bromance will never judge you … you’re just so relaxed around ...

As part of our mission to be cooler than all the other newspapers, we have recently hired spies (not really). The reports have been conclusive: The world is not flat, Facebook shall gain artificial ...

A fascinating new study titled The Bromance: Undergraduate Male Friendships and the Expansion of Contemporary Homosocial Boundaries pulls back the covers on just what straight dudes, particularly ...

For some young heterosexual men, a "bromance," or close male friendship, is more emotionally satisfying than a romantic relationship with a woman, a new, small study from England suggests. Men in the ...

Not long ago, the Inklings society at Brown University invited me to give a talk on Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. I decided to speak on the topic of “bromance”: of emotionally and physically ...