“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 ...

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 ...

More and more young men are embracing the benefits of non-sexual 'bromances' with close male friends, a new study has shown. Young men's same-sex relationships are becoming more emotional and intimate ...

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 ...

It was Barack Obama and Joe Biden who made clear to the world that the bromance was here to stay. The rise of this intimate mode of friendship between heterosexual men is epitomised by the former US ...

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 ...