![]() You see, I’ve been in the closet a long time. It might as well have been subtitled: “The Adam Chandler Story.” Overcompensating in competitive arenas affords these men a sense of self-worth that their concealment diminishes.īiographies do not commonly lurk in stuffy academic journals, but there was mine, in that study in the latest issue of Basic and Applied Social Psychology. ![]() It’s the idea that young, closeted men deflect attention from their sexuality by investing in recognized markers of success: good grades, athletic achievement, elite employment and so on. They have substantiated what’s called the “Best Little Boy in the World” hypothesis, first put forward in 1973 in a book by Andrew Tobias, then writing under a pseudonym. That a prestigious position was on the line at the time is telling, at least according to a recently published study by John Pachankis and Mark Hatzenbuehler.
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