Here is the scientific answer to the question of all questions: can friendship between men and women work? A YouTube video that has been viewed almost 12.4 million times has been and continues to be the subject of heated debate: can men and women really not be friends, as the video claims, because men generally always want more than just friendship? As your trusted psychologist, I got to the bottom of the matter and did a lot of research - it turns out that it's not quite that simple after all ... #psychology #funk Sources: The thing with attraction Kirke, DM (2009). Gender clustering in friendship networks: some sociological implications. Methodological Innovations Online, 4(1), 23-36. 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. Salkičević, S. (2019). Opposite Sex Friend. In Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer International Publishing. Gilchrist-Petty, E., & Bennett, L.K. (2019). Cross-Sex Best Friendships and the Experience and Expression of Jealousy within Romantic Relationships. Journal of Relationships Research, 10. Reeder, H.M. (2000). 'I like you... as a friend': The role of attraction in cross-sex friendship. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 17(3), 329-348. The Jealousy Thing Gilchrist-Petty, E., & Bennett, LK (2019). Cross-Sex Best Friendships and the Experience and Expression of Jealousy within Romantic Relationships. Journal of Relationships Research, 10. The thing about different expectations Hall, JA (2011). Sex differences in friendship expectations: A meta-analysis. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 28(6), 723-747. Fuhrman, RW, Flannagan, D., & Matamoros, M. (2009). Behavior expectations in cross‐sex friendships, same‐sex friendships, and romantic relationships. Personal Relationships, 16(4), 575-596. The thing about society and the media Reeder, H. (2017). “He's Like a Brother”: The Social Construction of Satisfying Cross-Sex Friendship Roles. Sexuality & Culture, 21(1), 142-162. The thing about friendship plus Weger, H., Cole, M., & Akbulut, V. (2019). Relationship maintenance across platonic and non-platonic cross-sex friendships in emerging adults. The Journal of social psychology, 159(1), 15-29. Halatsis, P., & Christakis, N. (2009). The challenge of sexual attraction within heterosexuals' cross-sex friendship. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 26(6-7), 919-937. Owen, J., Fincham, F.D., & Manthos, M. (2013). Friendship after a friends with benefits relationship: Deception, psychological functioning, and social connectedness. Archives of sexual behavior, 42(8), 1443-1449. The Thing About “Let’s Stay Friends” Schneider, CS, & Kenny, DA (2000). Cross-sex friends who were once romantic partners: Are they platonic friends now?. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 17(3), 451-466. Image & Video Sources: Timothy Worley: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/... Jennifer Samp: https://comm.uga.edu/sites/default/fi... Jeffrey Hall: http://randtlab.ku.edu/sites/randtlab... Heidi Reeder: https://www.heidireeder.com/images/as... YouTube Video: • Why Men and Women Cant be friends