Take it from Joe Biden: Having a close male friend can make a dude’s life better.

Improved attitudes around male heterosexual friendships — like the one between the former vice president and his pal Barack — are helping men’s mental health, according to a recent study published in Sex Roles: A Journal of Research.

Scientists found that perceptions of male friendships are softening, giving men a space for emotionally supportive relationships.

“Masculinity is no longer this debilitating and deadly curse that forces young men to act in a particularly toxic manner, and as such, these emotionally open and loving bromances are blossoming,” study author Adam White wrote yesterday in an article for health website Medical Xpress.

White and other researchers interviewed young British men about their guy friends, and found that men who weren’t concerned about how their sexualities were perceived were better able to discuss sensitive topics and cope with anxieties.

“They are permitted [to] . . . relate in a way that would have been formerly branded as feminine, and as gay,” the abstract reads.

The study also points out that history is filled with intimate male besties. Keeping in line with the presidential theme, President Abraham Lincoln shared a bed with his male partner, Joshua Speed, and President George Washington wrote gushy letters to other men, according to the scientists.

Great. Now, onto the next step: Getting people to stop calling men’s friendships “bromances.”