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Amanda L. Mahaffey
Researcher at University of Colorado Boulder
Publications - 8
Citations - 277
Amanda L. Mahaffey is an academic researcher from University of Colorado Boulder. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social influence & Agreeableness. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 8 publications receiving 264 citations. Previous affiliations of Amanda L. Mahaffey include ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon.
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Gender Role Beliefs and Attitudes toward Lesbians and Gay Men in Chile and the U.S.
TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between gender role beliefs and antigay prejudice in Chile and the United States was compared, and it was found that men were more prejudiced than women, particularly in their attitudes toward gay men.
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The Big, the Rich, and the Powerful: Physical, Financial, and Social Dimensions of Dominance in Mating and Attraction
TL;DR: Although aspects of a partner’s dominance—financial for women and social for men—played a bivariate role in relationship satisfaction, agreeableness was the strongest predictor of current and future relationship satisfaction and the only significant predictor of relationship dissolution.
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Appetitive responses to sexual stimuli are attenuated in individuals with low levels of sexual desire.
TL;DR: The results indicated that ASR was attenuated after exposure to appetitive stimuli to a greater extent among participants with higher levels of sexual desire, and PPI was inversely associated with subjective ratings across stimuli such that greater subjective levels of desire were correlated with lower levels of PPI.
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Using Startle Eye Blink to Measure the Affective Component of Antigay Bias
TL;DR: This paper investigated the potential for physiologically measuring this affective component, which they describe as homophobia, specifically using startle eye blink methodology, and found a link between negative attitudes toward homosexual individuals and a negative physiological reaction toward viewing nude men and gay couples.
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Sex Differences in Affective Responses to Homoerotic Stimuli: Evidence for an Unconscious Bias Among Heterosexual Men, but not Heterosexual Women
TL;DR: It appears that heterosexual women do not tend to have the same affective response toward homosexuals that some heterosexual men experience, and there were no physiological manifestations of antigay bias in heterosexual women while viewing lesbian or gay male images, even among those who self-reported such bias.