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The Psychology of Sexual Prejudice
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The term "sexual prejudice" refers to negative attitudes toward an individual because of her or his sexual orientation as mentioned in this paper and is used to characterize heterosexuals' negative attitudes towards (a) homosexual behavior, (b) people with a homosexual or bisexual orientation, and (c) communities of gay, lesbian, and bisexual people.Abstract:
Sexual prejudice refers to negative attitudes toward an individual because of her or his sexual orientation. In this article, the term is used to characterize heterosexuals' negative attitudes toward (a) homosexual behavior, (b) people with a homosexual or bisexual orientation, and (c) communities of gay, lesbian, and bisexual people. Sexual prejudice is a preferable term to homophobia because it conveys no assumptions about the motivations underlying negative attitudes, locates the study of attitudes concerning sexual orientation within the broader context of social psychological research on prejudice, and avoids value judgments about such attitudes. Sexual prejudice remains widespread in the United States, although moral condemnation has decreased in the 1990s and opposition to antigay discrimination has increased. The article reviews current knowledge about the prevalence of sexual prejudice, its psychological correlates, its underlying motivations, and its relationship to hate crimes and other antigay...read more
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Prejudice, social stress, and mental health in lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations: conceptual issues and research evidence
TL;DR: It is shown that LGBs have a higher prevalence of mental disorders than heterosexuals and a conceptual framework is offered for understanding this excess in prevalence of disorder in terms of minority stress--explaining that stigma, prejudice, and discrimination create a hostile and stressful social environment that causes mental health problems.
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Beyond “Homophobia”: Thinking about sexual prejudice and stigma in the twenty-first century
TL;DR: The history and impact of homophobia are discussed in this paper, where three constructs are defined and discussed: sexual stigma (the shared knowledge of society's negative regard for any nonheterosexual behavior, identity, relationship, or community), heterosexism (the cultural ideology that perpetuates sexual stigma), and sexual prejudice (individuals' negative attitudes based on sexual orientation).
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Heterosexuals' attitudes toward bisexual men and women in the United States
TL;DR: More negative attitudes toward bisexuals were associated with higher age, less education, lower annual income, residence in the South and rural areas, higher religiosity, political conservatism, traditional values concerning gender and sexual behavior, authoritarianism, and lack of contact with gay men or lesbians.
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Gender Gaps in Public Opinion about Lesbians and Gay Men
TL;DR: The authors examined gender gaps in heterosexuals' attitudes toward lesbians, gay men, and a variety of topics related to homosexuality, finding that heterosexual women were more supportive than men of employment protection and adoption rights for gay people, more willing to extend employee benefits to same-sex couples and less likely to hold stereotypical beliefs about gay people.
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Antecedents and consequences of attributions to discrimination: Theoretical and empirical advances
TL;DR: Crocker et al. as mentioned in this paper studied the psychological implications of being a target of prejudice and discrimination and found that personal experiences with discrimination can be frequent, severe, and pervasive across a wide range of situations.
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