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Disgust sensitivity relates to attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women across 31 nations
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- https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302211067151
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- Florian van Leeuwen, Tilburg University ,
- Yoel Inbar, University of Toronto ,
- Michael Bang Petersen
- Lene Aarøe
- Pat Barclay, University of Guelph ,
- Fiona Kate Barlow, University of Queensland ,
- Mícheál de Barra, Brunel University ,
- D. Vaughn Becker, Arizona State University ,
- Leah Borovoi, National Institute for Testing and Evaluation, Jerusalem ,
- Jongan Choi, Kangwon National University ,
- Nathan S. Consedine, University of Auckland ,
- Jane Rebecca Conway, Universite Toulouse 1 Capitole ,
- Paul Conway, University of Portsmouth ,
- Vera Cubela Adoric, University of Zadar ,
- Ekin Demirci, Bilkent University ,
- Ana María Fernández, Universidad de Santiago de Chile ,
- Diogo Conque Seco Ferreira, Universidade Federal de Sergipe ,
- Keiko Ishii, Nagoya University ,
- Ivana Jakšić, University of Belgrade ,
- Tingting Ji, Nanjing Normal University ,
- Inga Jonaityte, Ca Foscari University of Venice ,
- David M.G. Lewis, Murdoch University ,
- Norman P. Li, Singapore Management University ,
- Jason C. McIntyre, Liverpool John Moores University ,
- Sumitava Mukherjee, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi ,
- Justin H. Park, University of Bristol ,
- Boguslaw Pawlowski, University of Wroclaw ,
- David Pizarro, Cornell University ,
- Pavol Prokop, Comenius University, Slovak Academy of Sciences ,
- Gerasimos Prodromitis, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences ,
- Markus J. Rantala, University of Turku ,
- Lisa M. Reynolds, University of Auckland ,
- Bonifacio Sandin, National Distance Education University ,
- Barış Sevi, Bilkent University ,
- Narayanan Srinivasan, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur ,
- Shruti Tewari, Indian Institute of Management Indore ,
- Jose C. Yong, Northumbria University ,
- Iris Žeželj, University of Belgrade ,
- Joshua M. Tybur, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Previous work has reported a relation between pathogen-avoidance motivations and prejudice toward various social groups, including gay men and lesbian women. It is currently unknown whether this association is present across cultures, or specific to North America. Analyses of survey data from adult heterosexuals (N = 11,200) from 31 countries showed a small relation between pathogen disgust sensitivity (an individual-difference measure of pathogen-avoidance motivations) and measures of antigay attitudes. Analyses also showed that pathogen disgust sensitivity relates not only to antipathy toward gay men and lesbians, but also to negativity toward other groups, in particular those associated with violations of traditional sexual norms (e.g., prostitutes). These results suggest that the association between pathogen-avoidance motivations and antigay attitudes is relatively stable across cultures and is a manifestation of a more general relation between pathogen-avoidance motivations and prejudice towards groups associated with sexual norm violations.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Journal | Group Processes and Intergroup Relations |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages (from-to) | 629-651 |
| ISSN | 1368-4302 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 2023 |
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- disgust sensitivity, emotion, pathogens, prejudice, sex
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