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Disgust sensitivity relates to attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women across 31 nations
Van Leeuwen,Florian Inbar,Yoel Petersen,Michael Bang Aarøe,Lene Barclay,Pat Barlow,Fiona Kate De Barra,Mícheál Becker,D. Vaughn Borovoi,Leah Choi,Jongan
Van Leeuwen,Florian
Inbar,Yoel
Petersen,Michael Bang
Aarøe,Lene
Barclay,Pat
Barlow,Fiona Kate
De Barra,Mícheál
Becker,D. Vaughn
Borovoi,Leah
Choi,Jongan
Abstract
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 anti-gay 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 anti-gay 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.
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The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: J.R.C. acknowledges funding from the French National Research Agency (ANR) under Grant ANR-17-EURE-0010 (Investissements d’Avenir program). J.M.T. was supported by Horizon 2020 European Research Council Grant StG-2015 680002-HBIS.
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2023
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BEHAVIORAL IMMUNE-SYSTEM, CONSERVATISM, DISEASE, GENDER, HETEROSEXUALS ATTITUDES, INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES, PARASITE-STRESS, PATHOGEN-AVOIDANCE, SEXUAL PREJUDICE, SOCIAL-DOMINANCE ORIENTATION, disgust sensitivity, emotion, pathogens, prejudice, sex
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Van Leeuwen, F, Inbar, Y, Petersen, M B, Aarøe, L, Barclay, P, Barlow, F K, De Barra, M, Becker, D V, Borovoi, L, Choi, J, Consedine, N S, Conway, J R, Conway, P, Adoric, V C, Demirci, E, Fernández, A M, Ferreira, D C S, Ishii, K, Jakšić, I, Ji, T, Jonaityte, I, Lewis, D M G, Li, N P, Mcintyre, J C, Mukherjee, S, Park, J H, Pawlowski, B, Pizarro, D, Prokop, P, Prodromitis, G, Rantala, M J, Reynolds, L M, Sandin, B, Sevi, B, Srinivasan, N, Tewari, S, Yong, J C, Žeželj, I & Tybur, J M 2023, 'Disgust sensitivity relates to attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women across 31 nations', Group Processes & Intergroup Relations: GPIR, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 629-651. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302211067151
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