TY - JOUR
T1 - Disgust sensitivity relates to attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women across 31 nations
AU - Van Leeuwen, Florian
AU - Inbar, Yoel
AU - Petersen, Michael Bang
AU - Aarøe, Lene
AU - Barclay, Pat
AU - Barlow, Fiona Kate
AU - De Barra, Mícheál
AU - Becker, D. Vaughn
AU - Borovoi, Leah
AU - Choi, Jongan
AU - Consedine, Nathan S.
AU - Conway, Jane Rebecca
AU - Conway, Paul
AU - Adoric, Vera Cubela
AU - Demirci, Ekin
AU - Fernández, Ana María
AU - Ferreira, Diogo Conque Seco
AU - Ishii, Keiko
AU - Jakšić, Ivana
AU - Ji, Tingting
AU - Jonaityte, Inga
AU - Lewis, David M. G.
AU - Li, Norman P.
AU - McIntyre, Jason C.
AU - Mukherjee, Sumitava
AU - Park, Justin H.
AU - Pawlowski, Boguslaw
AU - Pizarro, David
AU - Prokop, Pavol
AU - Prodromitis, Gerasimos
AU - Rantala, Markus J.
AU - Reynolds, Lisa M.
AU - Sandin, Bonifacio
AU - Sevi, Barış
AU - Srinivasan, Narayanan
AU - Tewari, Shruti
AU - Yong, Jose C.
AU - Žeželj, Iris
AU - Tybur, Joshua M.
N1 - Funding information: 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.
PY - 2023/4/1
Y1 - 2023/4/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - disgust sensitivity
KW - emotion
KW - pathogens
KW - prejudice
KW - sex
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85127332178&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/13684302211067151
DO - 10.1177/13684302211067151
M3 - Article
SN - 1368-4302
VL - 26
SP - 629
EP - 651
JO - Group Processes and Intergroup Relations
JF - Group Processes and Intergroup Relations
IS - 3
M1 - 136843022110671
ER -