A Meta-Analytic Review of the Association Between Disgust and Prejudice Toward Gay Men

Kiss, Mark; Morrison, Todd G.

doi:10.1080/00918369.2018.1553349

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“…It was conceptualized that group-based social hierarchies based on sexual orientation are maintained by heteronormative ideology (Hegarty et al 2004;Herek 2007Herek , 2016Whitley and AEgisdóttir 2000), which communicates strict norms of sexuality and gender expression that favors heterosexual people (Habarth 2014;Herek 2007Herek , 2016. Gay men's sexual behavior could be perceived to violate heteronormativity (Kimmel 1997;Parrott 2009;Parrott and Zeichner 2008), which could threaten the stability of society and status of dominant group members (e.g., heterosexual men; Kiss et al 2018;Whitley and AEgisdóttir 2000). Thus, disgust may be elicited and subsequently motivate cognitions and behaviors (e.g., hostile attitudes; social exclusion) that serve to enhance group boundaries (Hodson and Costello 2007).…”

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“…Consequently, such heterosexual men would be at increased risk to experience disgust in response to groups who engage in behavior that is outside of cultural norms (e.g., gay men; Crawford et al 2014). Disgust would then aid the development of antigay hostility, which functions to protect the established social hierarchy (Hodson and Costello 2007;Kiss et al 2018).…”

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“…Endorsement of heteronormative ideology has been associated with antigay attitudes and is argued to be the foundation of prejudicial attitudes toward gay men (Habarth et al 2019;Harbaugh and Lindsey 2015). Some theorists suggest the resulting antigay attitudes are due to a perceived threat to the established heteronormative ideology (Herek 1986;Kiss et al 2018;Parrott 2009;Parrott and Zeichner 2008;Theodore and Basow 2000;Whitley and AEgisdóttir 2000).…”

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“…Other researchers, however, offer a counter-conceptualization that may be favorable for researchers adopting a sociocultural perspective. Morrison et al (2018) suggest sexual disgust is likely to be elicited among people who possess rigid notions of sexuality. Thus, sexual stimuli and behavior that fall outside of culturally normative conceptualizations of sexuality are likely to elicit sexual disgust.…”

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“…Because we are primarily theorizing from a sociocultural perspective, we refer to sexual disgust as the conceptualization proposed by Morrison et al (2018) moving forward.…”

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Heteronormativity, Disgust Sensitivity, and Hostile Attitudes toward Gay Men: Potential Mechanisms to Maintain Social Hierarchies

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2020

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Within a social hierarchy based on sexual orientation, heteronormative ideology serves as a social force that maintains dominant group members' status (e.g., heterosexual men). Disgust may be an emotional reaction to gay men's violation of heteronormativity (i.e., same-sex sexual behavior) and motivate hostile attitudes toward gay men to promote interpersonal and intergroup boundaries. Based on this theoretical framework, we hypothesized that sexual disgust-compared to pathogen or moral disgust-would be most strongly associated with antigay hostility and would statistically mediate its relationship with heteronormativity. Heterosexual men in the United States (n = 409) completed an online questionnaire assessing heteronormative ideology, disgust sensitivity, and hostile attitudes toward gay men. Results support the hypotheses and suggest that gay men's sexual behavior is the most likely elicitor of disgust and antigay hostility, as opposed to a perceived pathogen threat or moral transgression. The findings indicate that heteronormative attitudes and sexual disgust are likely contributors to antigay hostility. Thus, intervention efforts should seek to improve tolerance of same-sex sexual behavior among heterosexual men, which may mitigate emotional reactions and hostile attitudes toward gay men.

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“…Because we are primarily theorizing from a sociocultural perspective, we refer to sexual disgust as the conceptualization proposed by Morrison et al (2018) moving forward.…”

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This Is How We Do It: Inductions, Methods, and Measurement in Disgust Research

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2021

The Handbook of Disgust Research

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Amico

2023

Ethnomusicology, Queerness, Masculinity

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This chapter explores one of the most significant animating forces shared by ethnomusicology and queerness: the ambivalence toward and inadequate engagement of the material, experiencing, sensate/sensual body, an extraordinarily rich site for explorations of sex/uality, auditory expressive culture, and the social. Highlighting the extent to which the ideological/discursive (often wedded to identity and/or politics) results in a desexualization/despecification of desire in both disciplines, it is argued that it is exactly embodied homosexual desire, so anathema to ethnomusicology, that is needed to discomfit and thus dislodge the discipline’s deep homophobic structuring. Ultimately, an embrace of the erotic, and the corporeally sexual, offers myriad possibilities for exploring the complexities of sexuality, race, and multiple sociocultural dynamics occluded by the decades-long, nearly exclusive focus on the textual/discursive.

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A Meta-Analytic Review of the Association Between Disgust and Prejudice Toward Gay Men

Cited by 39 publications

References 74 publications

Heteronormativity, Disgust Sensitivity, and Hostile Attitudes toward Gay Men: Potential Mechanisms to Maintain Social Hierarchies

Heteronormativity, Disgust Sensitivity, and Hostile Attitudes toward Gay Men: Potential Mechanisms to Maintain Social Hierarchies

This Is How We Do It: Inductions, Methods, and Measurement in Disgust Research

(No) Body/(No) Homo

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