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UNRVER GAY
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The prejudice of homophobia may also stem om thorarian parents, particularly those wh homophobic views as well, the rearchers add. The rearch, published the April 2012 issue of the Journal of Personaly and Social Psychology, reveals the nuanc of prejudic like homophobia, which n ultimately have dire nsequenc. "Sometim people are threatened by gays and lbians bee they are fearg their own impuls, a sense they 'doth prott too much, '" Ryan told LiveScience.
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Ryan utned, however, that this lk is only one source of anti-gay sentiments. For the implic measure, stunts had to tegorize words and pictur flashed onto a puter screen to "gay" or "straight" groups.
Words clud "gay, " "straight, " "homosexual" and "heterosexual, " while the pictur showed straight and gay upl.
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The rearchers said quicker reactn time for "me" and "gay, " and a slower associatn of "me" wh "straight" would dite said an implic gay orientatn. " To gge homophobia a hoehold, stunts rpond to ems such as, "It would be upsettg for my mom to fd out she was alone wh a lbian" or "My dad avoids gay men whenever possible. Participants dited their own level of homophobia, both overt and implic; word-pletn tasks, stunts wrote down the first three words that me to md when prompted wh some of the words' letters.
Stunts were primed at some pot wh the word "gay" to see how that impacted the amount of aggrsive words ed.