Disgust sensitivity relates to attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women across 31 nations

Florian Van Leeuwen; Yoel Inbar; Michael Bang Petersen; Lene Aarøe; Pat Barclay; Fiona Kate Barlow; Mícheál De Barra; D. Vaughn Becker; Leah Borovoi; Jongan Choi; Nathan S. Consedine; Jane Rebecca Conway; Paul Conway; Vera Cubela Adoric; Ekin Demirci; Ana María Fernández; Diogo Conque Seco Ferreira; Keiko Ishii; Ivana Jakšić; Tingting Ji; Inga Jonaityte; David M. G. Lewis; Norman P. Li; Jason C. Mcintyre; Sumitava Mukherjee; Justin H. Park; Boguslaw Pawlowski; David Pizarro; Pavol Prokop; Gerasimos Prodromitis; Markus J. Rantala; Lisa M. Reynolds; Bonifacio Sandin; Barış Sevi; Narayanan Srinivasan; Shruti Tewari; Jose C. Yong; Iris Žeželj; Joshua M. Tybur

doi:10.1177/13684302211067151

Disgust sensitivity relates to attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women across 31 nations

Florian Van Leeuwen^*, Yoel Inbar, Michael Bang Petersen, Lene Aarøe, Pat Barclay, Fiona Kate Barlow, Mícheál De Barra, D. Vaughn Becker, Leah Borovoi, Jongan Choi, Nathan S. Consedine, Jane Rebecca Conway, Paul Conway, Vera Cubela Adoric, Ekin Demirci, Ana María Fernández, Diogo Conque Seco Ferreira, Keiko Ishii, Ivana Jakšić, Tingting JiInga Jonaityte, David M. G. Lewis, Norman P. Li, Jason C. Mcintyre, Sumitava Mukherjee, Justin H. Park, Boguslaw Pawlowski, David Pizarro, Pavol Prokop, Gerasimos Prodromitis, Markus J. Rantala, Lisa M. Reynolds, Bonifacio Sandin, Barış Sevi, Narayanan Srinivasan, Shruti Tewari, Jose C. Yong, Iris Žeželj, Joshua M. Tybur

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	629-651
Journal	Group Processes & Intergroup Relations: GPIR
Volume	26
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302211067151
Publication status	Published - 2023

Keywords

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., ... Tybur, J. M. (2023). Disgust sensitivity relates to attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women across 31 nations. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations: GPIR, 26(3), 629-651. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302211067151

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