Perception of Gay Men as Defectors and Commitment to Group Defense Predict Aggressive Homophobia

Homophobia encompasses a variety of attitudes and behaviors with distinct causal paths. We focus on aggressive homophobia, a propensity to feel anger and express aggression toward gay men. We investigated the conjecture that homosexual males might be seen, in recent Western cultures, as defectors fr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Florian van Leeuwen, Helena Miton, Rengin B. Firat, Pascal Boyer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2016-07-01
Series:Evolutionary Psychology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1474704916657833