Pinsof David, Haselton Martie G
Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2017 Jul 13;12(7):e0178534. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0178534. eCollection 2017.
Opposition to gay rights is prevalent in countries around the world. Recent correlational research suggests that opposition to gay rights may be driven by an interaction between one's own short-term mating orientation (i.e. willingness to engage in casual sex) and representations of gay people as sexually promiscuous. Here, we experimentally manipulated representations of gay men by randomly assigning participants to read one of two versions of a fictitious newspaper article, one of which contained faux scientific evidence confirming the stereotype that gay men are promiscuous, and the other containing faux scientific evidence refuting the stereotype. We found that the manipulation interacted with short-term mating orientation (STMO) to predict opposition to gay rights, such that low-STMO individuals (i.e. more averse to casual sex) exhibited more support for gay rights when assigned to read the stereotype-refuting article compared to the stereotype-confirming article, whereas high-STMO individuals (i.e. less averse to casual sex) were not significantly influenced by the manipulation. We discuss the implications of these findings for the study of antigay attitudes, as well as for recent societal changes in acceptance of homosexuality.
对同性恋权利的反对在世界各国都很普遍。最近的相关研究表明，对同性恋权利的反对可能是由一个人的短期交配取向（即参与随意性行为的意愿）与将同性恋者视为性滥交的观念之间的相互作用所驱动的。在这里，我们通过随机分配参与者阅读一篇虚构报纸文章的两个版本之一，对男同性恋者的形象进行了实验性操纵，其中一个版本包含虚假科学证据，证实了男同性恋者滥交的刻板印象，另一个版本包含虚假科学证据，反驳了这一刻板印象。我们发现，这种操纵与短期交配取向（STMO）相互作用，以预测对同性恋权利的反对，即低STMO个体（即更厌恶随意性行为）在被分配阅读反驳刻板印象的文章时，比阅读证实刻板印象的文章时表现出更多对同性恋权利的支持，而高STMO个体（即对随意性行为不太厌恶）则没有受到这种操纵的显著影响。我们讨论了这些发现对研究反同性恋态度的意义，以及对最近社会对同性恋接受度变化的意义。
