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Conosco persone omosessuali una ricerca esplorativa degli effetti del contatto sull'omofobia e sostegno ai diritti LGBT in Italia
No full textResearch, mostly conducted in US, has shown that contact with homosexuals is associated with less sexual prejudice. The present research aims at investigating this link in an Italian sample and by distinguishing between quantity of contacts and contact closeness. The study involved 125 heterosexual individuals - who reported at least a contact with a homosexual - and examined several indicators of sexual prejudice. Results showed that contact closeness, rather than quantity of contacts, is associated with lower level of homophobic attitudes toward homosexuals and with higher support for the extension of equal rights to LGBT people (i.e. same-sex parenting). Differently, contact was not related to the perception of homosexuals as target of discrimination. Theoretical and applied implications of these findings and the role of contacts on homophobic prejudice are discussed
Social Mindfulness and Political Ideology: interdependence with an ingroup or an outgroup member
No full textVoice and Prejudice: The Social Costs of Auditory Gaydar
Full text linkIt is a widespread belief that individuals are able to detect other people’s sexual orientation from vocal information alone (auditory gaydar). We argue that auditory gaydar, although often inaccurate, leads to stereotyping, avoidance, and discrimination of gay/lesbian-sounding speakers. Much like “social vision,” these voice-based inferences are driven by two distinct processes—a direct feature-based path and an indirect path mediated by categorization. As a way to either underline their social identity or prevent stigmatization, gay/lesbian speakers tend to modulate their voice depending on the interlocutor and on their conversational goals. Together, our findings suggest that vocal information plays a subtle but powerful role in intra- and intergroup communication.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio
Sento il tuo sguardo su di me: effetti protettivi del senso di controllo personale contro l’auto-oggettivazione sessuale nelle donne
No full textSocial acceptability of sexist derogatory and sexist objectifying slurs across contexts
No full textIn one study, we investigated how Italian men and women generally evaluate and socially accept two classes of sexist slurs, namely Sexist Derogatory Slurs (e.g., bitch) and Sexist Objectifying Slurs (e.g., hot chick). Moreover, we examined whether social acceptability of these classes of slurs change across different types of relationships (i.e., work-related context or affective relationship) and as a function of the gender of the user (i.e., man or woman). Results showed that Sexist Derogatory Slurs were rated as more offensive and less socially acceptable than Sexist Objectifying Slurs. Moreover, in an affective relationship the latter were more acceptable than the former. In the working-relationship, Sexist Derogatory Slurs were always unacceptable whereas Sexist Objectifying Slurs were less acceptable when used by a man than a woman
Stereotypical Disease Inferences From Gay/Lesbian Versus Heterosexual Voices
Full text linkVoice is a cue used to categorize speakers as members of social groups, including sexual orientation. We investigate the consequences of such voice-based categorization, showing that people infer stereotype-congruent disease likelihood on the basis of vocal information and without explicit information about the speaker’s sexual orientation. Study 1 and Study 2 reveal that participants attribute diseases to gay/lesbian and heterosexual men and women in line with stereotypes. Gay speakers were more likely to be associated with Gay and Female diseases, and Lesbian speakers with Male diseases. These findings demonstrate that likelihood to suffer from diseases is erroneously, but stereotypically, inferred from targets’ vocal information
Identità sociale, relazioni intergruppi e seconda lingua in Provincia di Bolzano: i risultati della ricerca KOLIPSI
No full textWhen is Self-Labeling Seen as Reclaiming? The Role of User and Observer's Sexual Orientation in Processing Homophobic and Category Labels’ use
Full text linkReclaiming involves self-labeling with derogatory labels. This behavior can be processed differently depending on contextual factors: Type of label, user, and observer. Sexual minority and heterosexual participants saw a vignette depicting either a gay or a heterosexual man who self-labeled with a derogatory or a category label. Sexual minority participants perceived the act of self-labeling with a derogatory label by a gay man as less offensive than heterosexual participants did. Sexual minorities, more than heterosexual participants, perceived self-labeling as powerful
The Social Costs of Sounding Gay: Voice-Based Impressions of Adoption Applicants
Full text linkIn three studies (total N = 239) we examined the unexplored question of whether voice conveying sexual orientation elicits stigma and discrimination in the context of adoption. Studies 1 and 2 were conducted in Italy where same-sex adoption is illegal and controversial. Study 3 was conducted in the United Kingdom where same-sex adoption is legal and generally more accepted. The three studies show that listeners draw strong inferences from voice when judging hypothetical adoption seekers. Both Italian and British listeners judged gay-sounding speakers as warmer and as having better parenting skills, yet Italian participants consistently preferred straight over gay-sounding applicants, whereas British participants showed an opposite tendency, presumably reflecting the different normative context in the two countries. We conclude that vocal cues may have culturally distinct effects on judgment and decision making and that people with gay-sounding voices may face discrimination in adoption procedures in countries with antigay norms
Labelling and discrimination: Do homophobic epithets undermine fair distribution of resources?
Full text linkThis research investigated the behavioural consequences of homophobic epithets. After exposure to either a category or a homophobic label, heterosexual participants allocated fictitious resources to two different prevention programmes: one mainly relevant to heterosexuals (sterility prevention), the other to homosexuals (AIDS-HIV prevention). Responses on allocation matrices served to identify strategies that favoured the ingroup over the outgroup. Results indicated stronger ingroup-favouritism in the homophobic than in the category label condition. This study shows that discriminatory group labels have tangible effects on people's monetary behaviours in intergroup contexts, increasing their tendency to favour the ingroup when distributing resources
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