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Family Values and Antipathy Toward Gay Men
Author(s) -
Vescio Theresa K.,
Biernat Monica
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2003.tb01927.x
Subject(s) - psychology , antipathy , social psychology , sympathy , situational ethics , family values , prejudice (legal term) , developmental psychology , value (mathematics) , covert , linguistics , philosophy , machine learning , politics , political science , computer science , law
The role of family values in promoting prejudice toward gay men was examined. Participants high and low in support for family values were primed with family‐relevant or neutral cues and were exposed to either a gay or a straight father who was described as a good or a bad parent. Both individual differences in family value support and situational primes of family values produced derogation of the gay father. Sympathy for the father in a child custody loss was also markedly low when family values were both endorsed and primed, and when the gay father was explicitly depicted as a bad parent. The findings have implications for Rokeach's (1972) belief congruence perspective, and for models that depict values as part of a mental associative network (Biernat, Vescio, & Theno, 1996; Feather, 1990).