Posted on 04/22/2012 5:41:43 PM PDT by presidio9
Do homophobic people actually fear their own unconscious feelings? A new study suggests that people who repress their own sexual attraction to the same sex are more likely to express hostility towards gays.
"In many cases these are people who are at war with themselves and they are turning this internal conflict outward," study co-author Dr. Richard Ryan, professor of psychology at the University of Rochester, said in a university written statement.
In four separate experiments conducted in the U.S. and in Germany, each involving an average of 160 college students, researchers attempted to measure any differences between what people say about their sexual orientation and how they actually react. Their findings are published in the April issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
For one experiment, researchers used word and picture tests to subliminally prime participants with either the word "me" or "others," and then asking them to place the words and images into "gay" or "straight" categories. A second experiment had participants browse same-sex or opposite-sex photos to test implicit - or unconscious - same-sex attraction. Other experiments measured participants' levels of homophobia through questionnaires or asked about participants' upbringings and their parents' perspectives.
All together, the study showed that participants with parents accepting of homosexuality were more open and aware of their implicit sexual orientation, while those with authoritative parents were more likely to deny their implicit sexual orientation. The researchers found participants who said they were heterosexual but revealed different reactions on their implicit tests were more likely to act with hostility toward gay people.
"In a predominately heterosexual society, 'know thyself' can be a challenge for many gay individuals. But in controlling and homophobic homes, embracing a minority sexual orientation can be terrifying," study co-author Dr. Netta Weinstein,
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I have never feared or hated homosexuals but I must say that I am pleased that all of my children are heterosexual and I have taught them to neither fear nor hate homosexuals but to pray for them.
I cannot imagine not loving one of them if he or she were homosexual. I have striven to make my love for my children unconditional. I have hated some of the decisions they have made from time to time but there has never been a time when I didn't love them.
He came out of the closet in MIB II. Few will remember the scene. Only us roach squishers.
There’s no such thing as homophobia — it’s just another example of attempting semantic control in order to belittle and intimidate opponents and avoid any kind of discussion or debate. Thanks presidio9.
You need to drop the lisp, or we will wonder about your manliness! :)
Most folks don’t eat rotten food because they have the instinctive common sense to recognize that rotten food is poisonous.
It’s the same with their instinctive rejection of your Transhumanist/Postgenderist doctrine.
I don’t think presidio9 agrees with the article, btw...
I like the name “Transhumanist/Postgenderist doctrine”. Fits.
The fact that the freaks are re-hashing this crazy and transparently false argument yet again is proof that they are desperate - they are unable to convince everyone that s*** tastes good. The still small voice in their hearts which they cannot destroy is still telling them “You’re wrong - you’re going to the wrong way - what you’re doing is bad, you should stop, it is evil” etc.
Even if everyone human on the planet bowed down to them they’d still be wracked with doubt, misery, guilt and fear.
“I refer you now to that great philosopher of the last part of the 20th century: Andrew Dice Clay. His words on the subject are unprintable on this family forum, but the logic is indisputable. Indeed, a giant of his time.”
Hmmm...President Andrew Dice Clay...
Now THERE’S a debate I want to see!
“I refer you now to that great philosopher of the last part of the 20th century: Andrew Dice Clay. His words on the subject are unprintable on this family forum, but the logic is indisputable. Indeed, a giant of his time.”
Hmmm...President Andrew Dice Clay...
Now THERE’S a debate I want to see!
“I refer you now to that great philosopher of the last part of the 20th century: Andrew Dice Clay. His words on the subject are unprintable on this family forum, but the logic is indisputable. Indeed, a giant of his time.”
Hmmm...President Andrew Dice Clay...
Now THERE’S a debate I want to see!
Well, d-d-d-damn.
How about “homonausea”,as someone on FR posted a year or two ago?
What it is, is that they are perverts so they want all of us to be perverts too. That way they don’t feel so perverted.
http://www.psych.rochester.edu/faculty/ryan/ryan2.jpg
Richard Ryan is a clinical faculty member whose research focuses on the effects of social contexts on human motivation, personality development, and well-being. His current research interests include: the acquisition and impact of materialism and other extrinsic goals in human development and culture; facilitation versus undermining of intrinsic motivation and self-determination; the determinants of subjective vitality and “energy”; and the sources of within-person variability in attachment, well-being, and life satisfaction. He is also involved in applied motivational research in the domains of health care, education, sport, religion, work, psychotherapy and virtual environments. For more detail, see the Self-Determination Theory website.
Richard Ryan, is the co-founder of self-determination theory (SDT), an influential contemporary motivational theory. Self-determination theory is a macro theory of human motivation that differentiates between autonomous and controlled forms of motivation; the theory has been applied to predict behavior and inform behavior change in many contexts including: education, health care, work organizations, parenting, and sport (as well as many others).
This has been the conventional wisdom among the left for decades. I’m surprised it took them this long to construct a bogus study supporting it.
Researcher Richard Ryan suggests that his study’s results should cause viscerally anti-gay individuals to reflect on the possibility that they loathe gay men and lesbians because they see themselves in the very people they hate.
The study’s authors note that all of their research subjects were college students, and that future research on other age groups — both younger people still living at home and older people who’ve spent more time living independently of their parents — would be valuable in order to see whether the trends they’ve observed change over time.
Is this why beautiful women scream profanity laced insults at me?
Then attacking a homophobe is a form of homophobia.
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