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Re-evaluate sex differences in attitudes toward homosexuality and gay civil rights using an expanded literature search to test prior meta-analytic findings.

January 1, 1995Psychological Bulletin

Sex differences in attitudes toward homosexuality: A comment on Oliver and Hyde (1993).

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Re-evaluate sex differences in attitudes toward homosexuality and gay civil rights using an expanded literature search to test prior meta-analytic findings.
Conducted an expanded meta-analysis incorporating previously overlooked studies on sex differences in attitudes toward homosexuality.
Evaluated effect size moderation across different subject populations and the sex of the rated target (gay men vs. lesbians).
Men exhibited more negative attitudes toward homosexuality and gay civil rights than women.
Subject population moderated effect sizes, showing no sex difference in general adult samples but larger differences in other sample cohorts.
Target gender moderated attitudes, demonstrating larger sex differences when rating gay men than when rating lesbians.

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Meta-analysis reveals more negative attitudes toward homosexuality among men than women, highlighting target gender and sample demographics as key moderators of prejudice.

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Whitley et al. (1995) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a19b7ca60e90a7f5fea96ba https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.117.1.146

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Meta-analysis reveals more negative attitudes toward homosexuality among men than women, highlighting target gender and sample demographics as key moderators of prejudice.

Sex differences in attitudes toward homosexuality: A comment on Oliver and Hyde (1993).

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Sex differences in attitudes toward homosexuality: A comment on Oliver and Hyde (1993).

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