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Measuring Automatic Emotional Responses to Homosexuals

Friday, November 8, 2013: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Napoleon B3-C3 (Sheraton New Orleans Hotel)
Morgan Kinney , University of Maine
Understanding the emotional bases of homosexual prejudice can help to reduce such attitudes on an individual and a societal level. This study seeks to reveal the influence of religious fundamentalism and right-wing authoritarianism on implicit attitudes toward homosexuals using the physiological measure of startle eye-blink response.