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People who have homophobic [br]attitudes, who are more prejudice or

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discriminatory against gay people,[br]are themselves more likely to have

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a discrepancy between their unconscious[br]attractions to same sex partners than

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what they are consciously aware of.

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Those people who have such discrepancies, [br]who have really a split between their

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unconscious attraction and what they [br]consciously say about themselves,

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are more likely to come from [br]authoritarian homes.

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If you are a parent who really strongly believes [br]your child should be heterosexual

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and then you use whatever means [br]you can to convince them that

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they are only good and worthy if they are,[br]this would be very controlling and this

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creates a lot of conflict in the child.

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What we see in this study is one [br]way this gets resolved is by

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them being discriminating or hateful [br]toward gay and lesbian others.

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It may be that you yourself are divided [br]between your homosexual and

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your heterosexual attractions and [br]therefore homosexual people feel

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more threatening to you and then [br]you express more negative attitudes

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toward them.

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We can ask people what their conscious [br]attitude is toward sexual orientation.

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We can say are you gay or [br]are you straight?

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But to get at their unconscious [br]sexual attraction we use a

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different kind of task.

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We use a reaction time measure.

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So we use this pretty split second task.

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When you have to classify [br]homosexual and heterosexual

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words and just before you are [br]doing that classification, we are

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flashing the word “me” or “other” [br]for some millisecond just before

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they do that.

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And if they are non-consciously [br]more homosexually oriented

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they will have a quicker reaction time [br]when the words "me" and

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"homosexual" come together.

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Another way that we get at non-conscious [br]attitudes toward sexual orientation

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is to use a task where people get to [br]browse pictures of attractive men

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and attractive women and we look to [br]see whether they gravitate toward

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same sex pictures or they gravitate [br]toward other sex pictures.

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We’ve had a lot of anti-gay public [br]figures who have been caught in

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same-sex encounters.

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And this study speaks to some of [br]those kinds of cases that we’ve

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seen before.

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And in some of these public cases [br]that we've had, it’s really been

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someone who themselves have been[br]homosexual, who has been publicly

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campaigning against homosexuality[br]and here you can see that one part

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of them is really fighting another [br]part of themselves.

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Whenever somebody has a really [br]intense feeling toward any out group

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– but in this case gays and [br]lesbians -we ought to ask ourselves,

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“Why am I so concerned about that?

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Why is it so threatening to me?”

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And one suggestion here is maybe [br]one’s own sexual orientation is a

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bit in question.

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And I think that we should raise [br]doubts, whenever we have those

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strong feelings of hatred and [br]discrimination towards other groups,

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we should wonder why.