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People who have homophobic 
attitudes, who are more prejudice or

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discriminatory against gay people,
are themselves more likely to have

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a discrepancy between their unconscious
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, 
who have really a split between their

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unconscious attraction and what they 
consciously say about themselves,

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are more likely to come from 
authoritarian homes.

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

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and then you use whatever means 
you can to convince them that

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they are only good and worthy if they are,
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 
way this gets resolved is by

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them being discriminating or hateful 
toward gay and lesbian others.

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

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your heterosexual attractions and 
therefore homosexual people feel

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more threatening to you and then 
you express more negative attitudes

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toward them.

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

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We can say are you gay or 
are you straight?

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But to get at their unconscious 
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 
homosexual and heterosexual

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words and just before you are 
doing that classification, we are

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

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they do that.

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And if they are non-consciously 
more homosexually oriented

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

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"homosexual" come together.

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

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

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and attractive women and we look to 
see whether they gravitate toward

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same sex pictures or they gravitate 
toward other sex pictures.

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

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same-sex encounters.

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

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seen before.

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

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someone who themselves have been
homosexual, who has been publicly

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campaigning against homosexuality
and here you can see that one part

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of them is really fighting another 
part of themselves.

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Whenever somebody has a really 
intense feeling toward any out group

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– but in this case gays and 
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 
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 
doubts, whenever we have those

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strong feelings of hatred and 
discrimination towards other groups,

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we should wonder why.