WEBVTT 00:00:01.511 --> 00:00:04.589 People who have homophobic attitudes, who are more prejudice or 00:00:04.589 --> 00:00:08.479 discriminatory against gay people, are themselves more likely to have 00:00:08.479 --> 00:00:13.503 a discrepancy between their unconscious attractions to same sex partners than 00:00:13.503 --> 00:00:15.514 what they are consciously aware of. 00:00:15.554 --> 00:00:19.962 Those people who have such discrepancies, who have really a split between their 00:00:19.962 --> 00:00:23.139 unconscious attraction and what they consciously say about themselves, 00:00:23.139 --> 00:00:26.139 are more likely to come from authoritarian homes. 00:00:26.139 --> 00:00:31.078 If you are a parent who really strongly believes your child should be heterosexual 00:00:31.078 --> 00:00:34.261 and then you use whatever means you can to convince them that 00:00:34.261 --> 00:00:39.111 they are only good and worthy if they are, this would be very controlling and this 00:00:39.111 --> 00:00:41.412 creates a lot of conflict in the child. 00:00:41.412 --> 00:00:45.178 What we see in this study is one way this gets resolved is by 00:00:45.178 --> 00:00:49.881 them being discriminating or hateful toward gay and lesbian others. 00:00:49.881 --> 00:00:54.335 It may be that you yourself are divided between your homosexual and 00:00:54.335 --> 00:01:00.875 your heterosexual attractions and therefore homosexual people feel 00:01:00.875 --> 00:01:04.374 more threatening to you and then you express more negative attitudes 00:01:04.374 --> 00:01:05.124 toward them. 00:01:05.124 --> 00:01:08.232 We can ask people what their conscious attitude is toward sexual orientation. 00:01:08.232 --> 00:01:11.232 We can say are you gay or are you straight? 00:01:11.232 --> 00:01:14.837 But to get at their unconscious sexual attraction we use a 00:01:14.837 --> 00:01:15.637 different kind of task. 00:01:15.637 --> 00:01:16.917 We use a reaction time measure. 00:01:16.917 --> 00:01:19.334 So we use this pretty split second task. 00:01:19.334 --> 00:01:24.236 When you have to classify homosexual and heterosexual 00:01:24.236 --> 00:01:27.396 words and just before you are doing that classification, we are 00:01:27.396 --> 00:01:31.736 flashing the word “me” or “other” for some millisecond just before 00:01:31.736 --> 00:01:32.392 they do that. 00:01:32.392 --> 00:01:39.983 And if they are non-consciously more homosexually oriented 00:01:39.983 --> 00:01:43.668 they will have a quicker reaction time when the words "me" and 00:01:43.668 --> 00:01:44.938 "homosexual" come together. 00:01:44.938 --> 00:01:48.639 Another way that we get at non-conscious attitudes toward sexual orientation 00:01:48.639 --> 00:01:55.554 is to use a task where people get to browse pictures of attractive men 00:01:55.554 --> 00:01:57.954 and attractive women and we look to see whether they gravitate toward 00:01:57.954 --> 00:02:02.434 same sex pictures or they gravitate toward other sex pictures. 00:02:02.434 --> 00:02:05.602 We’ve had a lot of anti-gay public figures who have been caught in 00:02:05.602 --> 00:02:07.572 same-sex encounters. 00:02:07.572 --> 00:02:10.442 And this study speaks to some of those kinds of cases that we’ve 00:02:10.442 --> 00:02:11.547 seen before. 00:02:11.547 --> 00:02:15.563 And in some of these public cases that we've had, it’s really been 00:02:15.563 --> 00:02:18.853 someone who themselves have been homosexual, who has been publicly 00:02:18.853 --> 00:02:23.047 campaigning against homosexuality and here you can see that one part 00:02:23.047 --> 00:02:24.974 of them is really fighting another part of themselves. 00:02:24.974 --> 00:02:29.801 Whenever somebody has a really intense feeling toward any out group 00:02:29.801 --> 00:02:32.148 – but in this case gays and lesbians -we ought to ask ourselves, 00:02:32.148 --> 00:02:34.087 “Why am I so concerned about that? 00:02:34.087 --> 00:02:35.747 Why is it so threatening to me?” 00:02:35.747 --> 00:02:39.819 And one suggestion here is maybe one’s own sexual orientation is a 00:02:39.819 --> 00:02:40.801 bit in question. 00:02:41.331 --> 00:02:44.774 And I think that we should raise doubts, whenever we have those 00:02:44.814 --> 00:02:48.754 strong feelings of hatred and discrimination towards other groups, 00:02:48.818 --> 00:02:50.088 we should wonder why.