Despite shifts toward greater acceptance in US public opinion and policy, lesbian, gay, and
bisexual people remain widely stigmatized. This article reviews empirical research on …

This article underscores the very important role that parental acceptance and support plays
in furthering the psychological well‐being of gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals. Parents …

This article presents the first large-scale audit study of discrimination against openly gay
men in the United States. Pairs of fictitious résumés were sent in response to 1,769 job …

We propose a communication analogue to Allport's Contact Hypothesis called the
Parasocial Contact Hypothesis (PCH). If people process mass-mediated parasocial …

In a two-wave national telephone survey, a probability sample of English-speaking adults
indicated their attitudes toward gay men at Wave 1 (1990-91; n= 538) and toward both gay …

This Handbook provides a uniquely comprehensive and scholarly overview of the latest
research on prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination. All chapters are written by eminent …

While past research has certainly investigated a variety of correlates of US attitudes toward
lesbians, gays, bisexual men, bisexual women, male-to-female (MtF) and female-to-male …

Meta-analytic techniques were used to compare men's and women's attitudes toward
homosexual persons, homosexual behaviors, and gay people's civil rights. As expected …

Abstract [This book] packages the discipline [of social psychology] in thirty-one crisp and
playful essays (" modules"). This is the ultimate brief text in social psychology—a quick …

Using General Social Survey data from 1973 to 1998, changing American attitudes toward
homosexuality are examined. Two hypotheses are tested:(1) Can changes in attitudes be …