The Roles of Political Conservatism and Binary Gender Beliefs in Predicting Prejudices Toward Gay Men and People Who Are Transgender

Relation between College Students’ Conservatism and Negative Stereotypes about Social Groups

“…However, while in the US support for issues such as same-sex marriages had risen to 70% in 2020, clearly many negative attitudes remain, especially among Republicans, a group where only about half support same-sex marriage (PRRI Staff 2020, 19 October 2020). Prusaczyk and Hodson (2020) found that individuals high in conservatism showed more prejudice toward gender non-conformists, a pattern replicated in this study. According to Hodson and Dhont (2015), homosexuals and gender non-conformists are perceived as threatening the status quo of traditional marriage and parenthood.…”

Can a pandemic make people more socially conservative? Political ideology, gender roles, and the case of COVID‐19

“…That both liberal and conservative participants expressed enhanced support for traditional gender roles after COVID-19's emergence suggests that mortality salience threats could have increased preference for a deeply ingrained cultural worldview, but not necessarily one's own personal worldview. That is, liberals-who tend to be more progressive in their gender role attitudes than conservatives (Lye & Waldron, 1997;Prusaczyk & Hodson, 2020)-still expressed stronger endorsements of traditional gender role conformity after COVID-19's emergence, at a magnitude indistinguishable from that among conservatives. Our findings thus support the terror management theory's conservative-shift predictions about motivated cognition as conceptualized by Jost et al (2003).…”

The Perceptions of New Zealand Lawyers and Social Workers About Children Being Adopted by Gay Couples and Lesbian Couples

“…As noted earlier in the paper, often accompanying the Christian fundamentalist beliefs that underpin much of the homophobia experienced by prospective adopters, is a conservative or right-wing political ideology. It is a finding often seen in studies about attitudes toward homosexuality generally (e.g., Brown and Henriquez, 2008 ; Jäckle and Wenzelburger, 2015 ; Prusaczyk and Hodson, 2020 ), and as a barrier to the willingness of adoption professionals to work with sexual minority parents (e.g., Hall, 2010 ; Molina and Alarcón, 2015 ). For example, in their study of adoption agency directors in the United States, Kimberly and Moore (2015) reported that those who self-identified as republicans had more conflicted feelings about same-gender couples than those labeled as independent or democratic.…”