Was that discrimination?: Perceptions of bisexual people's relative status inform attributions of discrimination
Elizabeth Quinn-Jensen
Abstract:Current models of discrimination fail to account for the fact that many people belong to intermediate identity groups, i.e., groups that share characteristics with both a low status minority and a high-status majority group (e.g., biracial, bisexual), and thus do not occupy one clear position on a status hierarchy. We investigated bisexual targets to test whether perceivers rely on perceived status differentials to determine whether someone faced discrimination. As predicted, whether bisexual people were perce… Show more
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