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Homophobia may reveal denial of own same-sex attraction, study suggests
CBS News ^ | .April 10, 2012 | Monica DyBuncio

Posted on 04/22/2012 5:41:43 PM PDT by presidio9

Do homophobic people actually fear their own unconscious feelings? A new study suggests that people who repress their own sexual attraction to the same sex are more likely to express hostility towards gays.

"In many cases these are people who are at war with themselves and they are turning this internal conflict outward," study co-author Dr. Richard Ryan, professor of psychology at the University of Rochester, said in a university written statement.

In four separate experiments conducted in the U.S. and in Germany, each involving an average of 160 college students, researchers attempted to measure any differences between what people say about their sexual orientation and how they actually react. Their findings are published in the April issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

For one experiment, researchers used word and picture tests to subliminally prime participants with either the word "me" or "others," and then asking them to place the words and images into "gay" or "straight" categories. A second experiment had participants browse same-sex or opposite-sex photos to test implicit - or unconscious - same-sex attraction. Other experiments measured participants' levels of homophobia through questionnaires or asked about participants' upbringings and their parents' perspectives.

All together, the study showed that participants with parents accepting of homosexuality were more open and aware of their implicit sexual orientation, while those with authoritative parents were more likely to deny their implicit sexual orientation. The researchers found participants who said they were heterosexual but revealed different reactions on their implicit tests were more likely to act with hostility toward gay people.

"In a predominately heterosexual society, 'know thyself' can be a challenge for many gay individuals. But in controlling and homophobic homes, embracing a minority sexual orientation can be terrifying," study co-author Dr. Netta Weinstein,

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; junkscience; pervertpower; perverts; psychobabble; psychology
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To: presidio9

These assclowns can’t figure out the difference between revulsion and genuine homophobia. Plenty of people dislike homosexuality for a large number of rational reasons.


61 posted on 04/22/2012 6:32:24 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: sten
the only thing that ‘frightens’ me about homos is what I would do to them if they molested anyone in my family

Here's a little problem with homosexuality that you won't find reported in the media, and have hard time researching on the internet: Pedophiles are EXPONENTIALLY more likely to be homosexual. How do we know this? 27% of all women and 16% of all men report being the victims of some incident of sexual abuse as children. But women are far more likely than men to report this. So somewhere between 1/3 and 1/2 of all sexual abuse victims are boys. Meanwhile, virutally ALL sex crimes against children are committed by men. And just 2% of all men are gay. Do the math. Taking homosexual and hetrosexual males as seperate distinct groups, an extremely disproportionate group of all pedophiles are gay men.

I believe my conclusion here has more scientific basis than the "study" in this article.

62 posted on 04/22/2012 6:32:24 PM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: Eastbound
The nerve. Making real mean begin to doubt their manlineth.

I doubt REAL mean men ever doubt THEIR manlineth.

I know I don't doubt mine, but I do doubt others at times.

Now if YOU feel that others MAKE you doubt YOUR manlineth...???

63 posted on 04/22/2012 6:33:22 PM PDT by mountn man (Happiness is not a destination, its a way of life.)
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To: presidio9

How convenient.


64 posted on 04/22/2012 6:33:26 PM PDT by Lorianne (fedgov, taxporkmoney)
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To: mountn man
Left is

And Obama is just like Ronald Reagan. Nobody would believe that one if I made it up.

65 posted on 04/22/2012 6:34:51 PM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: presidio9

I bet the writer of this column hates roaches - maybe he just has this repressed sub-conscious thing for roaches.


66 posted on 04/22/2012 6:39:24 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: presidio9
Heterophobia Homophobia may reveals denial of own self loathing same-sex attraction, study suggests
67 posted on 04/22/2012 6:40:12 PM PDT by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
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To: sten

“the only thing that ‘frightens’ me about homos is what I would do to them if they molested anyone in my family”
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Same here. Be real careful not to get any of their blood on you when beating the $hit out of them.


68 posted on 04/22/2012 6:40:36 PM PDT by panaxanax (0bama >>WORST PRESIDENT EVER.)
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To: the invisib1e hand
correction: not “-phobia.” -disdain.

Disgust.

69 posted on 04/22/2012 6:41:02 PM PDT by Sarajevo (Money cannot buy happiness, but it's more comfortable to cry in a Mercedes than on a bicycle.)
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To: presidio9

So heterophobia practed by militant, vile homosexuals really means they have opposite-sex attraction and it’s deep-seated and driving them crazy? That’s the logic this study would claim for heterosexuals also applied logically to homosexuals.


70 posted on 04/22/2012 6:44:59 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: presidio9

Propaganda alert!


71 posted on 04/22/2012 6:46:00 PM PDT by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)
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To: sten
the only thing that ‘frightens’ me about homos is what I would do to them if they molested anyone in my family

might not agree with you about intellectual property but on this we see eye to eye.

72 posted on 04/22/2012 6:46:41 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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To: presidio9

Haha...these guys never have an original thought, do they? Just keep repeating the same B.S., hoping to convince people through repetition.

Sad thing is, it works on a lot of people that aren’t paying attention.


73 posted on 04/22/2012 6:48:52 PM PDT by B Knotts (Just another Tenther)
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To: the invisib1e hand

“correction: not “-phobia.” -disdain.”

Homodisdainia............nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


74 posted on 04/22/2012 6:49:03 PM PDT by Puckster
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To: presidio9

LOL! The title is enough. So my suppressed feelings for screwing some guy in the ass is my reason for not going along....These folks kill me.


75 posted on 04/22/2012 6:53:38 PM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: Figment

***What the hell is homophobia? Phobia suggests fear of. I’m not the least bit fearful of the disgusting freaks****

Disgust? Sounds like you have a case of (trumpets and flourishes please)....HOMOMISA, a disgust of homos. Some also have ISLAMOMISA, A disgust of Islam.


76 posted on 04/22/2012 6:55:43 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: presidio9

uh yeah, that’s the ticket.

Listen, when I was in the Army, a surgeon general came to give a talk and one of the asides was this: The human poop chute was designed as an exit, not an entrance.

Homosexuals give a lot of normal heteros the creeps. End of story.


77 posted on 04/22/2012 6:56:18 PM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: presidio9

Homophobia is like a gag reflex.

Homophobia is a misnomer, it’s not the fear of queers, but the revulsion of them.

It should be called homonausem.


78 posted on 04/22/2012 6:57:26 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: presidio9

http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”

Studies like this have a political motivation.


79 posted on 04/22/2012 6:57:45 PM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: presidio9
So I guess most liberals are closet conservatives, and vice versa?
80 posted on 04/22/2012 6:58:00 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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