美国LGBT和非宗教人士的人口增加是否增加了威胁?
Cameron Mackey1, Kimberly Rios1
1Ohio University, Athens, USA.
Personality & social psychology bulletin
|August 1, 2023
概括
越来越多的女同性恋,男同性恋,双性恋和跨性别者 (LGBT) 增加了对现实和象征性威胁的看法,导致了偏见. 在非宗教群体中发现了类似但较弱的效应.
科学领域:
- 社会心理学 社会心理学
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
- 多样性研究 多样性研究
背景情况:
- 以前的研究将少数种族人口增长与多数群体偏见和现实威胁的增加联系起来.
- 与象征性威胁相关的群体 (如LGBT和非宗教群体) 的人口变化对威胁感知和偏见的影响仍然不太了解.
研究的目的:
- 调查女同性恋,男同性恋,双性恋和跨性别者 (LGBT) 和非宗教团体的人口增长是否会增加大多数群体成员之间的现实威胁,象征性威胁和/或偏见.
- 将有关种族人口增长的先前发现扩展到其他少数群体.
主要方法:
- 在四项研究中进行了一项单一论文的元分析,研究了对LGBT群体增长的看法.
- 另外两项研究研究了非宗教团体增长的影响.
- 参与者对威胁和偏见的看法在接触到有关人口变化的信息后被测量.
主要成果:
- 接触到有关LGBT人口流行率增加的信息的参与者报告了对现实和象征性威胁的高度感知.
- 这些加剧的威胁显著预测了反LGBT偏见的增加.
- 非宗教团体的增长对威胁感知和偏见产生了类似但较弱的影响.
结论:
- LGBT群体的人口增长可以增加现实的和象征性的威胁感知,随后加剧反LGBT偏见.
- 这些发现强调了多样性增加对社会态度的心理影响.
- 需要进一步的研究来探索这些影响在不同的人口和背景.
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