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Auditory gaydar: perception of sexual orientation based on female voice
Sulpizio, S.; Fasoli, F.; António, R.; Eyssel, F.; Paladino, M. P.; Diehl, C.We investigated auditory gaydar (i.e., the ability to recognize sexual orientation) in female speakers, addressing three related issues: whether auditory gaydar is (1) accurate, (2) language-dependent (i.e., occurs only in some languages, but not in others), and (3) ingroup-specific (i.e., occurs only when listeners judge speakers of their own language, but not when they judge foreign language speakers). In thr...
Gay- and lesbian-sounding auditory cues elicit stereotyping and discrimination
Fasoli, F.; Maass, A.; Paladino, M. P.; Sulpizio, S.The growing body of literature on the recognition of sexual orientation from voice (“auditory gaydar”) is silent on the cognitive and social consequences of having a gay-/lesbian- versus heterosexual-sounding voice. We investigated this issue in four studies (overall N = 276), conducted in Italian language, in which heterosexual listeners were exposed to single-sentence voice samples of gay/lesbian and heterose...
Not “just words”: exposure to homophobic epithets leads to dehumanizing and phy...
Fasoli, F.; Paladino, M. P.; Carnaghi, A.; Jetten, J.; Bastian, B.; Bain, P. G.We examined whether homophobic epithets (e.g., faggot) function as labels of deviance for homosexuals that contribute to their dehumanization and physical distance. Across two studies, participants were supraliminally (Study 1) and subliminally (Study 2) exposed to a homophobic epithet, a category label, or a generic insult. Participants were then asked to associate human-related and animal-related words to hom...
Are attitudes the problem, and do psychologists have the answer? Relational cog...
Waldzus, S.; Schubert, T.; Paladino, M. P.The focus on negative attitudes toward other groups has led to a dichotomy between the prejudice reduction and the collective action approach. To solve the resulting problems identified by Dixon et al., we suggest analyzing the psychological processes underlying the construction of relationships (and their alternatives) between own and other groups.