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EMOTION
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages 23-27Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/a0023984
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disgust; intergroup attitudes; gay
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An induction of disgust can lead to more negative attitudes toward an entire social group: Participants who were exposed to a noxious ambient odor reported less warmth toward gay men. This effect of disgust was equally strong for political liberals and conservatives, and was specific to attitudes toward gay men there was only a weak effect of disgust on people's warmth toward lesbians, and no consistent effect on attitudes toward African Americans, the elderly, or a range of political issues.
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