Courtesy stigma: the social implications of associating with a gay person

Investigated the operation of courtesy stigma with male college students who reacted to a fictitious male student described as gay, rooming by choice with a gay male student, involuntarily assigned to room with a gay, or rooming with a male heterosexual. Courtesy stigmatization occurred only under c...

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Published in:The Journal of social psychology 1991-02, Vol.131 (Feb 91), p.45-56
Main Authors: Sigelman, C K, Cutright, J D, Cornell, D P, Howell, J L, Dewey, J C
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Connections
Factors
Homosexuals
Men
Stigmatization
Students
Universities
USA
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Summary:Investigated the operation of courtesy stigma with male college students who reacted to a fictitious male student described as gay, rooming by choice with a gay male student, involuntarily assigned to room with a gay, or rooming with a male heterosexual. Courtesy stigmatization occurred only under circumscribed conditions and appeared to depend more on the tendency of highly intolerant individuals to infer that a male student who apparently liked a gay individual was himself gay. (Abstract amended)
ISSN:0022-4545