STUDY IDEA - GAY MEN

Disgust toward homosexual behaviour (public kissing of gay men) may be the causal force underlying anti-gay moral attitudes (Inbar et. al., 2009)

-- hetero masculine
-- homo masculine
-- hetero feminine
-- hetero feminine

Mediators:
--- measure moral disgust (fear of contamination or male-male sex as a violation of moral purity violation)
--- measure reputation/social image concern

main DVs:
Wanting to interact with them in public (seen by others as associated to the gay man) vs. private
(need to make the public vs. private division extremely well)

HYPOTHESES:
Testing/pitting "bias-as-reputation hypothesis" vs. "bias-as-fear of contamination/violation of moral purity violation hypothesis:
PREDICTIONS:
--> if it is about reputation/social image, the aversion to interact with the target should be more pronounced in the public condition than the private condition
--> if it is about disgust (contamination/moral purity issue such as the sexual norm violation - sex can be seen as contaminating and male-male sex), aversion to interact with the target should more pronounced equally in the public and private condition
--> if reputation concern --> gender-atypical/feminine conditions (regardless of hetero and homosex) should matter more
---> if disgust/contamination/moral purity --> homosexual (regardless of feminine and masculine conditions) should matter more