Lay Conceptions of Sexual Orientation Groups: United States Convenience Samples, 2012

Researchers aimed to characterize certain features of lay beliefs and attitudes surrounding sexual orientation groups, with a particular focus on conceptions of bisexual people. In brief, participants were recruited without explicitly calling attention to their own sexual orientation, but with a number of intentional steps to make the study visible to sexual minorities. The study asked participants a series of questions about issues related to sexuality, gender, and sexual orientation. Most notably, in the middle section of the study, participants were randomly assigned to consider one group in-depth: heterosexual women, heterosexual men, bisexual women, bisexual men, homosexual women, and homosexual men. (The adjective structure was kept consistent for all 6 groups.) Participants responded to a number of attitude and belief items about their assigned target group, including beliefs about the controllability and stability of the group's sexual orientation and guesses about the personality characteristics of group members.

研究者旨在刻画围绕性取向群体的大众信念与态度的若干特征，尤其聚焦于对双性恋者的认知。简言之，招募参与者时未明确提及他们自身的性取向，但采取了多项刻意措施以确保性少数群体能够知晓该研究。研究向参与者提出了一系列关于性、性别及性取向相关议题的问题。值得注意的是，在研究的中间环节，参与者被随机分配深入思考以下六个群体中的一个：异性恋女性、异性恋男性、双性恋女性、双性恋男性、同性恋女性及同性恋男性。（所有六个群体的形容词结构保持一致。）参与者需针对其被分配的目标群体回答若干态度与信念相关条目，包括对该群体性取向的可控性与稳定性的看法，以及对群体成员人格特征的猜测。