DisgustDataforPubRelease.dta

Does pathogenic disgust sensitivity differentially bias the evaluation
of same-sex liaisons across gender? Participants (n=191) recruited on
Amazon Turk were presented with a child custody dispute concerning the
propriety of a post-divorce homosexual liaison undertaken by a parent. Gender
of the homosexual liaison was randomly varied. Pathogenic
disgust sensitivity predicted a willingness to remove custody and impose
visitation restrictions after the gay male but not the lesbian liaison.
Pathogenic disgust sensitivity also correlated with normative positions that
might also predict a gender bias: moral traditionalism, sexual prejudice, and
traditional gender role beliefs. But even after controlling for these normative
positions pathogenic disgust sensitivity predicted a willingness to remove
custody and impose restrictions only in the gay male condition. This suggests that
pathogenic disgust elicitors are associated with gay male but not lesbian
liaisons.