Question

What did Lytle & Levy find in their study reducing heterosexism?

Answer 1

ANS.

Lytle and Levy conducted a study regarding reducing heterosexism in 2015. They wanted to determine if intergroup friendship between heterosexuals and homosexual groups would reduce pre-conceived notions towards sexual minorities. Their approach involved an innovative and experimental examination of whether aroused cross-orientation friendships would reduce sexual prejudice.

Experimental condition:

Participants were randomly assigned to undergo the fast friends procedure with an experiment participant who either did not reveal his or her sexual orientation (control condition) or revealed belonging to another sexual orientation group at the beginning (reveal-beginning condition) or end of the interaction (reveal-end condition).

Observations:

• Study participants reported significantly more positive attitudes toward other sexually oriented groups at the completion of the study.
• They were found to have greater feelings of interpersonal closeness, and more positive behavior (longer friendlier responses following disclosure of sexual orientation).

So, the observations showed that intergroup friendships between heterosexuals and other sexually oriented groups does have a positive impact on their outlook toward other groups, thus reducing prejudices.

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