Distrusted disclosures: Deception drives anti-transgender but not anti-atheist prejudice.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Transgender individuals face high levels of prejudice in interpersonal relationships. However, limited experimental research has examined the role of identity disclosure on anti-transgender prejudice.

Methods

Drawing upon research on distrust and identity disclosure, two between-participants experiments (total n = 802) examined the role of intentional and unintentional identity disclosure on negative attitudes (Studies 1 & 2), perceived deception (Studies 1 & 2) and distrust (Study 2) toward two potentially concealable and historically distrusted identities (transgender and atheist). Specifically, the current studies examine the impact of a target's stigmatized identity (transgender or atheist) and method of disclosure (intentional or unintentional) on perceptio

SUBMITTER: Totton RR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9908580 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature