The association between prejudice toward and essentialist beliefs about transgender people.

ABSTRACT: Previous research often suggests that people who endorse more essentialist beliefs about social groups are also likely to show increased prejudice towards members of these social groups, and there is even some evidence to suggest that essentialism may lead to prejudice and stereotyping. However, there are several notable exceptions to this pattern in that, for certain social groups (e.g., gay men and lesbians), higher essentialism is actually related to lower prejudice. The current studies further explored the relationship between essentialism and prejudice by examining a novel type of essentialism-transgender essentialism (i.e., essentializing transgender identity), and its relationship to prejudice towards transgender people. Study 1 (N = 248) tested the viability of transgender e

SUBMITTER: Glazier JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9933712 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature