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SUBMITTER: Burke SE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5624340 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Burke Sara E SE Dovidio John F JF LaFrance Marianne M Przedworski Julia M JM Perry Sylvia P SP Phelan Sean M SM Burgess Diana J DJ Hardeman Rachel R RR Yeazel Mark W MW van Ryn Michelle M
Journal of experimental social psychology 20170224
Increasing evidence suggests that bisexual people are sometimes evaluated more negatively than heterosexual and gay/lesbian people. A common theoretical account for this discrepancy argues that bisexuality is perceived by some as introducing ambiguity into a binary model of sexuality. The present brief report tests a single key prediction of this theory, that evaluations of bisexual people have a unique relationship with Need for Closure (NFC), a dispositional preference for simple ways of struc ...[more]