This paper aimed to determine the effect of a different strength of belief in free will form a different level of sexual prejudice toward homosexual men. To specify the effect, there were two hypothesis drawn. Firstly, the strong belief in free will provides the functionality to produce less explicit prejudice towards homosexual men than the lacking belief in free will. Secondly, the heterosexual male and female’s prejudice toward homosexual men is formed more in high free will belief condition than low free will condition. Basically, the free will subscale was initially used for effective measurement of the participants’ level of free will belief, which is largely separated into two groups, high free will belief and low free will belief,
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The result of both explicit prejudice and implicit prejudice scaling points the same direction. As the consequence, for male participants the measure of high free will belief group is higher than that of low free will belief group. This implies the impact of the higher intense of self-belief in free will on weakening the homosexual prejudice in men’s psychological mechanism. In contrast, two free will belief conditions in female group showed an insignificant difference in implicit and explicit prejudice toward homosexual men. To compare the male groups with female groups, it was noticed that the male group with strong belief in free will tend to produce the greatest prejudice toward homosexual men. This is consistent with the Kite and Whitley’s (1996) study demonstrating that the heterosexual men tend to express more unfavourable response to homosexual men than heterosexual women. Kite and Whitley elucidated that the general prejudiced attitude toward homosexual persons depend on gender stereotypes and sexual orientation established by traditional sex roles. Therefore, the difference of the prejudiced view on homosexual men between male and female depends on the extent of adherence to traditional gender role. Men are more obsessive to adhere to the masculine characteristics and attitudes than women to adhere to the famine behaviours for severe pressure from …show more content…
Firstly, the study is not an experimental study but correlational study, which does not use scientific methodology reducing reliability of the study. This means that the study can be unpractically manipulated and controlled. Another major point that differ experiment from the descriptive and correlational approaches is lack of specificity. The difficulty with correlational studies is not that they fail to suggest causal relations but that they can suggest too many. Secondly, because prejudice is attitude, the study needed to concern that attitude should be adequately tested. The measures of explicit and implicit prejudice mask significant variation of measuring prejudice. The most significantly, the subject of the study was restricted to homosexual men only. The homosexual men is not the representative of homosexual people. This study disregarded an effect of free will belief on prejudice towards homosexual women, which can potentially make a difference in current
The result of both explicit prejudice and implicit prejudice scaling points the same direction. As the consequence, for male participants the measure of high free will belief group is higher than that of low free will belief group. This implies the impact of the higher intense of self-belief in free will on weakening the homosexual prejudice in men’s psychological mechanism. In contrast, two free will belief conditions in female group showed an insignificant difference in implicit and explicit prejudice toward homosexual men. To compare the male groups with female groups, it was noticed that the male group with strong belief in free will tend to produce the greatest prejudice toward homosexual men. This is consistent with the Kite and Whitley’s (1996) study demonstrating that the heterosexual men tend to express more unfavourable response to homosexual men than heterosexual women. Kite and Whitley elucidated that the general prejudiced attitude toward homosexual persons depend on gender stereotypes and sexual orientation established by traditional sex roles. Therefore, the difference of the prejudiced view on homosexual men between male and female depends on the extent of adherence to traditional gender role. Men are more obsessive to adhere to the masculine characteristics and attitudes than women to adhere to the famine behaviours for severe pressure from …show more content…
Firstly, the study is not an experimental study but correlational study, which does not use scientific methodology reducing reliability of the study. This means that the study can be unpractically manipulated and controlled. Another major point that differ experiment from the descriptive and correlational approaches is lack of specificity. The difficulty with correlational studies is not that they fail to suggest causal relations but that they can suggest too many. Secondly, because prejudice is attitude, the study needed to concern that attitude should be adequately tested. The measures of explicit and implicit prejudice mask significant variation of measuring prejudice. The most significantly, the subject of the study was restricted to homosexual men only. The homosexual men is not the representative of homosexual people. This study disregarded an effect of free will belief on prejudice towards homosexual women, which can potentially make a difference in current