archives@tulane.edu / Online dating applications provide a space for users to meet sexual partners through a streamlined approach. The profiles often include a place for users to add a short description or biography. Some users choose to include racially identified preferences or requirements in their online profiles. This phenomenon, known as sexual racism, poses a problem for racial minorities who are often excluded or not preferred due to their racial identity (Callander, Holt, and Newman, 2015). In the present study, 136 participants who identified as straight and white evaluated the character of a gay or straight man who depicted sexual racism in his profile. Consistent with research by Thai, Stainer, and Barlow (2019), I predicted perpetrators of sexual racism would be viewed more negatively than users who did not include sexual racism in their dating profiles. Perpetrators who expressed sexual racism were viewed as less warm, less competent, less moral, more prejudiced. They were also liked much less than the control. Drawing on research from the higher moral obligation hypothesis (Fernandez, Branscombe, Saguy, Gomez, & Morales, 2013), I also predicted an interaction of sexual orientation and sexual racism such that participants would rate a gay perpetrator more negatively than a straight perpetrator in dating profiles that include sexual racism with minimal difference of sexual orientation in the control. There were no significant findings related to sexual orientation. Despite disagreement over the acceptability of sexual racism by lay people, the present research suggests users who include sexual racism are viewed more negatively by other white people. / 1 / Maya Cohen
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TULANE/oai:http://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/:tulane_120522 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Contributors | Cohen, Maya (author), O'Brien, Laurie (Thesis advisor), School of Science & Engineering Psychology (Degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Tulane University |
| Source Sets | Tulane University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | electronic, pages: 46 |
| Rights | No embargo, Copyright is in accordance with U.S. Copyright law. |
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