Culture and Contact in the Promotion and Reduction of Anti-Gay Prejudice: Evidence from Jamaica and Britain

摘要: Jamaica has been called "the most homophobic place on Earth" ( Padgett, 2006 , p. 1), and involved in numerous international incidents with Britain, other countries, concerning anti-gay prejudice. However, neither the severity of Jamaican prejudice, nor any means reducing this prejudice ever empirically investigated. Intergroup contact-social interaction a person from another group-is one successful widely used social-psychological interventions to reduce improve intergroup relations. In article, we compared sexual that Britain investigated relationship between contact both countries. participants reported more negative attitudes toward gay men than did British participants, but was strongly associated reduced for participants. Implications are discussed.