Scientific Communication about Biological Influences on Homosexuality and the Politics of Gay Rights
Scientific Communication about Biological Influences on Homosexuality and the Politics of Gay Rights
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DOI：
10.1177/1065912915620050
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发表时间：
2016-03-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Suhay, Elizabeth
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作者：
Garretson, Jeremiah;Suhay, Elizabeth
近几十年来，美国人对人类行为原因的看法发生了很大变化。特别是，人们倾向于将各种行为归因于生物因素，这一点可能没有比性取向更明显的了。在这篇文章中，我们利用两个超时调查数据来论证，关于20世纪90年代同性恋生物学基础的新科学证据迅速改变了人们普遍持有的信念。然而，由于这些科学解释被认为与同性恋权利有关，说服倾向于以公民的政治价值观为条件。简而言之，在这一时期，自由派比保守派更有可能接受同性恋的生物学属性。此外，关于同性恋的这些不断变化和分歧的因果信念似乎导致了对同性恋权利越来越多的支持，以及左右两派对同性恋权利的分歧。
In recent decades, Americans' thinking regarding the causes of human behavior has changed considerably. In particular, there has been a swing toward attributing a variety of behaviors to biological factors, and perhaps nowhere is this more evident than for sexual orientation. In this paper, we draw on two overtime survey datasets to argue that new scientific evidence on the biological bases of homosexuality in the 1990s rapidly changed commonly held beliefs. However, because these scientific explanations were perceived to be relevant to gay rights, persuasion tended to be conditioned on citizens' political values. In short, liberals were considerably more likely than conservatives to embrace biological attributions for homosexuality during this period. Furthermore, these changing-and diverging-causal beliefs about homosexuality appear to have contributed to both increasing support for, and left-right disagreements over, gay rights.