March 5, 2013 by Shannon

March 5th 2013. If you think giving someone the cold shoulder inflicts pain only on them, beware. A new study shows that individuals who deliberately shun another person are equally distressed by the experience. “In real life and in academic studies, we tend to focus on the harm done to victims in cases of social...

May 1, 2012 by Shannon

May 1st 2012.   That common put-down aimed at homophobic people – that they may, in fact, be gay themselves – may have some truth to it. Two researchers, Richard Ryan, a professor of psychology, psychiatry and education at the University of Rochester, and William Ryan, a doctoral student in psychology at the University of...

April 30, 2012 by Shannon

April 30th 2012.   Researchers found that among the college freshmen in their study, more than one-fifth of those who described themselves as very straight showed signs of covert homosexuality on the me-cued trials. And these “discrepant” (secretly gay) students happened to be the ones most likely to have expressed anti-gay sentiments on the pre-test...

April 10, 2012 by Shannon

April 10th 2012. (CBS News) Do homophobic people actually fear their own unconscious feelings? A new study suggests that people who repress their own sexual attraction to the same sex are more likely to express hostility towards gays. “In many cases these are people who are at war with themselves and they are turning this...