Keeping my distance: prejudice towards transwomen and its socio-political and moral predictors

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2020-04-01

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Sayılan, Gülden
Türkoğlu, Beril
Cingöz Ulu, Banu

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This research aims to examine transprejudice in the Turkish cultural context and identify its socio-political and morality-based correlates. To that end, we report two studies. In Study 1, we manipulate the gender identity of a hypothetical victim in a violent criminal scenario. We find that people (N = 116) put greater social distance towards a transwoman compared to a ciswoman victim, yet do not distinguish between the two in terms of responsibility attributions. In Study 2 (N = 175), we explore the socio-political and moral underpinnings of transprejudice by focusing on the role of right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO) in different forms of transprejudice through the mediating functionof moral foundations. RWA predicts greater social distance and less positive affect towards transwomen through the purity foundation; while SDO predicts lower positive affect through the care foundation. The findings show that transprejudice does exist to some extent and that RWA seems to be a potent socio-political predictor of transprejudice in Turkey. The moral foundations, on the other hand, do not seem to play the mediator role that has been shown for other prejudice domains and different cultural contexts.

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Applied Psychology, Health(social science), Social Psychology, Gender Studies

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/40119

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Psychology and Sexuality

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https://doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2019.1686055

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G. Sayılan, B. Türkoğlu, and B. Cingöz Ulu, “Keeping my distance: prejudice towards transwomen and its socio-political and moral predictors,” Psychology and Sexuality, pp. 135–149, 2020, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/40119.