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Sexual and Gender Prejudice

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Sexual prejudice is defined by Herek (2000, p. 19) as “all negative attitudes based on sexual orientation, whether the target is homosexual, bisexual, or heterosexual.”

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Savin-Williams, R.C., Pardo, S.T., Vrangalova, Z., Mitchell, R.S., Cohen, K.M. (2010). Sexual and Gender Prejudice. In: Chrisler, J., McCreary, D. (eds) Handbook of Gender Research in Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1467-5_15

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