Jessica Levy, Martin Brunner, Ulrich Keller, Antoine Fischbach
How sensitive are the evaluations of a school's effectiveness to the selection of covariates in the applied value-added model?
Educational assessment, evaluation and accountability
structure beliefs nature homosexuality association antigay attitudes examined three studies ns 309 487 216 contrary previous research three dimensions obtained belief homosexuality biologically based immutable fixed early life belief crossculturally historically universal belief constitutes discrete entitative type defining features study 1 supported threefactor structure essentialist beliefs male homosexuality study 2 replicated structure confirmatory factor analysis extended beliefs lesbianism showed three dimensions predicted antigay attitudes demonstrated essentialist beliefs mediate associations prejudice gender ethnicity religiosity study 3 replicated belief structure mediation effects community sample showed essentialist beliefs predict antigay prejudice independently rightwing authoritarianism social dominance orientation political conservatism