"We're tolerant and they're prejudiced": Same-sex marriage supporters' and opponents' perceptions of supportive and oppositional claims

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dc.contributor.authorPlatow, M.J.
dc.contributor.authorKnight, C.G.
dc.contributor.authorVan Rooy, D.
dc.contributor.authorAugoustinos, M.
dc.contributor.authorBar-Tal, D.
dc.contributor.authorSpears, R.
dc.contributor.editorPorcher, S.
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThe current research examined the proposition that debates over same-sex marriage are characterized, at least in part, by conflicting understandings about what is and is not prejudiced, normative and true. Toward this end, Australians’ (N = 415) prejudice judgements of supportive and oppositional statements toward same-sex marriage were measured and analysed with analyses of variance. Unsurprisingly, same-sex marriage supporters perceived a supportive statement as unprejudiced, tolerant, truthful, in pursuit of individual liberty, and normative; oppositional statements were seen in precisely the opposite manner. Same-sex marriage opponents, however, disagreed, instead judging an oppositional statement as unprejudiced, tolerant, truthful, in pursuit of individual liberty, and normative; it was a supportive statement that was seen as relatively prejudiced. These effects remained even after controlling for independent expressions of in-group favouritism. The current data align with a collective naïve realism perspective, in which group members see their own views as veridical and those of disagreeing others as biased. We argue that prejudice-reduction efforts must be instantiated to facilitate a common in-group identity between supporters and opponents to enable consensus over facts and, ultimately, what is and is not prejudice. Without this consensus, each side of the political debate may simply hurl the pejorative label of “prejudice” against the other, with likely little opportunity for social influence and social change.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityMichael J. Platow, Clinton G. Knight, Dirk Van Rooy, Martha Augoustinos, Daniel Bar-Tal, Russell Spears
dc.identifier.citationPLoS ONE, 2023; 18(8):e0286063-1-e0286063-17
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0286063
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.orcidAugoustinos, M. [0000-0002-7212-1499]
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2440/142445
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherPublic Library of Science (PLoS)
dc.relation.granthttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP160101157
dc.rights© 2023 Platow et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0286063
dc.subjectAustralia
dc.subjectConsensus
dc.subjectHumans
dc.subjectJudgment
dc.subjectMarriage
dc.subjectPrejudice
dc.subject.meshAustralia
dc.subject.meshConsensus
dc.subject.meshHumans
dc.subject.meshJudgment
dc.subject.meshMarriage
dc.subject.meshPrejudice
dc.title"We're tolerant and they're prejudiced": Same-sex marriage supporters' and opponents' perceptions of supportive and oppositional claims
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished

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