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Maternal Inheritance and Familial Fecundity Factors in Male Homosexuality
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Open AccessSexual Orientation-Related Differences in Virtual Spatial Navigation and Spatial Search Strategies
Spatial abilities are generally hypothesized to differ between men and women, and people with different sexual orientations. According to the cross-sex shift hypothesis, gay men are hypothesized to perform in ...
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Open AccessSexual Orientation and Cognitive Ability: A Multivariate Meta-Analytic Follow-Up
A cross-sex shift model of human sexual orientation differences predicts that homosexual men should perform or score in the direction of heterosexual women, and homosexual women in the direction of heterosexua...
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Open AccessMinority Stressors, Rumination, and Psychological Distress in Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Individuals
This study tested the mechanisms by which social stigma contributes to psychological distress in lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals. A large community sample (N = 4248, M age = 29.9 years, 42.9% female, 57.1%...
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Open AccessPrevalence of Sexual Orientation Across 28 Nations and Its Association with Gender Equality, Economic Development, and Individualism
The prevalence of women’s and men’s heterosexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality was assessed in 28 nations using data from 191,088 participants from a 2005 BBC Internet survey. Sexual orientation was measu...
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Open AccessAdolescent Sexual Behavior Patterns in a British Birth Cohort: A Latent Class Analysis
This study examined adolescent sexual behaviors patterns, and the consistency between sexual behavior and sexual orientation, in a prospective birth cohort. We used data on 5150 young people from the Avon Long...
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Open AccessChildhood Gender Nonconformity and Recalled Perceived Parental and Peer Acceptance Thereof, Internalized Homophobia, and Psychological Well-Being Outcomes in Heterosexual and Gay Men from Poland
The link between gender nonconformity and psychopathology may be due in part to negative childhood experiences resulting from other people’s reactions to gender nonconformity. The aim of this study was to test...
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Open AccessBidirectional Causal Associations Between Same-Sex Attraction and Psychological Distress: Testing Moderation and Mediation Effects
Only one study has examined bidirectional causality between sexual minority status (having same-sex attraction) and psychological distress. We combined twin and genomic data from 8700 to 9700 participants in t...