Homophobia: A Tentative Personality Profile

@article{Smith1971HomophobiaAT,  title={Homophobia: A Tentative Personality Profile},  author={Kenneth Thomas Smith},  journal={Psychological Reports},  year={1971},  volume={29},  pages={1091 - 1094},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:13323120}}
A tentative profile suggests individuals whose negative attitude toward homosexuals may contribute to the problem may be status conscious, authoritarian and sexually rigid.

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