| Gelmer said: curious, psychology courses are always hit and miss for me, never know if they're just regurgitating the current trend in rhetoric as it seems to shift every five to ten years depending on what views are popular at the time. |
General psychology is. The more specific branches actually tend to know what they're doing however because they use scinetific or semi-scientific methods to get their research.
For example, to prove homophobes have unusual amounts of latent homosexuality they'll take people who are labeled as homophobes (by them scoring poorly on a survey) strap them in a chair... attach a device too... well you can imagine with guys.
Then make them watch porn. Straight Porn, Gay Porn and Lesbian Porn and measure the "reactions" or... well you can imagine. It's not perfect, but it's as close as you can get to measureing that sort of thing.
Look at the anctedotal evidence as well of all these famous people who are anti-gay rights then get picked up with gay hookers. Or just in general other cultures where it was basically commonplace. Heck we even have some signs of that in our culture. Like that whole "On the down low" thing. Where pretty much guys sleep with other guys while married but still insist they arn't gay or bisexual. The stigma of being called gay is the offensive thing, not the act.
