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Ambiguity Tolerance Toward Nonbinary Sexuality Concepts

Evidence from British Newspapers

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ID12759486
AuthorsKathleen Bryson (0000-0002-8852-8066, University College London, corresponding author), Christophe Soligo (0000-0001-5448-9612, University College London), Volker Sommer (0000-0002-9235-8493, University College London)
Year2018
Volume18
Issue4
Pages446-477
Publication date2018-10-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Bisexuality (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1529-9716 • E-ISSN: 1529-9724
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/15299716.2018.1495591
OpenAlexW2908800162
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited76

Humans tend to construct their worldview via binaries, that is, two distinct, nonoverlapping elements, such as the juxtapositions of human–animal, human–machine, or male–female. Our research focuses on the binary categories of “heterosexuality–homosexuality” and explores how stable or malleable they are. For this, the authors analyze newspaper coverage of sexuality concepts in the United Kingdom from 1995 to 2010 and quantify if and how tolerance toward ambiguous concepts including “bisexuality” vary across time as well as with gender, political opinion, and expertise. Our findings indicate a distinct “millennial effect” of intolerance toward sexual ambiguity, suggesting that resistance against ambiguity rears up during periods of instability. Conversely, we found higher levels of ambiguity tolerance in left-wing newspapers, broadsheet publications, female journalists, and expert writers, as opposed to right-wing newspapers, tabloid publications, male journalists, and novice writers. Our results can help to better understand to what degree concepts related to human sexuality are relatively hard-wired or rather fluid social categories

Ambiguity · Construct (python library · Human sexuality · Linguistics · Media studies · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology

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