society-wide pathogen threat should lead to more negative attitudes toward gay men and
lesbians. Using a sample of 248,922 Americans recruited via the Project Implicit website, we
tested whether implicit attitudes toward gay men and lesbians shifted as a result of the 2014
Ebola virus outbreak. Regression discontinuity analyses, but not t-tests, showed evidence of
a small shift in implicit (but not explicit) attitudes at the height of public concern over Ebola …