Despite shifts toward greater acceptance in US public opinion and policy, lesbian, gay, and
bisexual people remain widely stigmatized. This article reviews empirical research on …

Since the rise of the religious right, scholars have become increasingly interested in
studying conservative Protestantism. Not only do conservative Protestants (CPs) make up at …

Public opinion in the United States contains a paradox. The American public is symbolically
conservative: it cherishes the symbols of conservatism and is more likely to identify as …

Through a nationwide telephone survey of 2,000 people and an additional 200 face-to-face
interviews, Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith probed the grassroots of white …

This study examines social desirability bias in the context of ethical decision-making by
accountants. It hypothesizes a negative relation between social desirability bias and ethical …

From marriage equality, to gun control, to immigration reform and the threat of war, religion
plays a fascinating and crucial part in our nation's political process and in our culture at …

PREFACE or as long as most Americans can remember, our society has been Fdescribed to
us as being composed of individualists. As children, we were taught to be independent. We …

Peer reporting is a specific form of whistelblowing in which an individual discloses the
wrongdoing of a peer. Previous studies have examined situational variables thought to …

This book presents a new psychological framework for understanding religious
fundamentalism, one that distinguishes fundamentalist traditions from other faith-based …

In a study designed to investigate the respective roles of religious fundamentalism and right‐
wing authoritarianism as predictors of prejudice against racial minorities and homosexuals …