Klee, Anna (2025) Evaluations of Social Exclusion: Influences of Sexual Identity and Political Ideology. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
This study examines how individuals evaluate the seriousness of social exclusion with ambiguous evidence to identify the effect of the sexual orientation of the alleged victim and the political ideology of the observer. An online, vignette-based experiment was used to test this, among a convenience sample of N = 146 participants. Participants were asked to read through vignettes describing an individual claiming to be the victim of social exclusion due to their sexual identity. Claims made by non-heterosexuals were found to be taken more seriously than those made by heterosexuals. More liberal/left-leaning participants were found to take claims more seriously overall, compared to conservative/right-leaning participants. Political ideology was found to moderate the effect of sexual orientation on the evaluation of claims of harm, with liberal/left-leaning participants evaluating claims made by non-heterosexuals as more serious than those made by heterosexuals. More conservative/right-leaning participants, however, did not seem to evaluate the seriousness of claims made by heterosexuals versus non-heterosexuals differently. These findings are challenged by methodological limitations of the study, including a primarily left-leaning sample, which reduces the confidence in these results and their generalizability. Keywords: sexual orientation, political ideology, harm allegations, ambiguous harm, social exclusion
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Graso, M. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Jul 2025 07:26 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Jul 2025 07:26 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/5504 |
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