Papers

Questionnaires and Scales

• Browse a bibliography of Dr. Herek's publications
   
• Browse all available abstracts of publications by Dr. Herek and his collaborators
   
• Browse selected abstracts of papers on homophobia and sexual prejudice
   
• Browse selected abstracts of papers on hate crimes
   
• Browse selected abstracts of papers on AIDS and AIDS stigma
   
• Browse selected abstracts of papers on sexual orientation, law, and policy
   
• Browse selected abstracts of papers on attitude functions

Bibliographies and Abstracts

Questionnaires and Scales

You can download pre-publication versions of many of Dr. Herek's recent papers. Note that these are pre-publication drafts and some changes may have been made to the text in the course of copy-editing. For some articles, a form is also available to request a reprint via e-mail.

Clicking on the links below will either open the article preprint or, if multiple options are available, take you to the article's abstract. From there, you can download the preprint or request a reprint.

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• Papers Published in 2007
   
  • Sexual stigma: Putting sexual minority health issues in context, published in I. Meyer & M. Northridge (Eds.), The health of sexual minorities: Public health perspectives on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender populations (pp. 171-208). New York: Springer.
     
  • Sexual orientation and mental health, published in Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 3, 353-375.
     
  • Hate crimes and stigma-related experiences among sexual minority adults in the United States: Prevalence estimates from a national probability sample, to be published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence (in press).
     
• Papers Published in 2006
   
  • Legal recognition of same-sex relationships in the United States: A social science perspective, published in American Psychologist, 61 (6), 607-621.
     
  • Attitudes toward homosexuality among U.S. residents of Mexican descent, published in Journal of Sex Research, 43 (2), 122-135.
     
• Papers Published in 2004-2005
   
  • When sex equals AIDS: Symbolic stigma and heterosexual adults’ inaccurate beliefs about sexual transmission of AIDS, published in Social Problems, 52 (1), 15-37.
     
  • Beyond "homophobia": Thinking about sexual stigma and prejudice in the twenty-first century, published in Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 1(2), 6-24.
     
  • Sexual orientation and military service: Prospects for organizational and individual change in the United States, published in T.W. Britt, A.B. Adler, & C.A. Castro (Eds.), Military life: The psychology of serving in peace and combat (Vol. 4: Military culture, pp. 119-142). Westport, CT: Praeger Security International.
     
• Papers Published in 2003
   
  • Stigma, social risk, and health policy: Public attitudes toward HIV surveillance policies and the social construction of illness, published in Health Psychology, 22 (5), 533-540.
     
  • Evaluating interventions to alter sexual orientation: Methodological and ethical considerations (Comment on Spitzer, 2003), published in Archives of Sexual Behavior, 32(5), 438-439.
     
• Papers Published in 2002
   
  • Heterosexuals’ attitudes toward bisexual men and women in the United States, published in Journal of Sex Research, 39 (4), 264-274.
     
  • HIV-related stigma and knowledge in the United States: Prevalence and trends, 1991-1999, published in American Journal of Public Health, 92(3), 371-377.
     
  • Gender gaps in public opinion about lesbians and gay men, published in Public Opinion Quarterly, 66(1), 40-66.
     
  • Victim experiences in hate crimes based on sexual orientation, published in Journal of Social Issues, 58 (2), 319-339.
     
• Papers Published in 2000-2001
   
  • AIDS educational videos for gay and bisexual men: A content analysis, published in Journal of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, 5 (4), 143-153.
     
  • Sexual prejudice and gender: Do heterosexuals' attitudes toward lesbians and gay men differ?, published in Journal of Social Issues, 56 (2), 251-266.
     
  • The psychology of sexual prejudice, published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, 9(1), 19-22.
     
  • Homosexuality, published in 2000 in the American Psychological Association's Encyclopedia of Psychology, edited by A.E. Kazdin (pp. 149-153).
     
  • The social construction of attitudes: Functional consensus and divergence in the US public's reactions to AIDS, published in the 2000 edited volume, Why We Evaluate: Functions of Attitudes, edited by G. Maio and J. Olson (pp. 325-364).
     
• Papers Published in 1999
   
  • AIDS stigma and sexual prejudice, published in American Behavioral Scientist, 42, 1126-1143.
     
  • AIDS and stigma, published in American Behavioral Scientist, 42, 1102-1112.
     
  • Sex differences in how heterosexuals think about lesbians and gay men: Evidence from survey context effects, published in the Journal of Sex Research, 36 (4), 348-360.
     
  • Psychological sequelae of hate crime victimization among lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults, published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 67 (6), 945-951.
     
• Papers Published in 1998
   
  • Culturally sensitive AIDS educational videos for African American audiences, published in the American Journal of Community Psychology, 26 (5), 705-743.
     
  • Symbolic prejudice or fear of infection? A functional analysis of AIDS-related stigma among heterosexual adults, published in Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 20 (3), 230-241.
     
  • Correlates of internalized homophobia in a community sample of lesbians and gay men, published in the Journal of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, 2, 17-25.
     
  • AIDS and stigma, the report from the 1996 NIMH research workshop on AIDS and stigma, which was also published in the AIDS and Public Policy Journal, 13 (1), 36-47.
     
• Papers Published Before 1998
   
  • AIDS stigma and contact with persons with AIDS: Effects of direct and vicarious contact, which was published in Journal of Applied Social Psychology in 1997.
     
  • "Some of my best friends": Intergroup contact, concealable stigma, and heterosexuals' attitudes toward gay men and lesbians, which was published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin in 1996.
     
  • Why tell if you're not asked? Self disclosure, intergroup contact, and heterosexuals' attitudes toward lesbians and gay men, published in the 1996 volume, Out in force: Sexual orientation and the military, edited by G.M. Herek, J.J. Jobe, & R. Carney.
     
  • Identity and community among gay and bisexual men in the AIDS era: Preliminary findings from the Sacramento Men's Health Study, published in the 1995 volume, AIDS, identity, and community: The HIV epidemic and lesbians and gay men, edited by G.M. Herek & B. Greene.
     
  • A second decade of stigma, results from the 1991 AIDS and Stigma survey, published in the American Journal of Public Health, 1993.
     
  • Stigma, prejudice, and violence against lesbians and gay men, which was published in 1991 in Homosexuality: Research implications for public policy, edited by John Gonsiorek and James Weinrich.
     
  • Avoiding heterosexist bias in psychological research, final report of the APA Task Force on Non-Heterosexist Research, published in the American Psychologist, 1991.
     
  • Illness, stigma, and AIDS, Dr. Herek's 1990 Master Lecture presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association. It was published in Psychological aspects of serious illness: Chronic conditions, fatal diseases, and clinical care, edited by P.T. Costa, Jr. & G.R. VandenBos.
     
  • Gay people and government security clearances: A social science perspective, published in the American Psychologist, 1990.
     
  • Can functions be measured? A new perspective on the functional approach to attitudes, published in Social Psychology Quarterly, 1987.
     
  • Religion and prejudice: A comparison of racial and sexual attitudes, published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, in 1987.
     
  • On heterosexual masculinity: Some psychical consequences of the social construction of gender and sexuality, published in American Behavioral Scientist, 1986.
     

Papers

• The Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gay Men (ATLG) Scale
   
• Internalized Homophobia scale
   
• Download the hate crimes questionnaire in PDF format
   
• Various measures related to gay, lesbian, and bisexual community and identity (including personal self-esteem, collective self-esteem, attributions of personal setbacks to prejudice, personal choice ideology, community consciousness).
   
• Download the 1999 AIDS stigma survey items in PDF format
   
• The 1991 AIDS stigma survey items are reported in an appendix to the paper.
   

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