Who's Gay? Does It Matter?

By ritch c. savin-williams. 2006

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Reproductive Medicine, Social Psychology

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Intersectionality in Quantitative Psychological Research (2016, background): “Savin-Williams (2006) described how estimates of homosexuality depended on whether researchers referenced participants’ sexual identity, sexual or romantic attraction, or sexual behavior in defining sexual orientation.”
Gaydar and the Fallacy of Decontextualized Measurement (2018, background): “Researchers have long distinguished between same-sex identity, same-sex desires, and same-sex behavior, distinct phenomena that “are imperfectly correlated and inconsistently predictive of each other” (Savin-Williams 2006; see also Laumann et al. 1994).”
The Social Development of Contingent Self-Worth in Sexual Minority Young Men: An Empirical Investigation of the “Best Little Boy in the World” Hypothesis (2013, background): “…example, those suggesting that with greater social acceptance will come a recession of sexual identities altogether (Cohler & Hammack, 2007; Savin-Williams, 2006a)—recognize that at a point across development for sexual minority adolescents comes a recognition of being attracted to…”
Are Gay Men in Worse Mental Health than Heterosexual Men? The Role of Age, Shame and Guilt, and Coming-Out (2009, background): “Savin-Williams (2006) notes that reaching conclusions about gay individuals’ mental health on the basis of research done with adolescents poses a problem for the following reasons.”
Hardwired for Sexism? Approaches to Sex/Gender in Neuroscience (2012, background): “Moreover, the much-touted increase in same-sex orientation among women with CAH is generally limited to fantasy or attraction, while rates of actual same-sex behavior are only slightly elevated, if at all, especially when women with CAH are compared to women in the general population [50, 65, 66] ra”
Making the invisible visible: fear and disclosure of sexual orientation at work. (2007, background): “…useful theoretical anchor for the study of diversity 1 One reason for this wide range is that estimates of sexual orientation vary depending on the country, the gender, the age group, and whether one is assessing same-sex attraction, same-sex behavior, or sexual identity (cf. Savin-Williams, 2006).”
Contemporary Issues in Sexual Orientation and Identity Development in Emerging Adulthood (2013, background): “, & Savin-Williams, R. C. (2012). Mostly heterosexual and mostly gay/lesbian: Evidence for new sexual orientation”