Abstract Discrimination is a social phenomenon which seems to be widespread across different societies and cultures. Examples of discrimination concerning race, class, gender, sexual orientation are not difficult find in contemporary western societies. In this article, the author focus on ontological ground phenomenon, with particular attention its diffuse institutionalised forms. The defends b...

When the mechanisms that lead to sexual crimes are examined, the biological basis of human sexuality should be taken into consideration. So far, however, the neuropsychological mechanisms of sexual perversion are not fully understood, nor has the neuropsychological profile of a sexual abuser been determined. Structural and functional brain anomalies are thought to play a crucial role in sexual ...

BACKGROUND Studies from Sweden and abroad have established health inequalities between heterosexual and non-heterosexual people. Few studies have examined the underpinnings of such sexual orientation inequalities in health. To expand this literature, the present study aimed to employ decomposition analysis to explain health inequalities between people with heterosexual and non-heterosexual orie...

The objectives of this study were to estimate the prevalence of suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, mental disorders, and alcoholism in bisexuals, lesbians, and gays in Mexico City and analyze the possible relationship between violence, discrimination, and the mental health of these population groups. A questionnaire was administered to 506 bisexuals, lesbians, and gays attending support organ...

OBJECTIVES We examined associations between perceived discrimination due to race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender; responses to discrimination experiences; and psychiatric disorders. METHODS The sample included respondents in the 2004-2005 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (n = 34 653). We analyzed the associations between self-reported past-year discrimi...

OBJECTIVE Sexual minority girls (lesbian/bisexual) and girls with overweight/obesity experience high rates of discrimination and mental distress. This study explored whether BMI or perceived weight status might compound sexual minority girls' risk for harassment and mental distress. METHODS Data on female students from the national 2015 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (n = 7,006) were analyzed. Lo...

Current models of attention, typically claim that vision and audition are limited by a common attentional resource which means that visual performance should be adversely affected by a concurrent auditory task and vice versa. Here, we test this implication by measuring auditory (pitch) and visual (contrast) thresholds in conjunction with cross-modal secondary tasks and find that no such interfe...