Testing the McBeath hypothesis: relation of sexual orientation and belief in the paranormal.
According to McBeath, the incidence of homosexuality among experiments of paranormal phenomena exceeds that which would be expected by chance. Therefore, 50 homosexual men and 50 heterosexual men were administered the forced-choice version of the 18-item Australian Sheep-Goat Scale as a measure of belief in and alleged experience of the paranormal. As no differences were found in scores on belief/experience, there was no evidence for McBeath's hypothesis.
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Department of Psychology, University of Adelaide, Australia. psym-tha@arts.adelaide.edu.au
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D018451:Homosexuality, Male / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010268:Parapsychology; D010555:Personality Inventory