The 2014 Ebola outbreak may have environmentally primed disease avoidance motivations and associated shifts in social attitudes. This project examines data from visitors to the Project Implicit demo site to determine whether the 2014 outbreak was associated with a corresponding increase in implicit and explicit preferences for straight people over gay.
The analysis is to be conducted on existing data, but we created an analysis plan prior to observing the outcomes. That analysis plan is in the analysis component of this project: https://osf.io/8zqcj/