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This is a follow-up to a study concerning priming with "scrambled sentences" containing men expressing anger, contempt and disgust, and its effects on modern and classical racial prejudice and homonegativity. It showed that males lowered their prejudice after priming, whilst the opposite occurred for females. This triggered the main hypothesis in the current study: if female names are used in the "scrambled sentences", females ought to decrease and males to increase their prejudice. No support was found for this hypothesis. However, men and participants in the later study expressed significantly higher overall prejudice. Further, due to great average age differences between the two studies correla...