Fig 1.
Organization of the study including the randomization process and the organization of the 12 individual study conditions.
Following completion of the informed consent, participants were randomized to one of the patient couple presentations, which were comprised of the combinations depicted.
Fig 2.
Example vignette presentations are shown.
All patients were either presented as Michael if male or Michelle if female and their partner was presented as either Andrew if male or Andrea if female. The underlining in the figure is for emphasis only and was not included in the experiment. All patients and their partners were presented as cisgender, as indicated by matching sex at birth and gender identity. Additional patient images are shown in the bottom pane of the figure, which were used when there were MSM couples of either two Black MSM or two White MSM, or when the patient was presented with a White female partner. All remaining details were identical across vignette presentations.
Fig 3.
Conceptual diagrams of the moderation models.
This series of moderation analyses was performed for each couple group (MSM, MSW, WSM). All analyses controlled for the gender identity of the patient and their partner, as well as participants’ year of training, sexual orientation, gender identity, and race.
Table 1.
Sample demographics.
Table 2.
Main effects of patient and partner race on assumptions.
Table 3.
Moderation analyses.