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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"Outgroups"”.
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A GOAL SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE TO THIRD-PARTY HOSTILITY AGAINST OUTGROUPS
Conflicts between groups are rarely kept private between disputants as lay third parties are typically present to observe the dispute. They are not directly affected by the conflict, however, choose to pick sides and/or participate in the conflict. Furthermore, they pursue multiple concurrent …
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Social Beliefs, Agonistic Goals, Anger, and Biased Perceptions of Outgroups: A Social Action Theory of Covert Racial Prejudice
<p>Racial prejudice and discrimination are an important societal and public health problem. Approaches to understanding the origins of prejudice and discrimination have focused on attitudes, both overt (explicit) and covert (implicit). But attitudes correlate only modestly with implicit biases and …
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WHEN DOES THE SELF-REGULATION OF PREJUDICE APPLY? INTEGRATING MOTIVATION TO CONTROL PREJUDICE AND SOCIAL NORM THEORY
… suggests prejudice suppression towards various outgroups reflects social norms prescribing and proscribing prejudice (Crandall, Eshleman, & O'brien, 2002). In the following thesis, we argue that outgroup protective status moderates the relationship between internal motivation and the …
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Values as Guiding Principles of Motivation: A Two Factor Model
… values influence perceptions of ingroups and outgroups. In Study 1, participants completed individual difference measures. Factor analysis revealed two independent factors: Egalitarianism, which predicted positive judgments of outgroups, and Conservatism, which predicted positive judgments of …
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The relationship between ethnocentrism and achievement in beginning learners of French as a foreign language
… the perception of one's ingroup as superior to outgroups, visibly increased in the United States recently as evidenced by a rise in both expressions of patriotism toward the U.S. and negative attitudes toward arabs during and following the Gulf War. Given this rise in ethnocentrism, foreign …
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Systematics of psilocaulon N.E.BR. (Aizoaceae)
… Brownanthus, Aspazom and Aptenia are used as outgroups in a cladistic analysis of Psilocaulon. The monophyly of Psilocaulon is demonstrated. As a result P. rapaceum Jacq. is excluded and transferred to Caulipsolon Klak gen. nov. The position of Psilocaulon and the monotypic genus Caulipsolon …
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Molecular evolution of the cytochrome b gene among percid fishes
… the latter two species were used as outgroups for phylogenetic analyses.
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Faculty religiosity and attitudes towards persons with disabilities.
… that religiosity may influence attitudes towards outgroups. The present study investigated the effects of faculty religiosity on attitudes towards persons with disabilities at large, faith-based private university in the southwest United States. The central research question of the study was, "How …
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Phylogeny of <em>Panthera</em>, Including <em>P. atrox</em>, Based on Cranialmandibular Characters
… uncia</em>, and <em>Neofelis nebulosa</em>. Four outgroups were used; <em>Crocuta crocuta, Metailurus ssp., Proailurus lemanensis</em>, and <em>Pseudaelurus validus</em>. From each phylogeny created, despite the outgroup, apparent grouping between <em>Panthera leo, P. tigris</em>, and <em>P. …
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Quantifying variation in teeth of Late Triassic vertebrates: implications for identification, palaeoecology, and biostratigraphy
… armour across most of the body) and their close outgroups as an example. Interestingly, isolated aetosaur teeth are exceptionally rare in deposits where other aetosaur fossils, such as osteoderms, are common; however, it is unknown whether this is an artifact of aetosaurs generally having fewer …
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I Like My Group Because I Like Myself: Underlying Mechanisms of Implicit and Explicit Intergroup Bias
… a basis for favoring one’s ingroup over outgroups. Drawing on these assumptions, it was predicted that individuals with higher levels of implicit self esteem would show higher levels of implicit intergroup bias. In addition, it was predicted that implicit intergroup bias would mediate …
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Using Mitochondrial Cytochrome C Oxidase Subunit I Sequence To Resolve The Springsnail Species Complex: Pyrgulopsis Micrococcus
… three river systems in the Death Valley region. Outgroups included regional congeners P. amargosae, P. guilani, P. neritella, P. owensensis, P. turbatrix, P. wongi, and used P. stearnsiana to root the tree. Intra-population sequence divergence was low, between 0-0.8%. Inter-population sequence …
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There's a Place for Us: How Ethnic Identities Are Revealed in Ethnic-Specific Organizations
… with ethnic and non-co-ethnic actors (i.e., outgroups and mainstream institutions). I argue that transactional identities reflect specific histories and events that determine shared</p> <p>experiences within an ethnic group and are easily distinguishable from the shared experiences other …
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Relações filogenéticas da subfamília Didelphinae: padrões de variação da morfologia crânio-dentária (Marsupialia: Didelphidae)
… Didelphinae. Four different genera were used as outgroups: Caluromys (Caluromyinae, Didelphidae), Sparassocynus (Sparassocynidae), Caenolestes (Caenolestidae) e Dromiciops (Microbiotheriidae). A total of 146 cranial and dental characters were utilized in the analysis, that was performed using the …
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Phylogeny and Biogeography of Ice Crawlers (Insecta: Grylloblattodea): Evidence from Six Molecular Loci
… Phylogenetic analysis with two mantophasmid outgroups in POY indicates monophyletic genera, with Grylloblatta as sister to Grylloblattina. Two major lineages exist within Grylloblatta: a clade in Northern California and Oregon and a clade in Washington and Oregon. One new species and up to …
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A molecular phylogeny of the Microsporida
… eubacterial, and archaebacterial sequences as outgroups. Maximum parsimony, maximum likelihood, and distance based methods were used to analyze the data producing highly supported results based on bootstrap and decay analyses. According to the analysis, the species examined can be divided into …
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Help-seeking helps: : help-seeking as a strategy for managing group image
… and enhancing the ingroup’s image in the eyes of outgroups. The theoretical introduction outlines and assesses the history of helping-transaction research, beginning with the rich and multi-faceted work carried out by anthropologists and sociologists, before considering how social psychology has …
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Osteology, Morphometrics, and Phylogenetic Systematics of the ‘Booneville Dinosaur’ (Ornithopoda: Hadrosauridae) From the Early–Middle Campanian Coffee Formation of Northeastern Mississippi
… VP-12339 were found to be very similar to other outgroups of Saurolophidae. The geometric morphometric analysis performed for the pubis, however, conflicted with this hypothesis and suggested a morphology more similar to the clade Saurolophinae than either Lambeosaurinae or any non hadrosaurid …
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Descrição de quatro novas espécies de Belostoma Latreille, 1807 e análise cladística do grupo B. plebejum sensu Nieser, 1975 (Insecta: Heteroptera: Belostomatidae)
… characters for 31 terminal taxons, including 14 outgroups from B. denticolle sensu Lauck species group, B. minor sensu Lauck species group, and B. oxyurum sensu Lauck species group. ln order to test procedures as weighting and ordering of characters, ten parsimony analyses of this data set were …
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Early conceptions of national identity: causes and consequences
… for how one views national outgroups (e.g., Huynh, Devos, & Altman, 2015). Here, I explore the origins of national identity conceptions; specifically, I ask whether young children (beginning at age 5) are aware of the extrinsic determinants of nationality, or whether their …
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