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Showing 1 to 20 of 220 for “"Prejudices"”.
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Influence of Stereotyping and Prejudices on Perceptions of Superheroes
<p>Fictional superheroes possess characteristics that can be identified with on a human level (e.g., gender and race); however, their superhuman nature may lead them be evaluated as a distinct outgroup. The current study attempted to assess how racial and gender attitudes may affect perceptions of …
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Influence of Stereotyping and Prejudices on Perceptions of Superheroes
<p>Fictional superheroes possess characteristics that can be identified with on a human level (e.g., gender and race); however, their superhuman nature may lead them be evaluated as a distinct outgroup. The current study attempted to assess how racial and gender attitudes may affect perceptions of …
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All Prejudices are not Created Equal: Different Responses to Subtle versus Blatant Expressions of Prejudice
The current research examined reactions to subtle versus blatant expressions of prejudice. Across four studies, participants reported their recognition of prejudice, affective responses, and behavioural intentions resulting from expressions of subtle and blatant sexism and racism. In the first …
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Components of Religious Beliefs, Religious Maturity, and Religious History as Predictors of Proscribed and Non-Proscribed Explicit and Implicit Prejudices
… in the differences between implicit and explicit prejudices. Current literature suggests that explicit and implicit attitudes are linked and one can influence the other. However, it is possible there are different sets of predictors of each attitude type. African-Americans have historically been …
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Whose Choice Is It Really?: The Impact of Property Profitability, Owner Strategies, & Perceived Majority Tenant Prejudices on Housing Choice Voucher Acceptance
… owner strategies, and perceived majority tenant prejudices. One previous study attempted to identify the factors that affect landlords' acceptance of vouchers, and was restricted to landlords participating in the voucher program. This dissertation expands our understanding of landlords' decisions …
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The Social Obligation to Reduce Stigma in Order to Increase Utilization of Mental Health Services
… mental health treatments. However, societal prejudices have caused many people diagnosed with mental illnesses to lose jobs, homes, and families; therefore, in general, people are afraid of being diagnosed as mentally ill and seeking mental health treatments. Additionally, recent national …
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'Exploring the potential of a prejudice reduction programme at a girls' junior school'
… study are fourfold: To explore what the dominant prejudices of grade 6 girls are; to examine how these prejudices are manifested; to investigate whether these prejudices could be reduced in a peer setting; and to discover whether the development of a co-constructed prejudice reduction programme …
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Testimonial Injustice and the Puzzle of Hearer Culpability
… they form on the basis of stereotypes and prejudices that regularly bypass conscious thought? In trying to solve this puzzle, I consider one way to hold hearers culpable despite stereotypes and prejudices bypassing conscious thought, that is, by focusing on the hearer's upstream epistemic …
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From model conflict resolution to post-war reconstruction in failed states: The case of Sierra Leone
… of the original social structures and prejudices and in continued marginalisation of certain groups. Using post-conflict Sierra Leone as a case study, the study attempts to examine the notion that ¿post-war reconstruction programmes tend to reinforce earlier social structures and …
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The Hermeneutical Reality of Constitutional Law: Understanding the Legality of Constitutional Adjudication
… rise to shared interpretive outlooks, that is, prejudices in the Gadamerian sense of historically shaped interpretive starting points. Such prejudices enable the application of constitutional rules and principles by concretising them in adjudication. Based on these arguments, I develop a …
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Politics, ethnicity and jostling for power : the evolution of institutions of Muslim leadership and Kadhiship in colonial Kenya, 1895-1963
… institutions (qadis courts) reflected British prejudices about ethnicity and race. In a broad sense this work first examines how power, politics, ethnicity and colonialism influenced the development of political institutions among Muslims. Secondly, it debates the basis of the authority of the …
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From Scouts to Soldiers: The Evolution of Indian Roles in the U.S. Military, 1860-1945
… a product of the same society that held various prejudices toward Indians, even if such prejudices were mollified by the desire to win battles. This thesis tells of the gradual acceptance of Indians into military and American life, a process that is still continuing today.</p>
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The filmmaker's apprentice and other stories
… racial divisions, bumping up against their own prejudices and perceptions in a way that makes it difficult to really see each other.
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Imperial and Post-Colonial Identities:Zimbabwean Communities in Britain
… but as a product of ethno-racial identities and prejudices developed and nurtured during the phases of Zimbabwe’s history. Through an analysis of personal interviews, participant observation, and secondary and primary sources, the thesis identifies and engages historical experiences which had …
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Mapping the River in Black and White: Trajectories of Race in the Niger Bend, Northern Mali
… region of Northern Mali in West Africa. Local prejudices based on skin color and physical characteristics existed in Northern Mali long before the arrival of Europeans. Local intellectuals writing in Arabic had, for centuries, articulated ideas about ""race"" in pre-colonial times, …
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Challenging attitudes towards people with impairment within the UK and Chilean workplace
… that the UK and Chilean people have strong prejudices about people with disabilities’ functionality, that is people in both countries make an strong connection between having an impairment and the ability to be productive at work. Likewise, in both countries, cultural stereotypes have …
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Student names as predictors of prejudice in school teachers: Do students names associated with Islam influence teacher willingness to help students in the classroom?
… documented that negative stereotypes and prejudices can generate a performance decrease in minority students (Chatraw et al., 2008). Prejudice, or negative attitudes towards an outgroup (Dovidio et al., 2004), can lead to social distance between ingroup and outgroup members. Social …
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British perceptions of the Balkan Slavs: Professional and popular categorizations before 1914
… to examine the effects of perceptions and prejudices on decision-making; and third, to analyze the levels of accuracy of perceptions and the concrete consequences of possible misconceptions. In terms of source material, previous studies have mostly relied on travel-writing and literature. …
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Auf neuen sprachwegen? : Rezeptions- und literaturkritische problematik anhand eines textes aus der deutschen immigrationsliteratur
… lends itself too easily to categorisation and prejudices. This, in terms of current thinking within the minority discourse, perpetuates "colonialism" within the context of language and literature.(What is meant by prejudices in this context is the thinking that these writings are primarily …
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A simple, rare, truly elect soul : the troubled life of Richard Waldo Sibthorp, 1792-1897
… and ultimately reinforcing historical prejudices.
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