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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"Racial group"”.
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The effects of racial group membership and cognitive load on empathy and helping behaviour
… suggests that people feel more empathy for racial in-group compared to racial outgroup members, and in some circumstances, are more likely to help racial in- than out-group members. Furthermore, there is evidence that cognitive load may also attenuate helping behavior. Research is yet to …
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Revisiting Ambivalent Sexism and the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory: Examining the Effects of Respondents’ and Targets’ Racial Group Membership on Endorsement
… be established across the four race-by-gender groups of interest (i.e., Black men, Black women, White men, and White women) and therefore ASI scores could not be compared between these groups. This raises several important questions about whether or not the ASI is a valid measure of ambivalent …
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Discovering the Differences that Make a Difference: Racial Majority and Minority Responses to Online Diversity Statements
… to be perceived more favorably, regardless of racial group membership. The main dependent variables of focus are the organizational outcomes of organizational attraction, organizational trust, P-O fit, and perceived justice. Findings suggest that racial group membership does not operate as a …
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Mental Illness Stigma Among Middle Eastern Canadians: A Mixed Methods Study
… whether the perception of MIS in ones ethno-racial community acts as a greater deterrent to help-seeking in Middle Eastern versus White participants, after controlling for social desirability, familiarity with mental illness, and degree of identification with ones ethno-racial group. A second …
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Explaining Racial Discrepancies in Verbal Memory Assessment with Joint Estimation of Life Course Social Inequalities and Measurement Bias
… test performance have demonstrated that racial group differences appear on a wide variety of tests and samples. The development of new tests, statistical adjustments, and incorporation of additional sociocultural information have contributed to varying degrees of success in the resolution …
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Anxiety and depression: The moderating roles of self-perception and race
… way interaction was examined between gender, racial group, and anxiety in the prediction of depressive symptoms. Analyses showed that both self-worth and anxiety symptoms were significantly related to depressive symptoms. However, self-worth and race were not moderating variables in the …
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Assessment of the factors associated with secondary school attendance and completion in South Africa: A demographic perspective
… of the entire population. There are four major racial groups which constitute the demographic composition. The Black or African racial group originates from the indigenous Bantu people and represents the predominant demographic, making up over 80% of the population. This is followed by the …
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Quiltmaking and Social Order in the Tennessee Delta in the Middle 20th Century
… historical conditions, of which ethnic and racial-group heritage may be one element. I find that quiltmaking in this setting exemplified a larger class of vernacular forms that have both practical and expressive dimensions. Such forms provide the raw material by which members of a society …
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Social Competence Difficulties, Loneliness, and Victimization by Peers as Predictors of Eating Disturbance in Young Girls: A Longitudinal Investigation
… at age 10. Further, the study examined a more racially and economically diverse sample than typically assessed in the eating disorder literature. First, the study examined the prevalence and stability of body image dissatisfaction and eating disturbance and whether they vary by racial group or …
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Cross-group friendships and skin tone perceptions
… to explain the relationship between intragroup friendships/interactions and perceptions toward that group. Allport’s hypothesis had been scrutinized as an intervention for reducing prejudices and biases against groups who collectively experience discrimination. This theory was mainly …
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Food for thought: An examination of the relationship between binge eating and psychological variables in a diverse college-student population
… outcomes, but little is known about sex and racial differences among those who binge eat. The present study examined sex and racial group differences in binge eating within a college-student population. It was hypothesized that White women would endorse higher rates of binge eating than the …
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The case for education as a fundamental right of citizenship in the United States
… services have often been impacted by the ethno-racial group to which one belongs. One of the greatest examples of this circumstance can be found in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) wherein it was determined that separate public school facilities for African-American and Caucasian students were …
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African Americans' perspectives on racial solidarity
… formulations that shape perspectives on racial solidarity among one group of African Americans. The perspectives gained in this study aid in understanding the existence, origin, and views toward the concept. In-depth, qualitative interviews were conducted with individuals from two …
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Racial Identity, Hair Esteem, Hair Texture, and Hairstyle Choice as Correlates of Psychological Well-Being among Afro-Latinas in the United States
… was one of the designated phenotypic markers of racial group membership used to assign or deny privilege. Privileges are still assigned to people based on their racial group membership and their proximity to Whiteness. As such, Hair remains a salient part of Afro-Latina women’s lives and …
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The profile of breast cancer among patients attending a Breast Clinic in Cape Town, South Africa
… at presentation as dependent variable. Age and racial group were introduced in the model as possible confounders. Based on literature findings other variables present in the dataset were considered as potential predictors of stage at presentation (namely place of residence, employment status, …
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...But I Know It When I See It: Experimental Epistemology of Racism
… indicated that the initial finding of no overall racial group difference in the perception of racism obscured other important differences. Both African American and White participants evaluated classically racist situations (e.g., racial slurs) in identical ways, whereas situations exemplary of …
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The Influence of Afrocentric Phenotype On Promotion Decisions For African American Males
… that race has an equal impact within a given racial group. Little attention has been given within the management literature to intra-racial differences, which may influence how and to what extent racial stereotypes are activated. This dissertation examines the role of feature-based bias in …
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Democracy denied : the Press in South Africa
… in which the will of the masses (in this case a racial group, the blacks) will be imposed upon the minority at the expense of their current liberties. If democratic consolidation is to take place in SA, the media and other members of civil society must play a role in that consolidation. One way …
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EATING AWAY AT PERSONAL PREJUDICE: EXAMINING ASSIMILATION OF BLACKS AND ASIANS USING CHARACTERS FROM AMC'S THE WALKING DEAD
Parasocial intergroup contact has been shown to influence beliefs about stigmatized groups, such as racial minorities. Previous work has demonstrated that affective factors, such as perspective taking, can account for the reductions in prejudice following parasocial interactions. The current study …
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