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Showing 1 to 20 of 102 for “"Self-Identification"”.
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Self-identification and self-knowledge
The traditional view has it that self-locating beliefs are distinctive in that they have distinctive contents. Against this, I claim that the distinctive element of self-locating beliefs should be placed outside contents. If someone believes that he himself is hungry, he not only has a …
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Self identification, self identification discrepancy and environmental perspectives of women with a same-sex sexual preference
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Perceptions of Complexions: Consciousness and Self-Identification Among Dark-Skinned Blacks
Skin tone variation within American black communities has long been associated with intraracial stratification. Data from the National Survey of Black Americans (NSBA) indicate that lighter-skinned blacks – net of such factors as region of residence, age, and sex – consistently have higher levels …
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The Effects of Institutionalization Upon The Self-Identification of Schizophrenic Patients
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Mystical experience as predictor of domains of religious and spiritual self identification: empirical and theoretical considerations
… from a more religious to a more spiritual self identification is evident at least in the United States (Roof & Greer, 1993, 1999; Pargament, 1999). Using the data collected from The Bielefeld International Study of Spirituality in the United States, discriminate functional analysis of the …
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Factors Related to Self-Identification of Candidacy, Device Selection, and Self-Fitting of Over-The-Counter Hearing Aids
… that the average consumer will be able to self-navigate an OTC hearing aid fitting. In the OTC hearing aid model consumers are expected to self-diagnose, self-treat, and self manage their hearing loss. The purpose of the present study was to assess how well the average consumer can perform …
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Multidimensional ethno-racial status in Latin American contexts of mestizaje
… in these contexts: phenotype, ancestry, and self-identification. I alternatively interpret self-identification, beyond phenotype and ancestry, as exposure to the beliefs –ethno-racial ideologies– that give meaning to local ethno-racial identities rather than explaining it as a central …
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Sex and gender differences in job attribute preferences: Exploring the role of gender self-schemas
… to differentiate applicants. Using gender self-schema theory, this study incorporates gender self identification as an additional operationalisation for sex. Gender self-identification is used to determine firstly, whether an individual's biological sex and gender self-identification align …
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AN AFROCENTRIC ANALYSIS OF SCHOLARLY LITERATURE ON THE CAYMAN ISLANDS: LOCATION THEORY IN A CARIBBEAN CONTEXT
… of African contributions as well as African self-identification in the country? Utilizing an Afrocentric inquiry, the method of content analysis was employed to interrogate selected texts using location theory. It was found that the majority of literature on the Cayman Islands, as well as the …
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Finding Meaning In the Sociopolitical Experience of African American Republicans: A Phenomenological Approach
… To date, most studies related to political identification have drawn from large national databases, using quantitative methods focused on assessing political preferences, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors, in order to understand mass perceptions and predict future political behaviors. This …
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I Am What I Say I Am: Racial and Cultural Identity among Creoles of Color in New Orleans
… generational changes in the culture and racial self-identification of Creoles of Color of New Orleans. This study argues that the key to understanding Creole culture is the role that isolationism has played in its history. While White ethnics pursued a path of assimilation, Creoles of Color …
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Undocumented, Unapologetic, And Unafraid: Discursive Strategies Of The Immigrant Youth Dream Social Movement
… The first phase covers 2001 through 2007, where self-identification strategies were used to create a collective group identity that countered the negative dehumanizing typecast of "illegal aliens" by identifying DREAMers as exceptional students. During the second phase, from 2007 to 2009, …
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The Public Market System of New Orleans: Food Deserts, Food Security, and Food Politics
… are significant in the landscape of cultural self-identification, community cohesion, neighborhood networks and economic and ecological development and sustainability. The city's various food shopping arenas and their locations become markers of history, status, rebellion, and of the "other," …
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Exploration of Atheism as a Diversity Issue and its Implications for Best Practice in Psychotherapy: Trajectories and Strengths
… of outspoken activism underlined by a strong self-identification with systemic nonbelief and sense of pride. Psychological literature has only begun to reflect the larger societal changes in perception and value over the past decade. As such, research has yet to adequately examine Atheism from …
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Correlates of Denial: Exploring the Function of Denial Among Men Who Commit Sexual Offences Against Children
… traits of psychopathy, and largely unrelated to self-esteem. In line with hypotheses, denial was negatively related to self-identification as a sexual offender and negatively related with attitudes towards sexual offenders. The current study's findings may be consistent with an adaptive use of …
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Making White Guilt Fitting
… as tracking culpability for a pernicious form of self-identification. My central claim is that white guilt is fitting because in experiencing the emotion, one is simultaneously recognizing the role their own identity plays in providing a source of justification for actions that sustain a system of …
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Unnamed Lands
… come to terms with mourning, homophobia, self-identification, the failure of language, cross-cultural miscommunication, humor as deflection, the nature of theatre, voyeurism and exhibitionism, ostracism and solitude, abuse (sexual, physical, and emotional), and the limits of empathy. …
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Congregational growth, closure, identity, and diversity.
… stand out above denominational affiliation and self-identification in terms of identifying who is Evangelical. Finally, there is potential of racially diverse congregations to assist in the changing of attitudes and actions toward people of a different race.
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Beyond the surface an investigation into the narrative aspects of tattoos
… artistic form of both aesthetic value and self-expression. This dissertation focuses on unravelling the narrative behind tattoos and understanding their relationship to self-identification by means of in-depth research and data collection. A qualitative study, together with primary …
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Dio Chrysostom: a Philosopher in Civic Space
This thesis argues that Dio Chrysostom’s self-identification as a philosopher mattered a great deal more than what previous scholarship had suggested. Against the cultural and intellectual atmosphere of the first two centuries CE, it is argued that Dio had deliberately chosen to identify as a …
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