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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"group bias"”.
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Effects of in-group bias on face recognition using minimal group procedures
… on face recognition. The use of minimal group procedures was expected to enhance recognition for in-group members compared to out-group members. In Experiment 1, participants were assigned to 1 of 3 conditions: name study--participants studied a list of 16 names associated with their …
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Neural signatures of ethnic in-group bias in observing dynamic social interactions
… behaviors of individuals of different ethnic groups influence such evaluations. Here, Caucasian participants underwent fMRI recording while observing social interactions with ethnically in-group and out-group members displaying approach and avoidance behaviors. Each behavior was preceded or …
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The own-group bias in face processing: the effect of training on recognition performance
The own-group bias in face recognition (OGB) is the greater facility to distinguish and recognize people from one's own group at the expense of people from other-groups. The OGB has been studied for many years, however, very little research focuses on finding a way to decrease or eliminate it, …
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Braving the swarm : lowering anticipated group bias in integrated fire/police units facing paramilitary terrorism
… units can only succeed with an understanding of group bias, which must be attenuated or managed for the integrated unit to function effectively.
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Essays in Experimental and Development Economics
… intervals preclude the largest estimates of in-group bias in the literature. These results suggest that the effects of in-group bias by political affiliation on information acquisition are widespread.
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Discrimination: because I want to or because I have to? : a comparison between the explanations of social identity theory and social dominance theory for intergroup prejudice in South Africa
… had a higher desire for inequality between groups than Black males, and that younger subjects desired more inequality than older participants, suggests that cultural aspects have to be taken into consideration when interpreting findings obtained with the SDO6 scale. The second and third …
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Political Identity Priming and Own-Race Bias in Caucasian and Hispanic/Latino College Students
Own-race bias (ORB) occurs when individuals exhibit enhanced recognition memory for faces of one’s own race as opposed to faces belonging to other races. Recent research indicates that promoting the salience of shared non-racial identity can foster in-group bias of face recognition for other-race …
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The Psychology of Ritual: An Empirical Investigation of Ritual’s Regulatory Functions and Psychological Processes
… I found evidence that novel rituals strengthen ingroup ties but at the expense of outgroup distrust (Study 1), a bias response that is amplified as a ritual becomes more effortful (Study 2). In Study 3, I found that minor variations in the amount of (mis)matching in a ritual sequence predicts …
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Effects of two career development programs on career maturity of seventh grade students
… of vocational maturity. The experimental groups were composed of seventh grade students participating in the"Careers and You" and"Interest Block" programs, while the control group consisted of students in band and/or choir who did not receive instruction in either of the two treatment …
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A Quantitative Study of Self-Stereotyping and Selective Self-Stereotyping by Sorority Women
… that stereotypes tend to be endorsed by out-group members, the present study explored whether sorority women (the in-group) perpetuate stereotypes of their own group. Results reveal that sorority women do support existing (and predominately negative) stereotypes of sororities. However, they …
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The Power to Speak Out: The Effect of Legitimate and Illegitimate Power on Confrontations of Prejudice
… a specific way—confronting public expressions of group bias. Participants engaged in a decision-making task with a confederate who made sexist statements either online (Study 1) or in person (Study 2). </p><p>Based on other research that has manipulated power and legitimacy (e.g., Lammers, …
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Kim Dae-Jung's Leadership as Relevant to the Sunshine Policy (1998-2003)
… traits: a high need for power, a high in-group bias, and a relationship/process focus. The content analysis also shows that Kim Dae-jung’s leadership was flexible, in that his leadership style shifted from the advocate to the pragmatic in tandem with the changing contextual conditions. The …
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Children's Use of Accent as a Cue for Cooperative Potential
… would have been strong, salient cues to group membership, and thus, cues to ones likelihood of cooperative behavior. The current study aimed to test this theory by determining if 5- and 6-year-old children use accent to make judgments about an individual’s cooperative potential. …
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Meta-analytic review of the contact, outgroup ethnic-nationality effect (OENE) and prejudice relationships
… performance is poorer for ethnic outgroup members relative to in-group members (Laurence et al., 2016). This outgroup identification deficit is referred to in this thesis as the Outgroup Ethnic Nationality Effect (OENE). Such misidentifications, while often earnest, translate into …
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Clarifying the role of attention on Own Gender Bias in face recognition
… individuals belonging to our own social groups than those who do not. There is a tendency to remember better faces which belong to our own race (Own Race Bias, Meissner and Brigham, 2001), our own age (Own Age Bias, Anastasi & Rhodes, 2012) and even our own gender (Own Gender Bias, …
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Applying a critical quantitative lens to examine the learning outcome differences between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children in Peru
… need to change, discrimination against these groups continues to be salient in Peruvian society. A deficit discourse that perpetuates views on Indigenous individuals as less able or ignorant is still present. Furthermore, structured efforts within academic research to tackle this narrative are …