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Showing 1 to 20 of 91 for “"low status"”.
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Workplace Incivility and the Low-Status Target
… present research was to discover if employees in low-status social groups (i.e., women, people of color, sexual minorities, and non-Christians) experience more incivility in the workplace compared to their high-status counterparts. Data come from four different samples of working adults: employees …
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The Low-Status Character in Shakespeare's Comedies
… and results of Shakespeare's use of the low-status character in the comedies. It will be shown that Shakespeare's use of low-status characters was not static. For example, the early low-status characters are more farcical than those of later plays. The characters of the middle plays are …
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The effects of mortality-salience inducing direct-to-consumer prescription drug commercials on viewer attitude toward high and low status brands
… had on people's opinions of brands of varying status. Study 1 used a free-writing questionnaire to collect brands. Study 2 used scales to rate participant attitude toward 12 DTC ads. Study 2 showed the the ads for Cymbalta and Plavix made people the most anxious; the ads for Detrol LA and …
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Designing Inclusivity in Collaborative Technology
Are Collaborative Tools Effective for Low-Status Workers? My thesis aims to provide answers to this question. Prior research in social science and organizational science argues that collaborative tools should be effective since technology reflects the social values of its users, and users will …
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Are poor people healthier in rich or poor areas?: The psychosocial effects of socioeconomic incongruity in the neighbourhood
… neighbourhood and individual socioeconomic status. It has been found that residents in high status neighbourhoods are healthier than those in low status neighbourhoods, controlling for individual status. Here it is hypothesised that such an association may not be found amongst low status …
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People's perception of others' experienced emotions as a function of the others' status
High-relative to low-status individuals have greater prestige and are provided greater deference. The present research addressed the hypotheses that the status of individuals determines for others (a) the likelihood of the individuals encountering specified emotion-eliciting situations, and (b) the …
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Endorsement of Abstract Ideals versus Actual Outcomes of American Ideologies: Nuances of System Justification Theory
… theory asserts that people rationalize the status quo and perceive it as inevitable, fair, and just. Moreover, the theory claims that people sometimes uphold the system, even when doing so may pose a threat to individual and group interests. One way people appear to justify the system is …
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Tough But Fair: The Moderating Effects of Target Status on the Relation Between Social Dominance Orientation and Fairness
… investigated the moderating effect of target status on the relation between social dominance orientation and fairness in either a positively or negatively framed limited resource allocation decision. Participants were asked to read medical case files about either a high or low status patient …
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Are gender differences status differences? : coping as a model case
Men generally hold higher status than do women, and status has been shown to affect both expectations for and actual behaviour. The present research investigated the hypothesis that many gender differences in social behaviour may actually be status differences. Coping, which encapsulates several …
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Social Knowledge and Sociometric Status: Children's Goals and Strategies for Peer Interaction
… have shown that the social knowledge of low-status children differs from that of high-status children in subtle but significant ways. Low-status children's ideas are inappropriately negative, and appear less likely to build and maintain positive peer relationships. The present study …
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The Relationship of Young Children's Peer Group Status to Their Use of Communication Strategies
… of communication strategies and their high or low status within the peer group.
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Succession Planning and Situational Engagement
… in a succession planning process (Informed-High Status, Uninformed-High Status, and Uninformed-Low Status). The underlying factor structure of drivers was found to have one factor of engagement. There was a significant difference in the engagement levels based on membership within the succession …
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The impact of complex instruction on teacher perception of student status in secondary science classrooms
… the teacher to shift student academic and social statuses and to promote equity in collaborative groups and classrooms (Cohen, Lotan, Scarloss, & Arellano, 1999). However, the perspective of teachers implementing CI is not well researched in secondary science classrooms. Teacher training does not …
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An Evolutionary Perspective of Human Female Rape
… victim-offender relationship; socio-economic status; rape proclivity; actual sexual aggression; and sociosexual orientation. There were two types of studies: studies 1-3 involved archival data, e.g. the use of criminal statistics. and studies 4-7 assessed participant data, e.g. rape attitudes. …
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STATUS AND THE PSYCHE: HOW MENTAL HEALTH PARADOXES CHALLENGE THEORIES OF INEQUALITY
… health paradoxes, cases in which persons deemed low-status (less educated individuals, racial minorities, immigrants) report better mental health despite greater marginalization. I examine three paradoxes: (1) elevated rates of self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITB) in socioeconomically …
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Developing the reading comprehension skills of English second language primary school teacher trainees at an Afrikaans-medium college of education
… reading development programme benefitted high-status (proficient in English) more than low-status (less proficient) EL2 students and what effects the two different programmes would exert on their reading comprehension skills a year after formal instruction in reading comprehension ceased. It …
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How social status shapes U.S. children’s beliefs about social mobility
… study examined how U.S. children’s social status—both experimentally manipulated and measured at the national level—shapes their beliefs about social mobility for themselves and their high- and low-status peers. Children (N=130; 3-8 years; 70 girls, 59 boys, 1 non-binary; 12.3% Asian, 6.9% …
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Efeito da motivação por status na escolha do curso de ensino superior
… that humans are motivated to seek and maintain status. In Brazil, status can be acquired through professional advancement, as a result of access to higher education. This work investigated whether the status of the higher education course influences the choice of a profession; and whether …
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Perception of Subtle Racism: The Role of Group Status, Legitimized Ideology, Race-Based Rejection Sensitivity, Implicit Theories of Race, and Accountability
… perspectives. The role of relative group status, legitimized ideology, race-based rejection sensitivity and implicit theories of race were examined that account for the perceptual differences on subtle racism. The process of accountability---self-critical and effortful thinking---was also …
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The status of drama in education in an Ontario school board
… cost-effectiveness, drama appears to maintain low status within the education system of ontario. This thesis investigated teacher perceptions of both the value and status of drama in education in one ontario school board. Data were gathered in the form of an attitude questionnaire, which was …
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