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Attachment patterns, prejudice, and empathy
… which attachment security may lead to decreased prejudice, thus examining novel research hypotheses. Research supports the prediction that high attachment avoidance and high attachment anxiety are associated with high negativity toward outgroups (Hofstra, van Oudenhoven, & Buunk, 2005) and …
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Indices of Employer Prejudice: An Analysis of Psychological Aspects of Prejudice Toward the Disabled Worker
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WHEN DOES THE SELF-REGULATION OF PREJUDICE APPLY? INTEGRATING MOTIVATION TO CONTROL PREJUDICE AND SOCIAL NORM THEORY
… individuals with internal motivation to control prejudice engage in the successful self-regulation of prejudice due to egalitarian personal standards (Legault et al., 2007). The literature on Social Norm Theory, however, suggests prejudice suppression towards various outgroups reflects social …
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Confrontation of Prejudice in the Workplace: The Role of Observer Prejudice Level, Discrimination Type, and Perpetrator Status
The Confronting Prejudiced Responses (CPR) Model (Ashburn-Nardo, Morris, & Goodwin, 2008) describes factors that predict whether people confront prejudice that they witness. The present research examined some of these factors, including: observer prejudice level (low to high), discrimination type …
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Personal accounts for religious prejudice in Christians
Despite the long history of research on prejudice, investigation into religious prejudice, defined as the derogation of individuals from religions other than one’s own, is limited. Grounded in the justification-suppression model of prejudice, the present study attempted to identify personal …
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Income Inequality and Prejudice in the US
… income inequality as measured by Gini predicted prejudice towards African Americans by White Americans across states and time. Rising income inequality did not predict prejudice towards other racial groups, and neither did it predict prejudice among mixed-race Americans towards non-racial …
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"Prejudice": The Impact on Dialogic Communication Ethics
… ethics to a rhetorical understanding of prejudice. The aim is to address the problematic nature of ethical rhetoric apropos of dialogic communication, arguing that there are contending views in the community of memory, and that prejudice is an integral aspect of dialogic communication …
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Forces of Prejudice in Oregon 1920-1925
… period was dominated thoroughly by the forces of prejudice and bigotry, activated by the presence of the Ku Klux Klan in particular. This unusual phenomenon imprinted an indelible mark on tie people of the state and loft its traces on national legislation and constitutional history.</p> <p>This …
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The Interpersonal Foundations of Anti-Atheist Prejudice
<p>Anti-atheist prejudice in the U.S. is socially accepted and rife—and not just because most Americans are religious. This research suggests that hostility toward atheists is related in part to protecting parental relationships. To the extent that they are established within parental …
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Teaching Prejudice: Mexican Americans in Texas History Textbooks
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Discerning the other: political prejudice and intergroup contact
… most studied methods for decreasing intergroup prejudice has been Gordon Allport’s intergroup contact hypothesis. Allport suggested that contact between groups who see themselves as equals with common interests, common goals, and the support of cultural institutions are more likely to reduce …
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Confrontation and the Reduction of Anti-Arab Prejudice
… the impact of confrontation on anti-Arab prejudice. Participants were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: a no-confrontation control condition, a low-threat confrontation condition, or a high-threat confrontation condition. Though evaluations of the partner in both the …
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Homosexual prejudice: comparing self-report to perceived interaction
… was to determine the level of homosexual prejudice that existed in the sample population and to determine if there were differences in the way that high versus low prejudice individuals reacted to a situation in which they believed they would be working with an individual who was a …
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PREJUDICE TOWARD MUSLIM AMERICANS AND AMERICAN PUBLIC OPINION
… to answer an important question: What explains prejudice toward Muslim Americans in contemporary American society? Through a new theoretical framework --- the ``Band of Others,'' --- I empirically show that attitudes toward Muslim Americans follow an ethnocentric pattern. Those who dislike other …
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Latino Students' Prejudice and Stereotypes toward African Americans
… acculturation in relation to stereotyping and prejudice towards African Americans among Anglo and Latino American, high school students. A sample of 597 Anglo and Latino high school juniors and seniors from the Fontana and Redlands School Districts participated in this study. Participants …
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Pride and prejudice : the socialisation of nurse educators
This thesis explores the concept of socialisation through the experiences of nurse educators within a United Kingdom context in one higher education institution in the Northwest of England. Built upon the assumption that nurse educators‘ practices and dispositions are shaped and affected by the …
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Articulating Prejudice: A Linguistic Perspective on Animated Movies
… for analyzing the language of inequality and prejudice, but in addition, strives to provide an intensive discursive analysis of the linguistic manifestation of such inequalities.
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