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"Understanding race and ethnic relations is essential to understanding the United States -- where we've been as well as where we're going. Throughout the fourteenth edition of Racial and Ethnic Groups, author Richard T. Schaefer helps students view race and ethnic relations in a…
Drawing upon intergroup contact theory (Allport, 1954; Pettigrew 1998) and the emerging literature on intergroup climate (e.g., Christ et al., 2013, 2014), I utilised various antipathetic intergroup relationships (e.g., Black people vs. White people; non-Muslims vs. Muslims), an…
The aim of the thesis is to provide a social identity account of the politics of mobilisation: based on hatred mostly, in contrast with accounts of solidarity. The bulk of the thesis concentrates on exploring how and why is prejudice in the form of hatred mobilised in inter-grou…
A presente dissertação é apresentada em formato de artigo científico. O projeto realizado tem como principal objetivo avaliar os níveis de preconceito sexual numa amostra política portuguesa. Pretende ainda perceber de que forma é que o sexo biológico, a orientação sexual, os ní…
People tend to feel more favorably toward others who share their beliefs and values. Religion can provide a quick estimate of ideological similarity. The religious values conflict model (Brandt & Van Tongeren, 2017) proposes that people high and low in religiosity are both preju…
Religiosity is an oft-studied construct with few consistent findings. There are many reported physical and psychological health benefits to religiosity (such as being at lower risk for depression), in addition to deleterious effects, such as: being positively linked to increased…
An Eco-phenomenological view is offered as an alternative to existing psychological approaches to studying ethnic prejudice(s) as attitudes. Following classical social psychological theory (Asch, 1952; Osgood, Suci, & Tannenbaum, 1957), attitudes are conceptualized as subjective…
This thesis chronicles my research, preparation, and rehearsal process as an actor to create the role of Lydia Wickham in Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon. In this thesis, it is my intent to record my passage as an actor and Master of Fin…
This dissertation examines stereotypes and prejudices about Muslims, before and after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, in the United States. The purpose of this qualitative study, narrative inquiry, is to explore how deconstructing stereotypes and prejudices influence how Mus…
Using television news coverage of American mass shootings, I examine how Muslim perpetrators of violence are covered differently in liberal and conservative media. Furthermore, I examine the consequences of this coverage, including its effects on prejudice towards Muslims and be…
The number of religious discrimination cases has steadily increased over the years (EEOC, 2018a). One under-studied aspect of religious discrimination is religious accommodations. To successfully win a religious accommodation case, employees must prove that they requested an acc…
Regardless of the insurmountable volume of research surrounding the musical adaptations of the works of Victor Hugo and Robert Louis Stevenson, there has never been an academic or scholarly comparison of Les Misérables and Jekyll and Hyde that explores the overwhelming similarit…
The present studies examine the effect of psychological essentialism on the relationship between contact and attitudes with regard to religious outgroup members, specifically atheists. Although previous research has been conducted that examines the relationship between outgroup …
Sexual assault is relatively unique compared to other crimes in that victims are often blamed for their assaults more than victims of other crimes are blamed (Bieneck & Krahé, 2011). Though there are likely numerous contributing influences accounting for this disparity, one fact…
Atheists are underrepresented in political office compared to their numbers in the general population. In the United States, anti-atheist prejudice is prevalent, likely contributing to the disparity in atheist representation. Informed by social identity theory and the sociofunct…
This paper discusses the utility of currency as a promotional technique for southern ways, most specifically a mindset surrounding the social status of African Americans. Prior to the start of the Civil War, southern states began using images depicting enslaved labor on multiple…