The current thesis explored participants' stereotypes and auto-stereotypes of old age within the UK, and the consequences of auto-stereotype activation on older adults' memory performance and well-being. Study 1 employed a questionnaire design to explore young (aged 17-25 years)…
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This book examines small cinemas and their presentation of society in times of crisis and conflict from an interdisciplinary and intercultural point of view. The authors concentrate on economic, social and political challenges and point to new phenomena which have been exposed b…
Discussing the importance of identifying hidden biases and learning how they arise from our histories and cloud our perceptions, this book uses vivid stories and fun exercises and activities to help us challenge our presuppositions and become open to encountering people, culture…
The authors use vivid stories and activities to uncover hidden biases.--
The authors use vivid stories and activities to uncover hidden biases. --
The nature and limitations of human freedom have been discussed for millennia and continue to be widely and enthusiastically debated today. This is not surprising, as our sense of freedom is felt to be an essential part of what it is to be human and many fundamental issues, such…
This study investigates the portrayal of Black female characters in American sitcoms. Using content analysis, five different Black family sitcoms from the 1970s-2010s were used to determine whether the portrayal of Black female characters have, over the five decades in question,…
Contextual factors—environmental stimuli external to individuals—are historically understudied loci of leadership. This dissertation comprises two chapters exploring characteristics of distal and historical context that impose constraints on leaders. In the first chapter, I exam…
The main objective of this dissertation is to describe the way the foreigner is linguistically represented in classical Egyptian cinema from its beginning in the 1920s to the mid-1960s and, hence, to determine to what extent this representation is stereotyped. To show this, I ca…
This work is a combination of artistic and scholarly research about the southern Italian woman (terrona). By analyzing a variety of media, I investigate the southern Italian woman’s stereotype and I discuss how she has been represented in novels, movies, television shows, and po…
This paper reports the results of a study investigating the extent to which native speakers of American English associate specific personal qualities to native speakers of Arabic based solely on auditory information. 234 participants, recruited through online social networks, he…
The 101 wax cylinders made by Benjamin Ives Gilman at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 are some of the earliest known examples of recorded non-Western musics. This study examines the nine recordings that Gilman made at the Turkish Theatre on September 25th, 1893. The ana…