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This study looked at the perceptions of Black South African businesspersons and opinions on Foreign Direct Investment in South Africa. The study was based on mass media effects and stereotyping theories. We administered a questionnaire to a purposive sample of 361 college studen…

This thesis reports research in the Country-of-Origin (COO) area ofinternational business, into the postulated phenomenon of Negative Image.Image has been regarded as a potential purchase decision influencing factorbut to date not investigated in-depth. Research was carried out …

Recent studies of Limited English Proficient (LEP) Latino immigrants in South Carolina have demonstrated that Latinos encounter language barriers when accessing healthcare services and feel that they are treated unfairly based on their ethnicity. The purpose of this research was…

Scholars of conflict resolution have studied ways to reduce prejudice in society for years, believing that prejudice leads to or increases the likelihood of conflict. The primary focus has been on schools, universities and communities. More limited research has been conducted on…

Present research shows that there is no study examining media representation of Arab women and Israeli women as a prime causing stereotype activation in Americans. The goal of this study was to understand how news stories about Arab and Israeli women prime stereotypes in America…

Religious and moral identity have been confounded as being the same identity. The present study sought to establish that religious and moral identity are distinct identities by exploring the effects of the dimensions of religious and moral identity on the stereotyping of outgrou…

Stereotype threat is a situational predicament in which people are or feel themselves to be at risk of conforming to a negative stereotype about their social group. The present study varied the stereotype vulnerability of Jewish participants taking a brief yet robust test of cog…

This dissertation explores the nature and impact of the stereotyping of Arabs in American society. The literature review entails a socio-historical and anthropological examination of the subject of stereotyping and then provides an analysis of the stereotyping of Arab people, cu…

This dissertation is a story of my research concerns about myself, my family, my community, and our institutions. It is about an endeavor to live Islamic lives in the midst of a pervasive negative public curriculum. First comes a brief introduction followed by Chapter one, which…