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Anticipating Likely Consequences of Lottery‐Based Affirmative Action^*

Social Science Quarterly, 2004
Objectives. To better understand the consequences of whole or partial reliance on test scores as a screening mechanism for college or university admissions or for job placement or promotion.Methods. We introduce a simple hurdles/threshold model to study one particular mechanism that has been recently proposed to generate a “compromise” between race ...
Bernard Grofman, Samuel Merrill
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Principles and Consequences in a Virtue Ethics Analysis of Affirmative Action

Montview Journal of Research & Scholarship, 2018
In this paper, I evaluate affirmative action from the framework of virtue ethics. In doing so, I consider the principles behind affirmative action as well as its consequences because a perfectly virtuous person will act per just principles but will also be concerned with the consequences of her actions.
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White Guilt: Its Antecedents and Consequences for Attitudes Toward Affirmative Action

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1999
Four studies examine the strength of feelings of White guilt, the relationship between White guilt and possible antecedents to this guilt, and the consequences of White guilt for attitudes toward affirmative action. Even though mean White guilt tended to be low, with the mean being just below the midpoint of the scale, the range and variability ...
Janet K. Swim, Deborah L. Miller
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The Stigma and Unintended Consequences of Affirmative Action in the Workplace

2005
When the general public discusses Affirmative Action, they are more likely to make an assumption that the person is not qualified without seeking their actual qualifications. Some may hesitate to provide any reasonable explanation for their opposition because the policy is a controversial topic.
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Counteracting the consequences of defensive self-esteem with self-affirmation

2015
(M.A.) -- Towson University, 2015.
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Motivational and behavioural consequences of self-affirmation interventions: A study of sunscreen use among women

Psychology & Health, 2009
The reported study compared the efficacy of three self-affirmation manipulations in reducing defensive processing and instigating behaviour change in response to personally relevant information about the health risks of sunbathing. White female sunbathers (N = 162) were recruited on a beach in the south of England.
D C, Jessop, L V, Simmonds, P, Sparks
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Is the world a just place? Countering the negative consequences of pervasive discrimination by affirming the world as just

British Journal of Social Psychology, 2011
Two studies (a) explored the role of pervasiveness of discrimination (pervasive vs. rare) in determining targets' responses to discrimination, and (b) examined the extent to which threats to participants' worldview can account, in part, for detrimental effects of pervasive discrimination.
Stroebe, Katherine, Dovidio, John F., Barreto, Manuela, Ellemers, Naomi, John, Melissa-Sue   +4 more
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Perceived Expertise Affirmation in Work Teams: A Multi-level Examination of its Consequences.

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2018
Expertise is an important, positive determinant of employees’ work identities. Previous research has shown that reciprocal expertise affirmation - i.e.
Hanneke Grutterink, Eric Molleman
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An Introduction to Affirmative Action Policies in Korea: Consequences and implications for Japan (Japanese) [PDF]

, 2014
In 2006, the Korean government introduced affirmative action (AA) policies in the private sector in order to promote women's entry into the labor force and also to better utilize their talents. Through this effort, women's employment rates as well as the proportion of women in managerial positions have risen.
OSAWA Machiko, KIM Myoung Jung
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The Consequences of Malalignment: Few If Any-Affirms

Seminars in Arthroplasty, 2010
Erik P. Severson, Mark W. Pagnano
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