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A Sequential Theory of Psychological Discrimination

Psychometrika, 1975
A theory of discrimination which assumes that subjects compare psychological values evoked by a stimulus to a subjective referent is proposed. Momentary differences between psychological values for the stimulus and the referent are accumulated over time until one or the other of two response thresholds is first exceeded.
Link, S. W., Heath, R. A.
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Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination

2004
Long after the end of the Civil War, the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, desegregation in the schools, the abolition of anti-Asian legislation and the Women's Movement, the pernicious effects of prejudice and discrimination in U.S. society are still evident. Despite efforts to eradicate the injustice against people based on race, ethnicity, gender,
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Social‐Psychological Issues in Sex Discrimination

Journal of Social Issues, 1985
National data on rank and salaries for academic men and women, and continuing reports on grievances and court cases, document the continuation of sex discrimination. Yet the literature reveals no conceptual framework to understand or alter this pervasive phenomenon.
Ethel D. Kahn, Lillian Robbins
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Psychological and physiological correlates of stimulus discrimination in adults

Psychophysiology, 2023
AbstractThe discrimination of cues in the environment that signal danger (“fear cue”) is important for survival but depends critically on the discernment of such cues from ones that pose no threat (“safety cues”). In rodents, we previously demonstrated the underlying neurobiological mechanisms that support fear versus safety discrimination and ...
Jacklynn M. Fitzgerald, E. Kate Webb, Susan Sangha   +2 more
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Online Racial Discrimination and Psychological Adjustment Among Adolescents

Journal of Adolescent Health, 2008
To examine associations between individual and vicarious racial discrimination via the Internet and psychological adjustment.This study was a cross-sectional survey using a school-based sample of adolescents. Two hundred sixty-four high school students aged 14-18 completed the online survey.Twenty percent of whites, 29% of African Americans and 42% of ...
Brendesha M, Tynes, Michael T, Giang, David R, Williams, Geneene N, Thompson   +3 more
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Discrimination, Psychological Isolation, and Flight from School

Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2021
Discrimination negatively impacts students’ ability to adapt to and deal with the educational stressors of a new environment. When students experience discrimination, their options are to fight, fawn, or flee—that is, skip school. This study focuses on the third option among refugee and immigrant students and addresses two inter-related issues: (a) the
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Social Psychology of Discrimination

1996
Discrimination is usually treated in social psychology as negative, orten aggressive behavior aimed at the target of prejudice or negative stereotype. Because very often terms like prejudice, stereotypes and discrimination are used interchangeably it should be explained here that in social psychology prejudice is understood as a negative attitude ...
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Discriminant Analysis in Counseling Psychology Research

The Counseling Psychologist, 2006
Social science research often entails the comparison of two or more groups. For example, researchers may explore differences between sexes, races, ethnicities, sexual identities, treatment conditions, diagnostic categories, or various other grouping variables.
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Perceiving discrimination: Psychological and sociopolitical barriers

Journal of International Migration and Integration / Revue de l'integration et de la migration internationale, 2006
Recognizing discrimination is not always an easy thing to do. This is particularly true in North America where perpetrators’ fears of being labelled have resulted in a shift in the type of discrimination experienced. Incidents may be subtle and ambiguous. As a country of immigration, Canada provides a template for the world community.
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