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A Social Psychological Perspective on Perceiving and Reporting Discrimination

Law & Social Inquiry, 2006
This article reviews social psychological theory and empirical research on perceiving and reporting discrimination. The article begins with an examination of factors that affect whether individuals perceive themselves as targets of discrimination. We then turn toward addressing whether individuals who perceive discrimination are willing to report their
Brenda Major, Cheryl R. Kaiser
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A Study of Anthropometric and Psychological Discriminating Factors of Hypertension

Research Journal of Pharmacy and Technology, 2019
The purpose of the study was to find out the discriminating predictors of high blood pressure and normal blood pressure group of teacher. A total sample of 520 (254 males and 266 female) university teachers of Chhattisgarh was selected for the study. The dependent variable for the study was high blood pressure and healthy group of teachers.
Priyamvada Srivastava, Reeta Venugopal, Shabir Kumar Anant, Mahendra Kumar, Subuhi Nishad   +4 more
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The Social Psychology of Racial Prejudice and Discrimination

Self & Society, 1979
(1979). The Social Psychology of Racial Prejudice and Discrimination. Self & Society: Vol. 7, No. 5, pp. 575-578.
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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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The Discriminant Function and its use in Psychology

Psychometrika, 1943
R. A. Fisher's method of determining a set of weights for the linear combination of the scores in a battery of tests is explained and illustrated. The relationship of this method to combination by multiple regression methods is shown.
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Influence of Stimulus Discriminability on Psychological Refractory Period Effect

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
10 undergraduate students were tested in a psychological refractory period paradigm. Stimulus 1 was a visual discrimination task (same-different) and S2 was a 1,000-Hz tone. Discriminability of S1 and ISI were varied. Ss always had to respond to S2, but to S1 only when it was “same.” Discriminability of S1 was found to affect R2, irrespective of ...
Geraldin P. O'Connor, Frank J. Tolkmitt
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The social psychology of perceived prejudice and discrimination.

Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne, 2002
D.O. Hebb Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Science (2001) - Prix D.O. Hebb pour contributions remarquables it la psychologie en tant que science (2001) Abstract Most research on prejudice has followed a unidirectional orientation of investigating why or when majority- or dominant-group members become prejudiced toward members of
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The consequences of perceived discrimination for psychological well-being: a meta-analytic review.

Psychological bulletin, 2014
In 2 meta-analyses, we examined the relationship between perceived discrimination and psychological well-being and tested a number of moderators of that relationship.
Michael T. Schmitt, N. Branscombe, T. Postmes, Amber L. Garcia   +3 more
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Family support and discrimination and their relationship to psychological distress and resilience amongst transgender people

International Journal of Transgenderism, 2018
Background: Given the broader social contexts in which transgender people and their families live, the latter can be either an important source of support, or bring with them yet another source of discrimination.
Kimberly A. Fuller, D. Riggs
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A tandem random walk model for psychological discrimination

British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 1981
A random walk model for decision making in psychological discrimination tasks is described which provides a satisfactory account of the observed non‐stationarity of the representation of stimulus information. The model successfully predicts the relationship between RT and response proportion in a temporal order judgement task performed under ...
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