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Hitting is male, giving is female. Automatic imitation and complementarity during action observation [PDF]

, 2016
Is somebody going to hurt us? We draw back. The present study investigates using behavioral measures the interplay between imitative and complementary actions activated while observing female/male hands performing different ...
Borghi, ANNA MARIA, Lugli, Luisa, Obertis, Anna Chiara   +2 more
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Transition From Primary to Secondary School: Igniting Attendance and Engagement Among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students Through National Policy Reform

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's Closing the Gap reform aims to address disparities experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. There are specific targets focussed on key educational transitions; yet, the transition to secondary education is not a targeted priority.
Azhar Hussain Potia, Kai W. Wheeler, Tracy Woodroffe, Karen Thorpe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identification, Screening and Stereotyping in Labour Market Discrimination [PDF]

According to social-psychological research, feelings of uncertainty in decision-making evoke two opposite responses: (i) reduction of uncertainty by information search, leading to less stereotyping of people, and hence less discrimination; (ii) social ...
Schwieren, Christiane, Vendrik, Maarten
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Language (Technology) is Power: A Critical Survey of "Bias" in NLP

, 2020
We survey 146 papers analyzing "bias" in NLP systems, finding that their motivations are often vague, inconsistent, and lacking in normative reasoning, despite the fact that analyzing "bias" is an inherently normative process.
Barocas, Solon, Blodgett, Su Lin, Daumé III, Hal, Wallach, Hanna   +3 more
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Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi, Casianus Gemoh, Denise Chapman, Edmund Hypolite, Simon Angok, Melanie Baak, Joel Windle   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Experiencing Negative Racial Stereotyping: The Case of Coloured People in Johannesburg, South Africa

Social Sciences
Scholars examining racial stereotyping and prejudice in racially organised social systems have largely focused on how non-White ethnic and racial groups experience racial stereotyping in White-majority national contexts such as the US, Australia and ...
Amanuel Isak Tewolde
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring xenophobic and homophobic attitudes in Malta : linking the perception of social practice with textual analysis [PDF]

, 2017
Reporting on research undertaken under the auspices of the C.O.N.T.A.C.T. project, the present paper investigates the roots of xenophobic and homophobic attitudes in Malta and the extent to which these can be pinpointed in the lexical choices made in ...
Assimakopoulos, Stavros, Vella Muskat, Rebecca   +1 more
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Seeing stereotypes

SSRN Electronic Journal
Reliance on stereotypes is a persistent feature of human decision-making and has been extensively documented in educational settings, where it can shape students' confidence, performance, and long-term human capital accumulation. While effective techniques exist to mitigate these negative effects, a crucial first step is to establish whether teachers ...
Baldazzi, Elisa, Biroli, Pietro, Della Giusta, Marina, Dubois, Florent   +3 more
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Stereotypic vision: How stereotypes disambiguate visual stimuli.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2015
Three studies examined how participants use race to disambiguate visual stimuli. Participants performed a first-person-shooter task in which Black and White targets appeared holding either a gun or an innocuous object (e.g., a wallet). In Study 1, diffusion analysis (Ratcliff, 1978) showed that participants rapidly acquired information about a gun when
Joshua, Correll, Bernd, Wittenbrink, Matthew T, Crawford, Melody S, Sadler   +3 more
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Navigating Whiteness in Australia's Anti‐Racism Movement: A Duoethnographic Inquiry by Women of Colour Scholars

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
wiley   +1 more source