Conformity as a function of experimentally induced minority and majority competence

Minority Challenge of Majority

A Theory of Minority and Majority Governments

We develop a theory of the emergence of minority and majority governments in multiparty parliamentary systems using a canonical non-cooperative bargaining model and assuming a policy space of arbitrary finite dimension, any number of political parties, and a general class of preferences over the government agreement space. Only majority governments form in the absence of significant political d...

minority, majority and their legitimacy philosophy

in this article the historical expression by martyr zaidebn e-ali on negation of forbidden majority has been described. also the majority and minority issue in the quran has been compared with current majority and minority in the political sciences. it seems that in the quran the majority which does not apply reason and does not know is the majority of opponents of prophets. thus, the majority ...

Surviving as an underrepresented minority scientist in a majority environment

I believe the evidence will show that the science we conduct and discoveries we make are influenced by our cultural experience, whether they be positive, negative, or neutral. I grew up as a person of color in the United States of America, faced with challenges that many had as members of an underrepresented minority group. I write here about some of the lessons I have learned that have allowed...

Minority on Minority Discrimination: Impact of Majority Social Norm Perception

Most of the research on prejudice has focused on majority discrimination of minority group members, but few have investigated minority to minority prejudice. This experiment studied minority group member discrimination against members of other minority groups when asked to perform activities with a group composed of either all racial majority (White) individuals, all racial minority individuals...