Promotion signaling, discrimination, and positive discrimination policies

positive discrimination as a mechanism against deprivation:

after the second world war one of the most effective ways which could make an important impact on the life of minorities and deprived communities has been positive discrimination. of course, it has been always controversial in terms of its legitimacy as well as its real impact on changes. using positive discrimination to promote women's condition in many countries and fields such as enteri...

Discrimination , policies , and sexual rights in

This article focuses on a politics arena that has been articulated through the impact of ideals of sexual rights on Brazilian sexual politics, namely the affirmation of “LGBT rights”. These rights have been constructed both through attempts to extend civil and social rights to the LGBT population that were previously restricted to heterosexuals, and by the enactment of provisions directly banni...

Color discrimination in Caspian pony

Societal Discrimination against Muslims in Europe: Racism and Political Opportunism

Occasion Setting without Feature-Positive Discrimination Training

In four experiments rats received training in which a brief conditioned stimulus, x, occurred during presentations of an extended feature stimulus, A; a second brief stimulus, y, occurred during presentations of a second feature, B. In Experiment 1 both x and y were paired with food and, in a subsequent test, they elicited more conditioned responding when they were presented in the feature with...