The recent literature on measuring bank performance indicates a preference for sophisticated techniques over simple accounting ratios. We explore the results and relationships between bank efficiency estimates using accounting ratios and Data Envelope Analysis (DEA) with bootstrap among Jamaican banks between 1998 and 2007. The results indicate different outcomes for the traditional accounting ...

This study analyzed subtle and blatant prejudice toward Chinese people expressed by 276 Italian adolescents and young adults, with and without friends from other ethnic groups. Italian version of Subtle and Blatant Prejudice Scale referred to Chinese people (Pettigrew & Meertens, 1995; Manganelli Rattazzi & Volpato, 2001) and three Semantic Differentials (Falanga et al., 2010) to analyze the re...

This article examines the Opinion of AG Rantos in two cases concerning Islamic headscarves before CJEU and argues that this appears to give almost carte blanche (private) employers adopt neutrality policies their workplaces based on wishes customers. In doing so, allow pander prejudices customers push believers, especially Muslim women, even further out sight. It is argued affects not only empl...

Parental diversity ideologies are linked to their own interethnic prejudice, but how do they relate children's prejudice? This study examined self-reported endorsement of colorblind ideology and multiculturalism among mothers (138 White Dutch, 65 Turkish-Dutch, 45 Afro-Dutch) 6-to 10-year old children (55% girls), its association with child prejudice. Endorsement was lowest Dutch mothers, Afro-...

Allport (1954) recognized that attachment to one’s ingroups does not necessarily require hostility toward outgroups. Yet the prevailing approach to the study of ethnocentrism, ingroup bias, and prejudice presumes that ingroup love and outgroup hate are reciprocally related. Findings from both cross-cultural research and laboratory experiments support the alternative view that ingroup identifica...

It is a fact well known that a surgeon with no complications is a surgeon performing no operations. Assuming the majority of surgeons do operate (although with the enforcement of EWTD this may in the future need further clarification) and therefore fall into the category of surgeons with complications, how the individual reacts or copes with such events is an interesting subject of debate. As w...

Although overweight is undesirable from both public and personal health perspectives, the focus of this paper is on exploring the nature of fat prejudice within a social cognition framework. Fat prejudice refers to the tendency to form judgments about people on the basis of excessive body weight. Body size has been described as one of the few personal attributes considered an acceptable target ...