The current research examines the extent to which individuals endorse “sexblind” versus “sexaware” ideologies. Analogous to colorblind and multicultural ideologies, sexblindness involves ignoring sex categorization when perceiving others, and sexawareness involves recognizing and celebrating sex differences. Results revealed that participants endorsed sexblindness more (and, thus, sexawareness ...

This study examines the effects of two interethnic ideologies (assimilation and multiculturalism) on in-group favoritism and discrimination intention toward immigrants. Specifically, this study aims to test the concomitant impact of these two ideologies on intergroup biases in order to affirm whether these two paths are related to intergroup bias. Moreover, this study is designed to extend prev...

In this study we compare the ESTER corpus of journalistic speech [1] and the NCCF corpus of spontaneous speech [2] in terms of duration, f0 and spectral reduction in productions automatically detected as speech units between pauses. Continuation f0 rises are overall absent in spontaneous speech and speech units reveal a declination slope with less amplitude than in journalistic speech. For both...

imported instructional English textbooks in Iran and the learners’ attitudes towards English. Further, the instructors’ awareness of these ideologies was examined through a questionnaire. To find the ideological values, a content analysis of conversations, texts, and  pictorial prompts in Spectrum and True to Life English textbook series was conducted and the extant ideologies were categorized ...

we sought to understand  whether,  how, and  why the translated journalistic texts  related  to  the  iranian  nuclear  negotiations  were manipulated. to this end,  we  monitored  a news agency’s webpage in a time span of 46 days that began 3 days before almaty i nuclear talks and ended  3  days  after  almaty  ii  talks.  monitoring  resulted  in  a  corpus  made  up  of  36  target  texts  p...

Two studies examined whether everyday food choice motives (FCMs) and abstract values constitute food choice ideologies (FCIs), whether these ideologies reflect the same normativism-humanism polarity as Tomkins' theory suggests to reflect ideologies in general, and whether various dietary groups endorse FCIs in different ways. In Study 1, 82 female participants filled in the Food Choice Question...

Supporters or opponents of journalistic professionalism cannot ignore the fact that journalistic studies are a pluralistic, differentiated, and dynamic field of research, with no commonly accepted conceptual framework of journalism. Different academic traditions and diverse cultural and social foundations of journalism have led to different aspects of the definition and research journalism. The...