This paper discusses social mechanisms of discrimination and reviews existing field experimental designs for their identification. We first explicate two social mechanisms proposed in the literature, animus-driven and statistical discrimination, to explain differential treatment based on ascriptive characteristics. We then present common approaches to study discrimination based on observational...

Measures of implicit prejudice are based on associations between race-related stimuli and valenced words. Reaction time (RT) data have been characterized as showing implicit prejudice when White names or faces are associated with positive concepts and African-American names or faces with negative concepts, compared to the reverse pairings. We offer three objections to the inferential leap from ...

Contestant voting behavior on the television game show Weakest Link provides an unusual opportunity to distinguish between taste-based and information-based theories of discrimination. In early rounds, strategic incentives encourage voting for the weakest competitors. In later rounds, the incentives reverse and the strongest competitors become the logical target. Controlling for other character...

This easily read and simple book has a tribute from Jung who refers to the difficulties of extracting his theories from the mass of comparative material with which his works abound. The historical and ethnological background against which he measures his hypotheses provide bewildering side-tracks but the author has kept steadily to her chosen path. For the general reader, it is the impact of th...

Recent studies demonstrated a consistent research finding that compared to Caucasian motorists, Black and Hispanic motorists were significantly more likely to be subjected to personal and/or vehicle searches during traffic stops, but significantly less likely to be found in possession of contraband. Explanations for these findings were typically based on speculation regarding officers' racial a...

In 2008, a survey was applied to a probabilistically selected sample of 1,245 HIV-infected patients on antiretroviral therapy in Brazil. In this work, the analysis was focused on self-rated health. The analysis was conducted according to sex, age, socioeconomic variables, and clinical and treatment-related patient characteristics. Through stepwise logistic regression procedures, the main predic...

Der Beitrag behandelt den Begriff der Klassik als Erscheinung Nachhaltigkeit und beleuchtet die Affinität beiden Konzepte am Beispiel Ciceros. lateinische Schriftsteller gilt nicht nur Musterklassiker, sondern hat sich auch selbst um Klassizität bemüht. Was aus seinen schriftstellerischen Strategien, auf Ressourcenvielfalt setzen, abgeleitet wurde, ergänzt in diesem Blick Überlegungen, er Verte...

What explains white male animus against Asian women? We address this question by examining the murders in Atlanta, GA, which reflect a larger global pattern of violence what are perceived as hypersexualized women. Dominant discourses on these promote either narrative racial xenophobia or stance for sex work. Neither discourse adequately accounts simultaneous and gendered determination women’s e...