The Reality of Contemporary Discrimination in the United States

The Consequences of Hidden Bias in Real World Contexts
Herausgeber: Nier, Jason A; Levy, Sheri R; Gaertner, Samuel L

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Produktbeschreibung

Using a variety of rigorous approaches from psychology, sociology, economics, and legal studies, this interdisciplinary issue examines the consequences of subtle forms of racial and gender bias, and how these may be detected in the real world. * Examines the real world impact of subtle bias and discrimination * Methodologically and conceptually rigorous * Interdisciplinary in focus, integrating research from psychology, sociology, economics, and law * Informs civil rights law and public policy

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Volume 68, Number 2, 2012 edition
• Seitenzahl: 500
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781118492246
• ISBN-10: 1118492242
• Artikelnr.: 36147024

Autorenporträt

JASON A. NIER is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Connecticut College. His research has focused primarily on the measurement of intergroup attitudes and stereotypes, and the study of interventions that reduce bias and conflict between groups. He has authored or co-authored numerous articles and book chapters, which have appeared in journals such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. SAMUEL L. GAERTNER is Professor of Psychology at the University of Delaware. His research interests involve intergroup relations with a focus on understanding and reducing prejudice, discrimination and racism. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. Currently, Professor Gaertner is co-editor (with Rupert Brown, Sussex University, UK), of Social Issues and Policy Review.

Inhaltsangabe

SECTION I: INTRODUCTION
The Challenge of Detecting Contemporary Forms of Discrimination (Jason A.
Nier and Samuel L. Gaertner)
SECTION II: DETECTING CONTEMPORARY DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT CONTEXTS
Identifying Discrimination at Work: The Use of Field Experiments (Devah
Pager and Bruce Western)
Developing the Research Basis for Controlling Bias in Hiring (Marc Bendick,
Jr. and Ana P. Nunes)
Dearth by a Thousand Cuts?: Accounting for Gender Differences in Top-Ranked
Publication Rates in Social Psychology (Mina Cikara, Laurie Rudman, and
Susan Fiske)
SECTION III: DETECTING CONTEMPORARY DISCRIMINATION IN LEGAL CONTEXTS
The World is Not Black and White: Racial Bias in the Decision to Shoot in a
Multiethnic Context (Melody S. Sadler, Joshua Correll, Bernadette Park, and
Charles M. Judd)
The Missing Quadrants of Antidiscrimination: Going Beyond the "Prejudice
Polygraph" (Jerry Kang)
SECTION IV: CONTEMPORARY DISCRIMINATION AND WELLNESS
Life-Threatening Disparities: Treatment of Black and White Cancer Patients
(Louis A. Penner, Susan Eggly, Jennifer J. Griggs, Willie Underwood, III,
Heather Orom, and Terrance L. Albrecht)
Racism and Social Capital: The Implications for Social and Physical
Well-Being (Elizabeth Brondolo, Madeline Libretti, Luis Rivera, and Katrina
M. Walsemann)
SECTION V: CONCLUSIONS
Intergroup Disparities and Implicit Bias: A Commentary (Emily L. Fisher and
Eugene Borgida)
Contemporary Discrimination in the Lab and Field: Benefits and Obstacles of
Full-Cycle Social Psychology (Nilanjana Dasgupta and Jane G. Stout)
SECTION VI: 2011 KURT LEWIN AWARD
Introduction to Michelle Fine's SPSSI Kurt Lewin Award Address (Susan
Opotow)
Resuscitating Critical Psychology for "Revolting" Times (Michelle Fine)