A second look at religious orientation, social desirability, and prejudice

Personal religious orientation and prejudice.

3 generalizations seem well established concerning the relationship between subjective religion and ethnic prejudice: (a) On the average churchgoers are more prejudiced than nonchurchgoers; (b) the relationship is curvilinear; (c) people with an extrinsic religious orientation are significantly more prejudiced than people with an intrinsic religious orientation. With the aid of a scale to measu...

Positive and negative prejudice: Interactions of prejudice with race and social desirability

A second look at the second law

It is commonly argued that the spectacular increase in order which has occurred on Earth does not violate the second law of thermodynamics because the Earth is an open system, and anything can happen in an open system as long as the entropy increases outside the system compensate the entropy decreases inside the system. However, if we define ‘‘X-entropy’’ to be the entropy associated with any d...

A second look at bivalirudin.

a patient's hemostatic capacity by promoting the formation of thrombin. What happened to derail the development of bivalirudin after the initial promising findings? An angioplasty study comparing bivalirudin with UFH was conducted between 1993 and 1994 and reported in 1995. 8 Bivalirudin was found to be at least as effective as high-dose UFH in preventing ischemic complications in patients unde...

Ethnic Hierarchies, Ethnic Prejudice, and Social Dominance Orientation

Previous research in multi-ethnic societies has shown that people rank, or form hierarchies of, the ethnic groups on the basis of social distance. Based on self-report data from a community sample (N1⁄4 150 non-psychology students), this study examined (1) the correspondence of ratings and rankings of six ethnic target groups among various subgroups of participants (Swedish and immigrant men an...