Dog whistle mascots: Native American mascots as normative expressions of prejudice

Do American Indian mascots = American Indian people? Examining implicit bias towards American Indian people and American Indian mascots.

Empirical examinations of American Indian (AI) mascots have only recently entered into the discourse of mainstream psychology. The present studies examined implicit attitudes of non-AI people towards AI mascots and the extent to which they are related to attitudes towards AI people. Significant concordance was observed between negative bias toward AI mascots and AI people. Negative AI mascot bi...

Multicultural training on American Indian issues: testing the effectiveness of an intervention to change attitudes toward Native-themed mascots.

This study investigated attitudes toward Native-themed mascots in the context of color-blind racial attitudes. Results indicate that higher color-blind racial attitudes are related to lower awareness of the offensiveness of Native-themed mascots. The researchers tested the effectiveness of a training intervention designed to produce attitudinal change among master's level counseling students. R...

XMGM: performance modeling using matrix geometric techniques - Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, 1994., MASCOTS '94.,

Over the last two decades a considerable amount of effort has been put in the development and application of matrix geometric techniques for the analysis of queueing systems of which the (embedded) Markov chain exhibits a regzllar structure. Most of this work however has been presented in either a mathematical conta t or in a purely application-oriented context. In this paper we present XMGM, a...

Normative data for idiomatic expressions

Idiomatic expressions such as kick the bucket or go down a storm can differ on a number of internal features, such as familiarity, meaning, literality, and decomposability, and these types of features have been the focus of a number of normative studies. In this article, we provide normative data for a set of Bulgarian idioms and their English translations, and by doing so replicate in a Slavic...

Dog-Whistle Politics, Coded Communication and Religious Appeals