Judging Jena's DA: The Prosecutor and Racial Esteem

The Prudent Prosecutor

Racial Identity, Africentric Values, and Self-Esteem in Jamaican Children

Factors influencing racial comparisons of self-esteem: a quantitative review.

Research on racial comparisons of self-esteem was examined. Early research in this area, exemplified by the doll studies of racial preference, was viewed as demonstrating that Blacks have less self-regard than Whites. However, a meta-analytic synthesis of 261 comparisons, based largely on self-esteem scales and involving more than half a million respondents, revealed higher scores for Black tha...

Rage and reason: the psychology of the intuitive prosecutor

This study explores the conditions under which experimentally primed anger in ̄uences both attributions of responsibility and the processes by which people make such attributions. Drawing on social functional theory, it was hypothesized that people are best thought of as `intuitive prosecutors' who lower their thresholds for making attributions of harmful intent and recommending harsh punishment...

Racial differences in self-esteem revisited: The role of impression management in the Black self-esteem advantage

Black individuals consistently report the highest levels of self-esteem of any racial group in the United States. The present study utilized the bogus pipeline procedure (i.e., the use of physiological equipment that ostensibly allows the researcher to detect if individuals are lying) to examine whether impression management plays a role in the relatively high levels of self-esteem that are rep...