Range Majorities and Minorities in Arrays

Cultural-Historical and Political Identity

The author elaborates his proposition concerning the distinction of culturalhistorical and political identity by differentiating cultural-historical majorities and minorities from political winners and losers. He points out to a democratic paradox according to which a state is governed by political minorities of winners and not by political majorities of losers. In multi-ethnic societies, holds...

Ethnic Minorities’ Impression Management in the Interview: Helping or Hindering?

Cross-cultural impression management (IM) has not been considered much, which is remarkable given the fast rate at which the labor market is becoming multicultural. This study investigated whether ethnic minorities and majorities differed in their preference for IM-tactics and how this affected ethnic minorities' interview outcomes. A preliminary study (focus groups/survey) showed that ethnic m...

Minorities vs. Majorities: the Location of the Median in a Mixed Normal Distribution

The Political Efficiency of General Taxation

If political decisions are made by legislative majorities, a constitutional constraint requiring generality in the imposition of taxes will be economically efficient. In the absence of such a constraint, majorities will tend to impose differentially high taxes on members of political minorities, and such differentiation opens up several sources for resource waste. This argument /ends support fo...

The self-esteem motive in social influence: agreement with valued majorities and disagreement with derogated minorities.

This research provides evidence for the role of self-esteem in social influence; it demonstrates that the positions taken by self-relevant social groups can threaten people's self-esteem. Participants who wished to align themselves with a majority group and who learned that the group held a counterattitudinal position suffered a reduction in self-esteem. Similarly, participants who wished to di...