Experimental Studies of Discrimination

Societal Discrimination against Muslims in Europe: Racism and Political Opportunism

Investigating changes in internalized stigma and avoidant coping among African American adults living with HIV and serious mental illness following a peer-led intervention

Background: Individuals living with HIV navigate the health implications of HIV and HIV discrimination. This study aimed to examine changes in internalized stigma and avoidant coping among African American adults living with HIV and serious mental illness (SMI) following a peer-led intervention. Methods: In this quasi-experimental study, 16 patients were recruited using convenience sampling f...

تلاش‌های بین‌المللی در جهت جلوگیری از تبعیض ژنتیکی

Genetic discrimination as a crisis for modern human has influenced its life in personal or social aspects. The problem of genetic discrimination and the rights for individuals with genetic anomalies, is one of the most important issues in this century. With advancements of genetics and as new therapies become available, the usefulness of genetic testing undoubtedly will increase and concomitant...

Social Comparison and Performance: Experimental Evidence on the Fair Wage-Effort Hypothesis

Social Comparison and Performance: Experimental Evidence on the Fair Wage-Effort Hypothesis We investigate the impact of wage comparisons for worker productivity. We present three studies which all use three-person gift-exchange experiments. Consistent with Akerlof and Yellen’s (1990) fair wage-effort hypothesis we find that disadvantageous wage discrimination leads to lower efforts while advan...

بررسی درک گفتار با فشردگی زمانی در سالمندان

Objectives: Most of the studies performed on aging and auditory system have historically focused on speech perception disorders in elderly people. According to studies, speech discrimination disorders in aged people usually result from auditory temporal processing impairment. Our study was done to determine the ability of aged people to discriminate time compressed speech. Methods & Material...

Perceptual Reorganization of Lexical Tones: Effects of Age and Experimental Procedure

Findings on the perceptual reorganization of lexical tones are mixed. Some studies report good tone discrimination abilities for all tested age groups, others report decreased or enhanced discrimination with increasing age, and still others report Ushaped developmental curves. Since prior studies have used a wide range of contrasts and experimental procedures, it is unclear how specific task re...