Research into antigay violence has been limited by a lack of attention to issues of gender presentation. Understanding gender nonconformity is important for addressing antigay prejudice and hate crimes. We assessed experiences of gender-nonconformity-related prejudice among 396 Black, Latino, and White lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals recruited from diverse community venues in New York Ci...

Results of current computer simulations suggest that a pathogenmediated version of Hamilton’s spite hypothesis may play an unexpected role in the evolution of host-parasite interactions. Theory predicts that hosts’ ability to influence parasite transmission to conspecifics is a neutral character provided that transmission routes are random. There are two possible deviations from this. Firstly, ...

Previous research finds a relationship between prejudice against asylum seekers in Australia and negative ideas invoked through political rhetoric; these include perceptions of threat and the acceptance of false beliefs. In recent years, political debate has also seen an increase in hostility towards people smugglers. In this study, we examine whether the expected link between prejudice and per...

Foreign doctors, the backbone of South African rural health care delivery, are being 'thrown in the deep end' with little support, supplementary training or supervision, resulting in serious miscommunication and sometimes even xenophobia from health care colleagues who treat them as professionally inferior. This emerged during a discussion at the 15th annual conference of the Rural Doctors Asso...

Wittrock, Zachary, R. M.A., Purdue University, August 2014. Dismantling the Great Wall of Prejudice: A Look at Centrality and Issue Importance in the Perpetuation of Influence and Prejudice Reduction. Major Professor: Torsten Reimer This study sought to utilize social network analysis to better understand how prejudice reduction can be spread from one person to another via interpersonal influen...

Although prejudice is typically positively related to relative outgroup size, four studies found converging evidence that perceived atheist prevalence reduces anti-atheist prejudice. Study 1 demonstrated that anti-atheist prejudice among religious believers is reduced in countries in which atheists are especially prevalent. Study 2 demonstrated that perceived atheist prevalence is negatively as...

The magnitude of the threat that violence and war pose to the health, the quality of life, and the very survival of humanity is obvious. A number of scientific disciplines have provided, each through its own methodology, insights into the causation, genesis, and dynamics of violence and war. Although epidemiological and psychological methodologies received priority, the multidisciplinary approa...

Cultural characteristics related to the values of national identity (patriotism, nationalism) and attitudes toward other peoples (xenophobia) represent important elements cultural specificity that influence various dimensions socioeconomic life, including economic processes. Unfortunately, these specific are not often investigated, especially in this context, probably because difficulty quantif...

0022-1031/$ see front matter 2009 Published by doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2009.11.001 * Corresponding author. Fax: +1 (919) 962 2537. E-mail address: [email protected] (B.K. Payne). The 2008 US presidential election was an unprecedented opportunity to study the role of racial prejudice in political decision making. Although explicitly expressed prejudice has declined dramatically during the last four decad...