Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "discrimination"

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    • Adapting Fairness-Intervention Algorithms to Missing Data 

      Feng, Raymond (2023-06-30)
      Missing values in real-world data pose a significant and unique challenge to algorithmic fairness. Different demographic groups may be unequally affected by missing data, and standard procedures for handling missing values ...

    • Causation in the Social World 

      Hu, Lily (2022-05-11)
      Causation and causal claims abound in the social world as much as in the natural world. But a dominant theory of causation, prevalent among philosophers of causation and scientists who pursue causal inquiry, an interventionist ...

    • ‘Face’ and the embodiment of stigma in China: The cases of schizophrenia and AIDS 

      Yang, Lawrence Hsin; Kleinman, Arthur Michael (Elsevier BV, 2008)
      The majority of theoretical models have defined stigma as occurring psychologically and limit its negative effects to individual processes. This paper, via an analysis of how 'face' is embodied in China, deepens an ...

    • Fair Measures: A Behavioral Realist Revision of "Affirmative Action" 

      Kang, Jerry; Banaji, Mahzarin R. (California Law Review Inc., 2006)
      New facts recently discovered in the mind and behavioral sciences have the potential to transform both lay and expert conceptions of affirmative action. Drawing on recent findings in implicit social cognition (ISC) and ...

    • How Attributional Ambiguity Shapes Physiological and Emotional Responses to Social Rejection and Acceptance 

      Mendes, Wendy; Major, Brenda; McCoy, Shannon; Blascovich, Jim (American Psychological Association, 2008)
      The authors examined White and Black participants' emotional, physiological, and behavioral responses to same-race or different-race evaluators, following rejecting social feedback or accepting social feedback. As expected, ...

    • Implicit Measures Reveal Evidence of Personal Discrimination 

      Carney, Dana R.; Banaji, Mahzarin R.; Krieger, Nancy (Informa UK Limited, 2010)
      A well-known result, the person–group discrimination discrepancy (PGDD), shows that members of disadvantaged groups believe that other members of their social groups are discriminated against, but that they themselves are ...

    • Race in the American Mind: From the Moynihan Report to the Obama Candidacy 

      Bobo, Lawrence D.; Charles, Camille Z. (SAGE Publications, 2009)
      In 1965 Daniel Patrick Moynihan observed that the “racist virus in the American blood stream still afflicts us.” The authors assess the tenor of racial attitudes in white and black America across the ensuing four decades. ...