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Social Class in Public Schools
(John Wiley & Sons, 2003)This article shows the pattern of socioeconomic class differences in schooling outcomes and indicates some of the causes for those differences that lie within the public realm. Those causes include "nested inequalities" ... -
The Social Construction of the Great Depression: Industrial Policy During the 1930s in the United States, Britain, and France
(Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993) -
Social Dilemmas Among Unequals
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019-08)Direct reciprocity is a powerful mechanism for the evolution of cooperation on the basis of repeated interactions. It requires that interacting individuals are sufficiently equal, such that everyone faces similar consequences ... -
Social Dominance Orientation: A Personality Variable Predicting Social and Political Attitudes
(American Psychological Association, 1994)Social dominance orientation (SDO), one's degree of preference for inequality among social groups, is introduced. On the basis of social dominance theory, it is shown that (a) men are more social dominance-oriented than ... -
Social dominance orientation: Cause or ‘mere effect’?
(Elsevier BV, 2011)The question of whether SDO is a cause or mere effect of intergroup attitudes and behaviors has been the subject of heated debate. Much of the research brought to bear on the question, however, has used cross-sectional ... -
Social Dominance Orientation: Revisiting the Structure and Function of a Variable Predicting Social and Political Attitudes
(SAGE Publications, 2012)Social dominance orientation (SDO) is one of the most powerful predictors of intergroup attitudes and behavior. Although SDO works well as a unitary construct, some analyses suggest it might consist of two complementary ... -
Social Environment Shapes the Speed of Cooperation
(Springer Nature, 2016)Are cooperative decisions typically made more quickly or slowly than non-cooperative decisions? While this question has attracted considerable attention in recent years, most research has focused on one-shot interactions. ... -
Social Exclusion: More Important to Human Females Than Males
(Public Library of Science, 2013)Theoretical models based on primate evidence suggest that social structure determines the costs and benefits of particular aggressive strategies. In humans, males more than females interact in groups of unrelated same-sex ... -
Social Goods Dilemmas in Heterogeneous Societies
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Social Influences on Inequity Aversion in Children
(Public Library of Science, 2013-11-21)Adults and children are willing to sacrifice personal gain to avoid both disadvantageous and advantageous inequity. These two forms of inequity aversion follow different developmental trajectories, with disadvantageous ... -
Social Information Guides Infants' Selection of Foods
(Taylor and Francis, 2009)Two experiments investigated the influence of socially conveyed emotions and speech on infants' choices among food. After watching films in which two unfamiliar actresses each spoke while eating a different kind of food, ... -
Social Insurance: Connecting Theory to Data
(Elsevier, 2013)We survey the literature on social insurance, focusing on recent work that has connected theory to evidence to make quantitative statements about welfare and optimal policy. Our review contains two parts. We first discuss ... -
Social Is Special: A Normative Framework for Teaching With and Learning From Evaluative Feedback
(Elsevier BV, 2017-10)Humans often attempt to influence one another’s behavior using rewards and punishments. How does this work? Psychologists have often assumed that “evaluative feedback” influences behavior via standard learning mechanisms ... -
Social Mechanisms Underlying Network Effects in Mexico-U.S. Migration
(International Migration Institute, 2013)Scholars have long noted how migration streams, once initiated, obtain a self-feeding character. Studies have attributed this phenomenon, called the cumulative causation of migration, to expanding social networks that ... -
Social Network Sensors for Early Detection of Contagious Outbreaks
(Public Library of Science, 2010)Current methods for the detection of contagious outbreaks give contemporaneous information about the course of an epidemic at best. It is known that individuals near the center of a social network are likely to be infected ... -
Social Network Visualization in Epidemiology
(Elsevier, 2009)Epidemiological investigations and interventions are increasingly focusing on social networks. Two aspects of social networks are relevant in this regard: the structure of networks and the function of networks. A better ... -
Social Networking Smartphone Applications and Sexual Health Outcomes among Men Who Have Sex with Men
(Public Library of Science, 2014-01-07)Background: Several smartphone applications (apps) designed to help men who have sex with men (MSM) find casual sexual partners have appeared on the market recently. Apps of this nature have the potential to impact sexual ... -
Social Networks and Collateral Health Effects
(British Medical Journal Publishing, 2004)Since a patient or a clinical trial participant is connected to other people through social network ties, medical interventions delivered to a patient, quite apart from their health effects in that person, may have unintended ... -
The Social Psychology of Ordinary Ethical Failures
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2004) -
Social Psychology Under Analysis.
(American Psychological Association (APA), 1991)