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Racial Stereotypes and Gender in Context: African Americans at Predominantly Black and Predominantly White Colleges
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-07)
In this study, relationships among stereotype expectations, gender, and academic self-concept and performance of African American students in predominantly White and predominantly Black college contexts were examined. ...
Problems in the estimation and interpretation of the reliability of survey data
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1989-09)
In this paper I discuss several of the difficulties involved in estimating the reliability of survey measurement. Reliability is defined on the basis of classical true-score theory , as the correlational consistency of ...
Autobiographical Misremembering: John Dean is not Alone
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1997-06)
Survey respondents were asked to provide knowledge responses to public events and names that occurred as long ago as the 1930s and as recently as the 1980s. Respondents made errors that reflect the use of semantic and ...
Statistical Analysis of Choice Experiments and Surveys
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-12)
Measures of households' past behavior, their expectations with respect to future events and contingencies, and their intentions with respect to future behavior are frequently collected using household surveys. These questions ...
Berek Rothenberg interview
(The University of Michigan-Dearborn Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive, 1984-05-20)
An interview with Berek Rothenberg, a survivor of the Nazi holocaust of the Jews, by Levi Smith.
Changes in qualities valued in children in the United States, 1964 to 1984
(Elsevier, 1989-09)
This paper examines changes that have occurred over the past few decades in parental assessments of qualities valued in children. Data are examined from eight NORC national surveys to assess the degree of change experienced ...
Segregation and Mortality: The Deadly Effects of Racism?
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1999-09)
Elevated rates of mortality for African Americans compared to whites, coupled with the persistence of high levels of racial residential segregation, have directed attention to the structural manifestations of racism as ...
Life and death during the Great Depression
(2009)
Recent events highlight the importance of examining the impact of economic downturns on population health. The Great Depression
of the 1930s was the most important economic downturn in the U.S. in the twentieth century. ...