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Discriminatory behavior in New York restaurants: 1950 and 1981
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1983-07)
Survey techniques are combined with behavioral observations in this attempt to replicate a 1950 baseline study in order to examine trends in racial discrimination. In the 1950 study, treatment of black and white couples ...
A note on changes in black racial attitudes in Detroit: 1968–1976
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publ. Co ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1979-10)
The structure of subjective well-being in nine western societies
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1979-01)
The structure of subjective well-being is analyzed by multidimensional mapping of evaluations of life concerns. For example, one finds that evaluations of Income are close to (i.e., relatively strongly related to) evaluations ...
The potential of social indicators: Minimum conditions for impact at the national level as suggested by a study of the use of ‘social indicators’ 73
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1978-03)
Empirical evidence is presented which suggests that the use of social indicators among upper level government officials in the United States is minimal at present. Further, the level of use is not likely to be increased ...
Response to Borg and Bergermaier
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1981-09)
Work status and the quality of life
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1977-01)
The general thesis from which this paper derived is that objective conditions are related to perceptions and evaluations of those conditions, but that such relationships are mediated by personal characteristics such as ...
Objective and subjective indicators: Effects of scale discordance on interrelationships
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1980-03)
Researchers in the social indicator movement are increasingly aware of the value of obtaining both subjective and objective measures. At the same time there is a recognition of the need to understand relationships between ...
Changes in Subjective and Objective Measures of Economic Well-Being and Their Interrelationship among the Elderly in Singapore and Taiwan
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-03)
Race-Related Correlates of Young Adults' Subjective Well-Being
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-01)
We investigated how often young adults worry about race relationsand whether they perceive that white/black relations have beendeteriorating. We also explored the relationships betweenrace-related worry and pessimism, and ...
Density, crowding, and satisfaction with the residential environment
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1982-01)
The relationships between a set of measures of various components of environmental density and perceived crowding are examined in a data set from a sample of residents of a large metropolitan area. While there are meaningful ...