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The recall of intergroup interactions: Linguistic intergroup bias as a measure of intergroup contact effects
No full textPositive and negative contact asymmetry on collective action of migrant people
No full textSocial integration is one of the current major challenges in increasing multi-cultural a societies. Many European countries are currently facing a flow of migration at a level not previously witnessed. Against this background, surprisingly little research has examined the long-term effects of positive and negative intergroup contact experiences from the perspective of immigrants, that are often a target of discrimination. The present longitudinal study investigated how positive contact and negative contact with native people predict perceived discrimination and collective action intentions among immigrants in the Italian context. Evidence showed that negative contact with Italians predicted greater collective action in the long-term and this effect was mediated by perceived discrimination. This effect was moderated by self-efficacy that in turn was influenced by intergroup positive contact. Having positive contact with Italians increased immigrants’ perceived self-efficacy that in turn influenced the effect of negative contact on collective actions for social change
sj-docx-1-jls-10.1177_0261927X241237260 - Supplemental material for How Positive and Negative Intergroup Contact May Shape the Communication of Discrimination Toward Migrants
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-jls-10.1177_0261927X241237260 for How Positive and Negative Intergroup Contact May Shape the Communication of Discrimination Toward Migrants by Francesca Prati, Giulia Rosa Policardo, Miles Hewstone and Monica Rubini in Journal of Language and Social Psychology</p
Linguistic gender bias in personnel selection: The role of competence, morality and sociability
No full textDespite widespread public commitments to equal opportunity and an abundance of research illustrating the commercial benefits of diverse leadership, currently there is a worldwide solid gender disproportion of senior business roles. Why it is still so difficult for women to reach such high status-jobs? Is it plausible that this gender inequality starts at the very beginning of the job selection process through linguistic attributions made to evaluate candidates’ performance? Language is a motivated action and a refined tool individuals use to transform ideas into linguistic behaviors (e.g., Menegatti & Rubini, 2014; Moscatelli & Rubini, 2013; Rubini et al., 2014; Semin, 2000). Therefore, the linguistic evaluations reported by selectors represent a noteworthy measure to examine the motivations that guide outcome selection. In an ecological study conducted within a public organization we examined the terms used by female and male selectors to describe each candidate for a senior business position. We showed that men were expected to be more competent to be eligible for high status positions, whereas women were expected to be both more competent and more moral. Moreover, female selectors attributed higher sociability to female candidates and male selectors attributed higher competence to male candidates and both female and male selectors attributed higher morality to their ingroup candidates. The implications of these results are discussed
The Effects of Recalling Positive and Negative Contacts on Linguistic Bias towards Migrant People
No full textSocial integration is one of the current major challenges in increasing multi-cultural a societies. Many European countries are currently facing a flow of migration at a level not previously witnessed. Against this background, surprisingly little research has examined the long-term effects of positive and negative intergroup contact experiences from the perspective of immigrants, that are often a target of discrimination. The present longitudinal study investigated how positive contact and negative contact with native people predict perceived discrimination and collective action intentions among immigrants in the Italian context. Evidence showed that negative contact with Italians predicted greater collective action in the long-term and this effect was mediated by perceived discrimination. This effect was moderated by self-efficacy that in turn was influenced by intergroup positive contact. Having positive contact with Italians increased immigrants’ perceived self-efficacy that in turn influenced the effect of negative contact on collective actions for social change
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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