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Timing Can Affect Whether Women and Minorities Face Discrimination

Timing Can Affect Whether Women and Minorities Face Discrimination | Science News | Scoop.it

Through a field experiment set in academia (with a sample of 6,548 professors), we found that decisions about distant-future events were more likely to generate discrimination against women and minorities (relative to Caucasian males) than were decisions about near-future events.

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Even neighborhoods with higher-educated ethnic minorities arouse resistance

Even neighborhoods with higher-educated ethnic minorities arouse resistance | Science News | Scoop.it
The resistance towards ethnically mixed neighborhoods decreases if higher-educated people from ethnic minorities live there.
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Are educators showing a 'positive bias' to minority students?

Are educators showing a 'positive bias' to minority students? | Science News | Scoop.it
A psychology professor's research indicates that public school teachers under-challenge minority students by providing them more positive feedback than they give to white students, for work of equal merit.
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