Diversity Challenges in the CSU: One Union's Response
These documents and conference proceedings were presented at the 36th Annual Conference of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions, Academic Bargaining in an Era of Constraint, held April 19-21, 2009 in New York City.
Reducing Intergroup Bias: The Common Ingroup Identity Model
Preface. Introduction and Overview. Aversive Racism and Intergroup Bias. Theoretical Background and the Common Ingroup Identity Model. Alerting the Perception of Group Boundaries. Conditions of Intergroup contact. Cognitive and Affective Priming: Antecedents and Consequences of a Common Ingroup Identity. Extending the Benefits of Recategorization. Problems, Progress, and Promise. References.
Status, ideology, and integrative complexity on the U.S. Supreme Court: Rethinking the politics of political decision making.
Prior studies of integrative complexity indicate that political conservatives tend to interpret policy issues in less complex ways than do liberals and moderates. However, ideological preference in that work was systematically confounded with decision makers' status in the groups to which they belonged. The study reported here varied both factors independently in a content analysis of Supreme Court opinions. In contrast to previous conclusions, results supported a status-contingency model, which predicts higher levels of complexity among members of majority factions than among members of either minority factions or unanimous groups independently of the ideological content of their views