Prejudice in a simulated legal context: A further application of social identity theory

Bagby, R. Michael; Rector, Neil A.

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“…In comparison to American investigators, however, researchers in Canada have invested very little effort in examining the potential influence of prejudice on courtroom interactions (see e.g., Avio, 1987Avio, , 1988Bagby & Rector, 1992;Palys & Divorski, 1984). One exception is Avio (1987; who, like Baldus et al, has also employed archival data to demonstrate that certain groups in Canada were more likely to receive the death penalty based on their ethnicity.…”

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Mock Juror Ratings of Guilt in Canada: Modern Racism and Ethnic Heritage

Pfeifer¹,

Ogloff²

2003

soc behav pers

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This research investigated whether the prejudicial attitudes of mock jurors in Canada produce criminal sanction disparities similar to those reported by research in the United States. In order to investigate this hypothesis, English Canadian participants read a transcript of a sexual assault trial that varied the ethnic background of both the victim and the defendant (i.e., English, French or Native Canadian). Participants were then asked to rate the guilt of the defendant in two ways: (1) on a 7-point bipolar scale in accordance with their personal beliefs (i.e., Subjective Guilt Rating), and (2) on a dichotomous scale (guilty/not guilty) in accor- dance with judicial instructions (i.e., Legal Standard Guilt Rating). Participants were also asked to rate the victim and defendant on a number of personality traits. Results indicate that participants asked to rate the degree of guilt of the defendant according to the Subjective Guilt Rating found him more guilty if he was French, or Native Canadian as opposed to English Canadian. These prejudicial ratings, however, dissipated when participants were asked to rate the guilt of the defendant according to the Legal Standard Guilt Rating that included jury instructions. This apparent paradox in results is discussed in terms of modern racism theory.

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Mock Juror Ratings of Guilt in Canada: Modern Racism and Ethnic Heritage

Pfeifer¹,

Ogloff²

2003

soc behav pers

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“…decades (Bagby & Rector, 1992;Bullock, 196 1 ;Field, 1979;Gleason & Harris, 1975;Radelet & Pierce, 1985).…”

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The Effect of Prejudice and Judicial Ambiguity on Defendant Guilt Ratings

Rector

Bagby

Nicholson³

1993

The Journal of Social Psychology

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“…She found that race similarity influenced judgments of decision-makers, such that dissimilar race resulted in more negative attributions for both victims and defendants. Similarly, Bagby and Rector (1992) examined the similarity or dissimilarity of the racial-ethnic background of the victim and found that more positive judgments were associated with similarity of race. Hence, we proposed:…”

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A Model for Predicting Outcomes of Sexual Harassment Complaints by Race and Gender

Luthar

Tata

Kwesiga

2008

Employ Respons Rights J

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Organizational scholars have studied the impact of sex on sexual harassment outcomes but left unexplored the influences of race. Thus, we use social identity theory to explore the role of race stereotypes and their influences on sexual harassment outcomes. We posit that stereotypes of African-American women tend to be much more negative than those of white women and this serves to marginalize their position both as victims of sexual harassment as well as complainants. relational demography approach, based largely on social identity theory (SIT; Tajfel and Turner 1986), suggests that individuals in organizations categorize themselves into groups based on demographic characteristics (e.g. race, gender, ethnicity; Chattopadhyay et al. 2004b). To this end, this research has focused on work-related outcomes such as citizenship behavior, organizational commitment, performance, absenteeism, and turnover intentions (Baugh and Graen 1997;Chatman et al. 1998;Riordan and Shore 1997;Rover and Gelfand 2005;Tsui et al. 1992), and none has explored if gendered experiences such as sexual harassment may vary for members of different ethnic/racial groups in organizations. The sexual harassment literature treats gender as a monolithic category and the research done on samples of white women is assumed to apply to women of all races and ethnic backgrounds.

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Prejudice in a simulated legal context: A further application of social identity theory

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Cited by 18 publications

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Mock Juror Ratings of Guilt in Canada: Modern Racism and Ethnic Heritage

Mock Juror Ratings of Guilt in Canada: Modern Racism and Ethnic Heritage

The Effect of Prejudice and Judicial Ambiguity on Defendant Guilt Ratings

A Model for Predicting Outcomes of Sexual Harassment Complaints by Race and Gender

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