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The Ideal Free Distribution Of Group Choice: A Social Psychology Of Human Behavior, John Robert Kraft
The Ideal Free Distribution Of Group Choice: A Social Psychology Of Human Behavior, John Robert Kraft
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation presents an experimental analysis of social behavior. The behavior is called Group Choice (Baum & Kraft, 1998) and the analysis is a social foraging model called the Ideal Free Distribution (IFD; Fretwell & Lucas, 1970). The IFD is a social foraging model that describes the distribution of a group of foragers in a patchy environment. Group Choice describes group members engaging in two behaviors. The IFD suggests that group members engage in two behaviors in the same relative relation to the consequences obtained from those behaviors. The IFD of Group Choice is analogous to the Matching Law analysis …
Predicting Ageist And Sexist Attitudes And The Conditions For Their Existence, Heather Frasier Chabot
Predicting Ageist And Sexist Attitudes And The Conditions For Their Existence, Heather Frasier Chabot
Doctoral Dissertations
Prejudice and discrimination are pervasive and problematic and affect intergroup relations (Allport, 1954). The purpose of the current research was to expand our understanding of ageist and sexist attitudes. The Pilot Study indicated some of the significant predictors of ageist attitudes among college students. The results of Study I indicated that college students view younger adults as more instrumental than older adults but they do not differentiate between older adults who are 65 to 74 years of age, 75 to 84 years of age, and 85 years or older. Study 2 indicated that intergroup distinctions among younger (17--28 years of …