Search results for " stereotype"

Multidimensional Health Modelling: Association between Socioeconomic Factors and Health in Latvia

2012

This paper proposes new approach for modelling self-assessed health. We find that the concept of health is too complicated to measure effects of health determinants using a one-dimensional econometric model. We apply two-dimensional stereotype logistic model that allows capturing nonmonotonicity in effects of factors and revealing significant effects that remain unrevealed if single dimension models, such as ordered logit or ordered probit, are used. Modelling self-assessed health using multi-dimensional stereotype logit provides higher model goodness of fit and quality measures in comparison to ordered probit model. Multi-dimensional stereotype logit is applied to estimate association betw…

Association Between Self-Assessed Health and Attitude Towards Own Health

2014

This paper explores association between health and attitude towards own health in two dimensions – taking care of own health and lifestyle. We apply two-dimensional stereotype logit model to estimate association between self-assessed health and attitude towards health, after accounting for socioeconomic factors. We find evidence of strong positive association between health status and (perceived) taking care of own health and lifestyle. Analysis of perception of the two concepts – "taking care of own health" and "healthy lifestyle" – provides insights into possible reasons of not very good indicators of health behaviour among Latvian population.

“A Stranger in Kevin’s Bed. The Construction of a Literary Stereotype.”

2006

The article examines the way in which a stereotype is given voice in a national literature through the use of language. What are the linguistic strategies employed within the genre of theatre in order to enact the representation of what looks as a simple story of growth and understanding?

Kolm tegelast poola naljades

2012

Teesid: Kaesoleva artikli eesmark on kirjeldada poola anekdoote kolmest tegelasest, ning anda ulevaade nende ajaloost ja muutumisest. Keskendutakse kolmese ulesehitusega naljadele, mille sisu on muutunud etnilisest ametitega seonduvaks. Artikkel puuab vastata kesksele kusimusele, kui universaalsed voi kultuurispetsiifilised on sellised naljad. Folkloorne ja globaalselt levinud ettekujutus numbri 3 tahendusest pakub samuti huvitavaid sissevaateid kolme tegelasega anekdootide olemusse. Kirjeldatakse stereotuupseid juhte, kus erinevate rahvuste esindajad kaituvad oodataval moel, ning analuusitakse konealuste anekdootide erinevate aspektide – etniliste, poliitiliste, seksuaalsete, loogiliste ja…

Multidimensional health modeling: Association between socioeconomic and psychosocial factors and health in Latvia

2009

This research aims at estimating association between socioeconomic and psychosocial factors on the one hand and health in Latvia on the other hand. While information on association between socioeconomic determinants of population health in Latvia is scarce, effect of psychosocial resources on individual health in this country hasn’t been estimated before. We find empirical support for the association between different psychosocial factors and physical health in Latvia. This paper proposes new approach for modelling self-assessed health. We find that the concept of health is too complicated to measure effects of health determinants using a one-dimensional econometric model. We apply two-dime…

Women Scientists Who Made Nuclear Astrophysics

2019

Female role models reduce the impact on women of stereotype threat, i.e. of being at risk of conforming to a negative stereotype about one’s social, gender, or racial group (Fine in Delusion of Gender. W.W. Norton & Co. NY, p. 36, 2010 [1]; Steele and Aronson in J Pers Soc Psychol 69:797–811, 1995 [2]). This can lead women scientists to underperform or to leave their scientific career because of negative stereotypes such as, not being as talented or as interested in science as men. Sadly, history rarely provides role models for women scientists; instead, it often renders these women invisible (CafeBabel Homepage [3]). In response to this situation, we present a selection of twelve outst…

Il diritto consuetudinario albanese tra ricerca scientifica, finzione letteraria e rappresentazione mediatica

2020

The Code of Albanian Customary Law has drawn the attention of foreign and Albanian scholars for the past one hundred years. Inspired by different interests, scholars have approached this subject in different ways using various studying methods. Such studies range from the ethno-cultural and anthropological approaches of Positivist descent to the politically correct Gender Studies of the present day. At the same time, literature, cinema, and theatre have highlighted specific features of the Albanian Customary Law revealing a taste for the exotic. The most salient are undoubtedly the vendetta and the sworn virgins, upon which novel plots and films have been based. The author analyses in this …

On the relations between parents’ and children’s implicit and explicit academic gender stereotypes.

2017

Although parents may represent influential sources of children’s gender stereotypes, to date no study has directly investigated the relations between parents’ and children’s gender stereotypes regarding academic abilities. Aiming at filling this gap, in the present study parents’ and their young children’s gender stereotypes about math and language were assessed using both explicit and implicit measures for each member of the family. Sixty-eight Italian 6-year-olds, their mothers, and their fathers (a) performed an Implicit Association Test designed to assess implicit gender stereotypes about math and language, and (b) completed a measure of the relevant explicit stereotypes. Fathers’, but …

Russian Propaganda Machine: New Dimension

2015

Ciència i literatura. Ja han acabat les guerres entre les dues cultures?

2014

Des que l’alquímia va començar a desafiar l’autoritat de l’Església, l’estatus del coneixement científic especialitzat i de l’alta cultura, sempre relatiu, ha estat molt qu?estionat. Durant segles, els escriptors, com a adalils de la cultura, han atacat les pretensions de la ciència ridiculitzant els seus practicants bé com a éssers malvats, obsessius i fins i tot alienats o bé com a ximples i ineptes inventors els experiments dels quals fallen irremissiblement. Discutirem exemples d’ambdós models en el seu context històric. A les acaballes del segle XX apareix un nou gènere, conegut com a «literatura de laboratori» (lab-lit). Els científics s’hi veuen retratats no segons els estereotips si…