Deborah L Hume

University of Missouri | Mizzou · Master of Public Health Program

These studies investigate whether group salience contributes to the greater in-group favouritism expressed by numerical minorities after intergroup cooperation, as compared with majorities. In Study 1, using real social categories, situationally heightened salience exacerbated bias only among numerical minorities. Using real social categories, Stud...

Chemistry Is in the News (CIITN) activities were assessed for an implementation in a large lecture organic chemistry course at the University of Missouri–Columbia. The activities consisted of the study, creation and peer review of "news portfolios" by collaborative student groups. A news portfolio consists of news articles with interpretive comment...

This work examines the moderating effects of status stability, legitimacy, and group permeability on in-group bias among high- and low-status groups. These effects were examined separately for evaluative measures that were relevant as well as irrelevant to the salient status distinctions. The results support social identity theory and show that hig...

This work examines the moderating effects of status stability, legitimacy, and group permeability on in-group bias among high-and low-status groups. These effects were examined separately for evaluative measures that were relevant as well as irrelevant to the salient status distinctions. The results support social identity theory and show that high...

Investigates whether persons' cognitive representations of valued group identities differ in content from their representations of their personal identity. 30 female and 28 male college students completed an adapted version of the Twenty Statements Test, in which participants wrote words and phrases to describe his or her identity. Social identific...