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- Creator:
- Nava, Paola
- Description:
- This exploratory study aims to explore the Muslim population's point of view in regards to the role media plays in the current perceptions about the Muslim population. After reaching out to the CSUN Middle Eastern & Muslim program and CSUN Muslim Student Association for a snowball effect, the results were based on the responses of 20 participants. In order to analyze and code the data, the following categories were developed: 1) Discrimination in the media, 2) Discrimination in a physical environment, 3) Media outlets through which participants experience discrimination, and 4) safety concerns discrimination brings. The results suggest that media influences in a negative form the way Muslims are currently perceived.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Social Work
- Creator:
- Li, Minting
- Description:
- Asian-Americans are expected to have high achievement and success because of their ethnicity, a phenomenon which has been coined the Model Minority Stereotype. Mass media contributes to the generalization and perceptions, relating to Asian-Americans; categorizing this very large group of people originating from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, the Ryukyu Islands, and more; indiscriminately labeling them "foreigners," "illegals," "nerds," and/or "poor communicators." There's More Beneath the Surface acknowledges some of these stereotypes by confronting viewers with graphics, photographs, and text. My approach to these images attempts to raise awareness. The various graphics of text and layered portraits of Asian-American women obscure the faces and portray the negative commentary and prejudices, without really seeing the true self of these individuals. This archetype, a model of success, intelligence and wealth, sets a standard sometimes impossible to reach.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Art
- Creator:
- Herring, Ilse
- Description:
- This exploratory study aims to explore the Muslim population's point of view in regards to the role media plays in the current perceptions about the Muslim population. After reaching out to the CSUN Middle Eastern & Muslim program and CSUN Muslim Student Association for a snowball effect, the results were based on the responses of 20 participants. In order to analyze and code the data, the following categories were developed: 1) Discrimination in the media, 2) Discrimination in a physical environment, 3) Media outlets through which participants experience discrimination, and 4) safety concerns discrimination brings. The results suggest that media influences in a negative form the way Muslims are currently perceived.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Social Work
- Creator:
- Nerio, Jason, Medina, Emilio, Castro, Diana, Flicker, Gracie, and Galvan, Jessica
- Description:
- Stereotype threat involves experiencing judgment based on common stereotypes associated with ones group (Spencer, Steele, & Quinn, 1999). Research shows that it is associated with increased anxiety, which can lower test performance particularly for minority members (Beilock, Rydell, McConnell, 2007). Social psychologists have been developing and testing various interventions to mitigate the negative effect of stereotype threat (Henderson, Rheinschmidt, Mendoza-Dento, 2014). Many of these intervention are time consuming and expensive to implement (Marx, 2012). The current research will examine whether a simple intervention involving changing ones body posture “ power posing - can mitigate the deleterious effects of stereotype threat. High power posing is an expansive open posture, which involves spreading limbs and occupying large areas of space. Research has shown that this pose may help people to experience feelings of high power (Huang, Galinsky, Gruenfeld, Guillory, 2011), and may increase testosterone and decreases stress levels (Carney, Cuddy, Yap, & Carney, 2015). Since stereotype threat is associated with anxiety, we are hypothesizing that power-posing can reduce the anxiety associated with stereotype threat, thereby, potentially bolstering math performance.
- Resource Type:
- Student Research
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Creator:
- Truong, Ann
- Description:
- Social class and stereotype threat are two topics not often associated with one another. Stereotype threat (Steele & Aronson, 1995; Steele 2001) is a sel-evaluative threat that can be felt in any group with a negative stereotype. Because this threat can lead to gaps in achievement, feelings of inferiority, anxiety, and a self-fulfilling prophecy for the individual can explain differences we see among groups. For example, in Steele and Aronson's classic work, African American students and their White counterparts were placed in a difficult testing situation on English usage and literature. When placed in conditions of equality, both groups of individuals scored comparably. However, when placed under conditions of stereotype threat where African Americans in general were questioned for their English proficiency, the African American students scored significantly lower than their White counterparts The present study used the methodology of classic stereotype threat studies such as Steele and Aronson's (1995) study. Participants were given one of two introductions stimulating stereotype threat or not with respect to those from poor backgrounds. They were then given a series of GRE-type questions. We then informed students about stereotype threat and how any decrement in performance is due to this threat and not to their background.
- Resource Type:
- Student Research
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences
- Creator:
- Castro, Diana, Flicker, Gracie, Nerio, Jason, Medina, Emilio, and Galvan, Jessica
- Description:
- Stereotype threat involves experiencing judgment based on common stereotypes associated with ones group (Spencer, Steele, & Quinn, 1999). Research shows that it is associated with increased anxiety, which can lower test performance particularly for minority members (Beilock, Rydell, McConnell, 2007). Social psychologists have been developing and testing various interventions to mitigate the negative effect of stereotype threat (Henderson, Rheinschmidt, Mendoza-Dento, 2014). Many of these intervention are time consuming and expensive to implement (Marx, 2012). The current research will examine whether a simple intervention involving changing ones body posture “ power posing - can mitigate the deleterious effects of stereotype threat. High power posing is an expansive open posture, which involves spreading limbs and occupying large areas of space. Research has shown that this pose may help people to experience feelings of high power (Huang, Galinsky, Gruenfeld, Guillory, 2011), and may increase testosterone and decreases stress levels (Carney, Cuddy, Yap, & Carney, 2015). Since stereotype threat is associated with anxiety, we are hypothesizing that power-posing can reduce the anxiety associated with stereotype threat, thereby, potentially bolstering math performance.
- Resource Type:
- Student Research
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona