Researchers observed 69 undergraduate students from an HBCU from the east coast. Participants consisted of African American as researchers made this a criteria to engage in the study. Amongst the participants 28 males and 41 females were evaluated. This study consisted of 46.4 % freshman, 27.5% sophomore, 20.3% juniors, and 5.8% seniors. Researchers recruited participants from an Introduction to Psychology classes and offered participants extra credit as compensation to cooperate in the study.
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An experimental design was used to determine if interracial dating impacts openness to other cultures. Researchers created vignettes of scenarios involving couples of different races with different backgrounds to create a manipulation to assess participants views. In addition, a quasi-experimental design evaluated the participants influences to date outside their race and analyze their openness to other cultures. Vignettes consisted of statements like Matthew is likely to be more attracted to African American women than White women, Dating outside of his race is probably a phase for Matthew that he will outgrow, and Dating outside of her race is probably a phase for Kendra that she will outgrow. Participants personal interracial and openness measures included statements like, I would never date outside of my race, I enjoy learning about cultures other than my own, I have a lot in common with Whites in the United States, and I have
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Once permission was approved researchers gathered participants throughout the end of class. Once class ended researchers approached students asking them to take a few minutes to complete a survey in exchange for extra credit. After participants completed the surveys researchers will only use participants who identify as African American/ Black and then analyzed the
The U.S. Department of Education’s Digest of Education Statistics (2010) compiles data on educational trends and statistics in the United States. According to the digest, in 2009 African Americans earned about 10 percent of all bachelor degrees awarded. Furthermore, about 20 percent of African Americans currently hold a college degree. When compared to the same rates for the white non-hispanic population, African Americans are largely lagging behind. The challenges that African Americans are facing must be met by post secondary institutions if this group is going to continue on the path of economic and career prosperity. This need is discussed in the report Minorities in Higher Education:
The target population for this study were forty White people from Colorado State University. The use of only white people was because they wanted to reflect the ethnic diversity of Colorado State University. In the year 2013-2014, Colorado State University undergraduates had 22,565 students and 74.36% considered them as white and 2.09% considered them as Black. In the second experiment, fifty-nine participants from Colorado State University participated in this experiment that had course credit in Introductory Psychology. This was a non-probability sample because this does not give all the individuals in the population equal chances of being selected. They only used one college and this college was not as diverse.
African American males are being admitted to college, however they are not being retain and graudating at the same rates of their peers. There are cultural and social factors that affect students. The purpose of this study is to look at the
This study was only a snapshot of how African American males felt about their experiences at Morehead State University. There is a need on campus to find ways of helping African American males connect with others. Whether it be in the classroom or outside the classroom. If I were to continue this study, one area I would think would be interesting is to examine the results of students who lived on campus, and those who were solely online students. The online learners would likely give a different perspective on the social viewpoints of college.
Eight college students attending the University of Louisville were interviewed. Within this group, half were females and the other half were males. Among the females, two were biracial and the other were African American. Of the individuals who
The Bronzes had sent their daughter to a pajama party at a Black families place.
The current study had 23 participants from Miami University took part in this experiment. Throughout the study, 2 participants were excluded from analyses, because they failed to follow task instructions or failed to complete the entire experiment. This left a final sample of 21 participants (16 female, 4 male, 1 do not wish to disclose). The mean age was 21.20 years (SD = 7.06). Most of the participants were white (n = 16) while the rest included Asian, Black/African American, and Bi- or Multiracial (n = 5). In addition, in the demographic section of the survey, participants answered their academic standing: freshman, sophomore, junior, senior, or other. The majority of the participants were juniors (n = 9) closely followed by
We worked with 50 research participants in our study. These participants were other students who attend Binghamton University, which is considered a convenience sample because it allows us to easily recruit participants for our study. For this reason, our participants will be young adults who are similar in age. These participants were recruited both in our Psychology class’ discussion section and outside of class by the experimenters.
When it comes to public attitudes of interracial relationship Americans have become more accepting of other races as a result of education and meeting more people of other races. Neighbors has become more diverse have given opportunities to reduce stereotypes and establish friendships. Also, senior with racist attitudes are die and are replaced by younger more accepting
In the past, interracial relationships were seen by many as a psychological flaw or disorder in the person involved; someone who had low self esteem, self-loathing, deep psychological sicknesses, and inferiority issues. These attitudes put even more of a
College students were the population of interest. A convenience sample was used to recruit participants from a single Research Methods in Psychology class at Rowan University. Recruitment was limited to the specific class so that the
Participants were men and women (N = 26) enrolled at James Madison University, a mid-sized public university in Virginia. All students were enrolled in a Psychological Research Methods course and participated in exchange for partial course credit. The mean participants age was 19.62 years (SD = 1.02), and sample consisted of 23% freshmen, 46% sophomores, 27% juniors, and 4% seniors. Of the 26 participants in the study, 12% were men and 88% were women.
Participants: The participants were collected by means of convenience sampling. The participants in the study were 40 undergraduate psychology students, all involved in Psychology Learning Communities at Loyola University New Orleans. The participants were mostly Caucasian with some African Americans, Hispanics and Asians. There were 3 male and 29 female participants, with a greater proportion of females. The participants were offered course credit for participation, and were informed by the leaders of their psychology learning community classes of the experiment.
The Wucherfenning girls were not permitted to date until at least the age of sixteen. “My folks were very strict; they just did not think we should date very early. We did not dare to date a Catholic boy. We were Lutheran and back then the Lutherans and the Catholics were very rigid against each other.” In comparison to interracial marriage, marriage between individuals of different religious (interfaith marriage), even among different sects of Christianity, was looked down upon. Interracial marriage was not fully legal in the United States, until the landmark Supreme Court case, Loving v. Virginia (1976). Even after that, communities often looked down upon those who intermarried, either with someone of a different race or religion. Another
Participants recruited from Texas State University undergraduate psychology students through the Texas State SONA system (via advertisement emails) and through undergraduate psychology statistics courses (via instructor announcement) included 177 (female=146, male=31). Participant’s ages ranged from 18 to 39 (M=20.77, SD=3.50). 47.2 % of the participants were white/Caucasian, 19.3 % were African American, 28.4 % were Hispanic/Latino, 3.4% were Asian and 1.7 % were Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander.