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Ford, Thomas

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Not all groups are equal : differential vulnerability of social groups to the prejudice-releasing effects of disparaging humor 2011 1061 Research has shown that sexist humor allows men to express sexism by replacing nonsexist norms in a situation with a norm of tolerance of sex discrimination (Ford, Armstrong, & Edel, 2008). Our study extends those findings by testing the hypothesis...
Assessing attitude revision in an online sample 2011 26 Previous research on attitudes toward homosexuals utilized vignettes presented in a holistic fashion to participants (Batson, Floyd, Meyer, & Winner, 1999; Bassett et al., 2002; Mak & Tsang, 2008). In these vignettes, participants learned of a pers...
The role of identification with a joke target in perceptions of disparaging humor 2012 188 In the present research I focus on identifying the variables that affect women’s perceptions of sexist humor. Previous research and theory have identified attitude toward women as the critical predictor of amusement with sexist humor; I propose tha...