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Cook, Stuart W. – 1985
Three-person interracial teams were presented with a series of problems in a business management simulation. Two team members were experimental confederates, one black and one white. The remaining team member was the research subject, a young white male from a region frequently associated with racial prejudice. In the course of the experiment, the…
Descriptors: Helping Relationship, Organizational Effectiveness, Racial Attitudes, Success
Brigham, John C.; Cook, Stuart W. – Educ Psychol Meas, 1970
Two plausibility (effectiveness of argumentation) measures were found to differentiate significantly between criterion groups having known positions on racial maters. The use of plausibility rating scales as attitude indicators appears to be an effective method of indirect attitude assessment which is largely independent of specific content.…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Measurement Techniques, Racial Attitudes, Rating Scales
Cook, Stuart W. – 1986
Recipients of help often show less liking for their helpers than for others who do not provide help, presumably because the recipient is left with feelings of lowered self-esteem and unfulfilled indebtedness to the donor. Three-person interracial teams were presented with a series of problems in the course of managing a simulated business. One was…
Descriptors: Group Behavior, Group Dynamics, Helping Relationship, Racial Attitudes
Peer reviewedCook, Stuart W. – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1978
Laboratory and field tests were made of the contact hypothesis that individuals from hostile groups will show favorable attitude changes after working together in an interdependent and equalitarian situation. Groups studied included female college students, disadvantaged mothers, airmen, and teachers in newly desegregated schools. (SJL)
Descriptors: Adults, Attitude Change, Cooperation, Ethnic Relations
Peer reviewedArd, Nicholas; Cook, Stuart W. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1977
An existing multidimensional racial attitude inventory was adapted from an agree-disagree format to a rating format. Evidence is presented that this adaptation was successfully accomplished while maintaining strong correspondence to the original, validated instrument. (Author/JKS)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, College Students, Higher Education
Peer reviewedCook, Stuart W. – American Psychologist, 1984
H.B. Gerard (1983) has misrepresented the content of the 1954 Social Science Statement. His appraisal of school desegregation is misleading in terms of both its current status and future potential; further, the actual and potential role of social science in public policy is more extensive than Gerard has claimed. (CMG)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Desegregation Effects, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textCook, Stuart W. – 1971
This was a study of the influence of unintended interracial contact and characteristics of the contact situation on attitude-related action and attitude change. It was designed to determine if persons with initially negative racial attitudes would change these attitudes by an experimental experience. The research subjects were white students from…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Bias, College Students
