Title

Perceived Arab Ethnicity On Willingness To Help: An Application Of The Lost-Letter Technique

Abstract

This study investigated whether the spike in actively discriminatory acts against Arab Americans after the September 11th attacks was paralleled by passive acts of discrimination. The form of passive discrimination explored in this study was withholding of a helping behavior toward a possible Arab; namely, returning a lost letter of apparent importance. In this study, two hundred copies of a completed application for a pseudo honor society, with an addressed and stamped envelope, were left in public places in the southeast. The applications contained either a stereotypical Arab name or a stereotypical American name. The forms were split evenly between Arab and American names, and were also divided by gender. Contrary to the hypothesis, the results indicated that "lost letters" with Arab names were returned at a significantly higher rate than those with American names. © NAJP.

Publication Date

6-1-2010

Publication Title

North American Journal of Psychology

Volume

12

Issue

2

Number of Pages

389-400

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

77953976273 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/77953976273

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