Ruth H. Warner
Saint Louis University
22 Papers
124 Citations
Ruth H. Warner is an academic researcher from Saint Louis University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ingroups and outgroups & Social distance. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 21 publications. Previous affiliations of Ruth H. Warner include University of Kansas.
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Papers
But I'm No Bigot: How Prejudiced White Americans Maintain Unprejudiced Self-Images
Laurie T. O’Brien,Christian S. Crandall,April Horstman-Reser,Ruth H. Warner,AnGelica Alsbrooks,Alison Blodorn +5 more
TL;DR: The authors found that media representations of prejudice in American culture lead prejudiced individuals to view themselves as relatively unprejudiced, and the effect of these representations on people's prejudiced self-images can be passive or intentional.
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Social identity and perceptions of torture: It's moral when we do it ☆
TL;DR: This article examined the effects of social identity concerns on the moral justification of torture and found that when the torture was perpetrated by the ingroup, participants described it as more morally justified than when it was committed by the other nation's security services.
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Too Many Boxes, or Not Enough? Preferences for How We Ask About Gender in Cisgender, LGB, and Gender-Diverse Samples
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assessed the attitudes of U.S. cisgender men and women across sexual orientations regarding different formats of gender questionnaires and found that most participants preferred a non-binary gender question format, and gender-diverse individuals overwhelmingly preferred the expanded format.
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When do victim group members feel a moral obligation to help suffering others
TL;DR: The authors assessed when the salience of ingroup historical victimization will encourage a sense of moral obligation to reduce the suffering of others and found that those who considered the lessons of the past for their ingroup felt heightened moral obligation for helping other non-adversary victimized groups.
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Gender Nonconformity Is Perceived Differently for Cisgender and Transgender Targets
TL;DR: The authors examined the role gender non-conformity plays in attitudes toward transgender people and found that gender nonconforming targets and transgender targets were perceived as more threatening to the distinction between men and women, and in two of the studies, gender conforming transgender targets are more threatening than conforming cisgender targets.
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