David M Merolla
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 227802 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David M Merolla |
| NOMBRES | David M |
| APELLIDO | Merolla |
| FIRMA | MEROLLA D M |
| AFILIACIONES | Wayne State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9373-6727 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 140 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
An Exploration of Positive Stereotypes
Scholars have documented harm associated with positive stereotypes about groups that experience inequality. We surveyed five samples from the United States to explore antecedents to dominant group endorsement of positive stereotypes about women, gay men, Asian Americans, Black Americans, and Native Americans. We found more liberal participants, and those with more close contact with members of these groups, were more internally motivated to respo…
Group Positions Beyond the Binary
Research on racial policy attitudes has primarily focused on the attitudes of black and white Americans. However, given the shifting racial landscape in the United States, it is important to understand how other racial groups view important social issues. Using Blumer’s group positions model, this research seeks to determine the predictors of five immigration attitudes among white, black, and both U.S. and foreign-born Hispanic Americans. Results…
Genes and race in the era of genetic ancestry testing
The link between racial identity and biology has long been a topic of fascination within the US popular imagination. After the completion of the Human Genome Project, this fascination has increased as journalists and others have continued to search for a genetic basis of racial classifications. Moreover, the increasing popularity of genetic ancestry testing (GAT) is spurring a geneticization of identity as individuals are encouraged to change the…
Always between Two Worlds
University Racial Composition and Self-esteem of Minority Students
Puff, Puff, Pass
This research aims to enhance our understanding of the relationship between racial prejudice and White Americans' views on cannabis legalization. The recent legalization of recreational cannabis in a handful of states, along with many other states legalizing medical cannabis in recent years, has catapulted the flowering plant back into the spotlight and nightly news cycles. Given the historically racist propaganda used to criminalize the plant, i…
Structural racism as the fundamental cause of the academic achievement gap
Over six decades since the Supreme Court ruled that all American children have the right to a high quality education, the academic achievement gap remains an important social problem in the United States. Researchers interested in understanding the achievement gap generally seek to find the mechanisms that can explain why Black students continue to achieve at lower levels than their White counterparts. This research has shown that differences in …
Black, Blue, and Blow
This research aims to determine the situational and individual factors that shape perceptions of whether police violence against citizens is justified. Drawing on research on the racialization of crime, modern racism, and the stigma associated with a criminal history, we hypothesize that individuals will view police violence as more justified when targeted at black citizens and those with criminal histories. We further hypothesize that individual…
Completing the Educational Career
Using data from the Education Longitudinal Study, the author investigates racial disparities in high school graduation, four-year college enrollment, and bachelor's degree completion. In addition, the author considers how conditionally relevant college and early adult variables shape bachelor's degree completion. The results indicate that although comparable numbers of black and Hispanic students obtain bachelor's degrees, their educational caree…
Self-efficacy and Academic Achievement
This paper investigates how neighborhood cultural context shapes academic achievement. Drawing on contemporary conceptualization of culture and recent evidence of the importance of neighborhood cultural context, I hypothesize that students from disadvantaged neighborhoods will display more cultural heterogeneity, or variability in cultural orientations, operationalized here as self-efficacy. In addition, I hypothesize that neighborhood cultural h…
Being Authentically American Indian
This study investigates the individual and group level reconstruction of a racial-ethnic identity. Specifically, we investigate the experience of “new Indians,” or people who did not previously identify as American Indian, but are now reclaiming this racial-ethnic heritage. Because many new Indians lack both official (tribal and/or federal) recognition of their Indian status and the phenotypic traits associated with Indians in popular culture, th…
Race–Gender Differences in the Impact of History of Heavy Drinking on Current Alcohol Consumption during the Transition to Adulthood
American youth transitioning to adulthood consume more alcohol than in any other period of the life course. This high level of consumption can result in serious consequences, including lost productivity, death and disability, sexual assault, and addiction. Nevertheless, relatively little is known, especially by race and gender, about how prior history of heavy drinking (e.g., in late adolescence) impacts drinking in young adulthood. Utilizing dat…
Understanding Differences in College Enrollment
STEM enrichment programs and graduate school matriculation
The Net Black Advantage in Educational Transitions
Recent studies have found a net Black advantage in educational attainment. This pattern indicates that after controlling for socioeconomic and academic characteristics, Black students are more likely to continue education than are their White counterparts. Using an educational careers approach, this study examines selection and student expectations and parental aspirations as potential explanations of this pattern. Results indicate that a net Bla…
Structural Precursors to Identity Processes
This research investigates how participation in college-based science-training programs increases student intention to pursue a scientific career. Using identity theory, we delineate three levels of social structure and conceptualize science-training programs as proximate social structures. Results from a sample of 892 undergraduate science students are supportive of identity theory and indicate that participation in proximate social structures l…
Concentrated Disadvantage and Beliefs about the Causes of Poverty
Studies of beliefs about social stratification have generally focused on how individual-level factors shape people's explanations of poverty and inequality. In this article, the authors contribute to this literature by adding a community-level measure of 'concentrated disadvantage' (poverty and associated conditions) to models predicting support for individualistic (person-centered) and structuralist (system-challenging) beliefs about the causes …
The War on Drugs and the Gender Gap in Arrests
Many theories of offending have been advanced in an effort to explain the increasing number of women arrested in recent years. In this article, I move away from individual level explanations of offending and attempt to explain this trend with a structural approach. Specifically, I argue that the 'war on drugs' has made females more vulnerable to arrest in recent years, regardless of offending behavior. I argue that two arms of the war on drugs, r…
Structural Precursors to Identity Processes
This research investigates how participation in college-based science-training programs increases student intention to pursue a scientific career. Using identity theory, we delineate three levels of social structure and conceptualize science-training programs as proximate social structures. Results from a sample of 892 undergraduate science students are supportive of identity theory and indicate that participation in proximate social structures l…
Structural racism as the fundamental cause of the academic achievement gap
Over six decades since the Supreme Court ruled that all American children have the right to a high quality education, the academic achievement gap remains an important social problem in the United States. Researchers interested in understanding the achievement gap generally seek to find the mechanisms that can explain why Black students continue to achieve at lower levels than their White counterparts. This research has shown that differences in …
Concentrated Disadvantage and Beliefs about the Causes of Poverty
Studies of beliefs about social stratification have generally focused on how individual-level factors shape people's explanations of poverty and inequality. In this article, the authors contribute to this literature by adding a community-level measure of 'concentrated disadvantage' (poverty and associated conditions) to models predicting support for individualistic (person-centered) and structuralist (system-challenging) beliefs about the causes …
The Net Black Advantage in Educational Transitions
Recent studies have found a net Black advantage in educational attainment. This pattern indicates that after controlling for socioeconomic and academic characteristics, Black students are more likely to continue education than are their White counterparts. Using an educational careers approach, this study examines selection and student expectations and parental aspirations as potential explanations of this pattern. Results indicate that a net Bla…
STEM enrichment programs and graduate school matriculation
Understanding Differences in College Enrollment
Completing the Educational Career
Using data from the Education Longitudinal Study, the author investigates racial disparities in high school graduation, four-year college enrollment, and bachelor's degree completion. In addition, the author considers how conditionally relevant college and early adult variables shape bachelor's degree completion. The results indicate that although comparable numbers of black and Hispanic students obtain bachelor's degrees, their educational caree…
Being Authentically American Indian
This study investigates the individual and group level reconstruction of a racial-ethnic identity. Specifically, we investigate the experience of “new Indians,” or people who did not previously identify as American Indian, but are now reclaiming this racial-ethnic heritage. Because many new Indians lack both official (tribal and/or federal) recognition of their Indian status and the phenotypic traits associated with Indians in popular culture, th…
The War on Drugs and the Gender Gap in Arrests
Many theories of offending have been advanced in an effort to explain the increasing number of women arrested in recent years. In this article, I move away from individual level explanations of offending and attempt to explain this trend with a structural approach. Specifically, I argue that the 'war on drugs' has made females more vulnerable to arrest in recent years, regardless of offending behavior. I argue that two arms of the war on drugs, r…
Genes and race in the era of genetic ancestry testing
The link between racial identity and biology has long been a topic of fascination within the US popular imagination. After the completion of the Human Genome Project, this fascination has increased as journalists and others have continued to search for a genetic basis of racial classifications. Moreover, the increasing popularity of genetic ancestry testing (GAT) is spurring a geneticization of identity as individuals are encouraged to change the…
Self-efficacy and Academic Achievement
This paper investigates how neighborhood cultural context shapes academic achievement. Drawing on contemporary conceptualization of culture and recent evidence of the importance of neighborhood cultural context, I hypothesize that students from disadvantaged neighborhoods will display more cultural heterogeneity, or variability in cultural orientations, operationalized here as self-efficacy. In addition, I hypothesize that neighborhood cultural h…
Puff, Puff, Pass
This research aims to enhance our understanding of the relationship between racial prejudice and White Americans' views on cannabis legalization. The recent legalization of recreational cannabis in a handful of states, along with many other states legalizing medical cannabis in recent years, has catapulted the flowering plant back into the spotlight and nightly news cycles. Given the historically racist propaganda used to criminalize the plant, i…
Black, Blue, and Blow
This research aims to determine the situational and individual factors that shape perceptions of whether police violence against citizens is justified. Drawing on research on the racialization of crime, modern racism, and the stigma associated with a criminal history, we hypothesize that individuals will view police violence as more justified when targeted at black citizens and those with criminal histories. We further hypothesize that individual…
The War on Drugs and the Gender Gap in Arrests
Many theories of offending have been advanced in an effort to explain the increasing number of women arrested in recent years. In this article, I move away from individual level explanations of offending and attempt to explain this trend with a structural approach. Specifically, I argue that the 'war on drugs' has made females more vulnerable to arrest in recent years, regardless of offending behavior. I argue that two arms of the war on drugs, r…
Concentrated Disadvantage and Beliefs about the Causes of Poverty
Studies of beliefs about social stratification have generally focused on how individual-level factors shape people's explanations of poverty and inequality. In this article, the authors contribute to this literature by adding a community-level measure of 'concentrated disadvantage' (poverty and associated conditions) to models predicting support for individualistic (person-centered) and structuralist (system-challenging) beliefs about the causes …
Structural Precursors to Identity Processes
This research investigates how participation in college-based science-training programs increases student intention to pursue a scientific career. Using identity theory, we delineate three levels of social structure and conceptualize science-training programs as proximate social structures. Results from a sample of 892 undergraduate science students are supportive of identity theory and indicate that participation in proximate social structures l…
STEM enrichment programs and graduate school matriculation
The Net Black Advantage in Educational Transitions
Recent studies have found a net Black advantage in educational attainment. This pattern indicates that after controlling for socioeconomic and academic characteristics, Black students are more likely to continue education than are their White counterparts. Using an educational careers approach, this study examines selection and student expectations and parental aspirations as potential explanations of this pattern. Results indicate that a net Bla…
Understanding Differences in College Enrollment
Race–Gender Differences in the Impact of History of Heavy Drinking on Current Alcohol Consumption during the Transition to Adulthood
American youth transitioning to adulthood consume more alcohol than in any other period of the life course. This high level of consumption can result in serious consequences, including lost productivity, death and disability, sexual assault, and addiction. Nevertheless, relatively little is known, especially by race and gender, about how prior history of heavy drinking (e.g., in late adolescence) impacts drinking in young adulthood. Utilizing dat…
Self-efficacy and Academic Achievement
This paper investigates how neighborhood cultural context shapes academic achievement. Drawing on contemporary conceptualization of culture and recent evidence of the importance of neighborhood cultural context, I hypothesize that students from disadvantaged neighborhoods will display more cultural heterogeneity, or variability in cultural orientations, operationalized here as self-efficacy. In addition, I hypothesize that neighborhood cultural h…
Being Authentically American Indian
This study investigates the individual and group level reconstruction of a racial-ethnic identity. Specifically, we investigate the experience of “new Indians,” or people who did not previously identify as American Indian, but are now reclaiming this racial-ethnic heritage. Because many new Indians lack both official (tribal and/or federal) recognition of their Indian status and the phenotypic traits associated with Indians in popular culture, th…
Completing the Educational Career
Using data from the Education Longitudinal Study, the author investigates racial disparities in high school graduation, four-year college enrollment, and bachelor's degree completion. In addition, the author considers how conditionally relevant college and early adult variables shape bachelor's degree completion. The results indicate that although comparable numbers of black and Hispanic students obtain bachelor's degrees, their educational caree…
Structural racism as the fundamental cause of the academic achievement gap
Over six decades since the Supreme Court ruled that all American children have the right to a high quality education, the academic achievement gap remains an important social problem in the United States. Researchers interested in understanding the achievement gap generally seek to find the mechanisms that can explain why Black students continue to achieve at lower levels than their White counterparts. This research has shown that differences in …
Black, Blue, and Blow
This research aims to determine the situational and individual factors that shape perceptions of whether police violence against citizens is justified. Drawing on research on the racialization of crime, modern racism, and the stigma associated with a criminal history, we hypothesize that individuals will view police violence as more justified when targeted at black citizens and those with criminal histories. We further hypothesize that individual…
University Racial Composition and Self-esteem of Minority Students
Puff, Puff, Pass
This research aims to enhance our understanding of the relationship between racial prejudice and White Americans' views on cannabis legalization. The recent legalization of recreational cannabis in a handful of states, along with many other states legalizing medical cannabis in recent years, has catapulted the flowering plant back into the spotlight and nightly news cycles. Given the historically racist propaganda used to criminalize the plant, i…
Always between Two Worlds
Genes and race in the era of genetic ancestry testing
The link between racial identity and biology has long been a topic of fascination within the US popular imagination. After the completion of the Human Genome Project, this fascination has increased as journalists and others have continued to search for a genetic basis of racial classifications. Moreover, the increasing popularity of genetic ancestry testing (GAT) is spurring a geneticization of identity as individuals are encouraged to change the…
Group Positions Beyond the Binary
Research on racial policy attitudes has primarily focused on the attitudes of black and white Americans. However, given the shifting racial landscape in the United States, it is important to understand how other racial groups view important social issues. Using Blumer’s group positions model, this research seeks to determine the predictors of five immigration attitudes among white, black, and both U.S. and foreign-born Hispanic Americans. Results…
An Exploration of Positive Stereotypes
Scholars have documented harm associated with positive stereotypes about groups that experience inequality. We surveyed five samples from the United States to explore antecedents to dominant group endorsement of positive stereotypes about women, gay men, Asian Americans, Black Americans, and Native Americans. We found more liberal participants, and those with more close contact with members of these groups, were more internally motivated to respo…
Psychology (16 obras) · Sociology (15 obras) · Social Psychology (12 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Gender Studies (8 obras) · Social Psychology (8 obras) · White (mutation (7 obras) · Gender Studies (6 obras) · Race (biology (6 obras) · Higher Education Research Studies (5 obras)