William C Kidder
Biographic Data
| ID | 5121521 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William C Kidder |
| GIVEN NAMES | William C |
| FAMILY NAME | Kidder |
| SIGNATURE | KIDDER W C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Psychology, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3764-020X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
From Housing to Admissions Redlining
This paper interrogates two important but obscured admission policy developments at leading American universities in the post-World War II era. First, we critically examine the University of California’s “special admissions,” later formalized as the “Admission by Exception” policy adopted at two flagship campuses (Berkeley and UCLA) to open opportunities for veterans returning from the War under the GI Bill. The scale of this Admission by Excepti…
Emotion in imaginative resistance
Imaginative resistance refers to cases in which one’s otherwise flexible imaginative capacity is constrained by an unwillingness or inability to imaginatively engage with a given claim. In three studies, we explored which specific imaginative demands engender resistance when imagining morally deviant worlds and whether individual differences in emotion predict the degree of this resistance. In Study 1 (N = 176), participants resisted the notion t…
The Aesthetic Achievement and Cognitive Value of Empathy for Rough Heroes
Tribal Membership and State Law Affirmative Action Bans
The group
The Bar Examination and the Dream Deferred
In this article, the author applies social closure theory to help explain why more than a dozen states have recently enacted more stringent bar exam passing standards and why others are considering similar changes. While higher standards are usually advocated as a way to protect the public from lower student “quality,” the author applies social closure theory and argues that changes in passing standards are a response to a perceived oversupply of…
The Bar Examination and the Dream Deferred
In this article, the author applies social closure theory to help explain why more than a dozen states have recently enacted more stringent bar exam passing standards and why others are considering similar changes. While higher standards are usually advocated as a way to protect the public from lower student “quality,” the author applies social closure theory and argues that changes in passing standards are a response to a perceived oversupply of…
Breathing Life into Brown at Fifty
Court Justice Thurgood Marshall observed during the bicentennial anniversary of the U.S. Constitution, We will see that the true miracle was not the birth of the Constitution, but its life...1 Brown v. Board of Education, the culmination of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's legal campaign to dismantle state-mandated segregation, was a pivotal moment that breathed life into the Equal Protection Clause of Fourteenth Amendment.2 Before Brown, the Recon…
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The Bar Examination and the Dream Deferred
In this article, the author applies social closure theory to help explain why more than a dozen states have recently enacted more stringent bar exam passing standards and why others are considering similar changes. While higher standards are usually advocated as a way to protect the public from lower student “quality,” the author applies social closure theory and argues that changes in passing standards are a response to a perceived oversupply of…
The Bar Examination and the Dream Deferred
In this article, the author applies social closure theory to help explain why more than a dozen states have recently enacted more stringent bar exam passing standards and why others are considering similar changes. While higher standards are usually advocated as a way to protect the public from lower student “quality,” the author applies social closure theory and argues that changes in passing standards are a response to a perceived oversupply of…
Breathing Life into Brown at Fifty
Court Justice Thurgood Marshall observed during the bicentennial anniversary of the U.S. Constitution, We will see that the true miracle was not the birth of the Constitution, but its life...1 Brown v. Board of Education, the culmination of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's legal campaign to dismantle state-mandated segregation, was a pivotal moment that breathed life into the Equal Protection Clause of Fourteenth Amendment.2 Before Brown, the Recon…
Tribal Membership and State Law Affirmative Action Bans
The group
The Aesthetic Achievement and Cognitive Value of Empathy for Rough Heroes
Emotion in imaginative resistance
Imaginative resistance refers to cases in which one’s otherwise flexible imaginative capacity is constrained by an unwillingness or inability to imaginatively engage with a given claim. In three studies, we explored which specific imaginative demands engender resistance when imagining morally deviant worlds and whether individual differences in emotion predict the degree of this resistance. In Study 1 (N = 176), participants resisted the notion t…
From Housing to Admissions Redlining
This paper interrogates two important but obscured admission policy developments at leading American universities in the post-World War II era. First, we critically examine the University of California’s “special admissions,” later formalized as the “Admission by Exception” policy adopted at two flagship campuses (Berkeley and UCLA) to open opportunities for veterans returning from the War under the GI Bill. The scale of this Admission by Excepti…
Psychology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Higher Education Research Studies (3 works) · Academic Freedom and Politics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Dream (2 works) · Ethnic group (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)