Stop Complaining! The Social Costs of Making Attributions to Discrimination

2001

161 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/4c630f05e00f28bbd3cfec00040365f9664e6c71

Citations in the corpus

• A Stress and Coping Perspective on Confronting Sexism (2004, unknown): “The interpersonal costs of confronting discrimination were measured with nine items derived from research and theory on confronting discrimination (e.g., Crosby, 1993; Feagin & Sikes, 1994; Kaiser & Miller, 2001).”
• The Confronting Prejudiced Responses (CPR) Model: Applying CPR in Organizations (2008, unknown): “Indeed, people dislike targets who claim discrimination; even when those claims are clearly valid, they label them "whiners" and "complainers" (Kaiser & Miller, 2001).”
• Ask, Answer, and Announce: Three stages in perceiving and responding to discrimination (2003, unknown): “AsMajor et al. (2002) put it, ‘‘Members of low status groups may fear retaliation (Swim & Hyers, 1999) or being labeled a ‘complainer’ (Kaiser & Miller, 2001) by members of high status groups but may not have such fears with respect to members of their own group.’’”
• Employment Discrimination in Organizations: Antecedents and Consequences (2006, unknown): “…formal complaints for a variety of reasons (e.g., others will evaluate them negatively if they even attribute their experience to discrimination; Kaiser & Miller, 2001; Schmitt, Branscombe, Kobrynowicz, & Owen, 2002), it is not clear how much the possibility of significant financial gain…”
• “Assume the Position . . . You Fit the Description” (2007, unknown): “Kaiser and Miller (2001) found that no matter how much discrimination an African American male faces, he is viewed as hypersensitive, emotional, argumentative, irritating, troublesome, and complaining when he suggested that discrimination was the cause of a failing grade.”
• Linking Perceived Unfairness to Physical Health: The Perceived Unfairness Model (2006, unknown): “Laboratory-based experimental studies suggest that those who are seen attributing unfairness to discrimination become the targets of further discrimination (Kaiser & Miller, 2001, 2003).”
• The Relative Impact of Anger and Efficacy on Collective Action is Affected by Feelings of Fear (2009, unknown): “Although common-sense explanations of collective action imply that fear can inhibit collective action, social psychologists have largely overlooked fear as an inhibitor of protest (for exceptions, see Garcia, Horstman Reser, Amo, Redersdorff, & Branscombe, 2005; Kaiser & Miller, 2001).”
• Climate of silence: Pluralistic ignorance as a barrier to climate change discussion (2016, unknown): “…Shelton, & Richeson, 2010), social retributions for violating cultural norms prescribing silence (Norgaard, 2011), embarrassment (Miller & McFarland, 1987), being dismissed as a “complainer” (Kaiser & Miller, 2001; Swim & Hyers, 1999), and being seen as ignorant (Salmon & Neuwirth, 1990).”
• The social psychology of stigma. (2005, unknown): “Furthermore, members of stigmatized groups who blame their failures on discrimination are socially derogated (Kaiser & Miller 2001).”
• ‘You make me wanna holler and throw up both my hands!’: campus culture, Black misandric microaggressions, and racial battle fatigue (2016, unknown): “Kaiser and Miller (2001) found that no matter how much self-reported discrimination a Black male student faced, he was rated as more hypersensitive, emotional, argumentative, irritating, trouble making, and a complainer when he suggested that discrimination or racism was the source of his…”