No Shelter for Singles: The Perceived Legitimacy of Marital Status Discrimination

Abstract: Providing the first empirical evidence of discrimination against singles, participants in multiple experiments favored married couples over various types of singles and failed to recognize such differential treatment as discrimination. In four experiments, undergraduates and rental agents read descriptions of multiple applicants for a rental property and chose one. The applicant pool, varying across experiments, included a married couple and different types of singles. Although the applicants were similar on substantive dimensions, participants consistently chose the married couple over the singles and explicitly stated that the applicants' marital status influenced their choice. In Experiment 5, participants read examples of housing discrimination against singles and other more recognized stigmatized groups. Participants rated discrimination against singles as more legitimate than discrimination against virtually all of the other groups

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Postprint
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Group Processes & Intergroup Relations ; 10 (2007) 4 ; 457-470

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Mannheim
(wann)
2007
Urheber
Morris, Wendy L.
Sinclair, Stacey
DePaulo, Bella M.

DOI
10.1177/1368430207081535
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-228372
Rechteinformation
Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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Beteiligte

  • Morris, Wendy L.
  • Sinclair, Stacey
  • DePaulo, Bella M.

Entstanden

  • 2007

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