This Week in Sociological Perspective
This Week in Sociological Perspective
Samuel Roundfield Lucas
TWiSP 2020 M12 Thu17 Audio
36 minutes Posted Dec 17, 2020 at 8:46 am.
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This week we consider how people select their health insurance when faced with several options. And, I recently spoke with Professor Lance Hannon of Villanova University about his recent paper titled “Do White People See Variation in Black Skin Tones? Reexamining a Purported Outgroup Homogeneity Effect.” The paper is to be published in Social Psychology Quarterly, and is co-authored by Verna M. Keith, Robert DeFina, and Mary E. Campbell.

Segment 1 -- Lance Hannon on “Do White People See Variation in Black Skin Tones? Reexamining a Purported Outgroup Homogeneity Effect.”

Segment 2 –Choice overload in health insurance plan selection, and possible responses