Ebook: Assessing the Existence of Social Distance and Factors that Affect its Magnitude at a Southern University

Studies on social distance in other countries have demonstrated Americans to be less prejudiced than those countries' citizens. Perhaps this trend can be explained by the increasing diversity in the United States (Sell, 1989; Hraba, Hagendoorn, and Hagendoorn, 1989; Goldberg and Kirschenbaum, 1989; McAllister and Moore, 1991; Netting, 1991).