Retracted: Group Status and Attributions to Discrimination: Are Low- or High-Status Group Members More Likely to Blame their Failure on Discrimination?
Available accessResearch articleFirst published online August, 1998
Retracted: Group Status and Attributions to Discrimination: Are Low- or High-Status Group Members More Likely to Blame their Failure on Discrimination?
The article "Group Status and Attributions to Discrimination: Are Low- or High-Status Group
Members More Likely to Blame Their Failure on Discrimination?" (1998, Vol. 24, pp. 821-837) is
hereby retracted from publication. The retraction is requested by one of the co-authors of
that article, Karen Ruggiero, Ph.D., who advises as follows: "The retraction is requested
because serious questions exist concerning the validity of the data which relate solely to my
own work and which do not implicate my co-author in any way." The co-author, Brenda Major,
Ph.D., advises she has no objection to such retraction.
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