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The Handbook of Research Synthesis.

D. Howel, +2 more
- 01 Dec 1995 - 
- Vol. 51, Iss: 4, pp 1585
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Trim and fill: A simple funnel-plot-based method of testing and adjusting for publication bias in meta-analysis.

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Prejudice, social stress, and mental health in lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations: conceptual issues and research evidence

TL;DR: It is shown that LGBs have a higher prevalence of mental disorders than heterosexuals and a conceptual framework is offered for understanding this excess in prevalence of disorder in terms of minority stress--explaining that stigma, prejudice, and discrimination create a hostile and stressful social environment that causes mental health problems.
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A meta-analytic test of intergroup contact theory.

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Perceived organizational support: A review of the literature.

TL;DR: The authors reviewed more than 70 studies concerning employees' general belief that their work organization values their contribution and cares about their well-being (perceived organizational support; POS) and indicated that 3 major categories of beneficial treatment received by employees were associated with POS.
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Acute stressors and cortisol responses: a theoretical integration and synthesis of laboratory research.

TL;DR: Motivated performance tasks elicited cortisol responses if they were uncontrollable or characterized by social-evaluative threat (task performance could be negatively judged by others), when methodological factors and other stressor characteristics were controlled for.