Intergroup relations

Standing Up to Sexism—from the Gym to the Office

Diverse male applicants looking at female rival waiting for interview

How you judge someone who stands up to a sexist comment depends on who and where they are.

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Can Witnessing Discrimination Lead White People to Take Action?

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Witnessing racial discrimination may motivate White people to protest for racial justice because they become more aware of White privilege.

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Want to Turn a Friend into a Foe? Reveal Your Political Differences

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When given the choice between a politically similar stranger or a politically different friend, who would you rather hang out with?

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Good Cop, Bad Cop: Black and White Americans Envision Police Differently

Policeman at the Black Lives Matter protest in Compton Los Angeles. 7 Jun 2020, LOS ANGELES, USA

New research helps us understand why innocent people might run when confronted by the police.

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Who Do Multiracial People Consider Part of their Racial Ingroup?

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Multiracial people’s racial ingroups include more people than just those with whom they share their multiple racial identities.

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COVID-19 and a Hope for Unity

Could COVID-19 be like the extra-terrestrials in alien-invasion movies—a precursor of hope?

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Religious believers think God values the lives of out-group members more than they do themselves

Belief in all powerful supernatural entities that police moral behavior between people has been shown to promote prosocial behavior between co-religionists. But do these effects extend to members of different religious groups?

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Driving Under the Influence of Stereotypes: Stigma Consciousness

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People vary greatly in the degree to which they focus on the possibility of being stereotyped. Such stigma consciousness has consequences that could loom large in people’s daily lives.

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The Perils of Thinking of Gender as Biology

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Indifference to the rights of women and transgender people may lie in a certain way of thinking about gender.

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Asian Americans are Skeptical of Biracial People’s Racial Loyalties

Are Asian-White biracials mostly White or mostly Asian? It depends on who you ask.

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