Six studies tested the hypothesis that evaluators judge Black people less sensitive to social
pain than White people. Social pain was operationalized as the psychological distress …

Social pain, defined as responses to aversive interpersonal experiences (eg, ostracism,
unfairness, disrespect), has profound effects on health and well-being. Yet, research …

In the days of slavery, White people assumed that Black people felt less pain than did White
people. This belief was used to justify slavery; it was also used to justify the inhumane …

Abstract The pain of Black Americans is systematically underdiagnosed and undertreated,
compared to the pain of their White counterparts. Extensive research has examined the …

The present work examines whether people assume that those who have faced hardship
feel less pain than those who have not, and whether this belief contributes to the perception …

Racism is a significant psychosocial stressor that is hypothesized to have negative
psychological and physical health consequences. The Reserve Capacity Model (Gallo & …

Pain judgments are the basis for pain management. The purpose of this study was to assess
Black and White participants' race‐related pain stereotypes. Undergraduates (n= 551) rated …

In 5 studies, the authors examined the hypothesis that people have systematically distorted
beliefs about the pain of social suffering. By integrating research on empathy gaps for …

Research on pain judgement has shown that several features of a target influence empathy
for others' pain. Considering the pivotal role of morality in social judgement, we investigated …

Chronic pain and disability give people many opportunities to draw conclusions about how
their situation compares to that of others (social comparison), and to use their own state at …