Diversity science: Why and how difference makes a difference

VC Plaut - Psychological inquiry, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
This article proposes that addressing the complex ethnic and racial issues of the 21st
century will require a diversity science. A diversity science will consider how people create …

Toward a social psychology of race and race relations for the twenty-first century

JA Richeson, SR Sommers - Annual review of psychology, 2016 - annualreviews.org
The United States, like many nations, continues to experience rapid growth in its racial
minority population and is projected to attain so-called majority-minority status by 2050 …

Do color blindness and multiculturalism remedy or foster discrimination and racism?

VC Plaut, KM Thomas, K Hurd… - Current Directions in …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This article offers insight from psychological science into whether models of diversity (eg,
color blindness and multiculturalism) remedy or foster discrimination and racism. First, we …

Members of high-status groups are threatened by pro-diversity organizational messages

TL Dover, B Major, CR Kaiser - Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2016 - Elsevier
Members of high-status groups may perceive pro-diversity messages from organizations as
threatening to their group's status. Two initial studies (N= 322) demonstrate that when …

Presumed fair: ironic effects of organizational diversity structures.

CR Kaiser, B Major, I Jurcevic, TL Dover… - Journal of personality …, 2013 - psycnet.apa.org
This research tests the hypothesis that the presence (vs. absence) of organizational diversity
structures causes high-status group members (Whites, men) to perceive organizations with …

“What about me?” Perceptions of exclusion and Whites' reactions to multiculturalism.

VC Plaut, FG Garnett, LE Buffardi… - Journal of personality …, 2011 - psycnet.apa.org
A 5-study investigation of reactions of dominant group members (ie, White Americans) to
diversity (relative to racial minority reactions) provides evidence of implicit and explicit …

Interest convergence and the maintenance of racial advantage: The case of diversity in higher education

JG Starck, K Hurd, MJ Perez… - Journal of Social …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
One of the major tenets of Critical Race Theory, the interest convergence hypothesis
postulates that policies promising improvements for Black Americans are enacted only to the …

Diversity thresholds: How social norms, visibility, and scrutiny relate to group composition

EH Chang, KL Milkman, D Chugh… - … of Management Journal, 2019 - journals.aom.org
Across a field study and four experiments, we examine how social norms and scrutiny affect
decisions about adding members of underrepresented populations (eg, women, racial …

An experimental approach to intergroup threat theory: Manipulations, moderators, and consequences of realistic vs. symbolic threat

K Rios, N Sosa, H Osborn - European Review of Social Psychology, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT According to Intergroup Threat Theory (Stephan, Ybarra, & Rios, 2015),
perceived threats from outgroups can be categorised into realistic threats (to the ingroup's …

The devil is in the details: Abstract versus concrete construals of multiculturalism differentially impact intergroup relations.

K Yogeeswaran, N Dasgupta - Journal of Personality and Social …, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
Three experiments integrated several theories in psychology and sociology to identify the
conditions under which multiculturalism has positive versus negative effects on majority …