<? covid19?> After “The China Virus” Went Viral: Racially Charged Coronavirus Coverage and Trends in Bias Against Asian Americans

S Darling-Hammond, EK Michaels… - Health Education & …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
On March 8, 2020, there was a 650% increase in Twitter retweets using the term “Chinese
virus” and related terms. On March 9, there was an 800% increase in the use of these terms …

Priming COVID-19 salience increases prejudice and discriminatory intent against Asians and Hispanics

Y Lu, N Kaushal, X Huang… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Mounting reports in the media suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified
prejudice and discrimination against racial/ethnic minorities, especially Asians. Existing …

The behavioural immune system and pandemic psychology: The evolved psychology of disease-avoidance and its implications for attitudes, behaviour, and public …

M Schaller, DR Murray, MK Hofer - European Review of Social …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This article provides an overview of the “behavioural immune system”–a suite of
psychological mechanisms that complements immunological defences by motivating pre …

A behavioural immune system perspective on disgust and social prejudice

F van Leeuwen, B Jaeger, JM Tybur - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2023 - nature.com
Infectious disease threatens humans across cultures and time periods. The mental
mechanisms that have evolved to navigate this threat can have non-intuitive consequences …

Implicit and explicit racial attitudes changed during Black Lives Matter

J Sawyer, A Gampa - Personality and Social Psychology …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Lab-based interventions have been ineffective in changing individuals' implicit racial
attitudes for more than brief durations, and exposure to high-status Black exemplars like …

Can information about pandemics increase negative attitudes toward foreign groups? A case of COVID-19 outbreak

P Sorokowski, A Groyecka, M Kowal, A Sorokowska… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Pathogen threat can translate into a willingness to distance oneself from others on a
psychological level. Building on this notion, we predicted that the ongoing coronavirus …

Can a pandemic make people more socially conservative? Political ideology, gender roles, and the case of COVID‐19

DL Rosenfeld, AJ Tomiyama - Journal of Applied Social …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The first months of 2020 rapidly threw people into a period of societal turmoil and pathogen
threat with the COVID‐19 pandemic. By promoting epistemic and existential motivational …

Infectious disease prevalence, not race exposure, predicts both implicit and explicit racial prejudice across the United States

BA O'Shea, DG Watson, GDA Brown… - Social Psychological …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
What factors increase racial prejudice? Across the United States, increased exposure to
Black Americans has been hypothesized to increase White Americans' prejudicial attitudes …

Patterns of implicit and explicit attitudes II. Long-term change and stability, regardless of group membership.

TES Charlesworth, MR Banaji - American Psychologist, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Over the past decade, implicit attitudes about sexual orientation, race, and age have
revealed both change toward neutrality (sexuality and race attitudes) and stability (age …

Shaping the body politic: Mass media fat-shaming affects implicit anti-fat attitudes

A Ravary, MW Baldwin, JA Bartz - Personality and Social …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The human psyche is profoundly shaped by its cultural milieu; however, few studies have
examined the dynamics of cultural influence in everyday life, especially when it comes to …