Mounting reports in the media suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified prejudice and discrimination against racial/ethnic minorities, especially Asians. Existing …
This article provides an overview of the “behavioural immune system”–a suite of psychological mechanisms that complements immunological defences by motivating pre …
Infectious disease threatens humans across cultures and time periods. The mental mechanisms that have evolved to navigate this threat can have non-intuitive consequences …
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 …
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 …
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 …
What factors increase racial prejudice? Across the United States, increased exposure to Black Americans has been hypothesized to increase White Americans' prejudicial attitudes …
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 …
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 …