Healthy democratic polities feature competing visions of a good society but also require
some level of cooperation and institutional trust. Democracy is at risk when citizens become …

Across phenomena and areas of inquiry, social psychology often emphasizes social
categories as the unit of explanation. However, the primacy of categories often leads social …

With globalization and immigration, societal contexts differ in sheer variety of resident social
groups. Social diversity challenges individuals to think in new ways about new kinds of …

What is a group? How do we know to which groups we belong? How do we assign others to
groups? A great deal of theorizing across the social sciences, has conceptualized “groups” …

Why do people often pursue social rank using coercive and potentially costly dominance-
oriented strategies (grounded in fear and intimidation) rather than noncoercive prestige …

This article explores how counter-narratives of undocumented students' journeys to and life
in the United States can disrupt White, monolingual teachers' understandings of emergent …

Stories have played a central role in human social and political life for thousands of years.
Despite their ubiquity in culture and custom, however, they feature only peripherally in …

Social dominance orientation (SDO) holds a central position in social dominance theory.
Since the development, validation, and publication of the SDO 7 scale in 2015, which was …

Social-structure learning is the process by which social groups are identified on the basis of
experience. Building on models of structure learning in other domains, we formalize this …

Why, when, and how do stereotypes change? This paper develops a computational account
based on the principles of structure learning: stereotypes are governed by probabilistic …