Human social groups are central to social organization and pervasively impact interpersonal
interactions. Although immensely varied, all social groups can be considered specific …

Social categorization is a universal mechanism for making sense of a vast social world with
roots in perceptual, conceptual, and social systems. These systems emerge strikingly early …

A theory of system justification was proposed 25 years ago by Jost and Banaji (1994, Br. J.
Soc. Psychol., 33, 1) in the British Journal of Social Psychology to explain 'the participation …

To help children navigate their social environments, adults must understand what children
know about race, and when they acquire this knowledge. Across three preregistered studies …

Long traditions in the social sciences have emphasized the gradual internalization of
intergroup attitudes and the putatively more basic tendency to prefer the groups to which …

The implicit association test (IAT) is one of several measures of implicit attitudes, but it has
attracted especially intense criticism. Some methodological objections are valid, but they are …

Scholars call for more attention to how marginalization influences the development of low‐
income and racial/ethnic minority youth and emphasize the importance of youth's subjective …

Social hierarchies are ubiquitous and determine a range of developmental outcomes, yet
little is known about when children develop beliefs about status hierarchies in their …

There is a critical disconnect between scientific knowledge about the nature of bias and how
this knowledge gets translated into organizational debiasing efforts. Conceptual confusion …

Children show signs of intergroup biases from early in development, and evidence suggests
that these biases increase through middle childhood. Here we critically review and …