A significant amount of the research on two types of biases against women leaders—agentic
deficiency (perceptions that women have minimal leadership potential) and agentic penalty …

Every person belongs to multiple social categories, such as those based on gender, race, or
ethnicity, yet researchers have traditionally studied beliefs about each of these groups in …

Despite impressive gains in the spread of quasi-democratic social practices and respect for
human rights witnessed in the past hundred years (eg, Pinker, 2011), intergroup …

Research summary: Although most theories of growth presume that growth varies with the
focus and limits of managerial attention, the actual role played by attention has remained …

Introduction to Political Psychology explores the many psychological patterns that influence
individual political behavior. The authors introduce readers to a broad range of theories …

The capacity to empathize with others facilitates prosocial behavior. People's willingness
and capacity to empathize, however, is often contingent upon the target's group membership …

Majority-group members often hold negative attitudes toward minority-group members who
identify with both the majority and their minority group. Integrating perspectives from social …

Research on the conformity-distinctiveness trade-off in family firms is divided. Examining the
product innovations of Spanish manufacturing firms between 1998 and 2012, we …

Psychological science that examines racial and gender bias, primarily located within social
psychology, has tended to discount the ways in which race and gender mutually construct …

Social dominance orientation (SDO) and right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) are foundational
constructs in intergroup relations, yet their development across the lifespan is poorly …