Interest convergence and the maintenance of racial advantage: The case of diversity in higher education

JG Starck, K Hurd, MJ Perez… - Journal of Social …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
One of the major tenets of Critical Race Theory, the interest convergence hypothesis
postulates that policies promising improvements for Black Americans are enacted only to the …

Are low‐ability students mentally represented as low‐SES, academically incapable, and undeserving of support?

AS Browman, DB Miele - Journal of Social Issues, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In seven studies, this research demonstrates that both the general public and educators may
hold culturally‐shared, class stereotype‐laden mental representations that they reflexively …

The Structural Origins of Racial Inequality and Attitudes toward Redistribution

L Christiani, NJ Kelly, J Morgan - Race and Social Problems, 2024 - Springer
A long line of research demonstrates that priming race undermines support for redistribution
by activating negative racial stereotypes that tend to place blame for racial inequalities on …

Perspective taking reduces intergroup bias in visual representations of faces

RJ Hutchings, AJ Simpson, JW Sherman, AR Todd - Cognition, 2021 - Elsevier
Intergroup biases shape most aspects of person construal, including lower-level visual
representations of group members' faces. Specifically, ingroup members' faces tend to be …

Intergroup evaluative bias in facial representations of immigrants and citizens in the United States

RJ Hutchings, I Morgan, JW Sherman, AR Todd - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
We used a reverse-correlation image-classification paradigm to visualize facial
representations of immigrants and citizens in the United States. Visualizations of immigrants' …

Highlighting Opportunities (Versus Outcomes) Increases Support for Economic Redistribution

D Dolifka, KL Christensen… - Social Psychological and …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
High levels of economic inequality are associated with numerous negative individual and
societal consequences, and people prefer less of it. Opposition to redistributive policies …

[PDF][PDF] The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the satisfaction of workers in low-wage jobs

ER Johnson, AV Whillans - 2022 - hbs.edu
How did job satisfaction change during the pandemic for workers in low-wage jobs, and how
did workers' experiences compare to those in professional jobs? Using nationally …

Using the culture cycle to teach stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination

E Cooley, JL Brown-Iannuzzi… - Teaching social …, 2024 - elgaronline.com
While social psychology is an exciting discipline to teach, there are certain topics that
instructors can feel uncertain about how to approach and/or ill-equipped to teach. One such …

Who gets to vote? Racialized mental images of legitimate and illegitimate voters

JL Brown-Iannuzzi, E Cooley… - Social Psychological …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
When people support voter identification (ID) laws, who do they imagine they are keeping in
and out of the voting booth? We investigated this question across three studies. First, using a …

The policy implications of feeling relatively low versus high status within a privileged group.

E Cooley, JL Brown-Iannuzzi, RF Lei… - Journal of …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract Research suggests that White Americans oppose welfare due to between-group
processes: Many White Americans envision welfare recipients to be lazy, undeserving, and …