This chapter addresses the psychological effects of social stigma. Stigma directly affects the
stigmatized via mechanisms of discrimination, expectancy confirmation, and automatic …

Humans continually face situations that require actions to achieve valued goals with
meaningful consequences at stake. Although the pursuit of such goals can be a negatively …

Of the many conceptual distinctions present in psychology today, the approach-avoidance
distinction stands out as one of, if not the, most fundamental and basic. The distinction …

Prior research has examined the relations between various facets of emotion and
psychopathology, with a great deal of recent work highlighting the importance of emotion …

The benefits of direct, personal contact with members of another group are well established
empirically. This Special Issue complements that body of work by demonstrating the effects …

The biopsychosocial model (BPSM) of challenge and threat has evolved over the last
decade or so, becoming increasingly more complex as more evidence has accumulated …

The social psychological literature maintains unequivocally that interracial contact is
stressful. Yet research and theory have rarely considered how stress may shape behavior …

This research examined the extent to which minority or “devalued” group members
engendered threat reactions from interaction partners. Participants' cardiovascular …

Individuals who violate expectations increase uncertainty during social interactions. Three
experiments explored whether expectancy-violating partners engender “threat” responses in …

The biopsychosocial model of challenge and threat (BPS) holds that during active goal
pursuit, psychological processes reliably lead to specific patterns of cardiovascular …