Widespread bias and discrimination based on weight have been documented in key areas
of living, including education, employment, and health care. This paper examines the social …

In social psychology, specific research traditions, which often spring up in response to
external events or social problems, tend to perpetuate the theoretical assumptions and …

Despite increased interest in examining the factors that influence crowdfunding success, the
effects of community context have been relatively unexamined. We address this void by …

The purpose of this investigation was to develop a conceptually grounded scale to assess
cognitive aspects of color-blind racial attitudes. Five studies on the Color-Blind Racial …

How do the attitudes people bring with them to the workplace-attitudinal baggage-affect
thoughts, feelings, and actions in organizations? How are the attitudes of those outside an …

In this chapter, bias is defined broadly as an unfair evaluative, emotional, cognitive, or
behavioral response toward another group in ways that devalue or disadvantage the other …

This Handbook provides a uniquely comprehensive and scholarly overview of the latest
research on prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination. All chapters are written by eminent …

Shared Beliefs in a Society is a much-needed contribution to societal psychology, a new
emerging subfield of social psychology, which studies societies from a social psychological …

This study investigated the extent to which White American mothers discuss race with their
children, which topics they are willing to discuss, and why some choose not to discuss it …

Recent research has investigated whether people think of their moral beliefs as objectively
true facts about the world, or as subjective preferences. The present research examines …