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

Most theories in social and political psychology stress self‐interest, intergroup conflict,
ethnocentrism, homophily, ingroup bias, outgroup antipathy, dominance, and resistance …

Schools are heralded by some as unique sites for promoting racial equity. Central to this
characterization is the presumption that teachers embrace racial equity and teaching about …

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 …

Black men tend to be stereotyped as threatening and, as a result, may be disproportionately
targeted by police even when unarmed. Here, we found evidence that biased perceptions of …

This article reports a meta-analysis of studies examining the predictive validity of the Implicit
Association Test (IAT) and explicit measures of bias for a wide range of criterion measures of …

This review of 122 research reports (184 independent samples, 14,900 subjects) found
average r=. 274 for prediction of behavioral, judgment, and physiological measures by …

Early research on implicit attitudes and implicit biases emphasized the “direct-ness” of the
link between apparent triggers of those attitudes and behavior. For example, John Bargh …

Theoretically, low correlations between implicit and explicit measures can be due to (a)
motivational biases in explicit self reports,(b) lack of introspective access to implicitly …

For most of the history of prejudice research, negativity has been treated as its emotional
and cognitive signature, a conception that continues to dominate work on the topic. By this …