How do routine police encounters build or undermine community trust, and how might they
contribute to racial gaps in citizen perceptions of the police? Procedural justice theory posits …

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 …

In an effort to combat COVID-19 and future pandemics, researchers have attempted to
identify the factors underlying social distancing. Yet, much of this research relies on self …

In an effort to combat COVID-19 and future pandemics, researchers have attempted to
identify the factors underlying social distancing. Yet, much of this research relies on self …

We conducted two reverse-correlation studies, as well as two pilot studies reported in the
online supplement (total N= 1,411), on the topics of (a) whether liberals and conservatives …

Social vision research, which examines, in part, how humans visually perceive social stimuli,
is well-positioned to improve understandings of social inequality. However, social vision …

The growing visibility of transgender women and men in the US challenges a dominant
cultural model of gender in which dichotomous sex assigned at birth gives rise to …

Examining the epistemic and social–cognitive structures underlying fanaticism,
radicalization, and extremism should shed light on how these harmful phenomena develop …

Racial discrimination typically expands under resource scarcity, but the psychological
mechanisms driving this effect remain poorly understood. We examined the role of …

Utilizing reverse correlation, we investigated Black and White participants' mental
representations of Black–White Biracial people. Across 200 trails, Black and White …