Categorization plays a fundamental role in organizing daily interactions with the social world. However, there is increasing recognition that social categorization is often complex …
ME Kite, BE Whitley Jr, LS Wagner - 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination provides a comprehensive and compelling overview of what psychological theory and research have to say about the nature, causes …
SA Gelman, SO Roberts - Proceedings of the National …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
It is widely recognized that language plays a key role in the transmission of human culture, but relatively little is known about the mechanisms by which language simultaneously …
For over three decades, the need for closure (NFC) construct has played a pivotal role in research programs addressing the motivational underpinnings of knowledge formation …
When people are exposed to information that leads them to overestimate the actual amount of genetic difference between racial groups, it can augment their racial biases. However …
The majority of social perception research to date has focused on perceptually obvious and prototypical representations of social categories. However, not all people belong to social …
JB Freeman, K Pauker… - Psychological Science, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
In two national samples, we examined the influence of interracial exposure in one's local environment on the dynamic process underlying race perception and its evaluative …
Categorizations of multiracial individuals provide insight into the psychological mechanisms driving social stratification, but few studies have explored the interplay of cognitive and …
M Rhodes, SJ Leslie, K Saunders… - Developmental …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Psychological essentialism is a pervasive conceptual bias to view categories as reflecting something deep, stable, and informative about their members. Scholars from diverse …