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Female jazz musicians are taking a stand against entrenched sexism within the genre.
The people leading nonprofits are much less diverse than the communities they serve and there’s no reason to expect that to change soon.
Prejudice and stereotypes are part of why social inequality persists. Social scientists use tests to measure the implicit biases people harbor and see how much they relate to actions.
Racial bias is associated with dehumanizing social groups different from your own. Psychologists trained kids to differentiate individuals of another race – with lasting effects on their biases.
Two university professors explore their unlikely longtime friendship, providing lessons for parents of both “abled” and disabled children today.
Even after years of federal and state laws making discrimination illegal, implicit bias still leads to actual economic harm for women.
FBI data show that in 2015 anti-Muslim hate crimes spiked to the highest level since 2001. A scholar finds political rhetoric correlates to both sharp increases and decreases in hate crime.
A mostly white community in Alabama is being allowed to secede from its mostly black school district. Parents are claiming school quality is at stake, but is it really just segregation in disguise?
The idea of gaydar, the ability to discern who’s gay and who isn’t, promotes stereotypes. And research purporting to prove its existence is flawed.
American psychologists Nour Kteily and Emile Bruneaushow how some politicians appeal to those who demonise marginalised groups, and how those groups respond with intensified hostility.
What are the drawbacks of expansive definitions of prejudice?
Mixed neighbourhoods won’t necessarily make people friendlier.
Disparagement humor makes a punchline out of a marginalized group. Racist or sexist jokes, for instance, aren’t just harmless fun – psychologists find they can foster discrimination.
As the news sinks in, a lot of people who voted to Leave are having second thoughts. Many of them journalists.
Aggression against sexual minorities is rooted in society-level stigmas that devalue LGBT individuals.
The massacre at an Orlando gay club is a savage reminder that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people still face harsh prejudice in America and lack full equal protections under the law.
It has taken the killing of 50 innocent people at an LGBT club to bring home how much homophobia is embedded in Western societies.
Big data can reinforce human prejudices but it could also help us break away from discrimination.
There is a double standard in public attitudes towards people with a learning disability.
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Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Instructional Associate Professor of Gerontology, University of Southern California
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Spécialiste de la politique américaine, Sciences Po
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Emanuel Ringelblum Professor in Jewish History, University of California, Davis
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Director, BehaviourWorks, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
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Research fellow, BehaviourWorks Australia, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
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Professor of Clinical Psychology and Applied Science, Director, University of Bath and AWP NHS Trust Centre for Specialist Psychological Treatments of Anxiety and Related Problems (CSPTARP), University of Bath
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Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Ph.D. Candidate in Psychology, Northwestern University
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Doctoral Researcher, Aston University
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Senior Lecturer in Human Development, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Associate Professor of the Practice, Bush School of Government & Public Service, Texas A&M University
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Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, UCL
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison