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Investigating Interracial Interactions
The last several decades have seen large declines in racial bias in social institutions in the United States. While far from perfect, barriers have been substantially decreased in education, business, politics, and communities. Yet, at Visit Page
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Interracial Roommate Relationships: An Experimental Field Test of the Contact Hypothesis
While prejudice and racism are unfortunate realities of our society, psychologists are revealing valuable insights into this complicated human tendency. A new study shows that living with someone of a different race can help to Visit Page
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Understanding Race Differences in Health Disparities
The knowledge of racial inequities in America is hardly breaking news. Our country’s long history of segregation and discrimination continues to reverberate in many areas of our society. Nowhere are the effects of discrimination more Visit Page
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New Study Discovers Why Few People Are Devoid of Racial Bias
Why are some individuals not prejudiced? That is the question posed by a provocative new study appearing in the September issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The authors investigate Visit Page
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Vive la Difference (Not la Deficit)
The study of human differences has been an important part of psychological science, but comparing people — in terms of intelligence or various measures of personality or ability — has major perils and pitfalls. One Visit Page
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Mind Over Matter
Jackson When a psychologist needs a little inspiration, he or she might turn to the wise words of an old master, seeking in some eternal axiom the courage to move forward in the face of Visit Page
