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How Racial Bias Works — and How to Disrupt It
TED Talk with APS President Elect Jennifer L. Eberhardt Our brains create categories to make sense of the world, recognize patterns and make quick decisions. But this ability to categorize also exacts a heavy toll
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Black Americans Support the Floyd Protests. Whites Are Divided. Here’s Why.
APS Member/Author: Fabian G. Neuner After a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd, hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets, both across the United States and around the world. Americans’ reactions both to Floyd’s death under
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In Wake Of George Floyd’s Death, Psychologist Reexamines Racial Bias In Policing
The back-to-back deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor have spurred protests across the country. Taylor, a 26-year-old black woman, was shot multiple times by Louisville Metro Police Department officers after they forced their way inside her
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Protests Over Killings of Black People Could Erode Racism, Researcher Says
Images and reports of people taking to the streets to protest last month’s killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police have sparked conversations among Americans on police use of force to control crowds, the morality
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How to Talk to Your Children About Protests and Racism
As cities and social media explode with anger over the killing of yet another black man at the hands of police, worried parents struggle with how to protect their children from seeing the worst of
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Racism: Further Considerations from Psychological Science
A look at several researchers who have studied racism in recent years. Collectively, they address the nature of racism and the social processes that maintain it; examine the issues of structural and institutional racism; explore the consequences of various forms of racism; and suggest possible paths of action to combat racism.
