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Irony in Our Diets: Stigmatizing Obesity Increases Overeating
Pacific Standard: Numerous causes contribute to the nation’s obesity epidemic, including our increasingly sedentary lifestyles and the easy availability of high-calorie foods. Newly published research points to another, less-obvious factor that appears to be exacerbating
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Soup Kitchen Psychology: Nourishment For Impoverished Thinking
The Huffington Post: Poverty is emotionally crushing, and stigma only adds to that burden. The poor are often disparaged as lazy and incompetent — unable or unwilling to improve their own lot. Why don’t they
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Mary C. Murphy
The Mind and Identity in Context Lab at Indiana University www.mindandidentityincontext.com What does your research focus on? My research focuses on the science of diversity. My students and I develop and test theories about how
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Lisa Leslie
University of Minnesota www.csom.umn.edu/faculty-research/lmleslie/Lisa_Leslie.aspx What does your research focus on? In my research, I use a social cognition perspective to understand issues related to diversity in organizations. More specifically, I am interested in people’s tendency
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OppNet Request for Applications: Basic Sociobehavioral Research on Stigma
OppNet’s 2nd FY2013 RFA: Basic Sociobehavioral Research on Mechanisms of Stigma Application due: August 2, 2013, by 5:00 p.m. local time of applicant organization Letter of intent due: July 2, 2013 Although not required or
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How To Defuse a Hateful Slur
I grew up in a town, and a time, with a great deal of racial and ethnic tension, and I heard hateful slurs constantly at school. African-Americans, then politely called Negroes, were disparaged as niggers
