Racism and Discrimination

A new study published in Frontiers in Communication suggests that the more American citizens trust their daily social media outlet, the more they believe that Chinese Americans are a threat to the United States. As the world battles with the...

New research in the Journal of Family Psychology sheds light on how mental health affects marital satisfaction among Black couples over time. The study also provides evidence that racial identity moderates the relationship between depressive symptoms and marital satisfaction. Why...

Race‐related stressors might harm physiological health in Multiracial individuals, according to new research published in the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development. "As a Multiracial person, I realized our experiences are often not talked about, even though we go through...

Teaching non-Black people about systemic racial inequalities in the United States leads them to perceive more racism when a police officer shoots a Black man, according to research published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. The study also provides...

New research provides evidence that the psychological impact of racial incidents is related to White racial identity. The study suggests that those with a non-racist White identity tend to brush off negative race‐based experiences, while those who embrace supremacist attitudes...

People who were more supportive of police and had higher levels of racial resentment were more likely to vote for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, according to new research published in the journal Criminology. The research indicates that...

New research indicates that the Dunning-Kruger effect -- meaning the tendency for less competent individuals to overestimate their competence -- can be applied to prejudicial attitudes. The study, which appears in Personality and Individual Differences, found that the least egalitarian...

Teenagers in the United States are informed about their political world and capable of effectively evaluating political leaders, including President Donald Trump. This statement runs counter to stereotypes that adults tend to hold about teens. Ask most adults to describe...

Many U.S. teenagers have their first sexual experience during high school, which is why understanding the possible relationship between sexual behavior and academic performance is important. A study published in Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, just like previous research, showed...

New research published in the scientific journal Social Psychological and Personality Science provides evidence that the prevalence of infectious diseases plays an important role in racial prejudices across the United States. The findings support the parasite-stress hypothesis, which holds that...

New research provides evidence that negative feelings and brain responses are modulated by the type of social support we receive after being socially excluded. The results of the study were recently published in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. "The pain...

College undergraduates tend to view other students as more racist than themselves, even when they have engaged in the exact same behaviors, according to new research published in The Journal of Social Psychology. Previous psychological research has demonstrated that people...

New research suggests that rap music can influence how African Americans' view Black feminism. But the type of rap music matters. The study found that Black people who listened to political rap music were significantly more accepting of Black feminist...

In heterosexual men, pictures of rotting flesh, maggots and spoiled food induce the same physiological stress response as pictures of two men kissing each other. That is the surprising finding that was recently published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Psychology...

Fear causes Whites high in implicit racism to be more supportive of voter ID laws, according to a recent study published online this September in Political Psychology. Soon after Emancipation, Whites feared newly freed Blacks’ political influence. As a result,...