Racism and Discrimination

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,...

A novel investigation into the marketing of Christian music suggests that the power of music could be contributing to the powerful racial divide that remains in the nation's Christian churches. The study by Omotayo Banjo, a University of Cincinnati assistant...

Psychology, biology, and mathematics have come together to show that the occurrence of altruism and spite - helping or harming others at a cost to oneself - depends on similarity not just between two interacting individuals but also to the...

Racism as a social and scientific concept is reshaped and reborn periodically through the ages and according to a Penn State anthropologist, both medical and scientific researchers need to be careful that the growth of genomics does not bring about...

Researchers at the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU) have confirmed the link between two types of discriminatory behaviour: sexism and racism.

Ostracism or exclusion may not leave external scars, but it can cause pain that often is deeper and lasts longer than a physical injury, according to a Purdue University expert.