Racism and Discrimination

A study published in the Journal of Marriage and Family sheds new light on the sociodemographic factors that make someone more likely to be estranged from a parent. Compared to heterosexual respondents, gay, lesbian, and bisexual respondents were more likely to be...

Racist bullying increases the risk of poor mental health. It can cause loneliness and lead children to drop out of school. It can result in alcohol and substance misuse. But young people feel their teachers are dismissive of racist biases...

New research has found that race and ethnicity moderate the associations between the use of psychedelic drugs and major depressive episodes in a large, nationally representative sample of U.S. adults. The findings have been published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology.

New psychology research indicates that religion provided little protection against racism-induced mental health issues among Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings have been published in the Journal of Religion and Health.

People who experience identity fusion with the online gaming community tend to have heightened levels of antisocial personality traits and hostile attitudes, according to new research published in Frontiers in Communication.

Vegetarians have around twice as many depressive episodes as meat-eaters, according to a new study.

Infection from the common parasite Toxoplasma tends to produce few apparent symptoms. But a new study published in the journal Evolutionary Psychology suggests that the disease can spur changes in a person’s political beliefs and values, most likely through an inflammatory reaction.

Racially resentful White Americans show reduced support for concealed carry laws when Black Americans are thought to be exercising their legal right to carry guns more than White people, according to new research published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology:...

Are politically conservative people happier than people who are politically liberal? A study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science suggests that libertarian tendencies may be related to well-being, but moral traditionalism and ethnic separateness are linked to negativity bias.

A study published in Political Behavior examined large data sets from both the United States and 20 countries spanning 6 continents, finding that the political left and right are equally likely to believe in conspiracy theories.

Increased engagement with politics on social media predicts future decreases in racial resentment among liberals in the United States, according to new research published in Computers in Human Behavior.

New findings suggest that the belief that restricting immigration is “not racist” reflects a defensive form of ingroup identity, rather than concern for one’s ingroup. The study, published in the journal Political Psychology, revealed that the belief that it is not racist...

The term can increase online political polarization and lead to lower quality conversations on social media. In particular, the term drives some whites who would otherwise support efforts toward racial equality away from online conversations.

People who held traditional stereotypes about masculinity tended to have more positive evaluations of Brett Kavanaugh during his contentious Supreme Court hearings and more negative evaluations of the women who accused him of sexual misconduct, according to new research published...

Youths' opinions of Donald Trump predicted shifts in their sociopolitical development over a one-year timespan, according to new research published in the journal Child Development. The findings suggest that the changing political climate in the United States has coincided with...