University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Marginalized Groups

New Study from Isadore and Colleagues Highlights Unique Challenges for Racially or Ethnically Minoritized College Students with Psychiatric Disabilities

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The number of young people enrolling in college who have psychiatric disabilities has grown in recent years, with these students now making up around 20% of all students with disabilities. Students with psychiatric disabilities are significantly less likely to graduate college than those with other disability types and students without disabilities. For students with psychiatric …

Minority Stress and Protective Factors for Body Image Concerns and Disordered Eating Among a Cohort of Transgender and Nonbinary Youth: A Preliminary Longitudinal Study

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International Journal of Transgender Health (2025) Authors: Emmett Line, Dougie Zubizarreta, Stephanie Budge, Ryan Watson, Allegra  Gordon, S. Bryn Austin, and Sabra Katz-Wise. Abstract:  Background Transgender and/or nonbinary (TNB) youth experience elevated risk of body image concerns and disordered eating compared to their cisgender counterparts, yet drivers of this risk remain poorly understood. This exploratory …

Fostering Accurate Reasoning About Outgroups: Experimental Evidence From Intergroup Relation Frames on Conspiracy Beliefs Amid Sino–U.S. Tensions

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Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (2024) Authors: Yiming Wang, Liwei Shen, Kaiping Chen Abstract: In an era of intergroup tensions and conspiracy theories, our study examines whether threat-mitigation news frames can counter U.S. public beliefs in China-related conspiracy theories. Using a preregistered online survey experiment, we analyzed the effects of news articles that either emphasize …

Native American College Students in Counseling: Results From a Large-Scale, Multisite Effectiveness Study

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Psychotherapy (2024) Authors: Isadore, K. M., Hayes, J. A., Cutter, C. J., & Beitel, M Abstract: There is a large body of research exploring therapeutic effectiveness for racially or ethnically minoritized college students. Prior literature highlights the unique mental health and academic challenges faced by Native American students in higher education; however, there is a …

Flourishing Together: Leveraging Social-Personality Psychology in Community Building for Scholars of Color

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Social and Personality Psychology Compass (2024) Authors: Angela C. Bell, Kelci Harris, and Morgan C. Jerald Abstract: Many faculty of color (FOC) lack the necessary social and professional support structures to facilitate their successful advancement on the tenure track. We present Flourish, a network for pre-tenure social and personality psychologists of color, as a case …

Diversity and Inclusion Have Greater Support than Most Americans Think

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Scientific Reports (2024) Authors: Naomi Isenberg and Markus Brauer Abstract: In a series of large-scale studies (N = 5,448) we show that Americans across many different demographic categories vastly underestimate their fellow Americans’ support for diversity and inclusion. Trump voters were particularly inaccurate when their task was to estimate prevalent attitudes among Biden voters. Our results …

Uncovering How Black and Latinx Communities Perceive Environmental Justice: Integrating a Public Deliberation Quasi-Experiment and Computational Methods

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Public Relations Review (2024) Authors: Kaiping Chen, Isabel Villanueva, Amanda Molder Abstract: This research aims to address gaps in the knowledge and practice of engaging underrepresented communities in public communication and policymaking on environmental justice issues. Through a quasi-field experiment conducted in Madison, Wisconsin, we investigate how Black and Latinx communities perceive environmental justice issues …

Tensions of Making Women’s Marginalization Salient in Men-Dominated Workplaces

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Work and Occupations  (2024) Author: Chloe Grace Hart Abstract: Why might women who experience gender-based bias and harassment at work shy away from efforts to address gender inequality in their workplaces? Drawing on data from 52 interviews with women working in the Silicon Valley tech industry, I show that efforts to address women’s marginalization in …