Category: Research

Sexual Harassment and Hierarchical Workplace Relationships after #MeToo: Consequences for Women Subordinates

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Socius (2024) Authors: Chloe Grace Hart and Heather McLaughlin Abstract: The #MeToo movement illustrated how higher-ups may abuse their power by engaging in sexual harassment and generated heightened concern about hierarchical workplace romantic relationships. In a survey experiment, the authors test whether sexual attention from a superordinate outside one’s reporting chain (desired or not) leads to …

Bridging Digital Divides in Wisconsin: An Examination of Policy Efforts and Effectiveness Over the Past Five Years

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Information, Communication & Society (2024) Authors: Ashley Cate, Steven Moen, and Kaiping Chen Abstract: The digital divide, generally characterized by unequal Internet access, represents the gap between individuals who benefit from the use of digital technologies and those who do not. Many social inequalities are associated with the prevalence of the digital divide, particularly across the …

Diversity Science Podcast: Dhavan Shah on How The Ways We Talk About Politics Matters for DEI

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In this episode, IDS Institute Chair Angela Byars-Winston talks with Professor Dhavan Shah, who is a professor at the UW–Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication and an IDS affiliate. They talk about how communication around politics has changed in the last decades, the impact of misinformation and disinformation on the upcoming presidential election, and how …

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 …

Byars-Winston, Isadore, Jackson, and Meuris present at 2024 Diversity Forum

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Panel: What Does Diversity Science Say About Belonging and Community? On November 14, IDS affiliates Kyesha Isadore, Corey Jackson, and Jirs Meuris shared their research at the 2024 UW–Madison Diversity Forum in a panel moderated by IDS Chair Angela Byars-Winston. Watch the Session Recording   Panel Description: Diversity science can help harness the power of …

“It’s Not an Overreaction”: Increasing White People’s Acceptance of the Reality of Bias and Receptivity to Black People’s Bias Concerns

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The Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (2024) Authors: Emily Dix and Patricia Devine Abstract: Many White people deny that racial bias is pervasive and suggest that Black people who confront bias are oversensitive. We propose that White people will be more likely to accept the reality of ongoing bias and become receptive to Black people’s concerns about …

New Study by McLean and Bishop Finds High Rates of Chronic Health Conditions among Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

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A new study in the American Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities by Kiley McLean and Lauren Bishop uses Wisconsin Medicaid claims data to better understand chronic health conditions among adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) including autism and Down syndrome. Their study found that adults with IDD had high rates of heart disease, …

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 …

The Impact of Public Deliberation and Identity-Based Storytelling on Civic Empowerment among Latinx Communities on Environmental Issues

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Environmental Communication (2024) Authors: Amanda Molder, Isabel Villanueva, Kaiping Chen Abstract: Environmental issues already disproportionately impact communities of color in the U.S., where there is a long and well-established history of environmental racism. Despite efforts to diversify voices in deliberation, engaging marginalized populations remains a key challenge. Drawing from environmental communication, civic empowerment, and social identity …