Discrimination and Prejudice

IDS Funded Research Projects

Morgan Jerald: Testing a biopsychosocial model of the impact of perceived discrimination and interracial interactions on the health of Black Americans: An integrated and intersectional approach

Shamya Karumbaiah: Language Model Biases in Idea Detection During Translanguaging

Fostering Accurate Reasoning About Outgroups: Experimental Evidence From Intergroup Relation Frames on Conspiracy Beliefs Amid Sino–U.S. Tensions
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 …
Diversity and Inclusion Have Greater Support than Most Americans Think
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 …
“It’s Not an Overreaction”: Increasing White People’s Acceptance of the Reality of Bias and Receptivity to Black People’s Bias Concerns
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 …
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