APS

29th APS Annual Convention · 2017

Individual Differences Predict Perceptions of Racial and Gender Discrimination

Boston, MA · May 2017

Poster Session · Personality/Emotion

  • Makeda Yohannes
    Columbia University
  • Rebecca Mohr
    Columbia University
  • Valerie Purdie-Vaughns
    Columbia University

Abstract

Little research has explored how different identities of the perceiver influence their judgments of whether or not discrimination occurred. In this study, we explore how the participants’ social dominance orientation and identity centrality affect their ability to detect racial and gender discrimination.

Social Interpersonal Relationships

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