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Automation Fuels Anti-Immigration Fears. Time to Rethink How We Talk About It?
Automation may be associated with anti-immigrant sentiment by increasing perceptions of both realistic threat arising from competition for economic resources and symbolic threat “arising from changes to group values, identity, and status.”
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The Push to Redefine “Good Design” Amid the Black Lives Matter Movement
In 2015, Nextdoor, the location-based social networking app, gained a reputation as a locus of racial profiling. Users were sending alerts for merely spotting hoodie-wearing Black men walking in their neighborhoods. One damning report described Nextdoor as
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The Mind Of The Village: Understanding Our Implicit Biases
Podcast interview with APS Member Mahzarin Banaji Where do our minds live? A simple, scientific response would be to say our minds live in our brains. But Harvard psychologist Mahzarin Banaji says we should not think of
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Policing and Law Enforcement: Further Considerations from Psychological Science
A review of some research on police and stereotyping, police officers’ aggressiveness, and the impact of psychological science on policing in the United States.
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Racism: Further Considerations from Psychological Science
A review of some of the research on the nature of racism and the social processes that maintain it; the issues of structural and institutional racism; the consequences of various forms of racism; and possible paths of action to combat racism.
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Psychological Research: Racial Biases in the Peer-review and Publishing Enterprise
Researchers closely examine the racial dimensions of what they consider to be top-tier cognitive, developmental, and social psychology journals.