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Whites Have Huge Wealth Edge Over Blacks (but Don’t Know It)
The New York Times: The Yale researchers suspected that many people would not get the answers right. “I’m a person who studies inequality, who should really know how inequality looks,” said one of the psychologists
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Why are people still racist? What science says about America’s race problem.
The Washington Post: Torch-bearing white supremacists shouting racist and anti-Semitic slogans. Protesters and counter protesters colliding with violence and chaos. A car driven by a known Nazi sympathizer mowing down a crowd of activists. Many Americans responded to
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Is This How Discrimination Ends?
The Atlantic: On a cloudy day in February, Will Cox pointed to a pair of news photos that prompted a room of University of Wisconsin, Madison, graduate students to shift in their seats. In one
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SSCP Honors Student Researcher for Studies on Racial Bias
Donte Bernard, a graduate student in the clinical psychology program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has received the prestigious Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology’s Outstanding Student Diversity Research Award.
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Turning the “Motherhood Penalty” into a “Breadwinner Bonus”
Working mothers are often offered lower salaries and fewer leadership opportunities compared to working fathers, but this penalty can be reduced by framing women as “breadwinners.”
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Here, There, Everywhere
Psychological scientists have built thriving research careers outside the traditional boundaries of university psychology and behavioral science departments, including dentistry, optometry, engineering, music, fashion, and even physics.
