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Research Briefs
Recent highlights from APS journals articles on correcting false beliefs, reproducibility, risk perception, and more.
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Universities Say They Want More Diverse Faculties. So Why Is Academia Still So White?
When she was hired as a professor by Harvard University in 2013, Lorgia García Peña was the only Black Latina on a tenure track in the university’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. But in 2019
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Up-and-Coming Voices: Combating Stereotypes and Bias
Previews of research by students and early-career scientists related to combating stereotypes and bias.
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Distinctions in White Audience Associations of ‘Black’ and ‘African American’ Labels
White Americans associate the label “Blacks” with being a target of racial bias more than the label “African Americans.”
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Police Reports Are Biased. What Can Journalists Do To Better Cover Policing?
The way the Minneapolis Police first described George Floyd’s murder — “Man Dies After Medical Incident During Police Interaction” — didn’t mention that an officer held his knee on George Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes.
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New Research Highlights Distinctions in White Audience Associations of ‘Black’ and ‘African American’ Label
A new series of studies to be published by Psychological Science show that White Americans associate the label “Blacks” with being targets of racial bias more than the label “African Americans.”
