“All the world’s a stage. And all the men and women merely players.” —Act II, Scene VII, As You Like It, by William Shakespeare. Since the early days of psychology, researchers have been interested in ...

People can become less prejudiced, but it's not entirely clear how we make the journey from hatred to acceptance. Something as simple as a shared passion for The Catcher in the Rye can help, ...

Many political scientists go their entire careers without publishing once in the American Political Science Review. The APSR is the discipline's most prestigious and selective journal, publishing ...

There are 62.5 million internally displaced persons worldwide, according to 2022 data by the UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency. These individuals were forced to leave their homes but remain in ...

NATIONAL – Aside from defeating Lord Voldemort and restoring peace to the world, Harry Potter is also helping to reduce prejudice and bigotry against the LGBT and immigrant communities. In a recent ...

Reducing prejudice brings many benefits for society. In today’s Academic Minute, Gettysburg College’s Alauna Safarpour considers how we go about doing so. Al Qaeda may be exploiting a weakness in an ...

(LOWELL, MASS.) In a Cambodian children’s folktale, one man is afraid of lawyers and another is afraid of filth. As the story goes, both are constantly bombarded by their fears despite their efforts ...

The Human Library intervention appears to be a successful method of reducing prejudice, and even generalizing positive intergroup attitudes to other outgroups. William Shakespeare said we are all ...