Much of the study of prejudice in psychology is concerned with understanding how and why people tend to put themselves into separate groups based on innumerable characteristics or motives. The reason ...

One of my first jobs was in teaching. As a young educator who had grown up in a rural area, the racial prejudice that I saw was shocking. “My students were poor, and they often came to school without ...

A new study published in The Lancet Regional Health – Americas suggests that various forms of prejudice are strongly tied to the belief that political violence is justified in the United States.

People who hold negative attitudes toward one marginalized group are increasingly likely to express prejudice toward others as well, according to a new study published in Social Psychological and ...

This omission type of prejudice is just as strong and insidious as acts of overt commission of prejudice and discrimination, but in some ways may be even worse. Fryberg and Eason (2017) suggest that ...