Democracies assume accurate knowledge by the populace, but the human attraction to fake
and untrustworthy news poses a serious problem for healthy democratic functioning. We …

Across phenomena and areas of inquiry, social psychology often emphasizes social
categories as the unit of explanation. However, the primacy of categories often leads social …

With more than 3 billion users, online social networks represent an important venue for
moral and political discourse and have been used to organize political revolutions, influence …

Since its original formulation, Tajfel's Social Identity Theory (SIT) has broadened
considerably from its original focus on intergroup relations and is now applied to a wide …

The primary aim of this chapter is to provide a framework to understand and synthesize the
processes of person construal—early perceptions that lead to initial ingroup/outgroup …

Morality indicates what is the 'right'and what is the 'wrong'way to behave. It is one of the most
popular areas of research in contemporary social psychology, driven in part by recent …

In contrast to other disciplines, social psychology has been slow in responding to the
questions posed by the issue of ethnicity. The Social Psychology of Ethnic Identity, Second …

Abstract The pain of Black Americans is systematically underdiagnosed and undertreated,
compared to the pain of their White counterparts. Extensive research has examined the …

This article develops a dual-agency model of leadership which treats collective phenomena
as a co-production involving both leaders and followers who identify with the same social …

While conspiracy theories may offer benefits to those who believe in them, they can also
foster intergroup conflict, threaten democracy, and undercut public health. We argue that the …