Racial inequality is a foundational feature of the criminal justice system in the United States.
Here we offer a psychological account for how Americans have come to tolerate a system …

This article proposes that addressing the complex ethnic and racial issues of the 21st
century will require a diversity science. A diversity science will consider how people create …

Racial economic inequality is a foundational feature of the United States, yet many
Americans appear oblivious to it. In the present work we consider the psychology underlying …

Many scholars and activists assume the public would be motivated to fight inequality if only
they knew the full extent of existing disparities. Ironically, exposure to extreme disparities …

In three studies (N= 340) we examined the effects of medical versus social model
representations of physical disability on awareness of structural discrimination and …

This study used a signal detection paradigm to explore the Marley hypothesis—that group
differences in perception of racism reflect dominant-group denial of and ignorance about the …

Although there has been limited progress toward economic equality between Americans
over the past half-century, many Americans are largely unaware of the persistence of …

Acknowledging systemic racism, a key tenet of Critical Race Theory (CRT), may be
threatening to many Americans but it can also reduce racial biases. However, anti‐CRT …

We suggest that the need to maintain a positive self-image motivates White Americans to
conceive of racism as a phenomenon rooted in individuals instead of institutions. They do so …

Cultural appropriation has been described and discussed within academic and everyday
discourse, but little research has examined its role in the psychological context of intergroup …