Over the past two decades, citizens' political rights and civil liberties have declined globally.
Psychological science can play an instrumental role in both explaining and combating the …

For thousands of years, various spiritual traditions and social activists have appealed to
humans to adopt compassionate ways of living to address the suffering of life. Yet, along …

A new conceptualization and measurement of social dominance orientation—individual
differences in the preference for group based hierarchy and inequality—is introduced. In …

In three studies (two representative nationwide surveys, N= 1,007, N= 682; and one
experimental, N= 76) we explored the effects of exposure to hate speech on outgroup …

Dehumanization is a central concept in the study of intergroup relations. Yet although
theoretical and methodological advances in subtle,“everyday” dehumanization have …

Despite impressive gains in the spread of quasi-democratic social practices and respect for
human rights witnessed in the past hundred years (eg, Pinker, 2011), intergroup …

Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination provides a comprehensive and compelling
overview of what psychological theory and research have to say about the nature, causes …

People are motivated to protect their worldviews. One way to protect one's worldviews is
through prejudice toward worldview-dissimilar groups and individuals. The traditional …

There have been two broad approaches to how sociopolitical or ideological attitudes are
structured. The more traditional unidimensional approach sees ideological attitudes as …

While we would typically expect poor performers to elicit abusive responses from their
supervisors, we theorize that high performers may also be victims of abusive supervision …