This chapter addresses the psychological effects of social stigma. Stigma directly affects the
stigmatized via mechanisms of discrimination, expectancy confirmation, and automatic …

Notable advances resulting from new research findings, measurement approaches,
widespread uses of the Internet, and increasingly sophisticated approaches to sampling and …

Considerable research has shown that greater intergroup contact corresponds with lower
intergroup prejudice, yet little is known regarding how the relationships between contact and …

Study 1 tested whether yoga practice is associated with greater awareness of and
responsiveness to bodily sensations, lower self-objectification, greater body satisfaction, and …

The study of prejudice owes a great debt to Gordon Allport, who insightfully outlined the
field's major issues in 1954. Although Allport's definition of prejudice (ch. 1,“What is the …

This study extends the literature on eating disorder symptomatology by testing, based on
extant literature on objectification theory (BL Fredrickson & T. Roberts, 1997) and the role of …

This work tested the following hypothesis: When powerful men stereotype their female
subordinates in masculine domains, they behave in patronizing ways that affect the …

We compared the subtlety of four measures of sexism and sources of variation in male and
female psychology students' judgments that beliefs from these scales and everyday …

We investigated proactive coping with discrimination among heavy women in both a high
impact lab study (101 women) and a daily diary study (62 women). Heavy women assessed …

Effective mentoring can be learned, but not taught. Good mentors discover their own
objectives, methods, and style by mentoring. And mentoring. And mentoring some more …