When do we confront? Perceptions of costs and benefits predict confronting discrimination on behalf of the self and others

JJ Good, CA Moss-Racusin… - Psychology of Women …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Across two studies, we tested whether perceived social costs and benefits of confrontation
would similarly predict confronting discrimination both when it was experienced and when it …

Perceptions of non‐target confronters in response to racist and heterosexist remarks

CL Dickter, JA Kittel, II Gyurovski - European Journal of Social …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Research has established that targets who express disagreement with prejudicial comments
directed toward their social group may be viewed negatively by those they confront or by …

Investigating the relationship between perceived discrimination, social status, and mental health

H Lee, K Turney - Society and mental health, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
A growing body of evidence suggests that experiences with discrimination have implications
for mental health and that these associations may vary by social status. We use data from …

¿ Empoderamiento o subyugación de la mujer? Experiencias de cosificación sexual interpersonal

G Sáez, I Valor-Segura, F Expósito - Psychosocial intervention, 2012 - Elsevier
La cosificación sexual interpersonal es la reducción de una mujer a su cuerpo o partes de
éste. Este fenómeno puede ser considerado como una forma de discriminación sexista, en …

When are people interchangeable sexual objects? The effect of gender and body type on sexual fungibility

SJ Gervais, TK Vescio, J Allen - British Journal of Social …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The purpose of this research was to empirically examine the fungibility hypothesis derived
from sexual objectification theory. Sexual objectification theorists have suggested that like …

How to talk about gender inequity in the workplace: Using WAGES as an experiential learning tool to reduce reactance and promote self-efficacy

MJ Zawadzki, CL Danube, SA Shields - Sex Roles, 2012 - Springer
Interventions aimed at raising awareness of gender inequity in the workplace provide
information about sexism, which can elicit reactance or fail to promote self-efficacy. We …

Confronting hate: Heterosexuals' responses to anti-gay comments

CL Dickter - Journal of Homosexuality, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
An online diary study was used to examine the individual and situational variables that
influence non-targets' verbal and nonverbal reactions and responses to sexually prejudiced …

Sexism and heterosexism.

DM Szymanski, LB Moffitt - 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
Sexism and heterosexism refer to negative attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that devalue,
denigrate, stigmatize, or restrict females or female-related characteristics and lesbian, gay …

Implicit theories shape intergroup relations

PB Carr, A Rattan, CS Dweck - Advances in experimental social …, 2012 - Elsevier
It is often assumed that improving intergroup relations is simply a matter of directly
addressing prejudice. In this chapter, we show that this is not the case. Instead, we …

Thanks, but no thanks: Women's avoidance of help-seeking in the context of a dependency-related stereotype

JRH Wakefield, N Hopkins… - Psychology of Women …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
The stereotype that women are dependent on men is a commonly verbalized, potentially
damaging aspect of benevolent sexism. We investigated how women may use behavioral …