Despite a growing body of epidemiological evidence in recent years documenting the health
impacts of racism, the cumulative evidence base has yet to be synthesized in a …

The evidence is now overwhelming that discrimination negatively impacts both the physical
and mental health of minority groups. Members of multiple-minority groups, such as lesbian …

This chapter provides an overview of two prominent approaches to wellbeing, the hedonic
and the eudaimonic, both with roots traceable to the ancient Greeks. We first examine the …

British Psychology Society Textbook of the Year 2020 Why do people who are more socially
connected live longer and have better health than those who are socially isolated? Why are …

During the COVID-19 pandemic, sizeable groups of unvaccinated people persist even in
countries with high vaccine access. As a consequence, vaccination became a controversial …

According to social identity theory, people derive part of their identity–their social identity–
from the groups to which they belong (eg, an identity as “student,”“woman,”“left-hander,” or …

Large-scale environmental crises are genuinely collective phenomena: they usually result
from collective, rather than personal, behavior and how they are cognitively represented and …

The health of people's body and mind is powerfully conditioned by social factors that affect
their social identity. Consistent with this notion, there is a growing interest in the way that …

This contribution reviews work on the queen bee phenomenon whereby women leaders
assimilate into male-dominated organizations (ie, organizations in which most executive …

Theories of race relations have been shaped by the concept of a racial hierarchy along
which Whites are the most advantaged and African Americans the most disadvantaged …