Psychology Newsletter

In honor of Black History Month, we are highlighting work important to race and racial justice.

Improving Psychology Research

Psychological research has a racism problem

Across five decades of psychological research, publications that highlight race are rare, and when race is discussed, it is authored mostly and edited almost entirely by white scholars, according to a new Stanford study.

Statistics on racial disparities should be paired with context, emphasis on importance of institutional policy in shaping inequality

In a new research paper, Stanford scholars Rebecca Hetey and Jennifer Eberhardt propose new ways to talk about racial disparities.

Featured Publications

Teachers more likely to label black students as troublemakers

Stanford psychologists Jennifer Eberhardt and Jason Okonofua experimentally examined the psychological processes involved when teachers discipline black students more harshly than white students.

Stanford scholars develop interventions to reduce disparities in school discipline and support belonging among negatively stereotyped boys

Stanford psychologists find that brief exercises early in middle school can improve students’ relationships with their teachers, increase their sense of belonging and reduce teachers’ reports of discipline issues among black and Latino boys for up to seven years.

Spotlight

Stanford psychologist identifies seven factors that contribute to American racism

Of the seven factors the researchers identified, perhaps the most insidious is passivism or passive racism, which includes an apathy toward systems of racial advantage or denial that those systems even exist.

Featured Publications

"God as a White man: A psychological barrier to conceptualizing Black people and women as leadership worthy" by Steven O. Robersons, Kara Weisman, Jonathan D. Lane, Amber Williams, Nicholas P. Camp, Michelle Wang, Mishaela Robison, Kiara Sanchez, and Camila Griffiths, published in December 2020 in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
"Race influences professional investors’ financial judgments" by Sarah Lyons-Padilla, Hazel Rose Markus, Ashby Monk, Sid Radhakrishna, Radhika Shah, Norris A. “Daryn” Dodson IV, and Jennifer L. Eberhardt, published in August 2019 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"Language from police body camera footage shows racial disparities in officer respect" by Rob Voigt, Nicholas P. Camp, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, William L. Hamilton, Rebecca C. Hetey, Camilla M. Griffiths, David Jurgens, Dan Jurafsky, and Jennifer L. Eberhardt, published in June 2017 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"Teaching a lay theory before college narrows achievement gaps at scale" by David S. Yeager, Gregory M. Walton, Shannon T. Brady, Ezgi N. Akcinar, David Paunesku, Laura Keane, Donald Kamentz, Gretchen Ritter, Angela Lee Duckworth, Robert Urstein, Eric M. Gomez, Hazel Rose Markus, Geoffrey L. Cohen, and Carol S. Dweck, published in May 2016 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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