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View article: Group stereotypes: Their content, importance, correlation, and impact
Group stereotypes: Their content, importance, correlation, and impact Open
This chapter reviews several dimensional models of stereotypes. We begin by discussing the number and content of the dimensions on which people describe societal groups. We then explain how the order of importance of the stereotype dimensi…
View article: The Complex Ring of Jingle Bells: The Association Between Christmas and Implicit Bias Towards Racial, Religious, and Sexual Minorities
The Complex Ring of Jingle Bells: The Association Between Christmas and Implicit Bias Towards Racial, Religious, and Sexual Minorities Open
Every year, billions of people celebrate Christmas all over the world – a religious event that is characterized by transient yet considerable changes in people’s social, cultural, and demographic environment. Drawing on the Bias of Crowds …
View article: Unconstrained descriptions of Facebook profile pictures support high-dimensional models of impression formation
Unconstrained descriptions of Facebook profile pictures support high-dimensional models of impression formation Open
Dominant models of impression formation focus on two fundamental dimensions: a horizontal dimension of warmth/communion/trustworthiness and a vertical dimension of competence/agency/dominance. However, these models have typically been stud…
View article: Failing to replicate predicts citation declines in psychology
Failing to replicate predicts citation declines in psychology Open
With a sample of 228 psychology papers that failed to replicate, we tested whether the trajectory of citation patterns changes following the publication of a failure to replicate. Across models, we found consistent evidence that failing to…
View article: Intersectional implicit bias: Evidence for asymmetrically compounding bias and the predominance of target gender.
Intersectional implicit bias: Evidence for asymmetrically compounding bias and the predominance of target gender. Open
Little is known about implicit evaluations of complex, multiply categorizable social targets. Across five studies (N = 5,204), we investigated implicit evaluations of targets varying in race, gender, social class, and age. Overall, the lar…
View article: Review of ‘It’s Not What Was Said But Who Said It To Whom: Interactant Sex Affects Attributions of Sexism in Ambiguous Situations’
Review of ‘It’s Not What Was Said But Who Said It To Whom: Interactant Sex Affects Attributions of Sexism in Ambiguous Situations’ Open
Review of Grawitch et al. (2022)
View article: Intersectional Implicit Bias: Evidence for Asymmetrically Compounding Bias and The Predominance of Target Gender
Intersectional Implicit Bias: Evidence for Asymmetrically Compounding Bias and The Predominance of Target Gender Open
Little is known about implicit evaluations of complex, multiply categorizable social targets. Across five studies (N = 5,204), we investigated implicit evaluations of targets varying in race, gender, social class, and age. Overall, the lar…
View article: Empirical audit and review and an assessment of evidentiary value in research on the psychological consequences of scarcity
Empirical audit and review and an assessment of evidentiary value in research on the psychological consequences of scarcity Open
Empirical audit and review is an approach to assessing the evidentiary value of a research area. It involves identifying a topic and selecting a cross-section of studies for replication. We apply the method to research on the psychological…
View article: A Critique of a Critique of a Critique: Response to Payne, Vuletich, and Lunberg (2020): Critique of the Bias of Crowds Model Simply Restates the Model.”
A Critique of a Critique of a Critique: Response to Payne, Vuletich, and Lunberg (2020): Critique of the Bias of Crowds Model Simply Restates the Model.” Open
This is an open peer review of Payne, Vuletich, and Lundberg (2020) "Reply to Connor and Evers (2020): Critique of the Bias of Crowds Model Simply Restates the Model.”
View article: Motivated numeracy and active reasoning in a Western European sample
Motivated numeracy and active reasoning in a Western European sample Open
Recent work by Kahan et al. (2017) on the psychology of motivated numeracy in the context of intracultural disagreement suggests that people are less likely to employ their capabilities when the evidence runs contrary to their political id…
View article: The Bias of Individuals (In Crowds): Why Implicit Bias is Probably a Noisily-Measured Individual-Level Construct
The Bias of Individuals (In Crowds): Why Implicit Bias is Probably a Noisily-Measured Individual-Level Construct Open
Payne, Vuletich, and Lundberg’s bias-of-crowds model proposes that a number of empirical puzzles can be resolved by conceptualizing implicit bias as a feature of situations rather than a feature of individuals. In the present article we ar…
View article: Social Class Competence Stereotypes Are Amplified by Socially Signaled Economic Inequality
Social Class Competence Stereotypes Are Amplified by Socially Signaled Economic Inequality Open
A number of psychological theories suggest that increased economic inequality may lead to greater social class stereotyping. However, all existing evidence for this claim is correlational. Across three experiments (one exploratory and two …
View article: Inequality in the minimal group paradigm: How relative wealth and its justification influence ingroup bias
Inequality in the minimal group paradigm: How relative wealth and its justification influence ingroup bias Open
This article details a registered report for a well-powered (N = 1500) experiment examining the influence of wealth inequality between groups on ingroup bias, as well as the potential moderating role of justification for the wealth distrib…
View article: Income Inequality and White-On-Black Racial Bias in the United States: Evidence from Project Implicit and Google Trends
Income Inequality and White-On-Black Racial Bias in the United States: Evidence from Project Implicit and Google Trends Open
Several theories predict that income inequality may produce increased racial bias, but robust tests of this hypothesis are lacking. We examined this relationship at the U.S. state level from 2004 to 2015 using Internal Revenue Service–base…
View article: Income Inequality and White-on-Black Racial Bias in the United States: Evidence From Project Implicit and Google Trends
Income Inequality and White-on-Black Racial Bias in the United States: Evidence From Project Implicit and Google Trends Open
Several theories predict that income inequality may produce increased racial bias, but robust tests of this hypothesis are lacking. We examined this relationship at the U.S. state level from 2004 to 2015 using Internal Revenue Service–base…