- Discrimination: What it is and how to cope
For many people, discrimination is an everyday reality Discrimination is the unfair or prejudicial treatment of people and groups based on characteristics such as race, gender, age, or sexual orientation
- Racism, bias, and discrimination
Racism is a form of prejudice that generally includes negative emotional reactions, acceptance of negative stereotypes, and discrimination against individuals Discrimination involves negative, hostile, and injurious treatment of members of rejected groups
- Discussing discrimination
Gwendolyn Keita, PhD, executive director of APA’s Public Interest Directorate discusses how and why to put discrimination on the conversation agenda According to psychological research, talking openly about discrimination may threaten to unmask both conscious and unconscious belief systems about one’s own bias and prejudices
- Talking to kids about discrimination
Discussing discrimination can be hard enough for adults Talking to kids about the subject can be especially daunting People can be discriminated against for any number of reasons, including age, gender, weight, religion, income level, disability, sexual orientation, and race or ethnicity According to the 2015 APA Stress in America Survey, most Americans feel they have experienced
- Scientific research illuminating the mental health impacts of racism . . .
A study in JAMA Network Open suggests that racial discrimination can trigger depression and anxiety in some Black adolescents Researchers asked 1,596 Black adolescents in the United States to fill out a survey about their experiences of interpersonal racial discrimination and their feelings of marginalization The researchers then acquired fMRI brain imaging data while the participants viewed
- Exploring the cause and effects of subtle discrimination
A Rice University psychology lab is studying the more elusive forms of discrimination and ways to protect stigmatized groups
- Interpreting item statistics
The Pt Biserial (point by serial) is the discrimination score You can think of a discrimination score as a correlation showing how highly correlated a correct or incorrect answer on that item is with a high or low score on the test overall Discrimination scores can be a "red flag" about a problematic item
- A brief history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender social movements
Most historians agree that there is evidence of homosexual activity and same-sex love, whether such relationships were accepted or persecuted, in every documented culture
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