A5066244220- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Higher Education Research Studies
- Psychosocial Factors Impacting Youth
- Employer Branding and e-HRM
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Gender Diversity and Inequality
- Sex and Gender in Healthcare
- Consumer Perception and Purchasing Behavior
- Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees
- Critical Race Theory in Education
- School Choice and Performance
- Education Discipline and Inequality
- Gender Roles and Identity Studies
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Migration, Health and Trauma
University of California, Los Angeles
2016-2023
Organizations aim to convey that they are diverse and inclusive, in part, recruit racial minorities. We investigate a previously unexamined downside of this recruitment strategy: diversity dishonesty, is, belief an organization is falsely or incorrectly inflating its actual diversity. In four studies (total N = 871), we found dishonesty heightened minorities’ concerns about fitting in, being authentic, performing well at the organization. also evidence-based cues (which “show” observers...
Essentialism—the belief that differences between groups of people are biologically based and unchangeable—is strongly associated with prejudice toward a variety social groups. The present work examines how gender essentialism shapes support for the rights two marginalized groups: women transgender people. Study 1 provides correlational evidence endorsement is robust predictor people’s opposition to both women’s rights, over above other individual difference measures. Studies 2 3 provide...
The current study examines how gender discrimination by adults in school is linked with depressive symptoms and sleep duration over time middle school. main goal to test one psychological mechanism that can account for such associations: perceived unfairness. Relying on a racially-ethnically diverse sample of girls (N = 2,718, Mage 13.01, SDage 0.39) from 26 schools, multilevel mediation analyses revealed who experienced school-based an adult seventh grade reported higher levels unfairness...
To gain insights into whether schools striving to improve intergroup dynamics should curb disliking or facilitate liking across students of different ethnic groups, the current study examines associations between interpersonal affect and relations in multiethnic schools. Given (i.e., outgoing) peer nominations liked disliked grade-mates were coded by ethnicity 26 public middle schools, including all Asian, Black, Latinx, White ( N = 4,350). Controlling for earlier attitudes availability...
The current work explores the effects of racial miscategorization (incongruence between other people's categorization an individual and that individual's self-identification) subjective well-being multiracial individuals in Hawai'i versus California. We set out to examine how experience more or less ethnically diverse environments this shapes extent which they feel a sense belonging inclusion.The study consisted interviews with 55 undergraduate graduate students conducted (20 self-identified...
Many European nations are experiencing unparalleled social change as a function of large numbers recent refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Northern Africa.Recent political unrest in the Middle East particular has led children families to seek asylum neighboring Europe.The International Organization Migration (IOM) estimates that 2015 there were three four times more migrants arriving Europe than 2014 (Miles, 2015).The Union received 1.3 million seekers both 2016 (Eurostat, 2017; see...