The Reality of Contemporary Discrimination in the United States The Consequences of Hidden Bias in Real World Contexts

by Nier, Jason A.; Gaertner, Samuel L.; Levy, Sheri R.

• ISBN13: 9781118492246
• ISBN10: 1118492242
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-07-31
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Using a variety of rigorous approaches from psychology, sociology, economics, and legal studies, this interdisciplinary issue will examine the consequences of subtle form of racial and gender bias, and how these biases may be detected in the real world. -Examining the real world impact of subtle bias and discrimination -Methodologically and conceptually rigorous -Interdisciplinary focus, integrating research from psychology, sociology, economics, and the law -Informs civil rights law and public policy

Author Biography

JASON A. NIER is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Connecticut College. His research has focused primarily on the measurement of intergroup attitudes and stereotypes, and the study of interventions that reduce bias and conflict between groups. He has authored or co-authored numerous articles and book chapters, which have appeared in journals such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

SAMUEL L. GAERTNER is Professor of Psychology at the University of Delaware. His research interests involve intergroup relations with a focus on understanding and reducing prejudice, discrimination and racism. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. Currently, Professor Gaertner is co-editor (with Rupert Brown, Sussex University, UK), of Social Issues and Policy Review.

Table of Contents

SECTION I: INTRODUCTION

The Challenge of Detecting Contemporary Forms of Discrimination (Jason A. Nier and Samuel L. Gaertner)

SECTION II: DETECTING CONTEMPORARY DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT CONTEXTS

Identifying Discrimination at Work: The Use of Field Experiments (Devah Pager and Bruce Western)

Developing the Research Basis for Controlling Bias in Hiring (Marc Bendick, Jr. and Ana P. Nunes)

Dearth by a Thousand Cuts?: Accounting for Gender Differences in Top-Ranked Publication Rates in Social Psychology (Mina Cikara, Laurie Rudman, and Susan Fiske)

SECTION III: DETECTING CONTEMPORARY DISCRIMINATION IN LEGAL CONTEXTS

The World is Not Black and White: Racial Bias in the Decision to Shoot in a Multiethnic Context (Melody S. Sadler, Joshua Correll, Bernadette Park, and Charles M. Judd)

The Missing Quadrants of Antidiscrimination: Going Beyond the “Prejudice Polygraph” (Jerry Kang)

SECTION IV: CONTEMPORARY DISCRIMINATION AND WELLNESS

Life-Threatening Disparities: Treatment of Black and White Cancer Patients (Louis A. Penner, Susan Eggly, Jennifer J. Griggs, Willie Underwood, III, Heather Orom, and Terrance L. Albrecht)

Racism and Social Capital: The Implications for Social and Physical Well-Being (Elizabeth Brondolo, Madeline Libretti, Luis Rivera, and Katrina M. Walsemann)

SECTION V: CONCLUSIONS

Intergroup Disparities and Implicit Bias: A Commentary (Emily L. Fisher and Eugene Borgida)

Contemporary Discrimination in the Lab and Field: Benefits and Obstacles of Full-Cycle Social Psychology (Nilanjana Dasgupta and Jane G. Stout)

SECTION VI: 2011 KURT LEWIN AWARD

Introduction to Michelle Fine’s SPSSI Kurt Lewin Award Address (Susan Opotow)

Resuscitating Critical Psychology for “Revolting” Times (Michelle Fine)