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The Psychology of Gender Identity and Sexuality Based Inequality

Sa-kiera Hudson - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

From recent bans on queer and feminist literature in public school systems, to restrictions on gender-affirming healthcare, to reduced access to reproductive healthcare, gender identity and sexuality is increasingly at the center of political and ideological discourse in the U.S. As a research laboratory studying social identity and hierarchy...

 Social Sciences   Education, Cognition & Psychology

2A: Misperceptions of Racial Economic Progress and the Concealment of Racial Inequality // 2B: Ambivalent stereotypes of Asian Americans and their hierarchy-enhancing function in US society

Sa-kiera Hudson - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Project 2A: If you were to estimate how much income and wealth the average Black family in the U.S. had relative to their White counterparts in 1963 and 2019, how accurate do you think you would be? It turns out that most people are extremely inaccurate, consistently and systematically overestimating...

 Social Sciences   Education, Cognition & Psychology

Empathy, Schadenfreude, and Intergroup Social Hierarchy: How Emotions Enforce and Attenuate Inequality

Sa-kiera Hudson - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Have you ever laughed when someone tripped, felt joy when someone faced the consequences of their actions, or celebrated when a rival sports team or political party lost? When people think about the role of emotions in intergroup relations, they tend to think of empathy, commonly defined as the sensitivity...

 Social Sciences   Education, Cognition & Psychology

Intersectionality in Psychology: How Multiple Identities Shape Prejudice and Discrimination

Sa-kiera Hudson - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

In 1989, University of California Los Angeles law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term intersectionality to describe how intersecting structures of power shape modes of discrimination and prejudice. Drawing from Black feminism, Crenshaw argued that the discrimination of Black women could not be understood as simply a composite of sexism...

 Social Sciences   Education, Cognition & Psychology

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