Character & Context

The Science of Who We Are and How We Relate

Editors: Judith Hall, Leah Dickens, Colleen Sinclair

Jan 22, 2021

Can Witnessing Discrimination Lead White People to Take Action?

by Özden Melis Uluğ & Linda R. Tropp

Paper cutout of black individual stands separate from group of white cutouts

Witnessing racial discrimination may motivate White people to protest for racial justice because they become more aware of White privilege.

Jan 20, 2021 Do We Have to Judge Books By Their Covers? by Kao-Wei Chua We make snap judgments about other people based on facial appearance, but we can change these judgments with experience.	Jan 18, 2021 People Believe that Prison Transforms Prisoners for the Better by Jason C. Deska & Kurt Hugenberg Criminals are frequently dehumanized, but this reduces as prisoners approach release. Why?
Jan 15, 2021 Left or Right? How You Hold a Baby is Linked to Emotional and Racial Biases by Gianluca Malatesta, Daniele Marzoli, and Luca Tommasi Turns out the left side is preferred, but most people are probably unaware of its possible implications.	Jan 13, 2021 Playing with Power: Humor as Everyday Resistance by Anna Dobai & Nick Hopkins Very funny… But who’s laughing now?

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Everything that people think, feel, and do is affected by some combination of their personal characteristics and features of the social context they are in at the time. Character & Context explores the latest insights about human behavior from research in personality and social psychology, the scientific field that studies the causes of everyday behaviors.

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