
Discrimination: What it is and how to cope
Oct 31, 2019 · 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, …
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, …
Discussing discrimination
Mar 9, 2016 · Gwendolyn Keita, PhD, executive director of APA’s Public Interest Directorate discusses how and why to put discrimination on the conversation agenda. According to …
Ageism is one of the last socially acceptable prejudices.
Mar 1, 2023 · Psychologists are examining the age discrimination that pervades American culture and helping people to reimagine healthier relationships with their older selves.
Talking to kids about discrimination
Mar 9, 2016 · 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 …
The use of algorithms holds promise for overcoming human biases in decision-mak-ing, but they frequently make decisions that discriminate. Media coverage suggests that people are morally …
The burden of weight stigma
Mar 1, 2022 · Part of the reason for that, experts say, is that it remains legal to discriminate against people because of their weight. Only Michigan, Washington state, and a handful of …
Transgender Exclusion in Sports
Without conclusive evidence that transgender girls are “biologically male,” this policy and legislation stands on antitransgender accusations that have disproportionately been used to …
When therapists face discrimination
Advice for psychologists who encounter racism, ageism and other forms of intolerance in the therapy room.
Interpreting item statistics
Dec 14, 2021 · Some teachers use online assessment systems (often embedded inside district Student Information Systems) that report ‘item statistics’ for their assessments.