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{"title":"Connecting With Others: Diversity Training Shapes Egalitarian Orientations","authors":"Ivuoma N. Onyeador,&nbsp;Katie Duchscherer,&nbsp;Cydney H. Dupree,&nbsp;John F. Dovidio","doi":"10.1111/josi.70013","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josi.70013","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Despite considerable resources invested in diversity training, there has been a paucity of studies that examine the enduring impact of diversity training. The current study was conducted in a workplace setting and is a quasi-experimental empirical evaluation of a widely used diversity training program that includes a daylong workshop and 8 weeks of structured interracial interactions. We examined the effects of this program on diversity-relevant outcomes—motivational, ideological, and attitudinal—over 2 months later. Although the program features content and assigns activities intended to reduce social biases in general, this examination focuses on biases toward Black Americans. In a pre-test/post-test analysis of employees who participated in training, we found that participants reported a significantly lower social dominance orientation (SDO) and significantly more motivation to be nonprejudiced 2 months after the training compared to before. Converging results were observed such that employees who participated in the training program exhibited significantly lower SDO and exhibited marginally higher internal motivation to respond without prejudice compared to employees in a control group who did not participate. No differences were observed for explicit attitudes, implicit bias, or right-wing authoritarianism (RWA). The current study thus documents that diversity interventions administered in “real-world” contexts can have a relatively long-term impact on egalitarian orientations. The research also highlights the need for further investigation of how specific elements of the program (e.g., the training itself, the nature, and duration of interracial contact exercises), and the way they are implemented, may or may not affect different outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"81 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josi.70013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144869241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Only the Blue-Eyed Ones”: How Refugees' Origin and Gender Affect Selective Solidarity Through Perceived Similarity and Threat","authors":"Tijana Karić,&nbsp;Frank Eckerle,&nbsp;Adrian Rothers,&nbsp;Zahra Khosrowtaj,&nbsp;Isabel Müller,&nbsp;Johannes Maaser,&nbsp;J. Christopher Cohrs","doi":"10.1111/josi.70016","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josi.70016","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper investigates social psychological mechanisms underlying selective solidarity with refugees in two experimental studies conducted in Germany. We hypothesized, in line with the geopolitics of racialization and masculinization of refugees, and rooted in social–psychological theories, that refugee origin and gender affect expressions of solidarity and that this can be explained through perceived similarity and threat. Study 1 (<i>N</i> = 969) explored differences in solidarity with Ukrainian and Afghan refugees in an intersection with refugee gender. Study 2 (<i>N</i> = 1228) extended the design to include Syrian and Eritrean refugees and investigated the effect of perceived proportion of gender within each refugee group. Supporting our hypotheses, in both studies, solidarity was highest when refugees were Ukrainian, which was linked to perceptions of cultural similarity and, in turn, lower threat. Moreover, refugees received more solidarity when they were (expected to be) women, which was primarily explained by lower levels of perceived threat. Findings suggest that similarity (e.g., via superordinate European identity categorizations, which are contextually flexible and geopolitically influenced) may explain higher solidarity with Ukrainian refugees. In contrast, Black, Arab, and Muslim refugee men, shaped by negative stereotypes and narratives about cultural dissimilarity, were viewed as more threatening, exacerbating exclusionary attitudes. We argue that selective solidarity reflects ingroup projection processes, strategic helping motives, and identity-based preferences that underscore the fragile and conditional nature of current refugee support. The paper concludes by addressing the implications of these findings, emphasizing the need for proactive measures to uncover and counteract neocolonial migration narratives to foster sustainable and equitable support for all refugees.</p>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"81 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josi.70016","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144869255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Can Deep Canvassing Promote Anti-Carceral Attitudes? A Field Experiment","authors":"Kristen Brock-Petroshius,&nbsp;Martin Gilens","doi":"10.1111/josi.70012","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josi.70012","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Passing and implementing policies that will advance racial equity requires adequate levels of public support. Yet, interventions designed to inform citizens and cultivate such support are rarely successful, especially on highly salient, racialized issues like incarceration and policing. This challenge is further amplified when explicitly discussing racism, which often triggers adverse reactions or backlash. We conducted a pre-registered, randomized, placebo-controlled field experiment making use of deep canvassing conversations—an intensive intervention that has proven effective in shifting views on other highly salient issues. Half of our treatment conversations explicitly discussed anti-Black racism in the criminal legal system, while the other half took a race-absent approach. Outcomes were assessed across three follow-up surveys. We found that both deep canvassing conditions increased support for jail decarceration and other anti-carceral policies. These effects were evident 1 week after the intervention but were limited in their durability after exposure to a counter message and after 6 months post-treatment. Given the general lack of effective persuasion methods in real-world contexts that can endure for even a week, deep canvassing continues to prove a promising method. In contrast to prior research commonly demonstrating null or backlash results from discussing racism, these findings suggest that there are ways to discuss racism that can effectively build support for racial equity policies and change related attitudes. Deep canvassing is not a panacea. Understanding the tradeoffs and limitations of both race-explicit and race-absent approaches helps to inform the strategic choices of organizers, advocates, and scholars.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"81 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144244602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Breaking the Silence: White Privilege Intervention in the Netherlands","authors":"Nivedita Singhal,&nbsp;Ceren Su Abacioglu,&nbsp;Catherine Molho,&nbsp;Berke Tan Tabak","doi":"10.1111/josi.70011","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josi.70011","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the Netherlands, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts typically avoid using the term “race”, instead adopting a broader “diversity inclusion” framework that shifts focus from racial inequalities to cultural differences. Our project aimed to introduce, test, and apply a framework to reduce color-evasive racial attitudes while fostering empathy among White participants toward racialized individuals. We tested a video intervention designed to reduce color-evasive attitudes and explored whether a self-compassion-based writing exercise could enhance ethnocultural empathy—encompassing awareness, beliefs, and actions toward racialized individuals. Specifically, we examined whether this intervention reduced White fear (anxiety about interacting with racialized individuals) and increased guilt and affective empathy when learning about racism. In an online, within-between-subjects experiment, 301 White Dutch participants completed a writing task. In the experimental condition (<i>n</i> = 151), participants reflected on a marginalized identity and practiced self-compassion; in the control condition (<i>n</i> = 150), they wrote on a neutral topic. All participants then watched a video of racialized individuals discussing the harms of color-evasive attitudes. A paired-sample <i>t</i>-test showed the video intervention reduced color-evasive racial attitudes in all participants. However, general linear model analyses found no direct or indirect effect of the writing intervention on ethnocultural empathy. These findings informed a White privilege awareness and allyship workshop (see Supporting Information).</p>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"81 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josi.70011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144214090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Identity Safety in Cancer Screening: Building a Basic Research-to-Clinic Translation of Social Identity Theory","authors":"Katarina E. AuBuchon,&nbsp;Melody Emenyonu,&nbsp;Nikhitha Muthenini,&nbsp;Kristi D. Graves,&nbsp;Hannah Arem","doi":"10.1111/josi.70008","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josi.70008","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Environmental cues can signal identity threat (e.g., potential discrimination) or identity safety (e.g., belonging) to socially marginalized people. However, scant research has examined safety and threat cues in healthcare. In our T1-T2 concurrent triangulation mixed-methods study, participants (age 35–60; ∼25% each cisgender Black women, Black men, Latina, Latino) completed quantitative (<i>n</i> = 288) and qualitative (<i>n</i> = 80) surveys. Participants rated their past healthcare experiences and future cancer screening intentions, analyzed via multiple regression. Participants responded to short-answer questions about their healthcare experiences to identify cues to identity threat and/or identity safety, analyzed via grounded theory. Identity safety related to prostate, breast, and colorectal cancer screening intentions, controlling for mistrust and past discrimination. Qualitative results concurred, indicating that interpersonal cues and environmental features cue safety or threat. Our findings support that Black and Latine people value identity safety in cancer screening, and future interventions could test promoting safety cues to promote cancer screening.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"81 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144135668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Translating Social Psychology for Addressing Implicit Bias in Health Care","authors":"Jeff Stone,&nbsp;Katie Wolsiefer","doi":"10.1111/josi.70010","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josi.70010","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Reseach indicates that healthcare providers' interpersonal biases toward marginalized patients are linked to poorer clinical judgments, strained interactions, and worse health outcomes. These biases often lead patients to disengage from care, including avoiding future visits to the same providers or clinics, and possibly seek fewer effective alternatives for treating disease. In this paper, we use the clinical and translational science (CTS) framework to review the translational work we have done on implicit bias in health care in three domains: Documenting the implicit nature of the biases that different health care providers hold toward various marginalized patient groups, examining the associations between provider bias and interactions with marginalized patients and their outcomes, and developing and testing the effectiveness of workshops that teach providers about bias and bias reduction strategies they can use when they interact with marginalized patients.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"81 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144135701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An Intervention to Increase Belonging and Support Retention for Faculty of Color and Women Faculty","authors":"Robyn K. Mallett,&nbsp;Zahra Naqi-Hasnain,&nbsp;Dana Garbarski,&nbsp;Christine Li-Grining,&nbsp;David C. Ensminger,&nbsp;Walter Tangarife,&nbsp;Badia Ahad","doi":"10.1111/josi.70009","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josi.70009","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Faculty of Color and women faculty face significant obstacles (e.g., isolation, marginalization, tokenism) on the road to tenure and promotion. We translate social psychological research on the contact hypothesis and belonging and adapt previous interventions at other universities to deliver an institutional-level intervention designed to support faculty belonging and retention. This study utilizes a faculty climate survey and institutional-level demographic data to assess tenure-track faculty belonging and retention following the intervention. We observe greater perceptions of institutional support for diversity and lesser disparities in belonging and tenure rates among historically marginalized faculty over three years following the intervention. We discuss how social psychologists may help translate basic research into institutional interventions that promote racial justice and equity. Our work illustrates the potential for targeted initiatives to reduce disparities and promote equity and representation in academia, ultimately benefiting both faculty and students.</p>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"81 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josi.70009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144135669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Impact of Science Denial and Pseudoscience on the Behavioral and Social Sciences","authors":"Naomi Oreskes","doi":"10.1111/josi.70007","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josi.70007","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This special volume presents a set of papers on science denial and pseudoscience. I identify three key contributions. One is that social and behavioral scientists are able to able to analyze motivations and states of mind that contribute to the rejection of mainstream science and acceptance of pseudo-science and false claims. Two, the papers in this volume take a number of informal gleanings and suggestions, and subject them to rigorous and much-needed analysis. Three, the papers clarify that while some people who reject science may suffer pathologies, such as the desire for chaos or the expression of spite, most do not. Targeted interventions that accurately identify the target group are more likely to succeed than “one size fits all” approaches. That said, there is the potential tension between understanding science denial as a manifestation of pain and suffering versus understanding it as a problem of information deficit. The good news is that evidence suggests that most science deniers are not suffering pathologies, and that many people do benefit from good information, presented in engaging ways. Collectively these papers demonstrate that science rejection is a matter of both ignorance and willful rejection, and that both can be addressed, albeit most likely in different ways.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"81 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143865611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Institutionalized Misinformation in US Education: Combatting the Overselling of Learning Styles and Underselling of Spaced Effort","authors":"Anne M. Cleary,&nbsp;Daniel H. Robinson","doi":"10.1111/josi.70005","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josi.70005","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Similar to medicine and climate science, education suffers from the spread of misinformation in the United States. Learning styles are an approach that, despite being shown to be <i>ineffective</i> at benefiting learning, is oversold in education, continuing to be extensively implemented, institutionalized, and widely believed to benefit learning. At the same time, over a century of rigorous experimental evidence indicates the effectiveness of spaced learning efforts for enhancing memory retention, skill acquisition, and coming to new understandings in the learning process, yet spacing is undersold in US education. We suggest that research on misinformation spread, pseudoscience, and science denial in domains like vaccines and climate change is relevant to misinformation spread regarding learning styles. We further suggest that the misinformation literature could inform the development of methods for decreasing the spread of misinformation concerning learning styles while increasing the spread of accurate information about spacing's benefits. These efforts could help to accelerate the rate at which the integration of new developments across disciplines can pave the way for a better integration of rigorous experimental science and policy and practice in US education.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"81 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143707576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Transforming the World”: Using Research to Learn From Activists","authors":"Abigail J. Stewart","doi":"10.1111/josi.70003","DOIUrl":"10.1111/josi.70003","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In this paper, I use evidence from the Global Feminisms Project (GFP) online archive to address three key questions: (1) How are activists created? (2) How do negative stereotypes affect activists? (3) How has the global decline in democracy affected collective action promoting social justice? Social scientists have addressed all of these issues with different kinds of data, often with samples from the United States that include both activists and non-activists. Instead, my colleagues and I draw on oral history interviews with long-term women's movement activists drawn from several different countries over the past two and a half decades. We encourage the use of archival materials like these to study other questions of importance to social scientists who seek to understand what stimulates and maintains activism, strategies used by activists, and the ways that changes over time in the social environment affect activists’ strategies.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"81 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143632679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}