The present study examined if White Americans could be motivated to decrease their endorsement of meritocracy as a system-legitimizing ideology. Previous research has found that presenting a college orientation program as ...

The present study examines how the experience of marginalized identities informs the narration of college experiences and relates to adjustment and well-being. Students at a highly selective liberal arts college (N = 107) ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has considerably impacted many people's lives, precipitating an emerging psychological crisis. As an era in which many of the world's people had engaged in some degree of self-isolation, this study ...

Research about identity development suggests that exploration and commitment to identity domains leads to identity achievement, which is important for optimal psychological functioning. Additionally, integrating multiple ...

This series of studies examines the concept of growth mindset in two separate but equally as important contexts: climate change and incarceration. Study 1 investigates the relationship between growth mindset and hopefulness ...

Early associations between social categories, such as race and class, are highly relevant to children's developing social biases. This research (N = 57) investigated the development of associations between race and class, ...

Group-based inequality continues to be a problem across the globe, as the past decade has seen a backlash against growing racial and religious diversity, particularly in the West. Here, using a novel groups paradigm with ...

Women face the complex and unique problem of having to negotiate their career and parent identities. From as young as adolescence and long through adulthood, these identities can and often exist in conflict. The present ...

The present study aimed to examine whether a brief mindfulness breathing exercise would reduce the amount of mind-wandering and used the P300 portion of the ERP peak as a neural measure of attention. Participants (N = 24) ...

Clinically, sleep disorders are prevalent during pregnancy with more sleep disruptions occurring from late pregnancy through the postpartum period. Although there are many physical demands associated with pregnancy and ...