The Roles of Gender, Gender Role Norm Beliefs, and Experimental E-Contact in Reducing Transgender Prejudice Boccanfuso, E. (University of Sydney), White, F. (University of Sydney) Transgender people experience significant discrimination marked by higher rates of harassment, violence, mental health problems, and suicide, compared to the cisgender population. To attempt to reduce this prejudice, the current […]

“The Revolution Will Be Feminist, or It Will Be Nothing”: Masculinity Threat and Motivation to Engage in Protest in the Context of Recent Social Movement in Chile Wlodarczyk, A. (Universidad Católica del Norte), Kosakowska-Berezecka, N. (University of Gdansk) Several recent studies have documented that the precarious nature of masculinity and compensatory behaviours resulting from threats […]

Rejecting Equality: Psychological Differences Between Australian Gay Men Voting “Yes”, Voting “No”, or Abstaining from Voting on the Legalisation of Same-Sex Marriage Dellers, L. (Griffith University), Thai, M. (Griffith University) In 2017, Australians voted on the legalisation of same-sex marriage. Whereas most gay men voted in support of same-sex marriage (“Yes”), some abstained from voting, […]

Profiling Prejudice: Elucidating the Socio-Cognitive Mechanisms Underpinning Implicit Bias Pennington, C. R. (University of the West of England, Bristol, UK), Shaw, D. J. (Aston University, Birmingham, UK) Borne out of the limitations posed by self-report questionnaires, social psychologists developed implicit measures capable of assessing people’s unconscious prejudicial attitudes (e.g., the Implicit Association Test). Recent meta-analytic […]