Social biases and discrimination
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During everyday social interaction, people constantly make judgments about each other’s behaviour, intentions, and personality. The underlying cognitive processes of these judgments, however, are often unconscious and people are mostly unaware of why they arrive at certain judgments or conclusions. This makes judgments about other people prone to biases and sometimes encourages systematic attribution of negative traits to certain individuals or groups. Furthermore, social biases, such as racial or gender biases, can lead to discrimination or exclusion of individuals. The research articles included in this Collection explore the psychological aspects giving rise to and helping maintain social biases and how these biases affect social interaction. Work from all areas of Psychology is welcomed.
Editors
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Angelo Brandelli Costa
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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Ilan Dar-Nimrod
University of Sydney, Australia
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Yukiori Goto
Kyoto University, Japan
Angelo Brandelli Costa is an Associate Professor of Social Psychology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). He is the coordinator of the Research Group: Prejudice, Vulnerability, and Psychosocial Processes; his area of research is social psychology and health, with an emphasis on prejudice and social attitudes, sexuality, gender, and HIV/AIDS. Dr Brandelli Costa has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2021.
Ilan Dar-Nimrod is an Associate Professor at the School of Psychology, University of Sydney. Ilan’s main research focus is social cognition – the manner in which our social world affects our cognition. In addition to this main line of research, he maintains ongoing research on a number of topics, such as existential social and clinical psychology, sexuality, gender psychology, and the psychology of religion. Dr Dar-Nimrod has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2021.
Yukiori Goto is an Associate Professor in the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Technology at Kyoto University Graduate School of Informatics, Japan. His research focuses on information processing mechanisms that mediate brain functions, such as social cognition and decision-making, and their dysfunctions in psychiatric disorders. His research interests also encompass evolutionary perspectives of these brain functions and dysfunctions. Dr Goto has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2019.
