Harvard Business School

Learning (Not) to Talk About Race: When Older Children Underperform in Social Categorization

Apfelbaum, Evan P., Kristin Pauker, Nalini Ambady, Samuel R. Sommers, and Michael I. Norton. "Learning (Not) to Talk About Race: When Older Children Underperform in ...
The Michigan Daily

Social media and social stratification

If you have a conversation with three new people every day for 73 years, you will meet 80,000 people throughout your lifetime — only 0.001% of the world’s population. With the creation of popular ...
Harvard Business School

A Social Categorization Explanation for Framing Effects in Nested Social Dilemmas

Polzer, J., K. Stewart, and J. Simmons. "A Social Categorization Explanation for Framing Effects in Nested Social Dilemmas." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 79, no. 2 (August 1999 ...
Nature

Early detection of language categories in face perception

The ability to quickly extract socially relevant information from others is of great importance in our daily social interactions. Faces play a major role in identifying, categorizing and recognizing ...
Psychology Today

Race as a Social Construction

Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show, recently released an autobiography entitled Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood. As a biracial man born and raised in South Africa, he shares ...