A team including two Illinois Institute of Technology associate professors of psychology and an Illinois Tech graduate has published a paper showing that autonomy-supportive communication is crucial ...

“All the world’s a stage. And all the men and women merely players.” —Act II, Scene VII, As You Like It, by William Shakespeare. Since the early days of psychology, researchers have been interested in ...

Intergroup contact theorises that structured interactions between members of different social groups can reduce prejudice and foster positive relations. Originating with Allport’s contact hypothesis, ...

Politics has increasingly become a numbers game, with data-driven strategy the centerpiece of modern policymaking and messaging. The proliferation of polls, focus groups, and punditry is a testament ...

Abstract: Can exposure to celebrities from a stigmatized group reduce prejudice toward that group writ large? We estimate the causal effect of Mohammed Salah—a visibly Muslim soccer player— joining ...

Many political scientists go their entire careers without publishing once in the American Political Science Review. The APSR is the discipline's most prestigious and selective journal, publishing ...