Venting makes people prefer—and preferentially support—us over those we vent about
On (Im)Patience: A New Approach to an Old Virtue.
Academic abstractPatience has been of great interest to religious scholars, philosophers, and psychological scientists. Their efforts have produced numerous insights but no cohesive theoretical approach to understanding the broad set of experiences people label as patience. I propose a novel view of patience, one that departs from but ties together...
Second-Class Care: How Immigration Law Transforms Clinical Practice in the Safety Net.
This article examines how U.S. immigration law extends into the health care safety net, enacting medical legal violence that diminishes noncitizens' health chances and transforms clinical practices. Drawing on interviews with health care workers in three U.S. states from 2015 to 2020, I ask how federal citizenship-based exclusions within an already...
Volatility in Expectations While Awaiting Important News
Waiting for important news is uniquely anxiety provoking, and expectations for one's outcome fluctuate throughout the wait. Emotional volatility is typically associated with negative outcomes, but little is known about volatility in expectations. In Study 1, law graduates (N = 248) estimated their chances of passing the bar exam every 2 weeks durin...
Implicit Attitudes Evoked by a Singular American Slur: Five Experiments on N***er and N***a in Samples of Black and Whit...
Five studies examined implicit (IAT) attitudes toward the slurs n***er and n***a among Black and White Americans (total N = 3,226). Both groups showed strong implicit negativity toward n***er/a combined relative to socially acceptable contrast terms such as Black or African American. Controlling for baseline Black–White race attitudes, Black Americ...
The HDI + ROPE Decision Rule Is Logically Incoherent But We Can Fix It
The Bayesian highest-density interval plus region of practical equivalence (HDI + ROPE) decision rule is an increasingly common approach to testing null parameter values. The decision procedure involves a comparison between a posterior highest-density interval (HDI) and a prespecified region of practical equivalence. One then accepts or rejects the...
Hate Speech Against Asian American Youth: Pre-Pandemic Trends and The Role of School Factors
Abstract: Although hate speech against Asian American youth has intensified in recent years—fueled, in part, by anti-Asian rhetoric associated with the COVID-19 pandemic—the phenomenon remains largely understudied at scale and in relation to the role of schools prior to the pandemic. This study describes the prevalence of hate speech against Asian ...
Two notes on Wiezel et al.: Explaining why people disfavor dominant leaders and exploring overlooked sources of women's ...
Mental health disparities of sexual minority refugees and asylum seekers: Provider perspectives on trauma exposure, symp...
Refugees and asylum seekers who identify as sexual minorities and/or who have been persecuted for same-sex acts maneuver through multiple oppressive systems at all stages of migration. Sexual minority refugees and asylum seekers (SM RAS) report experiencing a greater number of persecutory experiences and worse mental health symptoms than refugees a...
Enhancing Epilepsy Awareness and Cooperative Care in Elementary and Middle Schools
Epilepsy, a prevalent chronic neurological disorder, presents numerous challenges for people with epilepsy (PWEs) and their caregivers. They experience difficulties in receiving proper care and support due to stigma and misconceptions. Promoting public awareness in early education would be critical to reduce the stigma and to properly support them....
