Presented By: Research Center for Group Dynamics (RCGD)
RCGD Fall Seminar Series: The Social Psychology of Systemic Racism (Stacey Sinclair)
How the way diversity is framed impacts majority and minority group members
Oct. 28, 2024, Stacey Sinclair (Princeton University)
How the way diversity is framed impacts majority and minority group members
Stacey Sinclair will describe a program of research that examines the ironic nature of efforts to support racial diversity in American universities. American universities are more apt to embrace racial diversity because it serves institutional goals, such as enhancement of group learning and corresponding cognitive skills (i.e., institutional rationales), rather than because it manifests institutional values, such as fairness (i.e., moral rationales). Our research suggests that instrumental rationales do not reflect the preferences of those they are purported to serve, low-status racial minorities. Rather, they comport with the preferences of White Americans, especially political conservatives. Further, embracing instrumental rationales in the absence of moral rationales is associated with negative outcomes for low-status racial minorities.
The RCGD Seminar Series on the Social Psychology of Systemic Racism meets Mondays from 3:30 to 5 at ISR Thompson 1430. When speaker permission is given, events will be recorded and posted within a few weeks to YouTube.
The Social Psychology of Systemic Racism
What are the points of connection between structures and individuals when we think about bias? In the Fall 2024 RCGD Seminar Series “The Social Psychology of Systemic Racism,” an all-star lineup of behavioral and political psychologists will define what, in their words, makes systemic racism systemic, and how extra-individual levels of analysis could be incorporated in social psychological theories and methods.
Group Dynamics Seminar Series
The Group Dynamics Seminar series is considered one of the longest running seminar series in the social sciences. It has been running uninterruptedly since it was founded by Kurt Lewin in the 1920’s in Berlin. The seminar series runs every semester on a theme chosen by faculty organizer/s who are affiliated with the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the Institute for Social Research. A very important feature of this seminar today is its interdisciplinary nature. Recent themes have included political polarization, evolution and human behavior, and cultural psychology
How the way diversity is framed impacts majority and minority group members
Stacey Sinclair will describe a program of research that examines the ironic nature of efforts to support racial diversity in American universities. American universities are more apt to embrace racial diversity because it serves institutional goals, such as enhancement of group learning and corresponding cognitive skills (i.e., institutional rationales), rather than because it manifests institutional values, such as fairness (i.e., moral rationales). Our research suggests that instrumental rationales do not reflect the preferences of those they are purported to serve, low-status racial minorities. Rather, they comport with the preferences of White Americans, especially political conservatives. Further, embracing instrumental rationales in the absence of moral rationales is associated with negative outcomes for low-status racial minorities.
The RCGD Seminar Series on the Social Psychology of Systemic Racism meets Mondays from 3:30 to 5 at ISR Thompson 1430. When speaker permission is given, events will be recorded and posted within a few weeks to YouTube.
The Social Psychology of Systemic Racism
What are the points of connection between structures and individuals when we think about bias? In the Fall 2024 RCGD Seminar Series “The Social Psychology of Systemic Racism,” an all-star lineup of behavioral and political psychologists will define what, in their words, makes systemic racism systemic, and how extra-individual levels of analysis could be incorporated in social psychological theories and methods.
Group Dynamics Seminar Series
The Group Dynamics Seminar series is considered one of the longest running seminar series in the social sciences. It has been running uninterruptedly since it was founded by Kurt Lewin in the 1920’s in Berlin. The seminar series runs every semester on a theme chosen by faculty organizer/s who are affiliated with the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the Institute for Social Research. A very important feature of this seminar today is its interdisciplinary nature. Recent themes have included political polarization, evolution and human behavior, and cultural psychology
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