http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. In 2008, research showed that expressing support for Barack Obama increased people's comfort in subsequently saying or doing things that might be considered racist. Researchers argued that endorsing a black political figure made people feel as if they had "non-racist credentials" that reduced their concern about subsequently seeming prejudiced. Now this same research group has identified a mental trick that people play to convince themselves that they have these same non-racist credentials: convincing themselves that they were presented with but passed up opportunities to act in racially insensitive ways in the past. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-rewriting-personal-history-racist-roads.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:39:49 EST news273850717 The color of our skin or where we come does matter when it comes to how we react to a racist insult. A new study has found that African American women are more likely than Asian American women to directly rebuff racist comments, a difference that may reflect deeply rooted cultural differences. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-rebuffing-racial-insults-culture-behavior.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:07:35 EST news253447646 A new University of British Columbia study finds that the way individuals experience the universal emotion of pride directly impacts how racist and homophobic their attitudes toward other people are. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-pride-prejudice-impacts-racism-homophobia.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 12 Apr 2012 03:52:47 EST news253421427 (HealthDay) -- The perception of care for women living in inner cities with newly diagnosed, early-stage breast cancer is dependent, in large part, on factors other than the actual quality of care provided, including the quality of the process of getting care, trust in the physician, and perceptions of racism, according to research published online April 9 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-perception-breast-cancer-differs-actual.html Cancer Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:50:01 EST news253365741 Prejudiced attitudes are based on generalised suppositions about certain social groups and could well be a personality trait. Researchers at the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU) have confirmed the link between two types of discriminatory behaviour: sexism and racism. They also advise of the need for education in encouraging equality. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-sexism-racism-similar-mental.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:13:14 EST news239969586 Studies by the University of Toronto's psychology department suggest that racism may impact some female minority groups more deeply than sexism. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-female-minorities-affected-racism-sexism.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:47:20 EST news229614421 Whites believe that they are replacing blacks as the primary victims of racial discrimination in contemporary America, according to a new study from researchers at Tufts University's School of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Business School. The findings, say the authors, show that America has not achieved the "post-racial" society that some predicted in the wake of Barack Obama's election. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-whites-victims-racism-blacks.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 23 May 2011 11:40:03 EST news225368696 (Medical Xpress) -- Does interacting with other groups reduce prejudice and conflict? Can it be proven? "The answer is yes, it helps, overwhelmingly," says Thomas F. Pettigrew, social psychology research professor at UC Santa Cruz. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-personal-contact-tension-prejudice.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:28:13 EST news223295275