Publications by authors named "Brittany Torrez"
Despite a checkered racial history, people in the United States generally believe the nation has made steady, incremental progress toward achieving racial equality. In this article, we investigate whether this U.S.
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- Scholars of color are underrepresented in US academia, particularly in psychology and management, largely due to the reliance on traditional notions of objectivity in research.
- The paper explores how 'objectivity interrogations' affect scholars of color, where their scientific rigor is questioned, and how they respond through strategies known as 'objectivity armoring.'
- It highlights the challenges faced by these scholars in legitimizing their work on race and racism within predominantly White academic environments.
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- Many organizations fail to live up to their commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) despite professing support for racial justice.
- The narrative of racial progress, which suggests society is naturally improving towards racial equity, contributes to these failures by framing organizations as race neutral and hindering complex discussions about equity.
- To effectively advance DEI, leaders must confront this narrative, recognize past failures, and implement immediate, evidence-based structural changes in the workplace.
Race is fraught with meaning, but unequal status is central. Race-status associations (RSAs) link White Americans with high status and Black Americans with low status. RSAs could occur via observation of racially distributed jobs, perceived status-related stereotypic attributes, or simple ranking.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEvidence for the reproduction of social class in brief speech.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
November 2019
Economic inequality is at its highest point on record and is linked to poorer health and well-being across countries. The forces that perpetuate inequality continue to be studied, and here we examine how a person's position within the economic hierarchy, their social class, is accurately perceived and reproduced by mundane patterns embedded in brief speech. Studies 1 through 4 examined the extent that people accurately perceive social class based on brief speech patterns.
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- The text examines the psychology of power within societal structures, focusing on race, gender, and social class in North America.
- It argues that studies of power lack depth when they don't consider these societal influences, particularly the connections between power and prosocial behavior.
- The authors suggest that to fully understand social power, research must be more contextually grounded and extend beyond academic settings to reflect real-life experiences and institutions.