This research examines how individuals who have unusual characteristics in American and Korean cultural contexts are evaluated by others. Research on perceptions of uniqueness (Kim & Markus, 1999) and on cultural tightness (Gelfand et al., 2011) suggests that individuals who have an unusual...

Domestic and international current events have highlighted a need for improved recognition of racial, ethnic, and religious discrimination by dominant groups, such as American Whites. Building upon Adams, Tormala, & O’Brien’s (2006) demonstration that self-affirmation increases White...

Trust is essential to many daily exchanges, wherein a trustor sometimes decides to be vulnerable to an individual or other times to a group. Although a trustor may trust an individual more or less than a group, this topic has been underexplored. We therefore examine whether people are more...

Prosocial behaviors –actions aimed to benefit other individuals, groups, or communities– are important for promoting and maintaining a healthy society. Extant research on the contextual factors that make individuals more likely to engage in prosocial behaviors has mainly looked at their...

Research has systematically documented the negative effects of social exclusion, yet little is known about how these negative effects can be mitigated. Building on the approach-inhibition theory of power (Keltner, Gruenfeld, & Anderson, 2003), we examined the role of power in facilitating social...

This article proposes and tests a theoretical model articulating when and why differences in devaluation and avoidance of individuals with non-normative characteristics emerge between East Asian and Western cultural contexts. Four main studies examined this theoretical model. In a pilot study,...