Resources and supports to advance equity, diversity, inclusion, and anti-racism in the field of psychological science.
These curated resources reflect both current and historical equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) issues in psychology. They are intended to support learning, critical reflection, and practical application in research and teaching in the field.
Foundations and key concepts
Build a shared understanding EDI principles and how they apply to psychology.
- Inclusive Language Guidelines | American Psychological Association
- APA Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Framework | American Psychological Association
Examining psychology’s equity challenges
These articles and resources critically examine systemic inequities within psychological science.
- Psychology’s Diversity Problem | Article: American Psychological Association
- Psychological Research Has a Racism Problem | Article: Stanford University
- Racial Inequality in Psychological Research| Publication: Sage Journals
- Upending Racism in Psychological Science | Publication: Open Science Framework
- Identifying and Dismantling Systemic Racism in Psychological Science | Research project: Stanford University
- Dismantling Racism in the Field of Psychology and Beyond | Publication: American Psychological Association
- What Is a White Epistemology in Psychological Science? | Article: Frontiers in Psychology
- Conversational Silencing of Racism in Psychological Science | Publication: National Library of Medicine
Research practices and assumptions
Research methods, samples, and norms that shape psychological knowledge.
- Most People Are Not WEIRD| Article: Nature
- Implications of Research Staff Demographics | Publication: American Psychological Association
- Research as Resistance: Naming and Dismantling the Master Narrative of “Good” Science | Publication: American Psychological Association
- Combating scientific racism in psychological science and educational psychology | Publication: Educational Psychologist
- The myth of normative development | Publication: Infant and Child Development
Decolonizing psychology and knowledge systems
These resources highlight Indigenous and non-Western perspectives in psychology.
- Decolonizing the Teaching of Psychology | Publication: American Journal of Community Psychology
- Decolonizing Neuroscience | Article: The Ubyssey
- Two-Eyed Seeing and Indigenous Perspectives in Neuroscience | Article: Nature
- Towards a decolonial developmental science: Adolescent development in the Majority World taking center stage | Publication: Journal of Research on Adolescence
- For the Next Seven Generations: An Indigenous Strengths-Based Developmental Science | Publication: Center for Open Science
Equity in academic culture and institutions
Understand how inequities shape academic environments and careers.
- Power, Privilege, and Positionality in Psychology Departments | Publication: Perspectives on Psychological Science
- Future of Women in Psychological Science | Publication: Perspectives on Psychological Science
- Psychology Has a Sexual Harassment Problem | Article: The British Psychological Society
- Gender inequalities in the workplace: the effects of organizational structures, processes, practices, and decision makers’ sexism | Publication: Frontiers in Psychology
- A confirmatory study of the relations between workplace sexism, sense of belonging, mental health, and job satisfaction among women in male-dominated industries | Publication: Journal of Applied Psychology
Anti-racism and bias reduction
Resources focused on evidence-based strategies for change.
- How Psychological Science Can Advance Racial Equity | Article: American Psychological Association
- Tufts Racial Equity and Diversity Lab | Research: Interpersonal and contextual influences on racially biased perception, judgment, and behavior
- Prejudice Reduction: Progress and Challenges | Publication: Annual Review of Psychology Publication
- Long-term Reduction in Implicit Race Bias| Publication: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Disability and anti-ableism
Support more accessible, inclusive research and teaching practices.
- Creating an Anti-Ableist Psychology Curriculum | Special Issue: Teaching of Psychology
- Disability Is Diversity (Kathleen R. Bogart) | Blog: Psychology Today
Gender, sexuality, and LGBTQ+ perspectives
Resources for inclusive research, teaching, and learning environments.
- LGBTQ+ Inclusive Curricula | Guide: American Psychological Association
- Respecting Gender Diversity in Psychological Research | Guide: Teaching and Learning
- Queering Learning and Leadership in Higher Education | Publication: American Psychological Association
- Ways to make our classrooms more inclusive, equitable, and anti-racist | Article: Society for the Teaching of Psychology
- Teaching Beyond the Gender Binary in the University Classroom | Guide: Vanderbilt University
- Some Very Basic Tips for Making Higher Education More Accessible to Trans Students and Rethinking How We Talk about Gendered Bodies | Article: Dean Spade, The Radical Teacher
- Misgendering: What it is and Why it Matters | Article: Harvard Medical School
Inclusive and anti-racist pedagogy
Evidence-informed approaches and strategies for inclusive teaching.
- Inclusive Teaching Strategies | Article: Society for the Teaching of Psychology
- That finding may not apply here! Lessons from teaching developmental psychology in non-WEIRD contexts | Chapter: Society for the Teaching of Psychology
- BIPOC-Authored Psychology Papers | A curated list to diversify undergraduate/graduate-level psychology course syllabi
- Psychology of Radical Healing Syllabus | Guide: APA Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity and Race
