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Even before Allport’s seminal work, The Nature of Prejudice in 1954 (see Allport 1979), the fields of social and political psychology investigated why individuals of certain social groups are targets of negative stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination across a broad variety of domains such as housing, the criminal justice system, the education system, the healthcare system and labor markets (for reviews, see, eg, Pager and Shepherd 2008; Sidanius and Pratto 1999). The groups usually examined in these contexts include traditionally marginalized targets such as ethnic/racial and religious minorities, women, and the elderly. Recently, social and political psychologists have broadened their gaze to include groups such as sexual and national minorities, immigrants, the poor, and those with physical or mental disabilities. Beyond merely documenting the existence of these phenomena, social and political psychologists have focused on ameliorating the negative outcomes of marginalization and discrimination (eg, Paluck and Green 2009), while social dominance theorists have endeavored to explore the manner in which both dominant and subordinate groups contribute to the creation and maintenance of groupbased hierarchy and intergroup oppression (see also Jost and Banaji 1994). As a result of a concentrated focus on intergroup relations and conflict, there is increasing knowledge of how prejudices such as racism and sexism operate as well as how being targets of such prejudices and discrimination alter individuals’ cognition, affect, behaviors, and life outcomes. However, when one takes a more critical look at social and political …