re: Minorities Are Obese Because of.........................Racism

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Luis M. Rivera is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark. He received a B.A. in mathematics from Bernard M. Baruch College of the City University of New York, and a Ph.D. in psychology with a specialization in experimental social psychology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research focuses on the implicit social cognitive processes that underlie the expression of stereotyping and prejudice and how such processes affect stigmatized individuals’ self-concept and health. He is the chair of SPSSI’s Web Committee, and co-editor of a Journal of Social Issue (in development) on health disparities. He has (co)authored articles in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Social Issues, and Social Cognition.

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