Battling cancer is already a mentally taxing time, but it is worse for those in the LGBTQ+ community, who will likely experience microaggressions while receiving cancer care and treatment. There are ...

In a world that too often marginalizes people based on their race, gender, sexual orientation, body size, or disability, medicine can often be no different. Far from "doing no harm," it treats some ...

The Oregon Medical Board has introduced a new ethics rule that threatens to revoke the medical licenses of doctors who commit "microaggressions" in the workplace. Under the proposed law first ...

Mothers of color who faced racism or microaggressions during obstetric care had higher blood pressure after delivering their babies compared to people of color who did not report racism during their ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sally Percy is a U.K-based leadership and management journalist. Microaggressions are subtle, everyday slights – both intentional ...

A recent paper by Zhang and colleagues explored the effect of microaggressions on Asian American medical students. Microaggressions were first described by groundbreaking African American psychiatrist ...

Microaggressions are brief, everyday interactions and behaviors that demean, disrespect, or communicate hostility towards people from marginalized groups. The perpetrator is often unaware that they ...

A new study finds that microaggressions aimed at Black women online appear to harm the health of other Black women who see those microaggressions – even though the microaggressions are not aimed at ...

If one were to read much of the psychological literature on microaggressions uncritically, one would come away with the conclusion that they are a serious problem. If so, it is very hard to discern ...