Alexandra Suppes presented our work “Comfortably numb: The palliative effects of system justification on the health and happiness of members of the LGBTQ+ community” during the Hierarchies and Inequality symposium at the 18th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP) in Granada, Spain.
This research shows that members of sexual and gender identity minority groups are buffered in their well-being if they deny that their group is discriminated against. After accounting for personal discrimination respondents have faced, denial of LGBTQ+ group discrimination is associated with greater subjective well-being and health.
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