Luis M. Rivera is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and the Principal Investigator of the Rutgers Implicit Social Cognition (RISC) lab at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark.?He earned his Ph.D. (2006) in experimental social psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research focuses on the implicit social cognitive processes that underlie the expression of stereotyped attitudes and how these processes and attitudes affect stigmatized individuals' self-concept, identity, and health.?He has (co)authored articles in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Social Cognition.?His health disparities research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Danielle L. Beatty Moody is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Principal Investigator of the Social Determinants of Health Inequities (SoDHI) lab at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland. She earned her PhD in Social and Personality Psychology at the City University of New York, Graduate Center, in 2007. Her research focuses on individual level social and psychological factors, which contribute to racial/ethnic disparities in cardiovascular disease risks. She has (co)authored articles in the APA journal Health Psychology, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, and Psychosomatic Medicine.

• SECTION I: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW  Ethnic-Racial Stigma and Health Disparities: From Psychological Theory and Evidence to Public Policy Solutions Luis M. Rivera 197    SECTION II: INTRAPERSONAL FACTORS AS A SOURCE OF PHYSICAL HEALTH DISPARITIES  Identity-Based Motivation: Implications for Health and Health DisparitiesDaphna Oyserman, George C. Smith, and Kristen Elmore 205 Stereotypes Can “Get Under the Skin”: Testing a Self-Stereotyping and Psychological Resource Model of Overweight and Obesity  Luis M. Rivera and Stefanie M. Paredez 225 The Relationships among Vigilant Coping Style, Race, and Depression Thomas A. LaVeist, Roland J. Thorpe Jr., Geraldine Pierre, GiShawn A. Mance, and David R. Williams 240  SECTION III: INTERPERSONAL AND INTERGROUP FACTORS AS A SOURCE OF PHYSICAL HEALTH DISPARITIES  Stress and Coping in Interracial Contexts: The Influence of Race-Based Rejection Sensitivity and Cross-Group Friendship in Daily Experiences of Health  Elizabeth Page-Gould, Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, and Wendy Berry Mendes 255  Perceived Racial Discrimination, Drug Use, and Psychological Distress in African American Youth: A Pathway to Child Health Disparities  Kathy Sanders-Phillips, Wendy Kliewer, Taqi Tirmazi, Von Nebbitt, Takisha Carter, and Heather Key 278  Everyday Discrimination Prospectively Predicts Inflammation across 7-Years in Racially Diverse Midlife Women: Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation  Danielle L. Beatty, Charlotte Brown, Karen A. Matthews and Joyce T. Bromberger 297   SECTION IV: STRUCTURAL FACTORS AS A SOURCE OF PHYSICALHEALTH DISPARITIES Stress-Related Externalizing Behavior among African American Youth: How Could Policy and Practice Transform Risk into Resilience?Sonya S. Brady, Willie Winton III, and Sonia E. Gockley 315 An Empirical Test of Racial/Ethnic Differences in Perceived Racism and Affiliation with the Gay Community: Implications for HIV RiskRahwa Haile, Tawandra L. Rowell-Cunsolo, Edith A. Parker, Mark B. Padilla, and Nathan B. Hansen 342 Examining Neighborhood Environment and Central Obesity in the YES Health StudyRonica N. Rooks, Yanmei Xu, and David Williams 359SECTION V: CONCLUSION Conceptual and Methodological Challenges for Health Disparities Research and Their Policy ImplicationsBrian D. Smedley and Hector F. Meyers 381