Publications

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*- denotes graduate student co-author; †- denotes undergraduate student co-author; ‡ – denotes senior authorship.

Journal Articles

*Klein, S., Zestcott, C. A., & ‡Brenick, A. (2023). Dance in black and white: Examining the stereotypes of Black and white ballerinas and hip-hop dancers. Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1123/wspaj.2023-0035 (Impact factor: 2.486). .pdf

*Miller, M., Halgunseth. L. C., Csizmadia, A., & ‡Brenick, A. (2022). The role of participant immigrant background and gender in middle school youth’s responses to real and hypothetical experiences of bias-based bullying. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 183, 446-464.   https://doi.org/10.1080/00221325.2022.2095250  (Impact factor: 1.531). .pdf

Brenick, A., Margie, N.G., & Kelly, M.C. (2022). Black-White racial contexts and U.S. American youths’ moral judgments of and responses to social exclusion bullying. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 183, 429-445. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221325.2022.2083938 (Impact factor: 1.531). .pdf

†Shah, S., *Choi, M., *Miller, M., Halgunseth, L.C., & ‡Brenick. A. (2021). Family and school belongingness: Protective factors for immigrant youth against bias-based bullying. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Research, 177, 199-217. doi.org/10.1002/cad.20410  (Impact factor: 1.333). .pdf

Brenick, A., & *Lawrence, S. E., *Carvalheiro, D., &  Berger, R. (2019). Teaching tolerance or acting tolerant? Comparing the effectiveness of skills- and contact-based prejudice reduction interventions among Israeli-Palestinian and Israeli-Jewish youth. Journal of School Psychology, 75c, 8-26. (Impact factor: 3.913). pdf Supplemental Materials

Brenick, A., Schachner, M. K., & Jugert P. (2018). Minority versus majority cross-ethnic friendships and classroom intergroup climate altering discrimination experiences. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 59, 26-25. (Impact factor: 2.146). pdf

Berger, R., Brenick, A., *Lawrence, S. E., *Coco, L., & Abu-Raiya, H. (2018). Contact in the context of conflict: Examining the effectiveness of contact- and skills-based approaches to prejudice reduction in Israeli-Palestinian youth. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 59, 46-53. (Impact factor: 2.146). pdf

Berger, R., Brenick, A., & Tarrasch, R. (2018). Reducing stereotyping and prejudicial attitudes in Israeli-Jewish elementary school children with a mindfulness and compassion-based social-emotional program. Mindfulness. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-018-0919-y  (Impact factor: 3.015). pdf

Tadmor, C. T., Berger, R., Brenick, A., Abu-Raiya, H., & Benatov, J. (2017). The intergenerational effect of maternal multicultural experience on children’s tolerance: An example from Palestinians and Jews in Israel. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 48, 1342–1348. (Impact factor: 1.795). pdf

Brenick, A. & Halgunseth, L. (2017). Applying developmental intergroup perspectives to the social ecologies of bullying: Lessons from developmental social psychology. Journal of Adolescence, 59, 90-95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2017.05.018 (Impact factor: 2.01). pdf

Brenick, A., †Romano, K., †Kegler, C., & Eaton, L. (2017). Understanding the influence of stigma and medical mistrust on Black women who have sex with women’s engagement in medical care. LGBT Health, 4, 4-10. (Impact factor: 2.26). pdf

Brenick, A., & †Romano, K. (2016). Perceived peer and parent outgroup norms, cultural identity, and adolescents’ reasoning about peer intergroup exclusion. Child Development, 87, 1392-1408. (Impact factor: 4.92). pdf

Brenick, A. & Titzmann, P. (2015). Internationally comparative research on minority and immigrant adolescents’ social, emotional, and behavioral development. Journal of Adolescent Health, 57, 571-573. (Impact factor: 3.84). pdf

*Schachner, M. K., Brenick, A., Heizmann, B., Van de Vijver, F. J. R., & Noack, P. (2015). Structural and normative conditions for interethnic friendships in multiethnic classrooms. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 47, 1-12. doi:10.1016/j.ijintrel.2015.02.003 (Impact factor: 1.56). pdf

Titzmann, P. F., Brenick, A., & Silbereisen, R. K. (2015). Friendships fighting prejudice: A longitudinal perspective on adolescents’ cross-group friendships with immigrants. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 44, 1318-1331. DOI: 10.1007/s10964-015-0256-6. (Impact factor: 3.56). pdf

Brenick, A., Shattuck, J., Donlan, A., *Duh, S., & Zurbriggen, E. L. (2014). Empowering children with safety-skills: An evaluation of the Kidpower Everyday Safety-Skills program. Child and Youth Services Review, 44, 152-162. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2014.06.007 (Impact factor: 1.01). pdf

Brenick, A. & Killen, M. (2014). Moral judgments about Jewish-Arab intergroup exclusion: The role of culture and contact. Developmental Psychology, 50, 86-99. (Impact factor: 3.78). pdf

Brenick, A. & Silbereisen, R. K. (2012). Leaving (for) home: Understanding return migration from the Diaspora. European Psychologist, 17, 85-92. (Impact factor: 3.37). pdf

Brenick, A., Titzmann, P. F., *Michel, A., & Silbereisen, R. K. (2012). Perceptions of discrimination by young Diaspora migrants: Individual and school-level associations among adolescent ethnic German immigrants. European Psychologist, 17, 105-119. (Impact factor: 3.37). pdf

Brenick, A., Killen, M., *Lee-Kim, J., Fox, N. A., Leavitt, L. A., Raviv, A., Masalha, S., Mura, F., & Smadi, Y. (2010). Social understanding in young Israeli-Jewish, Israeli-Palestinian, Palestinian, and Jordanian children: Moral judgments and stereotypes. Early Education and Development, 21, 866-911. (Impact factor: 1.10). pdf

Ardila-Rey, A., Killen, M., & Brenick, A. (2009). Moral reasoning in violent contexts: Displaced and non-displaced Colombian children’s evaluations of moral transgressions, retaliation, and reconciliation. Social Development, 18, 181-209. (Impact factor: 2.05). pdf

*Henning, A., Brenick, A., Killen, M., †O’Connor, A., & †Collins, M. J. (2009). Do stereotypic images in video games affect attitudes and behavior? Adolescent perspectives. Children, Youth, and Environments, 19, 171-197. http://www.colorado.edu/journals/cye/ (Most accessed article from CYE journal). pdf

Brenick, A., *Henning, A., Killen, M., †O’Connor, A., & †Collins, M. (2007). Social evaluations of stereotypic images in video games: Unfair, legitimate, or “just entertainment”? Youth and Society, 38, 395-419. (Impact factor: 1.41). pdf

 

Edited Journals

Brenick, A. & Silbereisen, R. K. (Eds.). (2012). Diaspora Migration [Special issue]. European Psychologist. (Impact factor: 1.31).

 

Articles Under Review

Brenick, A., †Seraj, M., *Wu, R., †Zureiqi, M., & Berger, R., (under review). Increasing prosocial bystander action in Palestinian-/Jewish-Israeli intergroup contact: A comparative analysis of multiple interventions. University of Connecticut.

Berger, R., Benatov, J., van Schaik, S. D. M., †Seraj, M., *Wu, R., Kelly, M., Tarrasch, R., & ‡Brenick, A. (under review). Observations of compassion: Mindfulness and empathy interventions amongst kindergarteners in the Middle East. Manuscript in preparation. University of Connecticut.

 

Articles in Preparation

*Wu, R., & Brenick, A., (in preparation). Kung-flu tweeting: Sentiment analysis of Anti-Asian tweets during Covid-19. Manuscript in preparation. University of Connecticut.

*Wu, R., Brenick, A., Kelly, M., & Margie, N. G. (in preparation). Purposeful Harm? Relating intent attributions, judgments about same- and cross-race bullying, and goals of white and Black transgressors in bullying scenarios. Manuscript in preparation. University of Connecticut.

Brenick, A., *Klein, S., †Romano, K., & †Stepka, A. (in preparation). The role of peer and parent outgroup attitudes, age, and gender in adolescents’ evaluations of Arab-Jewish intergroup relations. Manuscript in preparation. University of Connecticut.

Brenick, A., *Wu, R., Kelly, M., †Ybanez, A., Berger, R., Benatov, J., & Tarrasch, R. (in preparation). Mindful teaching in trying times: Examining personal and professional outcomes of a mindfulness intervention for Arab-Israeli teachers before and after the Covid-19 pandemic. Manuscript in preparation. University of Connecticut.

Brenick, A., †Stepka, A., & †Trahiotis, A. (in preparation) Validation of a measure of interpersonal and systemic school-based victimization faced by trans and gender queer youth. University of Connecticut.

Book Chapters

Brenick, A., Flannery, K., †Karr, E., & *Carvalheiro, D. (2020). Send nudes? Evaluating sexting and victimization as related to attachment and rejection sensitivity: Incorporating sexual minority perspectives. In M.F. Wright (Ed.) Recent Advances in Digital Media Impacts on Identity, Sexuality, and Relations (pp. 119-1443). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. pdf

Brenick, A., Schachner, M. K., *Carvalheiro, D. & †Karr, E. (2020). (No) space for prejudice! Varied forms of negative outgroup attitudes and ethnic discrimination and how they develop or can be prevented in the classroom. In H. E. Fitzgerald, D. J. Johnson, D. B. Qin, F. A. Villareaul, & J. Norder (Eds.) Children and Prejudice, (pp. 392-410). New York, NY: Springer Publishing. pdf

Brenick, A., *Flannery, K., & †Rankin, E. (2017). Victimization or entertainment? How attachment and rejection sensitivity relate to sexting experiences, evaluations, and victimization. In M.F. Wright (Ed.) Identity, Sexuality, and Relationships among Emerging Adults in the Digital Age (pp. 201-223). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. pdf

*Schachner, M. K., Van de Vijver, F. J. R., Brenick, A., & Noack, P. (2016). Who is friends with whom? –Patterns of inter- and intraethnic friendships of mainstream and immigrant early adolescents in Germany. In C. Roland-Lévy, P. Denoux, B. Voyer, P. Boski, & W. K. Gabrenya Jr. (Eds.), Unity, Diversity, and Culture: Research and Scholarship Selected from the 22nd Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (pp. 234-241). Melbourne, FL: International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology. pdf

Killen, M. & Brenick, A. (2011). Morality, exclusion, and culture. In X. Chen & K. R. Rubin (Eds.), Socioemotional Development in Cultural Contexts (pp. 239-262). New York: Guilford Publications. pdf

Brenick, A., *Lee-Kim, J., Killen, M., Fox, N. A., Raviv, A., & Leavitt, L. A. (2007). Social judgments in Israeli and Arab children: Findings from media-based intervention projects. In D. Lemish & M. Götz (Eds.), Children and Media at Times of Conflict and War (pp. 287-308). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. pdf

 

Reports

Watson, K. & Brenick, A. (December, 2007). The evaluative report of D.C. Public Schools’ summer social and academic programming efforts: Year two. Submitted to the District of Columbia Public Schools Summer School and After School for All Program Office.

Watson, K. & Brenick, A. (December, 2006). The evaluative report of D.C. Public Schools’ summer social and academic programming efforts. Submitted to the District of Columbia Public Schools Summer School and After School for All Program Office.

Fox, N. A., Killen, M., Leavitt, L. A., Raviv, A., Masalha, S., Mura, F., Smadi, Y., Brenick, A., *Edmonds, C., & *Lee-Kim, J. (November, 2004). Sesame Stories: Qualitative Study Report. Submitted to the Sesame Street Workshop, New York City.