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Journal Articles
Brenick, A., Miller, A. L., Moadel-Attie, R., Salter, P. S., & Bonam, C. M. (2024). Shifting systems of racial inequity: Applying critical race psychology to advance racial justice. Journal of Social Issues, 80(2). https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12627 (Impact factor: 3.9). Shared first authorship.
Berger, R., Benatov, J., †Karna, A., *Wu, R., Tarrasch, R., van Schaik, S. D. M., & ‡Brenick, A. (in press). Cultivating compassion in Jewish-Israeli kindergarteners: The effectiveness of mindfulness- and empathy-based interventions as facilitators of compassion. Early Education and Development, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/10409289.2024.2360883 (Impact factor: 3.2). pdf
Brenick, A., †Zureiqi, M., †Seraj, M., *Wu, R., Kelly, M. C., & Berger, R. (2024). Why step in? Shifting justifications for bystander behaviors through interventions with youth in the Middle East. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 00, 1–14. https:// doi.org/10.1111/jora.12941 (Impact factor: 3.6). pdf Online Supplemental Materials
Salter, P. S., Moadel-Attie, R., Miller, A. L., Brenick, A., & Bonam, C. M. (2024). Focusing the critical race psychology lens: CRT and the psychological study of social issues. Journal of Social Issues. (shared first authorship). Journal of Social Issues, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12609 (Impact factor: 3.9). pdf
*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., Dinella, L. M., & Xiao, S. X. (in progress). Contemporary issues in the study of adolescent gender development. [Guest editors for special issue]. Frontiers Psychology – Adolescent Development. (Impact factor: 2.6).
Bonam, C., Brenick, A., Miller, A. Moadel-Attie, R., Salter, P. (Eds.). (2024). A Critical Race Theory approach to the psychological study of social issues – Issue 2 – Doing the work: Applications and implications of Critical Race Theory. [Guest editors for special issue]. Journal of Social Issues. (Impact factor: 3.9).
Bonam, C., Brenick, A., Miller, A. Moadel-Attie, R., Salter, P. (Eds.). (2024). A Critical Race Theory approach to the psychological study of social issues – Issue 1 – Looking inward: Examining the field of psychology and higher education through a Critical Race Theory lens [Guest editors for special issue]. Journal of Social Issues. (Impact factor: 3.9).
Brenick, A. & Silbereisen, R. K. (Eds.). (2012). Diaspora Migration [Special issue]. European Psychologist. (Impact factor: 1.31).
Articles Under Review
Brenick, A., **Herry, E., †Cohen, L., †Udell, A., †Goldberg, G., & †Kowalski, A. B. (under review). Experiences of transgender and gender diverse students in the face of anti-trans political contexts: The mediating role of school climate and identity representation. Manuscript under review. University of Connecticut.
**Herry, E., Brenick, A., Moore, T. E., & **Lee, J. W. (under review). Belongingness, victimization, and mental health: A latent profile analysis of transgender and gender diverse youth within educational contexts. Manuscript under review. University of Connecticut.
*Klein, S., †Gonzalez-Mendoza, A., & †Salazar, R., †Mohamed, H., Kelly, M. C., & ‡Brenick, A. (under review). The role of teachers in how U.S. youth evaluate and respond to immigrant biased-based bullying. Manuscript under review. University of Connecticut.
Articles in Preparation
Brenick, A., *Wu, R., Kelly, M., †Scally, K., 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.
*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. University of Connecticut.
Brenick, A., *Klein, S., †Gonzalez-Mendoza, A., & †Salazar, R. (in preparation). Bias-based bullying: Examining the role of immigrant background in youth evaluations. University of Connecticut.
Brenick, A., *Klein, S., *Carvalheiro, D., †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. University of Connecticut.
*Wu, R., Berger, R., Kelly, M. C., †Ybanez, A., †Scally, K., & ‡Brenick, A. (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. University of Connecticut.
†Cohen, L., †Karna, A., †Trahiotis, A., †Goldberg, G., †Udell, A., & ‡Brenick, A. (in preparation). Dismantling Discrimination: A Qualitative Assessment of Transgender and Nonbinary Youth’s Interpersonal and Institutional School-Based Discrimination. University of Connecticut.
Brenick, A., †Cohen, L., †Goldberg, G., †Udell, 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.
*Wu, R., & ‡Brenick, A., (in preparation). Kung-flu tweeting: Sentiment analysis of Anti-Asian tweets during Covid-19. 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
Book Chapters in Preparation
**Herry, E., Horn, S. S., & Brenick, A. (in progress). From bias and discrimination to social justice: The lived experiences of sexual and gender minoritized youth. Manuscript in progress. University of Connecticut.
Reports
Brenick, A., Rogers, L. O., Caughy, M., Hazelbaker, T., Hughes, D., Kornienko, O., Metzger, I. W., Moffitt, U., Riley, T. N., Lansford, J., Mendez-Escobar, S., Rowley, S., Seaton, E., & Tynes, B. (SRCD Anti-Racism Taskforce) (2024, August). SRCD Anti-Racism Task Force Full Preliminary Report; Anti-Racism principles, definitions, and preliminary recommendations. Washington, D.C., The Society for Research in Child Development.
Brenick, A., Eadeh, F., Grzanka, P., Lake, J., Livert, D., Omar, S. M., Paul, D., Rosenthal, L., Savaș, Ö., & unnamed others. (May, 2024). Psychologists’ response to the violence in Gaza: A resource guide. Washington, D.C., The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. https://www.spssi.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.ViewPage&PageID=2943 pdf
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.