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PSYCHOLOGY OF EXTREMISM

Reyna, C. Bellovary, A., & Harris, K. (2022). The psychology of White Nationalism: Ambivalence towards a changing America. Social Issues and Policy Review, 16(1), 79-124. Link/PDF

Reyna, C., Harris, K., Bellovary, A., Armenta, A., & Zarate, M. (2022). The good ol' days: White identity, racial nostalgia, and the perpetuation of racial extremism. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 1-23. Link/PDF

Brandt, M.J., & Reyna, C. (2014). To love or hate thy neighbor: The role of authoritarian and traditionalism in

explaining the link between fundamentalism and racial prejudice. Political Psychology, 35, 207-223. Link/PDF

STEREOTYPES, PREJUDICE, AND DISCRIMINATION

Bellovary, A., Armenta, A., & Reyna C. (2020). Stereotypes of Immigrants and Immigration in the United States. In J.T. Nadler & E. Voyles (Eds.), Stereotypes: The Thinking Person's Guide to Today's Reality in the U.S. Praeger. Link/PDF

Brandt, M.J., & Reyna, C. (2012). The functions of symbolic racism. Social Justice Research, 25, 41-60. Link/PDF

Harris, K., Armenta, A., Reyna, Zarate, M. (2020). Latinx stereotypes: Myths and realities in the 21st century. In J.T. Nadler & E. Voyles (Eds.). Stereotypes: The Thinking Person's Guide to Today's Reality in the U.S. Praeger. Link/PDF

Henry, P.J., & Steiger, R. (2019). US cities with greater gender equality have more progressive sexual orientation laws and services. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 25(1), 15. Link/PDF

Reyna C. (2000). Lazy, dumb, or industrious: When stereotypes convey attribution information in the classroom. Educational Psychology Review, 12, 85-110. Link/PDF

Reyna, C., Henry, P.J., Korfmacher, W., & Tucker, A., (2006). Examining the principles in principled conservativism: The role of responsibility stereotypes as cues for deservingness in racial policy decisions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 109-128. Link/PDF

VALUES, WORLDVIEWS, AND POLITICAL POLICY ATTITUDES

Henry, P.J., & Reyna, C. (2007). Value judgments: The impact of perceived value violations on political attitudes. Political Psychology, 23, 273-298. Link/PDF

Henry, P., Reyna, C., & Weiner, B. (2004). Hate welfare but help the poor: How the attributional content of stereotypes explains the paradox of reactions to the destitute in America. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 34, 34-58. Link/PDF

Reyna, C., Wetherell, G., Yantis, C., & Brandt, M.J. (2014). Attributions for sexual orientation vs. stereotypes: How stereotypes about value violations account for attribution effects on anti-gay discrimination. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 44, 289-302. Link/PDF

Wetherell, G., Benson, O., Reyna, C., & Brandt, M.J. (2015). Perceived value congruence and attitudes toward international and foreign policies. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 37, 3-18. Link/PDF

Wetherell, G., Reyna, C., & Sadler, M. (2013). Public opinion vs. the market: perceived value violations drive opposition to healthcare reform. Political Psychology, 34, 43-66. Link/PDF

IDEOLOGICAL POLARIZATION AND PREJUDICE

Reyna, C., Vazquez, K., Vazquez, M., Harris, K., & Fade, E. (2024). Left and right ideological orientations as intragroup strategies of cultural preservation and promotion. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 18(6), 1-16. Link/PDF

Reyna., C., Vazquez, M.A., Vazquez, K.J., & Harris, K. (2023). Moving beyond a W.E.I.R.D. psychology: A multicultural perspective on the evolution of ideology. Psychological Inquiry, 34(1), 27-34. Link/PDF

Bellovary, A.K., Young, N., & Goldenberg, A. (2021). Left-and-Right-Leaning News Organizations Use Negative Emotional Content and Elicit User Engagement Similarity. Affective Science. Link/PDF

Brandt, M.J., Chambers, J.R., Crawford, J.T., Wetherell, G., & Reyna, C. (2015). Bounded openness: The effect of openness to experience on intolerance is moderated by target group conventionality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 109, 549. Link/PDF

Brandt, M.J., Reyna C., Chambers, J.R., Crawford, J.T., & Wetherell, G. (2014). The Ideological Conflict Hypothesis: Intolerance among both liberals and conservatives. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 23, 27-34. Link/PDF

Reyna, C. (2017). Scale Creation, Use, and Misuse: How Politics Undermines Measurement. In J. Crawford and L. Jussim (Eds.) Politics of Social Psychology. Taylor & Francis. Link/PDF

Steiger, R., Reyna C., Wetherell, G., & Iverson, G. (2019). Contempt of Congress: Do liberals and conservatives harbor equivalent negative emotional biases towards ideologically congruent vs. incongruent politicians at the level of individual emotions? Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 7, 100-123. Link/PDF

IDENTITY & INTERSECTIONALITY

 

Steiger, R.L., & Henry, P.J. (2020). LGBT workplace protections as an extension of the protected class framework. Law and Human Behavior, 44(4), 251. Link/PDF

Zarate, M., Reyna, C., & Alvarez, M. (2019). Cultural Inertia, Identity and Intergroup Dynamics in a Changing Context. In J. Oleson (Ed.). Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 22, 176-234. Link/PDF

 

SYSTEM PERCEPTIONS & STATUS

Brandt, M.J., Kuppens, T., Spears, R., Andrighetto, L.,...Reyna, C.,.. Zimmerman, J.L. (2020). Subjective status and perceived legitimacy across countries. European Journal of Social Psychology, 50, 921-942. Link/PDF

Brandt, M.J., & Reyna, C. (2017). Individual differences in the resistance to social change and acceptance of inequality predict system legitimacy differently depending on the social structure. European Journal of Personality, 31, 266-278. Link/PDF

Davis, J.R., & Reyna, C. (2015). Seeing red: How perceptions of social status and worth influence hostile attributions and endorsement of aggression. British Journal of Social Psychology, 54, 728-747. Link/PDF

Reyna, C., & Zimmerman, J.L. (2017). Issues of status and power in interracial problems and solutions. Social Issues in Living Color: Challenges and Solutions from the Perspective of Ethnic Minority Psychology, 3, 231. Link/PDF

Zimmerman, J., & Reyna C. (2013). The meaning and role of ideology in system justification and resistance for high and low status people. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 105, 1-23. Link/PDF

MORALITY & JUSTICE

Brandt. M.J., & Reyna, C. (2011). The chain of being: A hierarchy of morality. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6, 428-446. Link/PDF

Reyna, C., & Weiner, B. (2001). Justice and utility in the classroom: An attributional analysis of teachers' punishment and intervention strategies. Journal of Educational Psychology, 93, 309-319. Link/PDF

Steiger, R., & Reyna, C. (2017). Trait contempt, anger, disgust, and moral foundation values. Personality and Individual Differences, 113, 125-135. Link/PDF

Weiner, B., Graham, S., & Reyna, C. (1997). An attributional examination of retributive versus utilitarian philosophies of punishment. Social Justice Research, 10, 431-452. Link/PDF

Publications: Publications

SELECTED LAB PUBLICATIONS

Publications: Psychology of Extremism
Publications: Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination
Publications: Values
Publications: Ideological Polarization and Prejudice
Publications: System Perceptions
Publications: Morality & Justice
Publications: Identity & Intersectionality
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