Publications

*- Denotes graduate student co-author; †- Denotes undergraduate student co-author

Journal Articles

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).

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).

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: 3.61).

*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).

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: 2.72).

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).

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).

Brenick, A. & Silbereisen, R. K. (2012). Leaving (for) home: Understanding return migration from the Diaspora. European Psychologist, 17, 85-92. (Impact factor: 1.31).

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: 1.31).

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

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).

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).

*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).

 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: 1.21).

 Journal Articles Under Review

Brenick, A. & Halgunseth, L. (revise and resubmit). Brief Note: Applying developmental intergroup perspectives to the social-ecologies of bullying: Lessons from development social psychology. Journal of Adolescence. (Impact factor: 2.01).

Berger, R., Brenick, A., & Tarrasch, R. (revise and resubmit). Reducing stereotyping and prejudicial attitudes in Israeli-Jewish elementary school children with a mindfulness and compassion-based social-emotional program.

Tadmor, C. T., Berger, R., Brenick, A., Abu-Raiya, H., & Benatov, J. (under review). The intergenerational effect of maternal multicultural experience on children’s tolerance: An example from Palestinians and Jews in Israel.

 Journal Articles in Preparation

Berger, R., Brenick, A., et al. (in preparation). The Classroom Exchange Program: Combining mindfulness and intergroup contact interventions to promote intergroup tolerance in the Mid-East.

Brenick, A. & Berger, R. (in preparation). The relation between moral reasoning about intergroup exclusion and outgroup prejudice among Israeli-Jewish and Israeli-Arab children.

Brenick, A., Halgunseth, L., & *Reid, A. (in preparation). The social-ecology of bullying victimization among immigrant youth in the United States.

Brenick, A., Margie, N. G., & †Lawrence, S. E., (in preparation). Interethnic bullying: The relation between participant ethnicity and bullying experience and perpetrator and victim ethnicity with response strategies to African-American/European-American interethnic bullying.

Brenick, A., †Romano, K., & †Craig, A. (in preparation). The role of peer and parent outgroup attitudes, age, and gender in adolescents’ evaluations of Arab-Jewish intergroup relations.

*Dibble, K., Brenick, A., & †Rankin, E. (in preparation). Practice and pitfalls of sexting: An examination of sexting engagement and evaluations of sexting and sexting victimization.

Halgunseth, L. & Brenick, A. (in preparation). The Social-Ecology of immigrant bullying: The role of immigrant parents, school staff, and students in effectively responding to bullying of immigrant youth.

Margie, N. G., Brenick, A., & †Lawrence, S. E. (in preparation). Justified bullying? Adolescents’ evaluations of interethnic exclusion bullying.

*Molaver, A., Smith, R., & Brenick, A. (in preparation). Evaluations of rejection and angry rejection sensitivity among lonely adults from the perspective of interpersonal acceptance-rejection theory.

Schachner, M., Brenick, A. (co- first authorship), Jugert P. (in preparation). Social Integration and Socio-Emotional Adjustment of Early-Adolescent Turkish Immigrants in Culturally Diverse Schools in Germany

Book Chapters

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.

*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.

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.

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. 

Book Chapters in Preparation

Brenick, A., Schachner, M. K., Juang, L., & Tropp, L. (invited). The Development of Intergroup Relations in the Classroom: Understanding Context, Child Characteristics, and Consequences. In D. Qin, H. Fitzgerald, D. Johnson, & F Villareaul (Eds.) Children and Prejudice. New York: Springer Publishing.

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.