• PhD, Rutgers University
  

My research examines how: (1) lay beliefs about prejudice affect marginalized and privileged group members’ performance, behavior, and health, (2) how and when prejudice confrontations reduce prejudice and impact the health of confronters, and (3) how individual and organizational claims of allyship are perceived. The Lay Theories of Prejudice Lab leverages multiple methodologies, including behavioral, implicit cognition, and physiological, to examine basic and applied questions about how people perceive, experience, and combat prejudice in their day to day lives. 

• Pham, M. D. & Chaney, K. E. (in press). Perceptions of anti-racism organizations focusing on power versus discrimination. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.
• Pereira-Jorge, I. A., Chaney, K. E., Blanchette, F., & Garr-Schultz, A. (in press). Organizational norms and gender identity contexts shape when pronoun-sharing is perceived as disingenuous allyship: Evidence of a normative eclipsing effect. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
• Pereira-Jorge, I. A. & Chaney, K. E. (in press). Social norms of prejudice confrontations impact anticipated costs and benefits of confronting prejudice. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.
• Chaney, K. E., Wedell, E., Pereira-Jorge, I. A., & Forbes, M. (in press). Context norms shape perceived motives of organizational diversity statements. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 
• Oswald, F., Khera, D., Matsick, J. L., & Chaney, K. E. (in press). Cultural stereotypes and personal beliefs about thin people: A form of fat resistance. Body Image.
• Pereira-Jorge, I. A., Oswald, F., Chaney, K. E., Garr-Schultz, A. (in press). Marginalized and advantaged parents’ perceptions of identity-safety cues in K-12 classrooms. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 
• Pham, M. D. & Chaney, K. E. (in press). Passing down the mic signals trustworthy intersectional allyship and promotes organizational identity-safety. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 
• Pham, M. D., Chaney, K. E., & Lin, M. (in press). “Our wars are the same:” (Horizontal) Collectivism is associated with lay theory of generalized prejudice. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
• Cipollina, R., Wang, K., Pereira-Jorge, I., & Chaney, K. E. (in press). “I can’t stop thinking about it”: The mental and behavioral health correlates of disclosure rumination among sexual minorities. Stigma and Health. 
• Chaney, K. E., O’Dea, C., & Pereira-Jorge, I. A. (2025). From confronted to confronter? Examining the enduring effects of prejudice confrontations. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 28(4), 908-930.
• Chaney, K. E. & Garr-Schultz, A. (2025). Cluster hires without retention efforts will not diversify the academy. Nature Reviews Psychology, 4, 241-243.
• Oswald, F., Pereira-Jorge, I., Garr- Schultz, A., & Chaney, K. E. (2025). “I know what’s best for my child”: A qualitative analysis of U.S. cisgender-heterosexual and LGBTQ+ parents’ perspectives on inclusive education policies. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 25(2), e70012. 
• Wedell, E. & Chaney, K. E. (2025). Flexible confronters, informative confronters, and low stakes prodders: A person-centered approach to prejudice confrontation styles. Personality and Individual Differences. 
• Oswald, F., Pham, M. D., Harr, R., Garr-Schultz, A., & Chaney, K. E. (2025). “They are fat and want special treatment for being fat”: Backlash to and lay theories of fat activism. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 25(2), e70012.
• Oswald, F., Pham, M. D., & Chaney, K. E. (2025). Development and validation of the Abolitionist Ideology Scale with abolitionist-identifying and nationally representative samples. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 25(1), e12430.