• 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. 

• Chaney, K. E., Wilton, L., Morgenroth, T., Cipollina, R., & Pereira-Jorge, I. A. (in press). Predictors and implications of parents’ beliefs about the age appropriateness of LGBTQ+ topics for children. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
• Chaney, K. E. & Sanchez, D. T. (in press). White women’s automatic attentional adhesion to sexism in the face of racism. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
• Pham, M. D., Chaney, K. E., & Ramiréz-Esparza, N. (in press). What are we fighting for? Lay theories about the goals and motivations of anti-racism activism. Race and Social Problems.
• Chaney, K. E. & Chasteen, A. L. (in press). Do beliefs that older adults are inflexible serve as a barrier to racial equality? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
• Chaney, K. E., Cipollina, R., & Sanchez, D. T. (2024). White women’s stigma-based solidarity claims and disingenuous allyship. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 15(5), 509-518.
• Pham, M. D., Chaney, K. E., & Sanchez, D. T. (2023). “I am (oppressed), therefore I see”: Multiple stigmatized identities predict belief in generalized prejudice and coalition. Self & Identity, 22(6), 1000-1026.
• Chaney, K. E. & Forbes, M. (2023). We stand in solidarity with you (If it helps our ingroup). Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 26(2), 304-320.
• Chaney, K. E. (2022). An examination of diversity rationales: How instrumental and moral diversity rationales create minority spotlight. European Journal of Social Psychology, 52(5-6), 783-796.
• Chaney, K. E. (2022). Preconscious attentional bias to rejection facilitates social distancing for White women in STEM contexts. Social Cognition, 40(5), 438-458.
• Chaney, K. E. & Wedell, E. (2022). How lay theories of prejudice shape prejudice confrontations: Examining beliefs about prejudice prevalence, origins, and controllability. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 16(4), e12658.
• Chaney, K. E. & Sanchez, D. T. (2022). Prejudice confrontation styles scale: A validated and reliable measure of how people confront prejudice. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 25(5), 1333-1352.
• Chaney, K. E., Sanchez, D. T., Alt, N. P., & Shih, M. (2021). The breadth of confrontations as a prejudice reduction strategy. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12(3), 314-322.
• Chaney, K. E., Sanchez, D. T., & Remedios, J. D. (2021). Dual cues: Women of color anticipate both gender and racial bias in the face of a single identity cue. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 24(7), 1095-1113.
• Chaney, K. E., Sanchez, D. T., Himmelstein, M. S., & Manuel, S. K. (2021). Lay theory of generalized prejudice moderates cardiovascular stress responses to racism for White women. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 24(6), 998-1015.
• Chaney, K. E., Sanchez, D. T., & Maimon, M. (2019). Stigmatized-identity cues in consumer spaces. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 29(1), 130-141.