• 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., Blanchette, F., & Matsick, J. L. (in press). Enhancing scientific and practical insights into identity safety cues: How and why context matters. Journal of Social Issues.
• Chaney, K. E., & Pereira-Jorge, I. (2026). Diversity, equity, and inclusion regression: Perceptions of organizations that fail to persevere in their stated commitments. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 126, e104964.
• Pham, M. D., & Chaney, K. E.(2026). Seeing beyond whose prejudice? Effects of perpetrator race on people of color’s willingness to engage in solidarity efforts with perpetrators of racism. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
• Chaney, K. E., Wedell, E., Pereira-Jorge, I. A., & Forbes, M. (2026). Context norms shape perceived motives of organizational diversity statements. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 52(8), 2203-2218.
• Pham, M. D., Chaney, K. E., & Garr-Schultz, A. (2026). Strength-based solidarity: Shared strengths as a novel pathway toward holistic and sustained intraminority solidarity. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 30(3), 323-349.
• Pham, M. D., Pereira-Jorge, I., & Chaney, K. E. (2026). The complicit, the invisible, and the forgotten: Critically integrating intersectionality into the psychology of intraminority solidarity. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 20(6), e70149.
• Blanchette, F., Carter, S., Green, S., Garr-Schultz, A., & Chaney, K. E. (2026). Effects of inclusion and exclusion from U.S. psychology department diversity statements among undergraduate students of color and fat students. Journal of Social Issues, 82(2), e70057.
• Pham, M. D., & Chaney, K. E. (2026). Put your money where your mouth is: Effects of racial climate and institutional support on Black Americans’ perceptions of an organization’s anti-racism task force. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 56(5), 358-374.
• Pereira-Jorge, I. A., Oswald, F., Chaney, K. E., Garr-Schultz, A. (2026). Marginalized and advantaged parents’ perceptions of identity-safety cues in K-12 classrooms. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 17(1), 47-62.
• Pham, M. D., & Chaney, K. E. (2026). White power on trial: Perceptions of anti-racism organizations focusing on power versus discrimination. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 29(2), 219-243.
• Pereira-Jorge, I. A., & Chaney, K. E. (2026). Social norms of prejudice confrontations impact anticipated costs and benefits of confronting prejudice. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 29(1), 24-50.
• Pham, M. D., Chaney, K. E., & Lin, M. (2026). “Our wars are the same”: (Horizontal) Collectivism is associated with lay theory of generalized prejudice. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 52(2), 349-363.
• Pereira-Jorge, I. A., Chaney, K. E., Blanchette, F., & Garr-Schultz, A. (2025). 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, 120.
• Blanchette, F., Pham, M. D., & Chaney, K. E. (2025). Between a prosecutor and a convicted felon? Political allegiance, abolition, and felon’s rights in the context of the 2024 U.S. presidential election.Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 25(3), e70043.
• 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.

• Rising Star, Association for Psychological Sciences
• SAGE Emerging Scholar Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology