PUBLICATIONS

***ALL ARTICLES ARE THE SOLE COPYRIGHT OF THE RESPECTIVE PUBLISHERS. MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED FOR PERSONAL, EDUCATIONAL USE ONLY.***

* denotes mentored graduate student, + undergraduate research assistant

Case, K.A., Alexander, A.A., Lee, K., Howard, S., & Bodnar-Deren, S. (Accepted). Public scholarship in faculty evaluation: Disrupting what matters and what counts. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy

Robinson Jr. M,  Daniel V,  St Juste R, Yankulin A, Adeojo L, Kanumuri L, Wright M, Fernanda Silva M, Reid R, Shahid N, Petrulla V, Howard, S., & Dale, S.K. (2026) Associations between microaggressions, discrimination, and brain health among Black Women Living with HIV. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities.

Howard, S., Tellefsen S.L., Ma de Sousa, A.Q., & *McCray, I.E., (2026). The relationship between Black Americans’ exposure to vicarious racism and collective action. Scientific Reports (shared first authorship Howard & Tellefsen)

Marshburn, C.K., Sarmal, A., Folberg, A.M., & Howard, S. (2025). Stay Woke: Why diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential for good policy, and why we must go further. (shared first authorship among the authors). Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Howard, S. & *Hu, L.Y. (2025). The influence of priming traits related to the Strong Black Woman Schema on Black women’s mental help seeking intentions and attitudes. Journal of Counseling Psychology. Advanced Online Publication

Howard, S. & Pagan, J. (2025). Pero like, you don’t speak Spanish?”: Exploring the role of language fluency on Latine intra-group identity denial, likability, and befriending. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. Advanced Online Publication

Howard, S. & Borgella, A.M. (Accepted). Fighting the Beat and Winning: Stereotype Threat and White People’s Rhythmic Performance. Journal of Social Psychology.

Howard, S. & *Hu, L.Y. (2024). Secondhand racism: What We Know and Do Not Know about vicarious racism. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, e70012. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.70012

Howard, S. (2024). “Fuck Tha Police”: ‘Conscious’ hip-hop increases Black people’s group-based anger and collective action intentions. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. Advanced Online Publication. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000673

Howard, S. & *Vine, K.T (2024). “It’s like we are seen as animals”: The relationship between Black people’s encounters with the police, metadehumanization and perceptions of police legitimacy. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. Advanced Online Publication. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000669

Okoroji, C., Gleibs, I. H., & Howard, S. (2023). Inferring incompetence from employment status: An audit-like experiment. Plos one, 18(3), e0280596.

Howard, S., *Kennedy, K.C., & *Vine, K.T. (2023). 'You don't believe in God? You ain't Black': Identifying as atheist elicits identity denial from Black ingroup members. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000397

Howard, S., *Vine, K.T. & *Kennedy, K.C. (2022). “Jesus was a White man too!”: The relationship between beliefs about Jesus’s race, racial attitudes, and ideologies that maintain racial hierarchies. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. https://doi.org/10.1037/rel0000374

Howard, S. (2022). Exploring white individuals’ perceptions of black atheists’ trustworthiness, racial identity, and feelings of warmth. International Journal of Psychology, 57(5), 652–659. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12837

Howard, S., *Kennedy, K.C. & +Tejeda, F. (2020). Social media posts about racism leads to evaluative backlash for Black job applicants. Social Media and Society, 6(4).https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120978369

Howard, S., Hennes, E.P., & Sommers, S.R. (2020). Stereotype threat among Black men following exposure to rap music. Social Psychology and Personality Science, 12(5), 719-730. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550620936852

Howard, S., Oswald, D.L., & *Kirkman, M.S. (2020). The relationship between gendered Gods, gender system justification and ambivalent sexism. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 30(3), 216-230. https://doi.org/10.1080/10508619.2020.1737420

Howard, S., & Borgella, A.M. (2019). Are Adewale and Ngochi more employable than Jamal and Lakeisha?: The influence of Black-ethnicity cues on employment related evaluations. The Journal of Social Psychology, 160(4), 509-519. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2019.1687415

Howard, S. Thomas, A.K., & Sommers, S.R. (2019). “They all still look the same to me”: Navon processing fails to reduce the cross-race effect. The Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 31(8), 839-851. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1080/20445911.2019.1679156

Borgella, A.M., Howard, S., & Maddox, K.B. (2019). Cracking wise to break the ice: The potential for racial humor to ease interracial anxiety. International Journal of Humor Research, 3(1), 105-135. https://doi.org/10.1515/humor-2018-0133

Howard, S. (2019). Exonerees in Black and White: The influence of race on perceptions of those who falsely confessed to a crime. Psychology, Crime and Law, 25(9), 911-924. https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2019.1597091

Marotta, S., Howard, S., & Sommers, S.R. (2019). Examining implicit bias in journalism. In S. Lehrman & V. Wagner (Eds.), Reporting inequality: Tools and methods for covering race and ethnicity (pp. 66-81). Taylor and Routledge.

Howard, S., & Borgella A.M. (2018). “Sinking” or Sinking: Identify salience and shifts in Black women’s athletic performance. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 39, 179-183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2018.08.016

Howard, S., Oswald, D.L. & Kirkman, M. (2018). Who believes in a male God? Ideological beliefs and gendered conceptualizations of God. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 28(1), 55-70. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1080/10508619.2018.1416251

Howard, S. &Sommers, S.R. (2017). White religious iconography increases anti-Black attitudes. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 11(4), 382-391. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/rel0000144

Howard, S & Sommers, S. R. (2017). Exposure to White religious iconography influences Black individuals’ intragroup and intergroup attitudes. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 23(4), 508-514. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/cdp0000152

Howard, S. & Sommers, S.R. (2015). Exploring the enigmatic link between religion and anti-Black attitudes. The Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 9(9), 495-510. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12195