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

Howard, S., *Kennedy, K.C., & *Vine, K.T. (2021). '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. (2021). “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., *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