Alaina Brenick
Associate Professor/Human Dev and Family Sciences
Scholarly Contributions

186 Scholarly Contributions

130
Poster/Presentations
44
Journal Articles
6
Editorships
6
Book Chapters
†Karna, A., *Wu, R., Kelly, M. C., Berger, R., & ‡Brenick, A. (2023, March). Observations of compassion: Examining mindfulness- and empathy-based interventions as facilitators of compassion amongst Jewish-Israeli kindergarteners. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society of Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, Utah.
2023
Alaina Brenick
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

  Critical race theory in educational contexts 
2024
Phia S Salter, Roxanne Moadel-Attie, Andrea L Miller, Alaina Brenick, Courtney M Bonam
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

  Critical Race Theory in Society: Identity, Ideology, and Discourse 
2024
Alaina Brenick, Andrea L Miller, Phia S Salter, Courtney M Bonam, Roxanne Moadel-Attie
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

 Toward Anti-racist publication practices: Perspectives and recommendations from experts
2024
Vaishali Raval, Mia Smith-Bynum, Lauren Bader, Tiffany Yip, Alaina Brenick, Gilda Morelli, Miao Qian, Tiyobista Maereg, Deborah Rivas-Drake, Shelbi Matlock, Stephanie Curenton, Dawn P Witherspoon
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

the Journal of Social Issues Special Issue: A Critical Race Theory approach to the psychological study of social issues – Issue 2 – Doing the work: Applications and implications of Critical Race Theory
2024
Alaina Brenick, Phia S Salter, Roxanne Moadel-Attie, Andrea L Miller, Courtney M Bonam
Research Type: Editorship

Youth and peers as catalysts of positive societal change
2025
Alaina Brenick
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

Why step in? Shifting justifications for bystander behaviors through interventions with youth in the Middle East
2024
Alaina Brenick
Research Type: Journal Article

Why Step in? Shifting Justifications for Bystander Behaviors Among Youth in the Middle-East Through Interventions.
2023
Alaina Brenick
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

Who should I listen to? Gender and age effects in how group norms relate to adolescents' intergroup relations and prejudiced attitudes
2025
Hla Mohamed, Kaila Scally, Alaina Brenick, Sophia Andrade, Sydney Klein, Megan Clark Kelly
Research Type: Journal Article

https://doi.org/10.3389/fdpys.2025.1554122
Who is friends with whom? –Patterns of inter- and intraethnic friendships of mainstream and immigrant early adolescents in Germany.
Peter Noack, Alaina Brenick, Fons J. R. van di Vijver, Maja K Schachner
Research Type: Book Chapter

Who is friends with whom and why? - Friendship patterns in multi-ethnic classrooms
2012
Peter Noack, Boris Heizmann, Maja Schachner, Fons J. R. Van de Vijver, Alaina Brenick
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

What should victims do? The relation between bullying experience and choices for victims’ responses in same-race and cross-race bullying situations
2016
Alaina Brenick, Samantha Lawrence, Myroslava Veres, Nancy G Margie
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

Vulnerability or empowerment? The relation between attachment and rejection sensitivity, and sexting experiences, evaluations, and victimization
2017
Alaina Brenick
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

Video games and gender stereotypes: Adolescents’ evaluations of video games
2009
Alexandra Henning, Michael J. Collins, Melanie Killen, Alexander O'Connor, Alaina Brenick
Research Type: Journal Article

Victimization or entertainment? How attachment and rejection sensitivity relate to sexting experiences, evaluations, and victimization
2017
Emily Rankin, Kaitlin M Flannery, Alaina Brenick
Research Type: Book Chapter

Understanding the influence of stigma and medical mistrust on Black women who have sex with women’s engagement in medical care.
2016
Kelly Romano, Christopher Kegler, Lisa A Eaton, Alaina Brenick
Research Type: Journal Article

Understanding the Influence of Stigma and Medical Mistrust on Engagement in Routine Healthcare Among Black Women Who Have Sex with Women
2017
Kelly Romano, Alaina Brenick, Lisa A Eaton, Christopher Kegler
Research Type: Journal Article

Understanding intergroup victimization: Implications for intervention
2017
Alaina Brenick
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

Understanding Race Amity
2019
Alaina Brenick
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

Understanding Implicit Bias
2019
Alaina Brenick
Research Type: Poster/Presentation