Alaina Brenick

Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Sciences

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Primary Research Theme

Healthy Cities

Secondary Research Themes

People and the City, Social-Ecological Systems

Selected Urban-Related Publications

Berger R., Brenick A., Lawrence S.E., Coco L., Abu-Raiya H. (2018). Comparing the effectiveness and durability of contact- and skills-based prejudice reduction approaches. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology.

Berger R., Brenick A., Tarrasch R. (2018). Reducing stereotyping and prejudiced attitudes in Israeli-Jewish elementary school children with a mindfulness and compassion-based social-emotional program. [no publisher provided].

Brenick A., Schachner M.K., Jugert P. (2018). Help or hindrance? Minority versus majority cross-ethnic friendships altering discrimination experiences. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology.

Berger R., Brenick A., Tarrasch R. (2018). Reducing Israeli-Jewish Pupils’ Outgroup Prejudice with a Mindfulness and Compassion-Based Social-Emotional Program. Mindfulness.

“Teaching tolerance or acting tolerant? Evaluating skills- and contact-based prejudice reduction interventions among Palestinian-Israeli and Jewish-Israeli youth 2019; Journal of School Psychology; Brenick, A. | Lawrence, S.E. | Carvalheiro, D. | Berger, R.

Tadmor C., Berger R., Brenick A., Abu-Raiya H., Benatov J. (2017). The intergenerational effect of maternal multicultural experience on childrens tolerance: An example from Palestinians and Jews in Israel. [no publisher provided].

Brenick A., Romano K., Kegler C., Eaton L.A. (2017). Understanding the Influence of Stigma and Medical Mistrust on Engagement in Routine Healthcare among Black Women Who Have Sex with Women. LGBT Health.

Brenick A., Halgunseth L.C. (2017). Applying developmental intergroup perspectives to the social-ecologies of bullying: Lessons from development social psychology. Journal of Adolescence.

Brenick A., Halgunseth L.C. (2017). Brief note: Applying developmental intergroup perspectives to the social ecologies of bullying: Lessons from developmental social psychology. Journal of Adolescence.

Schachner M., van di Vijver F., Brenick A., Noack P. (2016). Who is friends with whom? Patterns of inter- and intraethnic friendships of mainstream and immigrant early adolescents in Germany. Unity, Diversity, and Culture: Research and Scholarship Selected from the 22nd Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (pp. 234-241). International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology. .

Brenick A., Romano K., Kegler C., Eaton L.A. (2016). Understanding the influence of stigma and medical mistrust on Black women who have sex with womens engagement in medical care. LGBT Health.

Brenick A., Romano K. (2016). Perceived Peer and Parent Out-Group Norms, Cultural Identity, and Adolescents’ Reasoning About Peer Intergroup Exclusion. Child Development.

Brenick A., Flannery K.M., Rankin E. (2016). Victimization or entertainment? How attachment and rejection sensitivity relate to sexting experiences, evaluations, and victimization. Identity, Sexuality, and Relationships among Emerging Adults in the Digital Age.

Titzmann P., Brenick A., Silbereisen R. (2015). Friendships fighting prejudice: A longitudinal perspective on adolescents’ cross-group friendships with immigrants. Journal of Youth and Adolescence.

Brenick A., Titzmann P.F. (2015). Internationally comparative research on minority and immigrant adolescents’ social, emotional, and behavioral development. Journal of Adolescent Health.

Schachner M., Brenick A., Heinzmann B., van di Vijver F., Noack P. (2015). Structural and normative conditions for interethnic friendships in multiethnic classrooms. International Journal of Intercultural Relations.