Department of Psychology

Recent Diversity-Related Research and Outreach

Research with diverse communities

  • Cuevas, A. G., O'Brien, K., & Saha, S. (2019). Can patient-centered communication reduce the effects of medical mistrust on patients’ decision making? Health Psychology, 38(4), 325–333. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0000721
  • Dover, T. L., Major, B., & Glace, A. M. (2020). Discrimination, Health, and the Costs and Benefits of Believing in System Fairness. Health Psychology, 39(3), 230–239.
  • Hamilton, K. M., Snoeyink, M. & Martinez, L. R. (2019). Blurred lines: How to approach sexual harassment training when sexual harassment isn’t always about sex. Industrial & Organizational Psychology. 1-4.  [link]
  • Kahn, K. B. & Money, E.E.L. (2021). (Un)Masking threat: Racial minorities experience social identity threat wearing face masks during COVID-19. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.
  • Liu, C., Nauta, M.M., Yang, L.-Q., & Spector, P.E. (2018). How do coworkers ‘make the place’? Examining coworker conflict and the value of harmony in China and the United States. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 67, 30-60.   
  • Lyons, B., Martinez, L. R., Ruggs, E. N., Hebl, M. R., Ryan, A. M., O’Brien, K. R., & Roebuck, A. (2018). To say or not to say: Different strategies of acknowledging a visible disability. Journal of Management, 44, 1980-2007.  [link]
  • Nagata, S., Townley, G., Brusilovskiy, E., & Salzer, M.S. (2020). Community participation differences between adults with and without serious mental illnesses. Psychiatric Services 71(11), 1191-1194.
  • Newsom, J. T., Denning, E. C., Elman, M. R., Botoseneanu, A., Allore, H. G., Nagel, C. L., Dorr, D.A., & Quiñones, A. R. (2021). Physical Activity as a Mediator Between Race/Ethnicity and Changes in Multimorbidity. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbab148
  • Quiñones, A. R., Allore, H. G., Botoseneanu, A., Newsom, J. T., Nagel, C., & Dorr, D. A. (2020). Tracking Multimorbidity Changes in Racial/Ethnic Diverse Populations over Time: Issues and Considerations. Journals of Gerontology: Medical Sciences, 75(2), 297-300. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glz028.
  • Quiñones, A.R., Newsom, J.T., Elman, M.R., Markwardt, S., Nagel, C.L., Dorr, D.A., Allore, H.G., and Botoseneanu, A. (2021). Racial and ethnic differences in multimorbidity changes over time. Medical Care, 59(5), 402-409.
  • Quiñones, A. R., Botoseneanu, A., Markwardt, S., Nagel, C. L., Newsom, J. T., Dorr, D. A., & Allore, H. G. (2019). Racial/ethnic differences in multimorbidity development and chronic disease accumulation for middle-aged adults. PloS ONE, 14(6), 1-13. 
  • Robles-Saenz, F., Brossoit, R.M., Crain, T.L., Hammer, L.B., Wong, J.R. (2021). Understanding the role of family-specific resources for immigrant workers. Occupational Health Science, 5, 541-562.
  • Park, L. S., Martinez, L. R., & Xu, S. X. (in press). Job experience as a buffer against incivility: A daily diary study. Journal of Managerial Psychology
  • Smith, N. A., & Martinez, L. R. (2019). Development of a scale to measure heterosexual identity. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 6, 138-148. 
  • Hamilton, K. M., Park, L. S., Carsey, T. A., & Martinez, L. R. (2019). “Lez be honest:” Gender expression impacts workplace disclosure decisions. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 23, 144-168.
  • Brown, N. D., Martinez, L. R., & Hebl, M. R. (2018). Prejudice in perceptions of physicians?: The influence of race and gender on evaluations of medical errors. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 33, 807-808. 
  • Crom, D. B., Ness, K. K., Martinez, L. R., Hebl, M. R., Robison, L. L., Hudson, M. M., & Brinkman, T. (2018). Workplace experiences and turnover intention among adult survivors of childhood cancer. Journal of Cancer Survivorship, 12, 469-478. 
  • Bosson, J. K., Jurek, P., Vandello, J. A., Kosakowska-Berezecka, N., Olech, M., Besta, T., Bender, M., Hoorens, V., Becker, M., Timur Sevincer, A., Best, D. L., Safdar, S., Włodarczyk, A., Zawisza, M., Zadkowska, M., Abuhamdeh, S., Badu Agyemang, C., Akbaş, G., Albayrak-Aydemir, N., …Mankowski, E., O’Connor, E.,... Žukauskienė, R. (2021). Psychometric properties and correlates of precarious manhood beliefs in 62 nations. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 52(3), 231-258. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022121997997
  • Powell, W., Blume, A., Cook, S., Courtenay, W., Griffith, D.M., Halkitis, P.N., Johnson, W., Mankowski, E.S., Marcell, A.V., Quinones-Maldonado, R., Thorpe, R.J., & Watkins, D. (2018).  Health disparities in racial/ethnic and sexual minority boys and men. American Psychological Association, APA Working Group on Health Disparities in Boys and Men. Retrieved from https://www.apa.org/pi/health-equity/resources/race-sexuality-men-report.pdf
  • Mankowski, E.S., & Glover, N. (2019).  Understanding health and health disparities in European American boys and men.  In D.M. Griffith, M.A. Bruce, and R.J. Thorpe (Eds.), Men’s health equity: A handbook (pp. 433-449). New York: Routledge.
  • Kyler-Yano, J.Z., & Mankowski, E.S. (2020). What does it mean to be a real man?: Asian American college men’s masculinity ideology. Psychology of Men & Masculinity, 21, 643-654.  
  • Kyler‐Yano, J. Z., & Mankowski, E. S. (2021). A human diversity analysis of culture and gender in Asian American men's intimate partner violence perpetration. Journal of Community Psychology, 49(2), 653-671.  https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22485

Interventions to improve access to opportunities

  • Dancis, J., & Coleman, B. R. (2021). Transformative dissonant encounters: Opportunities for cultivating antiracism in White nursing students. Nursing inquiry, e447.
  • Kahn, K.B., Henning, K., Stewart, G; Renauer, B., Peterson, C.; Mitchell, R.; Labissiere, Y., & Sothern, S. (2019). Public response to community engagement patrols in high crime areas. Policing: An International Journal, 42, 917-930.
  • Brott, H., Manriquez A., Bernard L., Armbruster, J., & Ordaz., M. (2021, September). Subtle discrimination toward BIPOC employees in customer service: A community workshop intervention. Workshop provided to Portland State University Campus Rec Employees.
  • Bernard, L., Jones, H., & Martinez, L. R. (2018, September). The fitness professional’s role in promoting client health: A guide to eradicating weight stigma. Training provided to Portland State University Campus Rec employees.
  • Martinez, L. R., Snoeyink, M., & Hamilton, K. H. (2022). An ally skill building workshop. In A. Nordstrom & W. Goodfriend (Eds.), Innovative stigma and discrmination reduction programs, (pp. 265-277). Taylor & Francis. 

Application of research findings for social policy and advocacy

  • Dover, T. L., Kaiser, C. R., & Major, B. (2020). Mixed signals: The unintended effects of diversity initiatives. Social Issues and Policy Review, 14(1), 152-181. 
  • Kahn, K.B., & Martin, K.M. (2020). The social psychology of racially biased policing: Evidence-based policy responses. Policy Insights from Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 7, 107-114.
  • Thompson, M. & Kahn, K. B. (2018). Law enforcement response to mental health crises: Citizen risk factors and preferences for social policy. Police Practice and Research: An International Journal, 19, 329-346. 
  • Townley, G., Sand. K., Kindschuh, T., Brott, H., & Leickly, E. (in press). Engaging unhoused community members in the design of an alternative first responder program aimed at reducing the criminalization of homelessness. Journal of Community Psychology.
  • Bernard, L., & Martinez, L. R., Kulason, K. (in press, 2022). Additional (and not leaky) pipelines: Online faculty positions to diversify IO psychology. Industrial & Organizational Psychology: Perspectives in Science & Practice.
  • Bernard, L., Brown, P., Chaille, P., Clenaghen, B., Eastin, J., Garrity, A., ... & Villagrana, L. B. (2020). The Remote Learning Experience at Portland State University in Spring 2020.
  • Martinez, L. R., Bernard, L., & Snoeyink, M. (2020). Gender and workplace affect. In L. Q. Yang, R. Cropanzano, C. Daus, & V. Martinez-Tur (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Workplace Affect, (pp. 1-15). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Hernandez, T., Bernard, K. L., & Martinez, L. R. (2018). Let the pigs fly: What we say and how we say it when we talk about gender. Industrial & Organizational Psychology, 11, 419-427.
  • Martinez, L. R., Xu, S. X., & Hebl, M. R. (2018). Utilizing education and perspective taking to remediate the stigma of taking antidepressants. Community Mental Health Journal, 54, 450-459.
  • Ruggs, E. N., Harrington, N. T., Brown, N. D., Park, L. S., Marshburn, C. T., & Martinez, L. R. (2018). Understanding bias in the workplace and strategies to combat it. In R. J. Burke and C. L. Cooper (Eds.), Violence and abuse in the workplace, (pp. 191-210). New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Gondolf, E. W., Bennett, L., & Mankowski, E. (2019). Lessons in program evaluation: The ACTV batterer program study and its claims. Violence Against Women, 25(5), NP1-NP10. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801217741994