Katie Wang
Biographic Data
| ID | 4233548 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katie Wang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katie |
| FAMILY NAME | Wang |
| SIGNATURE | WANG K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3727-4147 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Disability Representation in Social and Personality Psychology Research
We conducted a systematic state-of-the-art review examining disability representation of three flagship social and personality psychology journals between 2017 and 2022. First, we examined the 2,343 articles published in that time frame and found that 192 (8.19%) of them used at least one instance of disability-related terminology. Second, we examined patterns of disability-related terminology use and found that these concepts were most often use…
Investigating the role of perceived autonomy support in moderating the association between diabetes stigma and psychological and diabetes self-management outcomes among adults with type 2 diabetes in …
Studies on diabetes-related stigma rarely focus on identifying or examining protective factors (e.g., social support and healthcare environment) that can mitigate the adverse effect of this social phenomenon. In this cross-sectional study, we examined perceived autonomy support, a concept from the self-determination theory, as a moderator of the association between diabetes-related stigma and its adverse behavioral and psychological (depression, …
“It’s harder to set boundaries when it’s so obvious”
Disclosure research has largely focused on invisible stigmatized identities, assuming that, for people with visible stigmas, there is no need to “disclose the obvious.” However, people with observable disabilities do face disclosure decisions, precisely because their disabilities are observable. Pressure to disclose--from staring and intrusive questions --threatens disclosure autonomy. Drawing on Self-Determination Theory (SDT)—which posits basic…
Expressive flexibility as a buffer in the association between substance use stigma and drug use problems among substance-using individuals with depression
Prior research has linked stigma associated with substance use (e.g., encounters with and anticipation of discrimination, internalization of negative stereotypes) to increased drug use problems, yet little work has examined protective factors that mitigate this association. The current study examined expressive flexibility (i.e., the ability to flexibly enhance and suppress one's emotional expression in accordance with situational demands), an im…
I can’t stop thinking about it”
Patient Experiences in Accessing Reproductive Health Services for Women With Cognitive, Intellectual, and Developmental Disabilities
Just getting along, together”
This study examined the relationship between the theme of interdependence in the narratives of American adults with disabilities and psychological well-being across the shifting conditions of the first 3 years of the COVID-19 pandemic. In contrast to independence, interdependence has emerged as a focus of research about people with disabilities in both the interdisciplinary field of disability studies and in prior psychological research. In the p…
Trajectories of major depression and generalized anxiety symptoms among people with disabilities during the Covid-19 pandemic
GAD trajectory. The results demonstrate the persistent MD and GAD symptoms experienced by many PWD during the pandemic and the importance of interventions to address PWD's social isolation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
Ableism in mental healthcare settings
People with disabilities (PWD) face elevated mental health concerns and are more likely to utilize mental health services compared to their nondisabled counterparts, yet they also report higher unmet mental health service needs due to myriad attitudinal and environmental barriers to accessing care. Despite these well-documented disparities, little research has examined the nuanced lived experiences of PWD who receive mental health services. Drawi…
Sexual and gender minority college students’ perceptions of sexuality blindfolding
Sexuality blindfolding is a diversity philosophy in which discussions and recognition of LGBTQ identities are minimized with aims of reducing intergroup tension. To add to prior evidence showing the unintended harms of difference-evading diversity philosophies, the present research documented LGBTQ college students' perceptions of sexuality blindfolding in undergraduate academic settings. Using thematic analysis on the qualitative entries of 45 L…
Rejection sensitivity and sexual minority men’s social anxiety disorder
Although gay-related rejection sensitivity (RS) is associated with social anxiety among sexual minority men, little attention has been given to the validity of gay-related RS measures and to individual differences that might moderate the association between gay-related RS and social anxiety. In a population-based sample of sexual minority men, Study 1 ( N = 114) investigated the incremental validity of gay-related RS and showed that gay-related R…
Narrative identity among people with disabilities in the United States during the Covid-19 pandemic
This study examines narrative identity among a large, diverse sample of people with disabilities (PWDs) in the United States during the "second wave" of the Covid-19 pandemic (October-December 2020). The study relied on abductive analyses, combining a purely inductive phase of inquiry followed by two rounds of investigation that filtered inductive insights through three theoretical lenses: social-ecological theory, the theory of narrative identit…
The role of emotion dysregulation in the association between substance use stigma and depressive symptoms among trauma-exposed, substance-using individuals
Despite the well-documented association between experiences of substance use stigma and adverse mental health outcomes, little is known about the mechanisms underlying this association. Utilizing a community sample of substance-using adults who have experienced at least one traumatic event in their lifetime, the current study examined the role of dysregulation stemming from both negative and positive emotions in the relation between substance use…
Mental health, alcohol use, and substance use correlates of sexism in a sample of gender-diverse sexual minority women
Gender-based stressors (e.g., sexism) are rooted in hegemonic masculinity, a cultural practice that subordinates women and stems from patriarchal social structures and institutions. Sexism has been increasingly documented as a key driver of mental and behavioral health issues among women, yet prior research has largely focused on heterosexual women. The current study examined associations between sexism and mental health (i.e., psychological dist…
Emotion regulation in context
Although expressive flexibility (i.e., the ability to engage in expressive enhancement and suppression in accordance with situational demands) has been increasingly recognized as an important source of resilience, its role in the context of stigma coping remains under-investigated. The present research examined the role of expressive flexibility as a potential buffer in the association between perceptions of sexual orientation-related discriminat…
Consequences of Confronting Patronizing Help for People with Disabilities
People with disabilities face a dilemma in dealing with patronizing help: Although accepting unsolicited assistance can incur psychological costs, confronting the helper has been shown to incur interpersonal penalties. The present research explored whether the consequences of confronting patronizing help vary across target gender and disability type. A vignette paradigm introduced participants to various interactions between adults with and witho…
The Burden of Stigma on Health and Well-Being
Most individuals are stigmatized at some point. However, research often examines stigmas separately, thus underestimating the overall impact of stigma and precluding comparisons across stigmatized identities and conditions. In their classic text, Social Stigma: The Psychology of Marked Relationships, Edward Jones and colleagues laid the groundwork for unifying the study of different stigmas by considering the shared dimensional features of stigma…
The Role of Self-Conscious Emotions in the Sexual Health of Gay and Bisexual Men
Researchers have theorized about the role of sexual shame as a mechanism through which sexual minority stress manifests into mental health difficulties, such as sexual compulsivity for gay and bisexual men (GBM), and about the resilience-promoting effects of sexual pride. However, no validated measures to date have directly tapped into these constructs rather than using proxies for them, such as internalized homonegativity. We developed the Sexua…
What Reduces Sexual Minority Stress? A Review of the Intervention “Toolkit”
Sexual orientation health disparities are rooted in sexual minorities’ exposure to stress and challenges to effective coping. This article reviews the “toolkit” of psychosocial interventions available to reduce sexual minority stress effects. A systematic search uncovered 44 interventions that both seek to reduce sexual minority stress at its source in unjust and discriminatory social structures as well as bolster sexual minorities’ stigma‐coping…
Genital herpes stigma
Despite its highly prevalent and stigmatizing nature, genital herpes has received little attention from stigma researchers relative to other sexually transmitted infections. This limitation is of great relevance to researchers and practitioners in both clinical and healthcare settings, given that stigma can cause psychological distress and hinder disclosure to sexual partners, hence contributing to the spread of genital herpes. The present resear…
Emotional clarity as a buffer in the association between perceived mental illness stigma and suicide risk
Among people living with psychiatric disorders, mental illness stigma has been identified as a major barrier to recovery by contributing to low self-esteem and interfering with treatment-seeking. The present research examined the association between perceived mental illness stigma and suicide risk severity and considered the role of emotional clarity (i.e., the ability to identify and understand one's emotional experiences), a critical component …
Looking on the bright side of stigma
Stigma has been linked to adverse mental health outcomes among gay and bisexual men, yet how psychological resources facilitate adaptive coping remains unclear. The present study examined the association between stress-related growth and internalizing mental health symptoms and considered emotion regulation as a mechanism mediating this association. Gay and bisexual men completed questionnaires measuring stress-related growth associated with sexu…
Perceiving and Confronting Sexism
Although many researchers have explored the relations among gender identification, discriminatory attributions, and intentions to challenge discrimination, few have examined the causal impact of gender identity salience on women's actual responses to a sexist encounter. In the current study, we addressed this question by experimentally manipulating the salience of gender identity and assessing its impact on women's decision to confront a sexist c…
Gay-Related Rejection Sensitivity as a Risk Factor for Condomless Sex
Broadening Perspectives on Achieving Social Change
The articles in this special issue challenge readers to reconsider the relationships among individual mobility, collective action, and social change. Taken together, they reveal an increasing and broadening interest in the concept of social change and raise important questions about its societal applications. In this commentary, we expand on this rich body of research by considering how surface indicators of (lack of) social change such as indivi…
Independent or ungrateful? Consequences of confronting patronizing help for people with disabilities
People with disabilities routinely face a dilemma in dealing with patronizing help: While accepting unsolicited assistance may be harmful for its recipients, confronting the helper can lead to negative interpersonal repercussions. Across two studies, participants were presented with a scenario depicting an interaction between a blind target and a sighted pedestrian and asked to evaluate the behaviors of the characters involved. Study 1 showed tha…
Perceiving and Confronting Sexism
Although many researchers have explored the relations among gender identification, discriminatory attributions, and intentions to challenge discrimination, few have examined the causal impact of gender identity salience on women's actual responses to a sexist encounter. In the current study, we addressed this question by experimentally manipulating the salience of gender identity and assessing its impact on women's decision to confront a sexist c…
Narrative identity among people with disabilities in the United States during the Covid-19 pandemic
This study examines narrative identity among a large, diverse sample of people with disabilities (PWDs) in the United States during the "second wave" of the Covid-19 pandemic (October-December 2020). The study relied on abductive analyses, combining a purely inductive phase of inquiry followed by two rounds of investigation that filtered inductive insights through three theoretical lenses: social-ecological theory, the theory of narrative identit…
Consequences of Confronting Patronizing Help for People with Disabilities
People with disabilities face a dilemma in dealing with patronizing help: Although accepting unsolicited assistance can incur psychological costs, confronting the helper has been shown to incur interpersonal penalties. The present research explored whether the consequences of confronting patronizing help vary across target gender and disability type. A vignette paradigm introduced participants to various interactions between adults with and witho…
Broadening Perspectives on Achieving Social Change
The articles in this special issue challenge readers to reconsider the relationships among individual mobility, collective action, and social change. Taken together, they reveal an increasing and broadening interest in the concept of social change and raise important questions about its societal applications. In this commentary, we expand on this rich body of research by considering how surface indicators of (lack of) social change such as indivi…
Disability and autonomy
Depending on the aspect of their identity that is most salient in a given context and their level of stigma consciousness, people with disabilities can access autonomy-related thoughts to a greater or lesser extent. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed
The Role of Self-Conscious Emotions in the Sexual Health of Gay and Bisexual Men
Researchers have theorized about the role of sexual shame as a mechanism through which sexual minority stress manifests into mental health difficulties, such as sexual compulsivity for gay and bisexual men (GBM), and about the resilience-promoting effects of sexual pride. However, no validated measures to date have directly tapped into these constructs rather than using proxies for them, such as internalized homonegativity. We developed the Sexua…
Mental health, alcohol use, and substance use correlates of sexism in a sample of gender-diverse sexual minority women
Gender-based stressors (e.g., sexism) are rooted in hegemonic masculinity, a cultural practice that subordinates women and stems from patriarchal social structures and institutions. Sexism has been increasingly documented as a key driver of mental and behavioral health issues among women, yet prior research has largely focused on heterosexual women. The current study examined associations between sexism and mental health (i.e., psychological dist…
Emotion regulation in context
Although expressive flexibility (i.e., the ability to engage in expressive enhancement and suppression in accordance with situational demands) has been increasingly recognized as an important source of resilience, its role in the context of stigma coping remains under-investigated. The present research examined the role of expressive flexibility as a potential buffer in the association between perceptions of sexual orientation-related discriminat…
Disability and autonomy
Depending on the aspect of their identity that is most salient in a given context and their level of stigma consciousness, people with disabilities can access autonomy-related thoughts to a greater or lesser extent. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed
Independent or ungrateful? Consequences of confronting patronizing help for people with disabilities
People with disabilities routinely face a dilemma in dealing with patronizing help: While accepting unsolicited assistance may be harmful for its recipients, confronting the helper can lead to negative interpersonal repercussions. Across two studies, participants were presented with a scenario depicting an interaction between a blind target and a sighted pedestrian and asked to evaluate the behaviors of the characters involved. Study 1 showed tha…
Gay-Related Rejection Sensitivity as a Risk Factor for Condomless Sex
Broadening Perspectives on Achieving Social Change
The articles in this special issue challenge readers to reconsider the relationships among individual mobility, collective action, and social change. Taken together, they reveal an increasing and broadening interest in the concept of social change and raise important questions about its societal applications. In this commentary, we expand on this rich body of research by considering how surface indicators of (lack of) social change such as indivi…
Genital herpes stigma
Despite its highly prevalent and stigmatizing nature, genital herpes has received little attention from stigma researchers relative to other sexually transmitted infections. This limitation is of great relevance to researchers and practitioners in both clinical and healthcare settings, given that stigma can cause psychological distress and hinder disclosure to sexual partners, hence contributing to the spread of genital herpes. The present resear…
Emotional clarity as a buffer in the association between perceived mental illness stigma and suicide risk
Among people living with psychiatric disorders, mental illness stigma has been identified as a major barrier to recovery by contributing to low self-esteem and interfering with treatment-seeking. The present research examined the association between perceived mental illness stigma and suicide risk severity and considered the role of emotional clarity (i.e., the ability to identify and understand one's emotional experiences), a critical component …
Looking on the bright side of stigma
Stigma has been linked to adverse mental health outcomes among gay and bisexual men, yet how psychological resources facilitate adaptive coping remains unclear. The present study examined the association between stress-related growth and internalizing mental health symptoms and considered emotion regulation as a mechanism mediating this association. Gay and bisexual men completed questionnaires measuring stress-related growth associated with sexu…
Perceiving and Confronting Sexism
Although many researchers have explored the relations among gender identification, discriminatory attributions, and intentions to challenge discrimination, few have examined the causal impact of gender identity salience on women's actual responses to a sexist encounter. In the current study, we addressed this question by experimentally manipulating the salience of gender identity and assessing its impact on women's decision to confront a sexist c…
What Reduces Sexual Minority Stress? A Review of the Intervention “Toolkit”
Sexual orientation health disparities are rooted in sexual minorities’ exposure to stress and challenges to effective coping. This article reviews the “toolkit” of psychosocial interventions available to reduce sexual minority stress effects. A systematic search uncovered 44 interventions that both seek to reduce sexual minority stress at its source in unjust and discriminatory social structures as well as bolster sexual minorities’ stigma‐coping…
The Burden of Stigma on Health and Well-Being
Most individuals are stigmatized at some point. However, research often examines stigmas separately, thus underestimating the overall impact of stigma and precluding comparisons across stigmatized identities and conditions. In their classic text, Social Stigma: The Psychology of Marked Relationships, Edward Jones and colleagues laid the groundwork for unifying the study of different stigmas by considering the shared dimensional features of stigma…
The Role of Self-Conscious Emotions in the Sexual Health of Gay and Bisexual Men
Researchers have theorized about the role of sexual shame as a mechanism through which sexual minority stress manifests into mental health difficulties, such as sexual compulsivity for gay and bisexual men (GBM), and about the resilience-promoting effects of sexual pride. However, no validated measures to date have directly tapped into these constructs rather than using proxies for them, such as internalized homonegativity. We developed the Sexua…
Consequences of Confronting Patronizing Help for People with Disabilities
People with disabilities face a dilemma in dealing with patronizing help: Although accepting unsolicited assistance can incur psychological costs, confronting the helper has been shown to incur interpersonal penalties. The present research explored whether the consequences of confronting patronizing help vary across target gender and disability type. A vignette paradigm introduced participants to various interactions between adults with and witho…
The role of emotion dysregulation in the association between substance use stigma and depressive symptoms among trauma-exposed, substance-using individuals
Despite the well-documented association between experiences of substance use stigma and adverse mental health outcomes, little is known about the mechanisms underlying this association. Utilizing a community sample of substance-using adults who have experienced at least one traumatic event in their lifetime, the current study examined the role of dysregulation stemming from both negative and positive emotions in the relation between substance use…
Mental health, alcohol use, and substance use correlates of sexism in a sample of gender-diverse sexual minority women
Gender-based stressors (e.g., sexism) are rooted in hegemonic masculinity, a cultural practice that subordinates women and stems from patriarchal social structures and institutions. Sexism has been increasingly documented as a key driver of mental and behavioral health issues among women, yet prior research has largely focused on heterosexual women. The current study examined associations between sexism and mental health (i.e., psychological dist…
Emotion regulation in context
Although expressive flexibility (i.e., the ability to engage in expressive enhancement and suppression in accordance with situational demands) has been increasingly recognized as an important source of resilience, its role in the context of stigma coping remains under-investigated. The present research examined the role of expressive flexibility as a potential buffer in the association between perceptions of sexual orientation-related discriminat…
Rejection sensitivity and sexual minority men’s social anxiety disorder
Although gay-related rejection sensitivity (RS) is associated with social anxiety among sexual minority men, little attention has been given to the validity of gay-related RS measures and to individual differences that might moderate the association between gay-related RS and social anxiety. In a population-based sample of sexual minority men, Study 1 ( N = 114) investigated the incremental validity of gay-related RS and showed that gay-related R…
Narrative identity among people with disabilities in the United States during the Covid-19 pandemic
This study examines narrative identity among a large, diverse sample of people with disabilities (PWDs) in the United States during the "second wave" of the Covid-19 pandemic (October-December 2020). The study relied on abductive analyses, combining a purely inductive phase of inquiry followed by two rounds of investigation that filtered inductive insights through three theoretical lenses: social-ecological theory, the theory of narrative identit…
Ableism in mental healthcare settings
People with disabilities (PWD) face elevated mental health concerns and are more likely to utilize mental health services compared to their nondisabled counterparts, yet they also report higher unmet mental health service needs due to myriad attitudinal and environmental barriers to accessing care. Despite these well-documented disparities, little research has examined the nuanced lived experiences of PWD who receive mental health services. Drawi…
Sexual and gender minority college students’ perceptions of sexuality blindfolding
Sexuality blindfolding is a diversity philosophy in which discussions and recognition of LGBTQ identities are minimized with aims of reducing intergroup tension. To add to prior evidence showing the unintended harms of difference-evading diversity philosophies, the present research documented LGBTQ college students' perceptions of sexuality blindfolding in undergraduate academic settings. Using thematic analysis on the qualitative entries of 45 L…
I can’t stop thinking about it”
Patient Experiences in Accessing Reproductive Health Services for Women With Cognitive, Intellectual, and Developmental Disabilities
Just getting along, together”
This study examined the relationship between the theme of interdependence in the narratives of American adults with disabilities and psychological well-being across the shifting conditions of the first 3 years of the COVID-19 pandemic. In contrast to independence, interdependence has emerged as a focus of research about people with disabilities in both the interdisciplinary field of disability studies and in prior psychological research. In the p…
Trajectories of major depression and generalized anxiety symptoms among people with disabilities during the Covid-19 pandemic
GAD trajectory. The results demonstrate the persistent MD and GAD symptoms experienced by many PWD during the pandemic and the importance of interventions to address PWD's social isolation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
Disability Representation in Social and Personality Psychology Research
We conducted a systematic state-of-the-art review examining disability representation of three flagship social and personality psychology journals between 2017 and 2022. First, we examined the 2,343 articles published in that time frame and found that 192 (8.19%) of them used at least one instance of disability-related terminology. Second, we examined patterns of disability-related terminology use and found that these concepts were most often use…
Investigating the role of perceived autonomy support in moderating the association between diabetes stigma and psychological and diabetes self-management outcomes among adults with type 2 diabetes in …
Studies on diabetes-related stigma rarely focus on identifying or examining protective factors (e.g., social support and healthcare environment) that can mitigate the adverse effect of this social phenomenon. In this cross-sectional study, we examined perceived autonomy support, a concept from the self-determination theory, as a moderator of the association between diabetes-related stigma and its adverse behavioral and psychological (depression, …
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