Brenda Straka

Dados Biográficos

ID5135609
NOMEBrenda Straka
PRENOMESBrenda
SOBRENOMEStraka
ASSINATURASTRAKA B
AFILIAÇÕESDuke University
ORCID0000-0001-7360-7469
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS8
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES26
TOTAL COMO AUTOR8
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2019
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H2

  • Enumeration or Exclusion? Demographic Forms and Latine Identity Threat

    Open AccessBrenda Straka, Miguel Martinez et al.ARTICLEPersonality and Social Psychology…2025

    Four studies examine whether demographic forms elicit social identity threat and institutional exclusion for Latine Americans before and after the 2020 Presidential election and leading up to the 2024 election. Using a mock-Census form and widely used ethnicity/racial designations, we manipulated the framing of Latine identity through a two-item (category listed separately) versus a single-item (combined) format, and also varied the inclusion of …

  • Mixed-heritage individuals’ encounters with raciolinguistic ideologies

    Aurora Tsai, Brenda Straka et al.ARTICLEJournal of Multilingual and…2024Citada por: 1Referências: 46

    Mixed-heritage individuals (MHIs) are known to face high levels of social exclusion. Here, we investigate how raciolinguistic ideologies related to one’s heritage language abilities add to these exclusionary experiences. The results from 293 MHIs reveal frequent experiences of marginalisation from members of each of their heritage communities because their racial appearance and language practices are perceived as deviant and outside imagined ‘mon…

  • The rich get richer? Children’s reasoning about socioeconomic status predicts inclusion and resource bias

    Open AccessBrenda Straka, Analia F Albuja et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2024

    Children's socioeconomic status (SES) is linked to disparate access to resources and affects social behaviors such as inclusion and resource allocations. Yet it is unclear whether children's essentialized view of SES (i.e., believing SES is immutable) or subjective social status (SSS) influences behavioral biases toward high- versus low-SES peers. We measured 4- to 9-year-old children's SES essentialism and SSS to test whether these predict inclu…

  • Mixed-Heritage Individuals and Systemic Risk During Negotiation of Identity

    Aurora Tsai, Brenda Straka et al.ARTICLEJournal of Language Identity &…2022Citada por: 4Referências: 17

    Poststructuralist research in language and identity demonstrates how individuals exert agency to enact alternative identities, reshape power structures, and gain access to resources. However, this approach to agency carries immense risk for minoritized individuals, who must regularly negotiate their identities under systemic racism and linguistic discrimination. We focus on mixed-heritage individuals (MHIs), who are regularly questioned about or …

  • Social Class Identity Integration and Success for First-Generation College Students

    Sarah D Herrmann, Michael E W Varnum et al.ARTICLESelf and Identity2021

    Social class bicultural identity integration research demonstrates that integrated social class identities are linked with better health, well-being, and academic performance among first-generation students. Here, we demonstrate that exposure to college graduates in students’ home neighborhoods before college is positively related to higher social class bicultural identity integration (Study 1), that the effect of identity integration on academic…

  • “Mixed” Drinking Motivations

    Open AccessBrenda Straka, Sarah E Gaither et al.ARTICLESocial Psychological and…2020

    Social exclusion is associated with substance use, but the specific link between majority and minority racial group membership and substance use is unknown. We examined how social exclusion among racial majority (White), Multiracial, and racial minority (Native American, Latino, Asian, and Black) college students relates to self-reported alcohol use and motivations. Using the AlcoholEdu for CollegeTM survey, Study 1a reports five factors related …

  • Reframe policymaking dysfunction through bipartisan-inclusion leadership

    Open AccessJohn W Straka, Brenda StrakaARTICLEPolicy Sciences2020Referências: 14

  • Psychophysiological Stress Responses to Bicultural and Biracial Identity Denial

    Open AccessAnalia F Albuja, Sarah E Gaither et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Issues2019Citada por: 21Referências: 21

    Bicultural and biracial individuals (those who identify either with two cultures or two races) are often denied membership in the groups with which they identify, an experience referred to as identity denial. The present studies used an experimental design to test the effects of identity denial on physiological and self‐reported stress, and naturalistic behavioral responses in a controlled laboratory setting for both bicultural (Study 1; N = 126)…