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2024 AND IN PRESS
Straka, B. C., Jordan, A. E., Osornio, A., Halim, M. D., Pauker, K., Olson, K. R., Dunham, Y., Gaither, S. E. (in press). Testing the generalizability of minimal group attitudes in minority and majority race children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.
Ma, D., Kantner, J., Elias, E., Diaz, S., & Pauker, K. (in press). Are multiracial faces perceptually distinct? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Meyers, C., Garay, M. M., & Pauker, K. (2024). Hawai‘i face database: a racially and ethnically diverse set of facial stimuli. Self and Identity, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2024.2417664 [PDF]
Halim, M. L. D., Glazier, J. J., Martinez, M. A., Stanaland, A., Gaither, S. E., Dunham, Y., Pauker, K., & Olson, K. R. (2024). Gender attitudes and gender discrimination among ethnically and geographically diverse young children. Infant and Child Development, 33(3), e2482. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2482 [PDF]
Killen, M., Burkholder, A. R., Brey, E., Cooper, D., & Pauker, K. (2024). Children and adolescents rectify unequal allocations of leadership duties in the classroom. Child Development, 00, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14123 [PDF]
Meyers, C. K., Thai, S., & Pauker, K. (2024). Navigating race in a racially diverse environment: An experience sampling study on the daily use of race in conversations within Hawai‘i. Journal of Social Psychology, 164(5), 718-735. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2022.2159783 [PDF]
2023
Chen, J. M., Meyers, C. K., Pauker, K., Gaither, S. E., Hamilton, D. L., & Sherman, J. W. (2023). Intergroup context moderates the impact of White Americans’ identification on racial categorization of ambiguous faces. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672231190264 [PDF]
Meyers, C. K., Williams, A., Weisbuch, M., & Pauker, K. (2023). Bias contagion across racial group boundaries. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 47, 529-543. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-023-00439-4 [PDF]
Delafield, R., Kwon, H., Mar, A., Hermosura, A. H., Chapman de Sousa, E. B., Levinson, J., & Pauker, K. (2023). Examining implicit racial attitudes among college students in Hawai‘i, a project of the Hawai‘i Implicit Bias Initiative. Hawaii Journal of Health and Social Welfare, 82, 29-35. [PDF]
Halim, M. L. D., Atwood, S., Osornio, A. C., Pauker, K., Dunham, Y., Olson, K. R., & Gaither, S. E. (2023). Parent and self-socialization of gender intergroup attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors among ethnically and geographically diverse young children. Developmental Psychology, 59(10), 1933-1950. [PDF]
Levy, A., Nguyen, C., Slepian, M. L., Gaither, S. E., Pauker, K., & Dovidio, J. F. (2023). Categorizing a face and facing a category: The constructive impacts of ambiguity and uncertainty in racial categorization. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 49, 910-924. [PDF]
Meyers, C. K., Gaither, S. E., Remedios, J., Pauker, K. (2023). Detecting biracial identity strength: Perceived phenotypicality is inaccurate. Self and Identity, 22(4), 533-562. https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2022.2146742 [PDF]
2022
Lamer, S. A., Dvorak, P., Biddle, A., Pauker, K., & Weisbuch, M. (2022). The transmission of gender stereotypes through televised patterns of nonverbal bias. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 123(6), 1315–1335. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000390 [PDF]
Meyers, C. K., Williams, A., Pauker, K., & Apfelbaum, E. (2022). The impact of social norms on navigating race in a racially diverse context. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 25, 853–870. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430220984228 [PDF]
Pauker, K., Apfelbaum, E. P., Dweck, C. S., & Eberhardt, J. L. (2022). Believing prejudice can change increases children’s interest in interracial interactions. Developmental Science, 25, e13233. [PDF]
2021
Tai, C., & Pauker, K. (2021). Growing racial resilience: the impact of mindsets on the development of prejudice. Human Development, 65, 325-341. [PDF]
Pauker, K., Lamer, S. A., Ansari, S., & Weisbuch, M. (2021). Cultural snapshots: Identifying cultural patterns that influence implicit racial bias. In K. C. McLean (Ed.), Cultural Methods in Psychology: Describing and Transforming Cultures (pp. 109-145). Oxford University Press.
Garay, M., Meyers, C. K., Remedios, J., & Pauker, K. (2021). Looking like vs. acting like your race: Social activism shapes perceptions of multiracial individuals. Self and Identity, 20, 594-619. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2019.1659848 [PDF]
Young, D. M., Sanchez, D. T., Pauker, K., & Gaither, S. E. (2021). A Meta-Analytic Review of Hypodescent Patterns in Categorizing Multiracial and Racially Ambiguous Targets. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 47, 705-727.* [PDF]
2020
Pauker, K., Tai, C., & Ansari, S. (2020). Contextualizing the development of social essentialism. In M. Rhodes (Ed.) Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 59, 65-94. [PDF]
Meyers, C. K., Aumer, K., Schoniwitz, A., Janicki, C., Pauker, K., Chang, E. C., Gaither, S. E., & Williams, A. (2020). Experiences with microaggressions and discrimination in racially diverse and homogeneous contexts. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 26, 250-259. [PDF]
2019
Brey, E. L., & Pauker, K., (2019). Teachers’ nonverbal behaviors influence children’s stereotypic beliefs. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 188, 104671. [PDF]
Pauker, K., Brey, E. L., Lamer, S. A., & Weisbuch, M. (2019). Cultural snapshots: A method to capture social contexts in development of prejudice and stereotyping. In Benson, J. (Ed.) Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 56(3), 141-181. [PDF]
Gaither, S. E., Chen, J. M., Pauker, K., & Sommers, S. R. (2019). At face value: Psychological outcomes differ for real vs. computer-generated multiracial faces. Journal of Social Psychology, 159, 592-610. [PDF]
2018
Chen, J. M., Pauker, K., Gaither, S. E., Hamilton, D. L., & Sherman, J. W. (2018). Black + White = Not White: A minority bias in categorizations of Black-White multiracials. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 78, 43-54. [PDF]
Pauker, K., Carpinella, C. M., Lick, D. J., Sanchez, D. T., & Johnson, K. L. (2018). Malleability in biracial categorizations: The impact of geographic context and targets’ racial heritage. Social Cognition, 36, 461-480.* [PDF]
Pauker, K., Meyers, C. K., Sanchez, D. T., Gaither, S. E., & Young, D. M. (2018). A review of multiracial malleability: Identity, categorization, and shifting racial attitudes. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 12, e12392.* [PDF]
Pauker, K., Carpinella, C., Meyers, C., Young, D., & Sanchez, D. (2018). The role of diversity exposure in Whites’ reduction in race essentialism over time. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 9, 944-952.* [PDF]
Williams, A., Kajiwara, K., Soon, R., Salcedo, J., Tschann, M., Elia, J., Pauker, K., & Kaneshiro, B. (2018). Recommendations for contraception: Examining the role of patients’ age and race. Hawaii Journal of Medicine and Public Health, 77, 7-13. [PDF]
2017
Weisbuch, M., Pauker, K., Adams, R. B., Jr., & Lamer, S. (2017). Race, power, and reflexive gaze following. Social Cognition, 35, 619-638. [PDF]
Pauker, K., Carpinella, C., Meyers, C., Young, D., & Sanchez, D. (2017). The role of diversity exposure in Whites’ reduction in race essentialism over time. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 9, 944-952. [PDF]
Weisbuch, M., Lamer, S. A., Treinen, E., & Pauker, K. (2017). Cultural snapshots: Theory and method. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 11, e12334. [PDF]
McKeown, S., Williams, A., & Pauker, K. (2017). Stories that move them: Changing children’s behavior toward diverse peers. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 27, 381-387. [PDF]
Pauker, K., Williams, A., & Steele, J. R. (2017). The development of racial categorization in childhood. In. A. Rutland, D. Nesdale, & C. S. Brown (Eds.), The Wiley-Black Handbook of Group Processes in Children and Adolescents. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd. [PDF]
2016
Pauker, K., Xu, Y., Williams, A., & Biddle, A. M. (2016). Race essentialism and contextual differences in children’s racial stereotyping. Child Development, 87, 1409-1422. [PDF]
Gaither, S. E., Pauker, K., Slepian, M. L., & Sommers, S. R. (2016). Social belonging motivates categorization of racially-ambiguous faces. Social Cognition, 34, 97-118. [PDF]
Freeman, J. B., Pauker, K., & Sanchez, D. (2016). A perceptual pathway to bias: Interracial exposure reduces abrupt shifts in real-time race perception that predict mixed-race bias. Psychological Science, 27, 502-517. [PDF] [Suppl. Materials]
Pauker, K., Williams, A., & Steele, J. R. (2016). Children’s racial categorization in context. Child Development Perspectives, 10, 33-38. [PDF]
2015
Pauker, K., Apfelbaum, E. P., & Spitzer, B. (2015). When societal norms and social identity collide: The race talk dilemma for racial minority children. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6, 887-895. [PDF]
Sanchez, D. T., Young, D. M., Pauker, K. (2015). Exposure to Racial Ambiguity Influences Lay Theories of Race. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6, 382-390. [PDF]
2014
Xu, Y., Farver, J. M., & Pauker, K. (2014). Ethnic identity and self-esteem among Asian and European Americans: When a minority is the majority and the majority is a minority. European Journal of Social Psychology, 45, 62-76. [PDF]
Slepian, M. L., Weisbuch, M., Pauker, K., Bastian, B. & Ambady, N. (2014). Fluid movements and fluid social cognition: Bodily movement influences essentialist thought. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40, 111-120. [PDF]
Gaither, S. E., Schultz, J. R., Pauker, K., Sommers, S. R, Maddox, K. B., & Ambady, N. (2014). Essentialist thinking predicts decrements in children’s memory for racially ambiguous faces. Developmental Psychology, 50, 482-488. [PDF]
2012-2013
Pauker, K., Ambady, N., & Freeman, J. (2013). The power of identity to motivate face memory in biracial individuals. Social Cognition, 31, 778-789. [PDF]
Carr, P. B., Dweck, C. S., & Pauker, K. (2012). “Prejudiced” behavior without prejudice? Beliefs about the malleability of prejudice affect interracial interactions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 103, 452-71. [PDF]
Gaither, S. E., Pauker, K., & Johnson, S. (2012). Biracial and monoracial infant own-race face perception: An eye tracking study. Developmental Science, 15, 775-782. [PDF]
Johnson, K. L., Freeman, J., & Pauker, K. (2012). Race is gendered: How covarying phenotypes and stereotypes bias sex categorization. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102, 116-131. [PDF]
2010-2011
Weisbuch, M., & Pauker, K. (2011). The nonverbal transmission of intergroup bias: A model of bias contagion with implications for social policy. Social Issues and Policy Review, 5, 257-291. [PDF]
Pauker, K., Ambady, N. & Apfelbaum, E. P. (2010). Race salience and essentialist thinking in racial stereotype development. Child Development, 81, 1799-1813. [PDF]
Apfelbaum, E. P., Pauker, K., Sommers, S. R., & Ambady, N. (2010). In Blind Pursuit of Racial Equality? Psychological Science, 21,1587-1592. [PDF]
Adams, R. B., Jr., Pauker, K., & Weisbuch, M. (2010). Looking the other way: The role of gaze direction in the cross-race memory effect. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 478-481. [PDF]
Freeman, J., Pauker, K., Apfelbaum, E., & Ambady, N. (2010). Continuous dynamics in the real-time perception of race. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 179-185. [PDF]
Pauker, K., Rule, N. O., & Ambady, N. (2010). Ambiguity and social perception. In E. Balcetis and G. D. Lassiter (Eds.), The Social Psychology of Visual Perception (pp. 13-29). New York, NY: Psychology Press.
2008-2009
Weisbuch, M., Pauker, K., & Ambady, N. (2009). The subtle transmission of race bias via televised nonverbal behavior. Science, 326, 1711-1714. [PDF] [SOM]
Pauker, K., Weisbuch, M., Ambady, N., Sommers, S. R., Adams, R. B. Jr., & Ivcevic, Z. (2009). Not so Black and White: Memory for ambiguous group members. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 795-810. [PDF]
Pauker, K. & Ambady, N. (2009). Multiracial faces: How categorization affects memory at the boundaries of race. Journal of Social Issues, 65, 69-86. [PDF]
Apfelbaum, E. P.,* Pauker, K.,* Ambady, N., Sommers, S. R., & Norton, M. I. (2008). Learning (not) to talk about race: When older children underperform in social categorization. Developmental Psychology, 44, 1513-1518. *Shared first authorship [PDF]