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List of works by Steven O. Roberts

Beyond Black and White: Conceptualizing and essentializing Black–White identity

Can White children grow up to be Black? Children's reasoning about the stability of emotion and race

scientific article published on 05 May 2016

Categories convey prescriptive information across domains and development

Categories convey prescriptive information across domains and development

Challenging the White = Neutral Framework in Psychology

scholarly article

Children's beliefs about causes of human characteristics: Genes, environment, or choice?

scientific article published on 19 March 2020

Children's descriptive-to-prescriptive tendency replicates (and varies) cross-culturally: Evidence from China

scientific article

Children’s Concern for Equity and Ownership in Contexts of Individual-based and Group-based Inequality

Children’s and Adults’ Predictions of Black, White, and Multiracial Friendship Patterns

Children’s concern for equity and ownership in contexts of individual-based and group-based inequality

Conversations about race in Black and White US families: Before and after George Floyd’s death

scholarly article

Dealing with Diversity in Psychology: Science and Ideology

Descriptive-to-prescriptive (D2P) reasoning: An early emerging bias to maintain the status quo

Do Children See in Black and White? Children's and Adults' Categorizations of Multiracial Individuals

scientific article

Essentialism and Racial Bias Jointly Contribute to the Categorization of Multiracial Individuals

scientific article published on September 2015

Explanations for norm violations affect preschoolers' judgments of norm violators

scientific article published on 30 November 2020

From Parental Involvement to Children's Mathematical Performance: The Role of Mathematics Anxiety

God as a White man: A psychological barrier to conceptualizing Black people and women as leadership worthy

scientific article published on 30 January 2020

Group presence, category labels, and generic statements influence children to treat descriptive group regularities as prescriptive

scientific article published on 3 February 2017

Harnessing the power of group norms to improve children’s intergroup relationships

How deep do we dig? Formal explanations as placeholders for inherent explanations.

scientific article published on 4 September 2018

How language shapes the cultural inheritance of categories

scientific article

Making Boundaries Great Again: Essentialism and Support for Boundary-Enhancing Initiatives

scientific article published in August 2017

Multiracial Children's and Adults' Categorizations of Multiracial Individuals

scientific article published on 23 February 2016

My Heart Made Me Do It: Children's Essentialist Beliefs About Heart Transplants.

scientific article published on 17 November 2016

Now you see race, now you don’t: Verbal cues influence children’s racial stability judgments

Racial Inequality in Psychological Research: Trends of the Past and Recommendations for the Future

scientific article published on 24 June 2020

Racial identity and autonomic responses to racial discrimination

scientific article published on 28 July 2013

Should Individuals Think Like Their Group? A Descriptive-to-Prescriptive Tendency Toward Group-Based Beliefs

scientific article published on 26 August 2020

So It Is, So It Shall Be: Group Regularities License Children's Prescriptive Judgments

scientific article published on 3 December 2016

The Effect of Group Status on Children’s Hierarchy-Reinforcing Beliefs

The Effects of Editorial-Board Diversity on Race Scholars and Their Scholarship: A Field Experiment

The Roles of Group Status and Group Membership in the Practice of Hypodescent

scientific article published on 08 July 2019

The Roles of Privacy and Trust in Children's Evaluations and Explanations of Digital Tracking

The emotional and mental health impact of the murder of George Floyd on the US population

scholarly article

The influence of vector‐borne disease on human history: socio‐ecological mechanisms

scientific article published in 2021

The psychology of American racism

scientific article published on 25 June 2020

The role of group norms in evaluating uncommon and negative behaviors

scientific article published on 20 December 2018

The souls of Black folk (and the weight of Black ancestry) in U.S. Black Americans’ racial categorization