Christine E. Reyna, Ph.D.

Contact Information_________________________________

Department of Psychology–DePaul University
2219 N. Kenmore Ave.
Chicago, IL 60614
(773) 325-4842 (office)
Email: creyna@depaul.edu

Education________________________________________

Ph.D. Social Psychology, the University of California, Los Angeles
Minor: Measurement and Psychometrics (2000)
M.A. Social Psychology, the University of California, Los Angeles (1994)
B.A. Psychology, the University of California, Los Angeles (1991)

Academic and Administrative Appointments_______________

2018-present      Program Director, Psychological Science Doctoral Program

2014-present      Professor in Psychology, DePaul University

2009-2015          Associate Chair—Department of Psychology

2007-2014          Associate Professor with tenure in Psychology, DePaul University

2000-07              Assistant Professor in Psychology, DePaul University

1995-99               Research Associate, Center for Mental Health in Schools, UCLA

1995-98               Teaching Associate, Department of Psychology, UCLA

1992-95               Teaching Assistant, Department of Psychology, UCLA

Grants, Fellowships and Awards________________________

2017           Psychology Department Small Research Grant
2016           Honorable Mention, Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize:

Brandt, M. J., Chambers, J. R., Crawford, J. T., Wetherell, G., & Reyna, C. (2015). Bounded openness: The effect of openness to experience on intolerance is moderated by target group  conventionality. Journal of personality and social psychology, 109, 549-568.

2016           University Research Council Competitive Research Grant

2016           College of Science and Health Faculty Summer Research Grant

2015           College of Science and Health, Undergraduate Research Assistant Program (URAP)—Winter, spring

2012           DePaul University, University Research Council, Research Leave

2010           DePaul University Undergraduate Research Assistantship Program (Intramural Grant)

2009          DePaul University Undergraduate Research Assistantship Program. (Intramural Grant)

2005          NSF Grant: A Cognitive Model of the Implicit Associations Test (Co-PI with Pablo Gomez, Ph.D.)–$100,000.00

2004          National Institute of Mental Health RO3 Grant: Modeling the Implicit Associations Test (Co-PI with Pablo Gomez). Not funded.

2001          DePaul University Summer Research Grant

2000         Bertram H. Raven Award for the Best Social Issues Paper, University of California, Los Angeles

1999-2000   Psychology Department Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles

1993-1997    Project 88 Ethnic Minority Student Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles

1994-1995   UCLA Department of Psychology Research Grant, University of California, Los Angeles

Publications________________________________________

∴ = publications with graduate students (at time of research); º = publications with undergraduates (at time of research)

∴ Anderson, A.J., Sánchez, B., Reyna, C., & Rasgado-Flores, H. (in press). “It Just Weighs in the Back of Your Mind”: Microaggressions in Science. Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering.

∴ Bellovary, A., ∴ Armenta, A., and Reyna, C. (2020) Stereotypes of Immigrants and Immigration in the United States. In: J.T. Nadler & E.Voyles (Eds.), Stereotypes: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Today’s Reality in the U.S. Praeger. 

∴ Harris, K., ∴ Armenta, A., Reyna, C., & Zarate, M. (2020) Latinx stereotypes: Myths and realities in the 21st centuryIn: J.T. Nadler & E.Voyles (Eds.), Stereotypes: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Today’s Reality in the U.S. Praeger.

Zarate, M., Reyna, C., & ∴ Alvarez, M. (2019). Cultural Inertia, Identity and Intergroup Dynamics in a Changing Context. In J.Oleson (Ed.) Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 22, 176-234.  Link

∴ Steiger, R. & Reyna, C., & Wetherell, G. (2019). Contempt of Congress: Do liberals and conservatives harbor equivalent negative emotional biases towards ideologically congruent vs. incongruent politicians at the level of individual emotions? Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 7, 100-123.   Link

∴ Brandt, M. J., & Reyna, C. (2017). Individual Differences in the Resistance to Social Change and Acceptance of Inequality Predict System Legitimacy Differently Depending on the Social Structure. European Journal of Personality, 31, 266-278.   Link

Reyna, C. (2017). Scale Creation, Use, and Misuse: How Politics Undermines Measurement. In J. Crawford and L. Jussim (Eds.) Politics of Social Psychology. Taylor & Francis. Link

Reyna, C., & Zimmerman, J. L. (2017). Issues of Status and Power in Interracial Problems and Solutions. Social Issues in Living Color: Challenges and Solutions from the Perspective of Ethnic Minority Psychology [3 volumes], 231.

∴ Steiger, R. & Reyna, C. (2017). Trait Contempt, Anger, Disgust, and Moral Foundation Values. Personality and Individual Differences, 113, 125-135.   Link

Brandt, M.J., Chambers, J.R., Crawford, J.T., G Wetherell, G., & Reyna, C. (2015). Bounded openness: The effect of openness to experience on intolerance is moderated by target group conventionality. Journal of personality and social psychology, 109, 549.   Link

∴ Davis, J.R., & Reyna, C. (2015). Seeing red: How perceptions of social status and worth influence hostile attributions and endorsement of aggression. British journal of social psychology, 54, 728-747.   Link

∴ Wetherell, G., ∴ Benson, O., Reyna, C. & ∴ Brandt. M.J. (2015). Perceived value congruence and attitudes toward international relations and foreign policies. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 37, 3-18.   Link

∴ Brandt, M.J., ∴ Wetherell, G., & Reyna, C. (2014). Liberals and Conservatives Show Similarities in Negativity Bias: Evidence from Intolerance, Psychological Threat, and Motivated Reasoning. Behavior and Brain Science, 37, 307-308. 

∴ Brandt, M.J., & Reyna, C. (2014). To love or hate thy neighbor: The role of authoritarianism and traditionalism in explaining the link between fundamentalism and racial prejudice. Political Psychology, 35, 207-223.   Link

Reyna, C., ∴ Wetherell, G., ∴ Yantis, C.  & ∴ Brandt, M.J. (2014). Attributions for Sexual Orientation vs. Stereotypes: How Stereotypes about Value Violations Account for Attribution Effects on Anti-gay Discrimination. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 44, 289-302.   Link

Brandt, M., Reyna, C., Chambers, J., Crawford, J., & ∴ Wetherall, G. (2014). The Ideological Conflict Hypothesis: Intolerance among both liberals and conservatives. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 23, 27-34.   Link

∴ Zimmerman, J. & Reyna, C. (2013). The meaning and Role of Ideology in System Justification and Resistance for High and Low Status People. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 105, 1-23.   Link

∴ Wetherell, G., ∴ Brandt, M.J. , & Reyna, C. (2013). Discrimination across the Ideological Divide: The Role of Value Violations and Abstract Values in Discrimination by Liberals and Conservatives. Social Psychology and Personality Science, 4, 658-667.    Link

Reyna, C., ∴ Dobria, O., & ∴ Wetherell, G.  (2013). The Complexity and Ambivalence of Immigration Attitudes: Nuanced Stereotypes Predict Conflicting Attitudes toward Immigration Policies. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 19, 342-356.    Link

∴ Wetherell, G., Reyna, C. & Sadler, M. (2013). Public Option vs. the Market: Perceived Value Violations Drive Opposition to Healthcare Reform, Political Psychology, 34, 43-66.    Link

∴ Brandt, M. J., & Reyna, C. (2012). The functions of symbolic racism. Social Justice Research, 25, 41-60.    Link

∴ Brandt, M. J., & Reyna, C.  (2011). The chain of being: A hierarchy of morality. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6, 428-446.   Link

Zhang, A., Reyna, C., & Huang, L. (2011). When Employees Fail in Chinese Enterprises: Responsibility and Constructive Criticism. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 22. 3305-3316.   Link

∴ Brandt, M. & Reyna, C. (2010). The Role of Prejudice and the Need for Closure in Religious Fundamentalism. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 715-725.   Link

∴ Brandt, M.J.  & Reyna, C. (2010) Stereotypes as Attributions. In: E.L. Simon (Ed.) Psychology of Stereotypes. Nova Science Publishers, Inc.    Link

Reyna, C., ∴ Brandt, M., & Viki, G.T. (2009). Blame it on hip-hop: Anti-rap attitudes as a proxy for prejudice. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 12, 361-380.   Link

Reyna, C. (2008). Ian is Intelligent but Leshaun is Lazy: How Status, Cultural Beliefs, and the Preference for Internal Judgments May Perpetuate Attributional Stereotypes in the Classroom. European Journal of the Psychology of Education, 23, 439-458.    Link

Zhang, A., Reyna, C., Qian, Z., & Yu, G. (2008). Interpersonal Attributions of Responsibility in the Chinese Workplace: A Test of Western Models in a Collectivist Context. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 38, 2361-2377.   Link

Henry, P.J., & Reyna, C. (2007). Value judgments: The impact of perceived value violations on political attitudes. Political Psychology, 23, 273-298.   Link

Reyna, C., ∴ Goodwin, E. & Ferrari, J. (2007). Stereotypes of the Elderly among Care Providers in Residential Care Facilities: Examining the Relationship between Contact, Education, and Ageism. Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 33, 50-55 . 

Reyna, C., Henry, P.J., º Korfmacher, W., & ∴ Tucker, A. (2006). Examining the principles in principled conservatism: The role of responsibility stereotypes as cues for deservingness in racial policy decisions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 109-128.    Link

Reyna, C., ∴ Tucker, A., º Korfmacher, W., & Henry, P. (2005). Searching for Common Ground between Supporters and Opponents of Affirmative Action. Political Psychology, 26, 667-682.    Link

Henry, P., Reyna, C. & Weiner, B. (2004) Hate welfare but help the poor: How the attributional content of stereotypes explains the paradox of reactions to the destitute in America. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 34, 34-58.   Link

Reyna, C., & Weiner, B. (2001). Justice and utility in the classroom: An attributional analysis of teachers’ punishment and intervention strategies. Journal of Educational Psychology, 93, 309-319.   Link

Reyna, C. (2000). Lazy, dumb, or industrious: When stereotypes convey attribution information in the classroom. Educational Psychology Review, 12, 85-110.   Link

Adelman, H., Reyna, C., Collins, R., & Taylor, L. (1999). Fundamental concerns about policy for addressing barriers to student learning. Reading and Writing Quarterly, 15, 327-349.   Link

Weiner, B., Graham, S., & Reyna, C. (1997). An attributional examination of retributive versus utilitarian philosophies of punishment. Social Justice Research, 10, 431-452.   Link

Ongoing Scholarly Activities__________________________________

Ideological bias across the political spectrum

Perceptions, justifications, and condemnations of American systems

Gender and ethnic identity intersection and STEM identity 

The necessary and sufficient conditions for moral judgment and rationalization

Group-based threat and the rise of White nationalism

The role of identity and stereotypes on intergroup discrimination

Stereotypes and prejudice in political contexts

Recent Scholarly Papers Presented_____________________________

Recent Invited Talks and Colloquia

2019 Annual Heterodox Academy Conference, New York (2019). Invited speaker: Workshop: Debiasing Research and Diversifying Disciplines. 

University of California, Los Angeles (2019). Invited speaker for the Intergroup Relations Laboratory Brownbag Series.  

Northwestern University, Chicago (2018). Invited speaker for the Northwestern Social Psychology Brownbag Colloquium Series. 

University of Illinois, Chicago (2017). Invited speaker for the UIC Social Psychology Brownbag Colloquium Series. 

University of California, Los Angeles—Festschrift for Bernard Weiner (2014). Attributional Stereotypes and the Legitimizing Ideology of Deservingness: Blame, Value Violations, and Attitudes toward Group-Based Policies.

Chicago Morality Researchers (C-MORE) Mini-Conference (2013). Sex, Pranks, and Videotapes: What are the Precursors to Moral Judgments? 

NYU-Abu Dhabi, Center for Science and Engineering, Colloquium Series (2012). Climbing Up and Falling Down the (Moral) Chain of Being: Anthropomorphism, Dehumanization, and Sanctification in Social Perception

Northern Illinois University, I/O-Social Colloquium Series (2011). Attributional Stereotypes and the Legitimizing Ideology of Deservingness

University of Texas, El Paso: Invited Speaker Series (2010). Attributional Stereotypes and the Legitimizing Ideology of Deservingness: How Perceived Value Violations Guide Attitudes toward Group-Based Policies.

Recent Conference Presentations with Graduate and Undergraduate Students

P = Poster presentations; S = Symposia presentations; T = Talk

∴ Harris, K., & Reyna, C. (2019). Colorism: Public Tolerance of Police Brutality (S). The Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

∴ Bellovary, A., Reyna, C., & Zimmerman, J. (2019). Unjustifiable: Americans condemn instead of justify systems (S). The Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. 

º Kannout, L., º Valenzuela, M., º Soriano, D., º Rigsby, M., ∴ Anderson, A., & Reyna, C. (2019). Science Interest among Girls of Color: The Role of SES and Science Identity (S). The Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. 

∴ Harris, K., ºKannout, L., ∴ Steiger, R., & Reyna, C. (2019). The Role of Entitlement and Dominance in Whites’ Dehumanization of Black Americans (P). Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, 2019. Washington, DC.  

ºKannout, L., ºValenzuela, M., ∴ Anderson, A., & Reyna, C. (2019). High School Girls’ in STEM: Gender Identity May Protect Against Discouragement from Others (P). Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, 2019. Washington, DC. 

º Valenzuela, M., º Soriano, D., º Rigsby, M., º Kannout, L., ∴ Anderson, A., & Reyna, C. (2019). Differences in Perceived Higher Educational Barriers and Motivators among Latinas: Accounting for Maternal Education (P). Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, 2019. Washington, DC.

∴ Bellovary, A., Reyna, C., & Zimmerman, J. (2019). Defining the American System: Public Perceptions (P). The annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Portland, OR. 

Davis, J., ∴ Steiger, R., & Reyna, C. (2019). Moral Emotions, Violations, and Foundations Theory: A Re-Examination of the CAD Hypothesis (P). The annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Portland, OR.

∴ Harris, K., & Reyna, C. (2019). Public’s Tolerance of Police Use of Excessive Force Based on Crime Ambiguity (P). The annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Portland, OR.

º Rigsby, M., º Soriano, D., º Valenzuela, M. º Kannout, L., ∴ Anderson, A., & Reyna, C. (2019). College Women’s Conceptions and Others’ Expectations of Womanhood (P). The annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Portland, OR.

Reyna, C., ∴ Steiger, R., & Zimmerman, J. (2018). 2016: Rhetoric, Myths and Realities of an “Extraordinary” Election (S). The Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

∴ Anderson, A., ºKannout, L., º Valenzuela, M., º Soriano, D., & Reyna, C. (2018). Science Self-Efficacy and Identity among College Women: Recognition from Family (P). The Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

∴ Bellovary, A., Zimmerman, J. & Reyna, C., (2018). Defining the American System: Public Conceptualization and Perceptions (P). The Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

∴ Steiger, R., & Reyna, C. (2018). Trait Contempt and Prejudice: People Who Dislike Their Own Ingroups (S). The Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

º Kannout, L., º Valenzuela, M., º Soriano, D., º Rigsby, M., ∴ Anderson, A., & Reyna, C. (2018). Ethnic Identity Development and Perceptions of White Privilege among White College Women (P). Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, 2018. San Francisco, CA.  

º Valenzuela, M., º Soriano, D., º Kannout, L., ∴ Anderson, A., & Reyna, C. (2018). Science Self-Efficacy and Identity among College Women: Recognition from Family (S). Annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. 

∴ Steiger, R., & Reyna, C. (2018). Trait Contempt: A Robust Predictor of Prejudice and Dehumanization (P). The annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Atlanta, GA. 

Reyna, C., with Motyl, M. (2017). 2016 US Election Town Hall (T). Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) Biannual Conference. Albuquerque, NM. Invited speaker.

∴ Steiger, R., & Reyna, C. (April, 2017). The CAD Triad Revisited: Do Contempt, Anger and Disgust Map onto Different Moral Foundations? (S) Invited Symposium: New Perspectives in Moral Psychology, at the Annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. 

Pagan, J. & Reyna, C. (2017). Stereotype threat or stereotype reactance during demonstrations? (P) The annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX.

∴ Steiger, R., & Reyna, C. (January, 2017). Trait Contempt, Anger, Disgust, and Moral Foundations Theory. (P) The annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX.

∴ Wareham, J., ∴ Steiger, R., & Reyna, C. (Jan. 2017). How Cognitive, Emotional and Physical Abilities Impact Moral Judgment. (P) The annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX.

Reyna, C., ∴ Steiger, R., ∴ Benson, O., ∴ Wetherell, G., ∴ Washburn, A., & ∴ Omair, A. (May 2016).  The Antecedents of Moral Judgment: Intent, Outcome and Foreknowledge (S). The Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

∴ Wareham, J., Reyna, C., & ∴ Steiger, R. (Nov. 2016). Determining immorality: How perceptions of cognitive and physical capacities inform moral judgments. (S) Research symposium at Franklin College, Franklin, IN.

∴ Steiger, R., & Reyna, C. (May, 2016). Contemptuousness as a personality trait: Age, gender, racial, religious, and income differences in trait contempt. (P) The annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.

∴ Steiger, R., º Iverson, G., & Reyna, C. (May 2016). Contempt of Congress: Ideological Similarities in Hostility towards Opposing-ideology Politicians (S). The Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

∴ Benson, O. & Reyna, C. (May, 2016). Condom Negotiations among Women: Role of Gender Identification and Stereotypes (S). The Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

∴ Benson, O. & Reyna, C. (January 2016). The role of gender identity and stereotype awareness on sexual negotiation strategies for women. The Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.

∴ Omair, A. & Reyna, C. (May 2015). Self-Esteem across Gender and Academic Majors among University Students in Saudi Arabia (P). The Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

∴ Wareham, J.B., ∴ Steiger, R.L., & Reyna, C., (May, 2015). Moral Judgment of Victimless Actions: Political Ideology and Emotion (S). The Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

∴ Steiger, R.L. & Reyna, C. (May, 2015). Contempt, Anger, Disgust, and the Five Moral Foundations (S). The Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

∴ Steiger, R.L., º Iverson, G., ∴ Brubacher, M., & Reyna, C. (February 2015). Congruent vs. Incongruent partisan attitudes and behavioral tendencies towards same-party and opposing-party politicians (P). The Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Long Beach, CA.

∴ Brubacher, M., ∴ Steiger, R.L., º Iverson, G., & Reyna, C. (February 2015). Contempt and disgust: emotional predictors of low political involvement for democratic vs. Republican campaigns (P). The Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Long Beach, CA.

º Iverson, G., ∴ Steiger, R.L., & Reyna, C. (February 2015). Emotional predictors of congressional job disapproval (P). The Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Long Beach, CA.

Zimmerman, J., Reyna, C., ∴ Zavala, V. (February 2015). Exception to the rule: perceptions of system favoritism in America (P). The Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Long Beach, CA.

Lawrence, J.S., Donnelly, S., & Reyna, C. (February 2015). Basing self-worth on academics increases women’s vulnerability to math-related stereotype threat (P). The Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Long Beach, CA.

Teaching Experience________________________________________

Graduate Courses

Topics in Psychological Science—DePaul University (2018-present)
Graduate Seminar in Prejudice and Intergroup Relations—DePaul University (2017-present)
Graduate Teaching Seminar—DePaul University (2011-2014)
Graduate Seminar in Social Cognition—DePaul University (2001-2012)
Advanced Research Methodology—DePaul University (2007-2009)

Undergraduate Courses

Social Psychology–DePaul University (2000-Present)
Introduction to Statistics–DePaul University (2001-present)
Experimental Methods in Psychology: Research Methods II–DePaul University (2002-2007)
Introduction to Research Methods: Research Methods I–DePaul University (2002)

Online Courses

Social Psychology (online)—DePaul University (2011-present)

First Year Program

Focal Point Seminar: Harry Potter and the Hero’s Journey—DePaul University (2016-present)
Discover Chicago: Wild Chicago Adventure Sports in the City–DePaul University (2002-2009)

Selected Professional Service Activities_________________________________

National Science Foundation

Member of the 2019 Committee of Visitors (COV)

Review for the following journals

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (Associate Editor, IRGP: 2019- )
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (Associate Editor, ASC: 2013-17)
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Political Psychology
Perspectives on Psychological Science
Basic and Applied Social Psychology
Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology
Group Processes and Intergroup Relations
Journal of Social Psychology
Social Psychology and Personality Science
Psychological Inquiry
Emotion
Analysis of Social Issues and Public Policy
European Union Politics
Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics
PLOS ONE
Motivation Science
Ethics and Behavior
Cognition and Emotion
Social Problems
European Journal of the Psychology of Education
Journal of Applied Social Psychology
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
Body Image
Journal of Social Psychology of Education
Political Behavior

Professional Memberships____________________________________

American Psychological Society
Midwestern Psychological Association
Society for Experimental Social Psychology
Society of Personality and Social Psychology