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  1. How healthy is she? Perceptions of the physical healthiness of Black women by skin tone and perceiver race.

    Article • Stigma and Health, January 2025, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Vanessa Volpe

  2. Online and offline gendered racial microaggressions and sleep quality for Black women.

    Article • Health Psychology, September 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Vanessa Volpe

  3. Necessary, burdensome, or threatening? Awareness of Black–White disparities in health care access and self-rated health for Black and White Americans.

    Article • American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, March 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Vanessa Volpe

  4. To social distance or to not social distance? COVID-19 social impact and safety profiles, social determinants, and mental health of Black adults.

    Article • American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, December 2023, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Vanessa Volpe

  5. Black–white racial disparities in COVID-19: Awareness and framing of decision-making rationales.

    Article • Stigma and Health, August 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Vanessa Volpe

  6. “Easier said than done”: A qualitative investigation of Black emerging adults coping with multilevel racism.

    Article • Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, July 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Vanessa Volpe

  7. “Enriching the Africana soul”: Black college students’ lived experiences with affinity housing at a predominately White institution.

    Article • Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, June 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Vanessa Volpe

  8. Black adolescents’ anticipatory stress responses to multilevel racism: The role of racial identity.

    Article • American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, January 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Elan Hope, Vanessa Volpe

  9. Longitudinal relations between skin tone and self-esteem in African American girls.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, December 2020, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Vanessa Volpe

  10. A mixed methods investigation of Black college-attending emerging adults’ experiences with multilevel racism.

    Article • American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, January 2020, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Vanessa Volpe

  11. Bringing psychological science to bear on racial health disparities: The promise of centering Black health through a critical race framework.

    Article • Translational Issues in Psychological Science, December 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Vanessa Volpe

  12. Are Black College Students Who Think More Flexibly Healthier When They Are Discriminated Against?

    Article • Journal of Health Psychology, August 2019, SAGE Publications

    Vanessa Volpe