Publications

Burson, E., Perez-Brena, N., Ha, T., Gámez Hernández, P., Hernandez, M.M, Kornienko, O., Toth, C., Safa, M. D., Gross, N., Figueroa Jennifer (2026). Family Warmth Moderates the Role of Critical Consciousness and Adolescent Adjustment in an Immigrant Border Community. In press at American Psychologist. 

Sherwood, S. H., Meng, H., Amadori, A., Burson, E., Russell, S. T., & Ioverno, S. (2026). Life outside the closet: How disclosure reactions shape mental health for sexual and gender diverse youth in European schools. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/sgd0000953

Burson, E., Lerch, C.J.,* Layland, E.K., Santiago, C.,* & Watson, R.J. (2026). Gender Modality, Internalized Stigma, and Mental Health of Sexual and Gender Diverse Youth. In press at Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community. 

K. Wantchekon, Burson, E., Perez-Brena, N., Kornienko, O., Hernandez, M.M, Ha, T. (2025). Relations between Ethnic-Racial Identity Statuses and Critical Consciousness among Latine Adolescents. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 36(1), e70140.

Burson, E., *Renley, B. M, Layland, E.K., Rathus, T.*, Caba, A.E., Simon, K.A., Eaton, L.A., & Watson, R.J. (2025). Youth-focused LGBTQ equity laws predict adolescent depression and self-esteem. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 1-12. 

Kornienko, O., Burson, E., Young, D.L., Godfrey, E.B., & Garner, P.W. (2025). Conscious selection: Critical consciousness informs cultivation of peer networks in a living and learning community. Social Development, 34(1). DOI:10.1111/sode.12780.

Burson, E., & Godfrey, E.B., Ibrahim, D.A., Calzo, J.P., & Yoshikawa, H., Poteat, V.P. (2024). Queering critical consciousness: Measurement and implications of critical consciousness among sexual and gender minority youth. Research on Human Development, 21(4), 264-282. 

Burson, E., & Godfrey, E.B., *Ibrahim, D.A., & Brown, R.M (2023). Structural and historical attributions in critical reflection. In L.J. Rapa and & E.B. Godfrey (Eds.), Critical consciousness: Expanding theory and measurement. Cambridge University Press.

*Renley, B. M., Burson, E., Simon, K.A., Caba, A.E., Watson, R.J. (2022). Youth-specific LGBTQ+ state-level policies: Implications for pronoun, name, and bathroom/locker room use among gender minority youth. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 51(4), 780-791.

*Caba, A.E., Rathus, T., Burson, E., Chan, P.A., Eaton, L.A., & Watson, R.J. (2022). Who is using PrEP on-demand? Factors associated with on-demand versus daily PrEP use among Black and Latino emerging adults. AIDS and Behavior, 1-11.

Ibrahim, D.A., Godfrey, E.B., Cappella, E., & Burson, E. (2021).  The art of social justice: Examining the link between arts participation and critical consciousness development among youth. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 51(3), 409-427.

Burson, E., & Godfrey, E.B. (2020). Intraminority solidarity: The role of critical consciousness. European Journal of Social Psychology, 50(6), 1362-1377.

Poteat, V. P., Calzo, J. P., Yoshikawa, H., Lipkin, A., Ceccolini, C. J., Rosenbach, S. B., ... & Burson, E. (2019). Greater engagement in gender‐sexuality alliances (GSAs) and GSA characteristics predict youth empowerment and reduced mental health concerns. Child Development, 91(5), 1509-1528.

Burson, E., Godfrey, E. B., & Singh, S. (2019). “This is probably the reason why she resorted to that kind of action”: A qualitative analysis of juvenile justice workers attributions for girls’ offending. Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community, 47(2), 154-170.

Godfrey, E. B., Burson, E., Yanisch, T.M., Hughes, D., & Way, N. (2019).  A bitter pill to swallow? Patterns of critical consciousness and socioemotional and academic well-being in early adolescence. Developmental Psychology, 55(3), 525-537. 

Sichel, C.E., Burson, E., Javdani, S., & Godfrey, E.B. (2019). Theorizing safety informed settings: Supporting staff at youth residential facilities. American Journal of Community Psychology, 63(3-4), 405-417.

Burson, E., & Godfrey, E.B (2018). The State of the Union: Contemporary interminority attitudes in the United States. Journal of Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 40(6), 396-413.

Godfrey, E. B. & Burson, E. (2018). Interrogating the intersections: How intersectional perspectives can inform developmental research on critical consciousness. New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development, 2018(161), 17-38.

Godfrey, E. B., Santos, C. E., & Burson, E. (2017). For better or for worse? System-justifying beliefs predict marginalized youth's developmental trajectories across early adolescence. Child Development, 90(1), 180-195.

City Year/Cornell University Alumni Bridging Study, 2023. Prepared by E. Burson, under the supervision of R. Kiely, with support from *E. Arnone, *E. Carpenter, *O. Estes-Downs, & *S.D.L. Sautu. 

A Two-Generation Educational Intervention: Report on 2018-2019 2G Programming and Outcomes at Educational Alliance, 2020. Prepared by E.B. Godfrey & E. Burson.