* Shared authorship; † Mentee
Pham, M. D., Acevedo, J.*, & Sarmal, A.* (2026). Globalize the Intifada: Integrating Historical Materialism to Critically Examine Pro-Palestine Solidarity Motivations in the ‘I'm Not Palestinian but’ Action. European Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.70092
Marshburn, C. K.*, Sarmal, A.*, Folberg, A. M.*, & Howard, S.* (2025). Stay Woke: Why Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are Essential for Good Policy, and Why We Must Go Further. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 13(1), 212-221. https://doi.org/10.1177/23727322251408074
Sarmal, A.*, †Cha, L.*, & Skinner, A. L.* (2024). Shifts in Racial Inequalities and White Backlash in the 21st Century U.S. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 52(4), 915-926. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672241286613
Skinner-Dorkenoo, A. L., Rogbeer, K. G., Sarmal, A., Ware, C., & Zhu, J. (2023). Challenging Race-Based Medicine Through Historical Education About the Social Construction of Race. Health Equity, 7(1), 764-772. https://doi.org/10.1089/heq.2023.0036
Skinner-Dorkenoo, A. L., Sarmal, A., Rogbeer, K., André, C. J., Patel, B., & Cha, L. (2022). Highlighting COVID-19 Racial Disparities Can Reduce Support for Safety Precautions Among White U.S. Residents. Social Science and Medicine, 301, 114951. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114951
Skinner-Dorkenoo, A. L., ^Sarmal, A., ^André, C. J., & Rogbeer, K. G. (2021). How microaggressions reinforce and perpetuate systemic racism in the U.S. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 16(5), 903-925. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916211002543 ^ (shared authorship; order randomly determined)
Manuscripts Under Review
Sarmal, A., Pham, M. D., & Blanchette, F. E. A Dream or a Nightmare: Creating and Validating a Belief in the American Dream Scale. [Manuscript invited for revision]. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/grmhn_v2
Gresham, A. M.*, Sarmal, A.*. Toward an Abolitionist Anti-Carceral Approach to Intimate Partner Violence. [Revised manuscript under review]. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/e2qky_v1
†Hill, A.*, Sarmal, A.*, Spivey, B. N., & Melson-Silimon, A*. “Too Strong:” Effects of the Strong Black Woman Schema on Perceived Mental Health Disclosure for Black Women. [Manuscript under review].
Melson-Silimon, A., Sarmal, A.*, Lumbreras, J.*, Carmichael-Tanaka, N.*, & Davis, S. Navigating the Nuance That is Me: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding Antecedents and Outcomes of Workplace Racial Code-Switching. [Revised manuscript under review].
†Cha, L.*, Sarmal, A.*, & Skinner, A. L.* An Examination of the Racial Attitudes of Black U.S. Residents in Relation to Shifts in Systemic Racial Inequalities. https://osf.io/gjvmp [Manuscript under review].
Manuscripts In Progress
Sarmal, A., Schmitt, H. J., Blanchette, F. E., & Dutt, A. (2026). Can Reflexive Thematic Analysis be a Critical Race Theory Method? [Manuscript in preparation—Invited submission].
Sarmal, A., Gresham, A. M., & Skinner, A. L. (2026). Relations Between Hierarchical Orientations and Attitudes Toward Black-White Interracial Couples in the U.S. [Manuscript in preparation]. Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky.
Marshburn, C. K.*, Sarmal, A.*, Folberg, A. M., & Leger, K. A. (2026). Bridging the gap: Investigating racism specific support in same- and cross-race interactions. [Manuscript in preparation—Invited submission].
Crawford, D. J.*, Sarmal, A.*, Folberg, A. M., Ryan, C. S., & Marshburn, C. K. (2026). South Asian and Latine adults’ solidarity with Black people in the U.S.: The roles of Black and White friendships, White friend allyship, and perceived similarity. [Manuscript in preparation]. Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Marshburn, C. K., Sarmal, A., Folberg, A. M., Bosse, H. B., Bray, J. R., Yantis, C., Howard, S., Ximenes, M., Wynn, S. G., & Silva-Jones, J. R. (2026). Who can relate? Does racial-relating backfire in cross-race conversations? [Manuscript in preparation]. Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky.
Lies, T. S., Schmitt, H. J., Sarmal, A., & Omar, S. M. (2026). Denaturalizing ‘nature’: A critical scoping review of nature-focused research in environmental psychology. [Manuscript in preparation—Invited submission]. Journal of Environmental Psychology.
Pham, M. D., Sarmal, A. (2027). Neutrality Kills: Exploring Ideological Predictors and Implications of Ambivalence and Indifference Toward the “Palestine-Israel Conflict” in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election. [Manuscript in preparation]. School of Social Work, Columbia University. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/m76vp_v1