Research
I study social inequality. Using diverse quantitative and qualitative methods, I look at the relationship between social systems (settler colonialism; neoliberal capitalism) and individuals, asking questions such as how these systems are perceived, experienced, legitimized, and resisted.
Additionally, I have studied social issues such as immigration, COVID-19, and police militarization, often at the intersection of political and existential psychology.
Settler colonialism
Jimenez, T., Arndt, J., & Helm, P. J. (2021). Prejudicial reactions to the removal of Native American mascots. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations.
Jimenez, T., Helm, P. J., & Arndt, J. (2022). Racial prejudice predicts police militarization. Psychological Science.
Lewis, M., Myhra, L., Smith, B., Holcomb, S., Erb, J., & Jimenez, T. (2020). Tribally specific cultural learning: The Remember the Removal program. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 16(3), 233-247.
Lopez, J. J., Jimenez, T., & Fryberg, S. A. (forthcoming). An integrative framework of settler colonial identity threat.
Neoliberal Capitalism
Jimenez, T. & Schmitt, H. J. (forthcoming). Neoliberalism and pandemics: A critical cultural psychological perspective.
Schmitt, H. J., Jimenez, T., & Young, I. (2023). Pandemic precarity: A multi-level study of neoliberal precarity and COVID-related outcomes. Social and Personality Psychology Compass.
Schmitt, H. J. & Jimenez, T. (forthcoming). The invisible hand and the iron fist: Institutional and attitudinal neoliberal carcerality in the United States.
Jimenez, T. & Schmitt, H. J. (forthcoming). Neoliberal distress: Examining the relationships between neoliberalism, precarity, and mental health.
Existential Psychology
Helm, P. J., Jimenez, T., Carter, S., & Arndt, J. (2022). A phenomenological divide: Reference group consequences for existential isolation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Jimenez, T., Restar, A., Helm, P.J., Cross, R.I., Barath, D., & Arndt, J. (2020). Fatalism in the context of COVID-19: Perceiving coronavirus as a death sentence predicts reluctance to perform recommended preventive behaviors. Social Science & Medicine – Population Health, 11.
Jimenez, T., Helm, P.J., & Arndt, J. (2022). Fighting death with health inequality: The role of mortality cognition and shifting racial demographics in policy attitudes. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations.