Peer-Reviewed Publications
Moffitt, U., Lukate, J.M., & van Veen, D. (in press). Incorporating racialisation, anti-Blackness, and critical whiteness into European psychology: Moving beyond ‘migrant’ integration. Zeitschrift für Psychologie.
Jugert, P., Moffitt, U., & Cheon, A. (in press). Studying identity and migration in the open science era: Lessons learned from Registered Reports. Identity.
Ott, P. K., Veld, J.I, Schachner, M., Juang, L., & Moffitt, U. (in press). Parents subjected to the asylum system navigating racist discourse: Through the lens of resistance and accommodation. Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics.
Moffitt, U. & Juang, L.P. (2024). White ≠ European (American): Comment on APA’s updated Inclusive Language Guide. American Psychologist. 79(7), 973–975. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001353
Rogers, L.O, Moffitt, U., McLean, K., & Syed, M. (2024). Research as resistance: Dismantling the master narrative of “good” science. American Psychologist, 79(4), 484–496. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001246
Rosario, J., Moffitt, U., & Rogers. L.O. (2023) “Where’s my people?” An investigation of the structure and content of Black and Latinx college students’ ethnic-racial identity narratives. Emerging Adulthood, 12(1), 110-127. doi.org/10.1177/21676968231214020
Kaiser, M.J., Moffitt, U., Hagelskamp, C., & Jugert, P. (2023). “Tolerance is inherent to our family:” White German parents’ racial-ethnic socialization in an eastern German city. Applied Developmental Science. Advance online publication. doi.org/10.1080/10888691.2023.2272466
Moffitt, U., Katsiaficas, D., Ghavami, N., Minor, I., Padilla, D., & Rogers, O. (2023). Intersectionality and identity: A systematic review and qualitative analysis of U.S. research in psychological science. Identity, 23(4), 288–313. doi.org/10.1080/15283488.2023.2223647
Moffitt, U., Rogers, L.O., Mzizi, Y., & Charlson, E. (2022). Race talk during the 2020 U.S. presidential election: Emerging adults’ critical consciousness and racial identity in context. Journal of Adolescent Research, 39(4), 1048-1085. doi.org/10.1177/07435584221145009
Juang, L.P., Umaña-Taylor, A.J., Schachner, M.K., Abdullahi, A.K., Barahona, R., Berne, S., Ceccon, C., Frisén, A., Gharaei, N., Hwang, P., Ntalachani, A., Moffitt, U., Moscardino, U., Motti-Stefanidi, F., Oppedal, B., Pavlopoulos, V., Pevec, S., Sandberg, D., Zacharia, A., & Syed, M. (2022). Ethnic-racial identity in Europe: Adaptations of the Identity Project intervention in five countries. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 20(6), 978–1006. doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2022.2131520
Moffitt, U. & Rogers, L.O (2022). Studying ethnic-racial identity among white youth: White supremacy as a developmental context. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 32, 815-828. doi.org/10.1111/jora.12762 {OPEN ACCESS - LINK HERE]
Vietze, J., Schwarzenthal, M., Moffitt, U., & Civitillo, S. (2022). Beyond ‘immigrant background’: How to select relevant, social justice oriented, and feasible social categories in educational research. European Journal of Psychology of Education, 38, 389–408. doi.org/10.1007/s10212-022-00611-2 [OPEN ACCESS - LINK HERE]
Schwarzenthal, M., Juang, L.P., Moffitt, U., & Schachner, M. (2022). Critical consciousness socialization at school: Classroom climate, perceived societal Islamophobia, and civic engagement among adolescents. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 32, 1452-1469. doi.org/10.1111/jora.12713
Moffitt, U., Rogers, L.O., & Dastrup, K.R.H. (2021). Beyond ethnicity: Applying Helms’s White Racial Identity Development model among white youth. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 32, 1140-1159. doi.org/10.1111/jora.12645
Juang, L.P., Schwarzenthal, M., Moffitt, U., & Vietze, J. (2021). "No, where are you really from?" Testing the Foreigner Objectification Scale with German adolescents. Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychologie und Pädagogische Psychologie [Journal of Educational and Pedagogical Psychology], 53(3-4), 82-93. doi.org/10.1026/0049-8637/a000242
Rogers, L.O., Moffitt, U., & Foo, C. (2021). “Martin Luther King fixed it”: Children making sense of racial identity in a colorblind society. Child Development, 92: 1817-1835. doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13628
Juang, L.P., Moffitt, U., Scachner, M.K, & Pevec., S. (2021). Understanding ethnic-racial identity in a context where “race” is taboo. Identity, 21:3, 185-199. doi.org/10.1080/15283488.2021.1932901
Schachner, M.K., Schwarzenthal, M., Moffitt, U., Civitillo, S., & Juang, L.P. (2021). Studying classroom cultural diversity climate: Multilevel and multigroup analyses of a new measure among secondary school students in Germany. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 65, 101971. doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2021.101971
Moffitt, U. & Syed, M. (2021). Ethnic-racial identity in action: Structure and content of friends’ conversations about ethnicity and race. Identity, 21:1, 67-88. doi.org/10.1080/15283488.2020.1838804
Moffitt, U., Juang, L.P., & Syed, M. (2020). Intersectionality and youth identity development research in Europe. Frontiers in Psychology, 11(78). doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00078
Juang, L.P., Schachner, M.K., Pevec, S., & Moffitt, U. (2020). The Identity Project intervention in Germany: Creating space for critical reflection, connection, and adolescent identity development. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development. 2020, 65– 82. doi.org/10.1002/cad.20379
Moffitt, U., Nardon, L., & Zhang, H. (2020). Becoming Canadian: Immigrant narratives of professional attainment. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 78, 84-95. doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2019.06.004
Moffitt, U., & Juang, L.P. (2019). Who is “German” and who is a “migrant?” Constructing belonging in education and psychology research. European Educational Research Journal, 18(6), 656–674. doi.org/10.1177/1474904119827459
Moffitt, U., Juang, L.P, & Syed, M. (2019). “We don't do that in Germany!” A critical race theory examination of Turkish heritage young adults' school experiences. Ethnicities. 19(5), 830–857. doi.org/10.1177/1468796818788596
Moffitt, U., Juang, L.P., & Syed, M. (2018). Being both German and Other: Narratives of contested national identity among white and Turkish German young adults. British Journal of Social Psychology, 57(4), 878-896. doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12268
Schachner M.K., Juang L., Moffitt U., & van de Vijver, F. (2018). Schools as acculturative and developmental contexts for youth of immigrant and refugee background. European Psychologist 23, 44-56. doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000312
Juang, L.P., Moffitt, U., Kim, S. Y., Lee, R. M., Soto, J. A., Hurley, E., ... Whitborne, S. K. (2016). Cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression: Links to racial-ethnic discrimination and adjustment among Latino/a and Asian-heritage college students. Journal of Adolescence, 53, 21-33. doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2016.08.012
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Book Chapter
Rogers, L.O., Moffitt, U., & Jones, C.M. (2021). Listening for culture: Using interviews to understand identity in context. In K. C. McLean (Ed). Cultural methods in psychology: Describing and transforming cultures. Oxford University Press.
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Manuscripts Under Peer Review
Kaiser, M.J., Moffitt, U., Hagelskamp, C., & Jugert, P. (2024). Maintaining whiteness in a superdiverse context: White German parents’ racial-ethnic socialization. Manuscript submitted for publication.
Moffitt, U., Watson, C., Azmitia, M., & Rogers, L.O. (2024). Measurement invariance above all else? Considering the validity of critical consciousness and ethnic-racial identity scales across racial groups. Manuscript submitted for publication.
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Science Communication, Media Engagement, and Additional Publications
Rogers, L.O., Moffitt, U., & Foo, C. (2021, July). Why naming race is necessary to undo racism: From colorblindness to Critical Race Theory. Psychology Today.
Moffitt, U. (2021, March). Racial identity development in the spotlight. In the Spotlight podcast.
Moffitt, U. (2021, March). Expert interview on live radio on the topic of structural racism in the US and Germany in the context of the Derek Chauvin trial. Deutschlandradio.
Moffitt, U. (2021, January). White supremacists who stormed the US Capitol are only the most visible product of racism. The Conversation.
Moffitt, U. (2021, January). White supremacy is about more than the far right. Psychology Today.
Moffitt, U. (2020, July). Germany is not the anti-racist model the US is looking for. Deutsche Welle.
Moffitt, U. (2020, July). Germany is not the anti-racist model we’re looking for. Medium.
Moffitt, U. (2019, July). Labels matter—Creating an “us” and “them” harms students. BOLD Blog on Learning and Development.
Moffitt, U. (2019, April). “You’re not really an immigrant.” Race, racialization, and migration in Europe. SPSSI: Social Issues from Student Perspectives.
Moffitt, U. (2018, September). Deutschsein, Zugehörigkeit und Teilhabe im Schulkontext [Germanness, belonging and participation in the school context]. University of Potsdam ZEIF Science in the Classroom portal.
Moffitt, U. (2016, October). Reflexion kultureller Normen und deren Einfluss im Klassenraum [Reflections on cultural norms and their impact in the classroom]. University of Potsdam ZEIF Science in the Classroom portal.
Moffitt, U. (2016, April). The perks of having a Muslim best friend. Ruman Project.
Bhattacharya, CB & Moffitt, U. (2013, September). Migration, sustainable development and the role of business. UN Chronicle L(3), 22–25.
Moffitt, U. (2011, September). Turkey and Germany – Stable economies, stable ties? American Institute for Contemporary German Studies AICGS Advisor.