Publications from the last several years are grouped by common themes. *Notes co-first authorship.
Perceived Social Class
Rahal, D., Shaw, S. T., Tucker, M. C., & Stigler, J. W. (In Press). Status in a psychological statistics class: The role of academic and status-based identities in college students’ subjective social status. Social Psychology of Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-024-09885-4
Rahal, D., Chiang, J. J., Huynh, V. W., Bower, J. E., McCreath, H., & Fuligni, A. J. (In Press). Subjective social status and daily eating behavior in late adolescence. Appetite, 180. 106338.
Rahal, D., Fales, M., Haselton, M. G., Slavich, G. M., & Robles, T. F. (In Press). Cues of social status: Associations between attractiveness, dominance, and status. Evolutionary Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/14747049211056160
Rahal*, D. & Shaw*, S. T. (2023). Impacts of the COVID-19 transition to remote instruction for university students. Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 60(1), 108-122. https://doi.org/10.1080/19496591.2022.2111519
Rahal, D., Fales, M., Haselton, M. G., Slavich, G. M., & Robles, T. F. (2022). Achieving status and reducing loneliness in the transition to college life: The role of entitlement, intrasexual competitiveness, and dominance. Social Development, 31(3), 568-586. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12569
Rahal, D., Chiang, J. J., Fales, M., Slavich, G. M., Haselton, M. G., Fuligni, A. J., & Robles, T. F.(2020). Early life stress, social status, and health during late adolescence. Psychology & Health, 35(12), 1531-1549. https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2020.1761977
Rahal, D., Huynh, V. W., Cole, S., Seeman, T., & Fuligni, A. J. (2020). Subjective social status and health during high school and young adulthood. Developmental Psychology, 56(6), 1220-1232. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/dev0000919
Rahal, D., Chiang, J. J., Bower, J. E., Irwin, M. R., Venkatraman, J., & Fuligni, A. (2020). Subjective social status and stress responsivity in late adolescence. Stress, 23(1), 50-59. https://doi.org/10.1080/10253890.2019.162636
Racial and Ethnic Discrimination
Chiang, S. C., Rahal, D., Bai, S., & Linden-Carmichael, N. A. (in press). Age-varying association between discrimination, childhood family support, and substance use disorders among Latin American immigrants in the US. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology.
Rahal, D., Huynh, V. W., Irwin, M. R., McCreath, H., & Fuligni, A. (In Press). Everyday discrimination, emotion, and daily interactions during adolescence. Journal of Research in Adolescence.
Rahal, D., & Singh, A. (In Press). Racial discrimination moderates associations between sociopolitical discussions and well-being among racial minority college students. Cultural Development & Ethnic Minority Psychology. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/cdp0000608
Rahal, D., & Kurtz-Costes, B. (In Press). Mistreatment and visibility among Arab Americans. Psychology of Religion & Spirituality. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/rel0000432
Rahal, D., Kurtz-Costes, B., & Volpe, V. (2022). Measuring ethnic identity in Arab Americans: Gender, religious upbringing, and age differences. Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, 28(4), 544-569. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2022.2110464
Huynh, V. W., Rahal, D., Mercado, E., Irwin, M., McCreath, H., & Fuligni, A., J. (2021). Discrimination and health: A dyadic approach. Journal of Health Psychology, 26(7), 962-974. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105319857171
Volpe, V. V., Rahal, D., Holmes, M., Rivera, S. (2020). Is hard work and high effort always healthy for Black college students? John Henryism in the face of racial discrimination. Emerging Adulthood, 8(3), 245-252. https://doi.org/10.1177/2167696818804936
Volpe, V. V., Dawson, D., Rahal, D., Wiley, K., & Vesslee, S. (2019). Bringing psychological science to bear on racial health disparities: The promise of centering Black health through a critical race lens. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 5(4), 302–314. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/tps0000205
Volpe, V. V., Lee, D. B., Hoggard, L. S., & Rahal, D. (2019). Racial discrimination and acute physiological responses among Black young adults: The role of racial identity. Journal of Adolescent Health, 64(2), 179-185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2018.09.004
Stress Reactivity and Emotion Dynamics
Rahal, D., & Singh, A. (In Press). Providing emotional support and daily emotional well-being among undergraduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Social & Personal Relationships.
Rahal, D., Bower, J. E., Fuligni, A. J. & Chiang, J. J. (In Press). Associations between emotion reactivity to daily interpersonal stress and acute social-evaluative stress during late adolescence. Stress & Health. https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.3307
Rahal, D., Tashjian, S. M., Karan, M., Eisenberger, N., Galván, A., Fuligni, A. J., Hastings, P.D., & Cole, S. W. (In Press). Positive and negative emotion are associated with generalized transcriptional activation in immune cells. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 153. 106103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2023.106103
Rahal, D., Shaw, S. T., & Stigler, J. W. (2023). Lower socioeconomic status is related to poorer emotional well-being prior to academic exams. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, 36(4), 502-518. https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2022.2110588
Guardino, C. M., Rahal, D., Rinne, G. R., Mahrer, N. E., Davis, E. P., Ramey, S. L., Shalowitz, M., Adam, E. K., & Dunkel Schetter, C. (2023). Diurnal salivary cortisol patterns in preschool-aged children: Associations with maternal pre-pregnancy, prenatal, and postpartum stress. Developmental Psychobiology, 64(7), e22314. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22314
Rahal, D., Bower, J. E., Irwin, M. R., Fuligni, A. J., & Chiang, J. J. (2023). Resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia is related to greater emotion reactivity to social-evaluative threat. Journal of Affective Disorders, 320, 725-734. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2022.09.100
Rahal, D.*, Tashjian, S. M.*, Karan, M., Eisenberger, N., Galván, A., Hastings, P. D., Fuligni, AJ., & Cole, S. W. (2021). Resting parasympathetic nervous system activity is associated with greater antiviral gene expression. Brain, Behavior, & Immunity, 98, 310-316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2021.08.229
Karan, M.*, Rahal, D.*, Almeida, D. M., Bower, J. E., Irwin, M. R., McCreath, H., Seeman, T., & Fuligni, A. J. (2021). School commute time, chronotype, and HPA axis functioning during adolescence. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 133, 105371.
Tashjian, S. M.*, Rahal, D.*, Karan, M., Eisenberger, N., Galván, A., Cole, S. W., Fuligni, A. J.(2021). Evidence from a randomized controlled trial & altruism moderates the effect of prosocial acts on adolescent well-being. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 50(1), 29-43. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-020-01362-3
Substance Use
Rahal, D., Linden-Carmichael, A. N., & Lanza, S. T. (In Press). Affect variability in relation to alcohol use frequency, intensity, and concurrent cannabis use among college students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Addiction Research & Theory.
Rahal, D., Alkon, A., Shirtcliff, E. A., Johnson, M., Gonzales, N., Fuligni, A. J., Kogut, K., Eskenazi, B., & Deardorff, J. (2023). Substance use and autonomic nervous system responses to stress in adolescence. Stress & Health, 39(1), 182-196. https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.3173
Rahal, D., Shirtcliff, E. A., Fuligni, A. J., Kogut, K., Gonzales, N., Johnson, M., Eskenazi, B., Deardorff, J. (2023). Dampened psychobiological responses to stress and substance use in adolescence. Development & Psychopathology, 35(3), 1497-1514. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579422000244