Samson, Frank L. 2018. “An association between multiculturalism and psychological distress.” PLOS One 13(12): e0208490.  Link || PubMed

• Featured in Pacific Standard magazine's "Discomfort with Multiculturalism Linked to Despair" (December 11, 2018)

Kohn-Wood, Laura, Frank L. Samson, and Jomills H. Braddock. 2015. “Race, Social Identity and Generative Spaces: Miami as a Microcosm of Categorical Complexity in a 21st-Century Global City.” American Behavioral Scientist 59(3): 386-405. Link

• Featured in WVUM 90.5 FM's RadioActive broadcast on "Race in Miami" (September 20, 2015) Audio

Samson, Frank L. 2013. "Multiple Group Threat and Malleable White Attitudes towards Academic Merit." Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race. 10(1): 233-260. Link

• Featured in Inside Higher Ed’s “Meritocracy or Bias?” by Scott Jaschik (August 13, 2013)
• Featured in MSNBC video segment of All In with Chris Hayes (August 13, 2013) Video
• Featured in Scientific American’s 60-Second Science podcast (August 19, 2013) Link
• Featured on The Young Turks webcast (September 13, 2013)  Video
• Mentioned in a Viewpoints debate article “Affirmative Inaction” in the Fall 2013 issue of Contexts (v12: 14-23).
• Mentioned in The Atlantic’s “Do Diversity Initiatives Indirectly Discriminate Against Asian Americans?” (December 26, 2014)
• Featured in Vox's “Do white people want merit-based admissions policies? Depends on who their competition is” (May 22, 2016)
• Mentioned in Vox’s “White women benefit most from affirmative action — and are among its fiercest opponents” (May 25, 2016)
• Mentioned in The Times-Picayune’s “White women: affirmative action's biggest beneficiaries and opponents” (May 25, 2016)
• Mentioned in Inside Higher Ed’s “White Perceptions of Affirmative Action” by Scott Jaschik (October 30, 2017)

Samson, Frank L. 2013. “Altering Public University Admission Standards to Preserve White Group Position in the United States: Results from a Laboratory Experiment.” Comparative Education Review 57(3): 369-396. (Lead article) Link

• Featured in Huffington Post’s “White People Support Academic Meritocracy When It Benefits Them, Study Suggests” by Rebecca Klein (August 13, 2013)