Media Coverage of Publications (4 publications have drawn media interest)

• • 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)

Media Interviews

• • Interviewed for California Magazine’s “Coloring in the Lines: How Racially Diverse Should Elite Universities Be?” by Alina Tugend (Fall 2015)

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