Publications

Paganini, G.A., Weaver, A.E., Carroll, A., Ruben, M.A., Mathur, V.A., & Lloyd, E.P. (2025). Leveraging insights from gender stereotyping to advance scholarship on gender-diverse individuals' experiences with pain. Accepted for publication in Journal of Pain.

Oswald, F.E., Paganini, G.A., & Winegar, A. (2025). Diversifying social cognition through participatory action research methods for stimulus development and validation. Accepted for publication in Social Cognition.

Winegar, A., Paganini, G.A., & Oswald, F. (2025). Trans and nonbinary perspectives on gender diversity in psychological stimuli. Social Cognition, 43(1), 40-66.

Shaver, C.E, Summers, K.M., Paganini, G.A., & Lloyd, E.P. (2025). Effects of controllability and language on stigma toward mental illness. Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research, 30(2), 119-128. https://doi.org/10.24839/2325-7342.JN30.2.119.

Paganini, G.A., Summers, K.M., ten Brinke, L., & Lloyd, E.P. (2023). Women exaggerate, men downplay: Gendered endorsement of emotional dramatization stereotypes contributes to gender bias in pain expectations. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2023.104520.

Paganini, G. A., McConnell, A. A., Deska, J. C., Almaraz, S. M., Hugenberg, K. & Lloyd, E.P. (2023). Waist-to-hip ratio predicts sexual perception and responses to sexual assault. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 50(6), 857-870. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672221148008.

Summers, K.M., Paganini, G.A., & Lloyd, E.P. (2023). Poor toddlers feel less pain? Perceptions of poor people as insensitive to pain extend to children. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 14(2), 130-140. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506221094087.

Hopps, K. L., Rini, A. H., Williams, M. E., Paganini, G. A., & Lloyd, E. P. (2023). Examining the Effect of Physician Language on Physician Impressions. University of Denver Undergraduate Research Journal, 4(3).

Leake, M., McGrath, C., Mickel, T., Shaver, C., Paganini, G.A., & Lloyd, E. P. (2023). The effect of language type and perceived controllability on stigma and compassion. University of Denver Undergraduate Research Journal, 4(5).

Hansen, R., Polak, C., Gries, E., Ostman, S., Paganini, G.A., & Lloyd, E.P. (2023). Do semantics matter in empathetic person perception of children or adults with mental illness?. University of Denver Undergraduate Research Journal, 4(1).

Paganini, G.A.,* Lloyd E.P.,* & ten Brinke L. (2020). Gender stereotypes explain disparities in pain care and inform equitable policies. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 7(2), 198-204. https://doi.org/10.1177/2372732220942894.

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Manuscripts under Review

Cohen, B.R., Paganini, G.A., Abelanet, C.K., Goolsby, L.A., & Lloyd, E.P. (in under review). Pronouns, faces, and voices: How gender identity labels and phenotypes influence intergroup anxiety and avoidance.

Lloyd, E.P., Wachholtz, A.B., Heard, K.J., Daugherty, S.L., Hopps, K.L., & Paganini, G.A. (under review). Pain vignette resources for researchers and educators: a curated glossary and creation of six written pain vignettes pilot tested among pain care professionals.

Williams, M.E., Paganini, G.A., Summers, K.M., & Lloyd, E.P. (under review). Accessing racialized perceptual representations of crack and powder cocaine users.

Manuscripts in Preparation

Paganini, G.A., Fox, K. R., & Lloyd, E.P. (in prep). Who dies by suicide and who thinks about suicide? Assessing characteristics of mental representations of suicide risk.

Paganini, G.A. & Lloyd, E.P. (in prep). An intersectional social psychological perspective on gender- and race-based pain expectation biases.

Paganini, G.A. & Lloyd, E.P. (in prep). Assessing the generalizability of gendered pain exaggeration expectations across race.

Paganini, G.A., Summers, K.M., & Lloyd, E.P. (in prep). “Race is gendered” in mental representations: Leveraging reverse correlation to assess whether Black women are mentally represented as defeminized.

Paganini, G.A., Summers, K.M., & Lloyd, E.P. (in prep). Gender bias in pain detection: Perceivers are biased toward thinking that women’s pain expressions are feigned.

Paganini, G.A., Summers, K.M., & Lloyd, E.P. (in prep). Is class racialized and gendered? Assessing gendered and racialized appearance of mental representations of socioeconomic status.

Paganini, G.A., Mason, A., Wainscoat, M., Spurbeck, C., Goolsby, L., & Lloyd, E.P. (in prep). The role of gender stereotypes in blame and minimization responses to disclosures of sexual victimization from women and nonbinary individuals.

Samra, S., Paganini, G.A., & Lloyd, E.P. (in prep). Judgments of Black-White biracial individuals’ vulnerability to race-prototypic diseases.

Summers, K.M., Samra, S.K., Paganini, G. A., Loersch, C., & Lloyd, E. P. (in prep). Face of prejudice: Accuracy in judgments of implicit and explicit prejudice from the face.