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Al-Kire, R. L., Miller, C. [co-first author], Pasek, M. H., Perry, S., & Wilkins, C. (2024). White by another name? Can claims of anti-Christian bias serve as a racial dog whistle?Psychological Science, 34(4), 415-434. doi:10.1177/09567724136162.

Shackleford, C., Pasek, M. H. [co-first author], Vishkin, A., & Ginges, J. (2024). Palestinians and Israelis believe the other’s God encourages intergroup benevolence: A case of positive intergroup meta-perceptions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 110. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2023.104551.

Park, H. J., Turetsky, K. M., Dahl., J., Pasek, M. H., Germano, A. L., Harper, J. O., Purdie-Greenaway, V., Cohen, G. L., & Cook, J. E. (in press). Investigating cortisol in the classroom: The association between cortisol and academic performance. Personality and Social Psychological Bulletin. doi: 10.1177/01461672231188277

Pasek, M. H., Kelly, J. M., Shackleford, C., White, C. J. M., Vishkin, A., Smith, J., Norenzayan, A., Shariff, A., & Ginges, J. (2023). Thinking about God encourages prosociality to religious outgroups: A cross-cultural investigation. Psychological Science, 34(6), 657-669. doi:10.1177/09567976231158576.

Moore-Berg, S. L., Bernstein, K., Gallardo, R., Hameiri, B., Littman, R., O’Neil, S., & Pasek, M. H. (2022). Translating social science for peace: Benefits, challenges, and recommendations for conducting translational research. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 28(3), 274-283. doi:10.1037/pac0000604.

Pasek, M. H., Ankori-Karlinsky, L., Levy-Vene, A., & Moore-Berg, S. L. (2022). Misperceptions about out-partisans’ democratic values may erode democracy. Scientific Reports, 12, 1684. doi:10.1038/s41598-022-19616-4.

Smith, J., Pasek, M. H., Vishkin, A., Johnson, K. A., Shackleford, C., & Ginges, J. (2022). Thinking about God discourages dehumanization of religious outgroups. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(10), 2586-2603. doi:10.1037/xge0001206.

Hässler, T., Ullrich, J., Sebben, S., [and 40 other authors, including Pasek, M. H.] (2022). Needs satisfaction in intergroup contact: A multi-national study of pathways toward social change. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 122(4), 634-659. doi:10.1037/pspi0000365.

Al-Kire, R. L., Pasek, M. H., Tsang, J., Leman, J. & Rowatt, W. (2022). Protecting America’s borders: Christian nationalism, threat, and attitudes toward immigrants in the United States. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 25(2), 354-378. doi:10.1177/1368430220978291.

Al-Kire, R. L., Pasek, M. H. [co-first author], Tsang, J., & Rowatt, W. (2021). Christian no more: Christian Americans are threatened by their impending minority status. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 97, 104223. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104223.

Pasek, M. H., Shackleford, C., Smith., J., Vishkin, A., Lehner, A, & Ginges, J. (2020). God values the lives of my outgroup more than I do: Evidence from Fiji and Israel. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 11(7), 1032-1041. doi:10.1177/194855068­0904516.

Geiger, N., Pasek, M. H., Gruszczynski, M., Ratcliff, N., & Weaver, K. (2020). Political ingroup conformity and pro-environmental behavior: Evaluating the evidence from a survey and mousetracking experiments. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 72. doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2020.101524.

Hässler, T., Ullrich, J., Bernardino, M., [and 39 other authors including Pasek, M. H.] (2020). Large-scale test of the link between intergroup contact and support for social change. Nature Human Behavior, 4, 380-386. doi:10.1038/s41562-019-0815-z.

Pasek, M. H., & Cook, J. E. (2019). Religion from the target’s perspective: A portrait of religious threat and its consequences in the United States. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10(1), 82-93. doi:10.1177/1948550617739089.

Cohen, A. B., Mazza, G., Johnson, K. A., Enders, C. K., Warner, C., Pasek., M. H., & Cook, J. E. (2017). Theorizing and measuring religion across cultures. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43(12), 1724-1736. doi:10.1177/0146167217727732.

Pasek, M. H., Filip-Crawford, G., & Cook, J. E. (2017). Identity concealment and social change: Balancing advocacy goals against individual needs. Journal of Social Issues, 73, 397-412. doi:10.1111/josi.12223.

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Voelkel, J. G., Stagnaro, M. N., Chu, J., [and 81 other authors, including Pasek, M. H.]. (invited resubmission at Science). Megastudy identifying interventions to strengthen Americans’ democratic attitudes. Preprint available at https://osf.io/y79u5/.

Pasek, M. H., Lehner, A., Hartley, S., Kwon, J. Y., Israel, A. M.,, Wati, R., & Ginges, J. (under review). Thinking about God encourages intergroup prosociality even when conflict is salient. Description: Field study with Fijian Christians and Hindus.