A video made by Dr. Pasek and his UIC colleague Dr. Rebecca Littman reduced toxic political polarization. Findings from this work were published as part of a mega study reporting the results of…
Dr. Caluori, a postdoc in the lab, just published a new research article in Communications Psychology! Click here to read more about her work, White Americans who perceive themselves to be “last place”…
Our project, entitled, "Who is and Should Be American? How Religion, Race, and Demographic Shifts Shape Perceptions of American Identity" is a collaboration with Dr. Clara Wilkins and Dr. Rosemary Al-Kire at the University of Washington and Dr. Alexa
Social scientists are increasingly sounding alarm bells about White Christian nationalism—an ethnoracial ideology that links Christian and White nationalism in the U.S. Simultaneously, some politicians openly proclaim pro-Christian views and claim that Christians…
Does a commitment to one’s God facilitate altruistic behavior that benefits only members of the same religious group? Or does it extend to helping members of a different religion? University of Illinois Chicago…
We are very excited to share that Mary Simpson will be joining the lab and the social and personality psychology program at UIC as a doctoral student in the fall of 2023. Mary…
The Belief, Identity, and Group Relations lab was well represented at the 2023 annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Atlanta, GA. Jeff Skalamera, a graduate student in the…
Dr. Pasek was interviewed by WBBM News Radio, Chicago’s CBS radio affiliate, about the psychology underpinning democratic norms. The interview featured recent lab research published in Scientific Reports. You can listen to the…
A video intervention co-developed by Dr. Pasek, in collaboration with Dr. Samantha Moore-Berg, Dr. Rebecca Littman, Dr. Nour Kteily, and Roman Gallardo, was named one of the top performing interventions in Stanford University’s…
Dr. Pasek is an author on a new translational science report, Renewing American Democracy: Navigating a Changing Nation, which analyzes America’s current social divides through the lens of social science to understand how threats–both…
