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Check out our new research published in Psychological Science

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…

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Check out our new paper published in Psychological Science

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…

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The BIGR Lab welcomes Mary Simpson!

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…

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Lab members presented new research at SPSP

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, Chicago's CBS radio affiliate

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…

Lab video named a top intervention to address toxic polarization

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…