Assistant professor of social psychology at the University of Illinois Chicago. I study identity-based division and how to reduce it, with a focus on ethno-religious conflict. Cinnabon enthusiast. michaelhpasek.com
Mikey Pasek
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One of our colleagues needs our help! Please join me (& many others!) in signing this open letter in support of Professor Vladimir Mihić from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia, whose position is under serious threat—in retaliation for his supporting a student-led protest movement. Sign and share!
I am so thrilled to share that my next book, "Fill the Earth and Subdue It: Religion, Power, and American Pronatalism" is under contract with Princeton University Press.
My goal is to have it in your hands by early 2028. @princetonupress.bsky.social @sssreligion.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social
Remember that recent paper claiming to show that "ideological bias" determined the results obtained by immigration policy research teams?
A careful, open-code reanalysis by @kauspurg.bsky.social & Josef Brüderl finds that the result arises from a coding error. —> doi.org/10.31222/osf...
Greg Bovino will speak at a white nationalist conference in Portugal tomorrow. He will share the stage with no fewer than five people who idolize Hitler, including one who joined a group created by two Nazi SS members. Another guy is a self-described racist who refers to women as "cockroaches."🧵
Gift link to the human cost of science chaos: babies will die. How a Funding Pause Derailed an Artificial Heart for Babies www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...
No money for pediatric cancer research but there's $1.7 billion for people who beat cops and smeared feces on the walls of the US Capitol.
After 2016’s election, many of us were like, “what the heck is up with Republican Latinos?!? “
Are they ashamed of being Latino or about their immigrants roots?
My student @solisrodolfo.bsky.social has nuanced answers, using in-depth interviews in South TX.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
There has been a LOT of research on misinformation over the last decade. In a new paper (for Annual Review of Psychology), @dgrand.bsky.social and I attempt to distill the key points of consensus, highlight major disagreements, and point to future directions.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Thrilled this is out!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Do we have 2 kinds of beliefs? Some beliefs seem insensitive to evidence and rarely guide behavior, etc. To explain this, several theories divide belief into 2 types. I argue the explanation isn't in the *mind* but in the *world*
I went to go look, and this time last year, NSF SBE had funded 216 awards.
This year, they have funded 2.
