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Maria Abascal
Researcher at New York University
Publications - 18
Citations - 631
Maria Abascal is an academic researcher from New York University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Diversity (politics) & Cultural diversity. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 11 publications receiving 446 citations. Previous affiliations of Maria Abascal include Columbia University & Princeton University.
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Love thy neighbor? Ethnoracial diversity and trust reexamined
Maria Abascal,Delia Baldassarri +1 more
TL;DR: This article reproduces the analysis of Putnam and shows that the association between diversity and self-reported trust is a compositional artifact attributable to residential sorting: nonwhites report lower trust and are overrepresented in heterogeneous communities.
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Us and Them Black-White Relations in the Wake of Hispanic Population Growth
TL;DR: The authors studied the impact of Hispanic population growth on black-white relations in the United States and found that intergroup relations operate within a two-group paradigm, furnishing few insights into multi-group relations.
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Field experiments across the social sciences
TL;DR: This article reviewed a wide range of field experiments from across the social sciences with an eye to those that adopt virtuous practices, including unobtrusive measurement, naturalistic interventions, attention to realistic outcomes and consequential behaviors, and application to diverse samples and settings.
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Contraction as a Response to Group Threat: Demographic Decline and Whites’ Classification of People Who Are Ambiguously White:
TL;DR: This paper studied how dominant groups react when their privileged social status is threatened, for example, by the prospect of numeric decline, and found that white people in the United States react to numeric decline in a positive way.
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Diversity and prosocial behavior.
Delia Baldassarri,Maria Abascal +1 more
TL;DR: This work identifies two features of modern societies—social differentiation and economic interdependence—that can set the stage for constructive interactions with dissimilar others.