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Michael H. Pasek

Researcher at The New School

Publications -  10
Citations -  227

Michael H. Pasek is an academic researcher from The New School. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social change & Biology and political orientation. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 10 publications receiving 118 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael H. Pasek include Pennsylvania State University & Harvard University.

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A large-scale test of the link between intergroup contact and support for social change.

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TL;DR: Using a large and heterogeneous dataset, Hässler et al. show that intergroup contact and support for social change towards greater equality are positively associated among members of advantaged groups, but negatively associated among disadvantaged groups.
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Theorizing and Measuring Religiosity Across Cultures.

TL;DR: Evidence that a five-item version of intrinsic religiosity is invariant across the U.S. samples and predicts less warmth toward atheists and gay men/lesbians is provided, suggesting that a variation of Gorsuch and McPherson's measure may be appropriate for some but not all uses in cross-cultural research.
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Religion From the Target’s Perspective: A Portrait of Religious Threat and Its Consequences in the United States

TL;DR: The authors collected data from a diverse sample of Protestants, Catholics, Jews, and Muslims across the United States (N = 970) to study social identity threat from religion or religiosity.
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Identity Concealment and Social Change: Balancing Advocacy Goals Against Individual Needs

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore a tension that can arise between immediate personal motivations to conceal and the potential for disclosure to increase the visibility of a stigmatized group and normalize it, thus helping to change social attitudes and reduce structural stigma.
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God Values the Lives of My Out-Group More Than I Do: Evidence From Fiji and Israel:

TL;DR: This paper conducted three pre-registered studies to test people's beliefs about God's moral preferences and found that people tend to favor coreligionists or to treat in-group and out-group members equally.