Abstract Existing research suggests a negative correlation between reflective thinking and religious belief. The dual process model (DPM) posits that reflection diminishes belief by limiting intuitive decisions. In contrast, the expressive rationality (ERM) argues serves an identity-protective function bolstering rather than modifying preexisting beliefs. Although current literature tends to favor DPM, many studies suffer from unbalanced samples. To avoid this limitation, we recruited...

Political ideology is often characterized along a liberal–conservative continuum in the United States and left–right Europe. However, no study has examined what this characterization means to young Turkish voters or whether it predicts their approach morality. In Study 1, we investigated two separate samples relation between participants' responses one-item left-to-right political orientation question self-reported ideologies (conservative, socialist, etc.). 2, of moral dimensions as defined...

Scientific and religious thinking compete with each other on several levels. For example, activating one generally weakens the other. Since priming religion is known to increase moral behaviour sensitivity, science might be expected have opposite effect. However, it was recently demonstrated that, contrary, increases sensitivity as well. The present set of studies sought replicate this effect test two explanations for it. Study 1 used a sentence unscrambling task implicitly concept but...

Abstract The psychological correlates of utilitarian choices in sacrificial moral dilemmas are contentious. In the literature, some research (Greene, et al., 2001) suggested that utilitarianism requires analytic thinking while other (Kahane 2015) showed is correlated with psychopathy. present research, we looked at relation several normative views cognitive style (ACS), psychopathy and real-world three Turkish samples. Study 1 ( n = 269), used four ethical asked participants to select one...

Dogus Universitesi ve Bahcesehir Psikoloji Bolumu ogrencileri (N=99) arasinda evrim teorisini kabul etme duzeyi bunu belirleyen faktorler incelendi. Ogrencilerin yaklasik yarisinin ettigi bulundu. Bu oran onceki bulgulardan daha yuksektir. Bilime karsi olumlu tutuma sahip olmak anne-baba egitim duzeyiyle pozitif korelasyon gosterirken dindarlik negatif gosterdi. Evrim anlama sasirtici derecede dusuktu. Teoriyi bilimin dogasini anlamayla teoriyi gostermedi. Bulgulardan hareketle teorisi...

Religiosity has been found to be positively associated with belief in free will (FW) the Western world. In Muslim world, however, religiosity exhibits several characteristics that set it apart from including an overemphasis on fate or divine predestination. We, therefore, investigated FW/determinism beliefs and different types of conservatism two samples Turkey, a predominantly country (N = 1,690). Study 1, confirmatory factor analysis showed FAD-Plus provided good fit data. 2 revealed FW is...

The influence of social context on men's and women's cooperative behaviour was investigated in a third party punishment game. results the analyses showed that, general, people significantly deviated from rational norms since their decisions were not fit to maximization economic benefits. Female participants' more terms first offer rates than male participants when they dictators. On other hand, willing pay money punish unfair allocations reward fair offers played role party. Taken together...

Although the effect of religious belief on morally relevant behavior is well demonstrated, reverse influence less known. In this research, we examined morality belief. first study, used two samples from Turkey and United States, specifically tested hypothesis that intergroup tolerance predicts a shift in meta-ethical views toward subjective morality, which turn decreased To examine relationship between religiosity via structural equation model (SEM) was run. SEM results yielded good fit to...

As a possible Hilbert question in the scientific study of religion, this article tries to explicate one specific relation between religion and morality: whether is necessary for morality. More specifically, how does introduction transform morality? The operationalizes morality as normative meta-ethical judgments specify ways answer at three different levels: phylogenetic, historical, ontogenetic. At phylogenetic level, possibility moral non-human (and non-religious) primates explored....

Ahlak felsefesindeki iki temel normatif ahlak görüşü olan faydacılık ve deontoloji, psikolojisinde de insanların ahlaki yargılarını açıklamakta kullanılan ana görüş durumundadır. Klasik ikilem senaryoları, 2000'lerin başından itibaren faydacı/deontolojik karar alma eğilimlerinin ayrıştırılmasına ilişkin neredeyse tek ölçüt olarak kullanılmıştır. Buna karşın bir dizi araştırma, anti sosyal kişilik özellikleri kişilerin, ilgili ikilemlerde faydacı eğiliminde olduklarını göstermiştir. Psikopati...

Moral dilemmas, defined as scenarios describing situations where the person has to make a moral choice between utilitarian and deontological option are frequently used in study of judgments lay people. There not any national or international studies investigating psychotherapists occupational based on deontological/ classification. In addition, there only few dilemma using Turkish samples. Furthermore, it is well-known phenomenon that research field psychology would yield different results...