A5088334444- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Ethics in Business and Education
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Economic Theory and Institutions
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Media Influence and Health
- Education and Critical Thinking Development
- Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
- Economic theories and models
- Game Theory and Voting Systems
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Housing Market and Economics
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Religion and Society Interactions
- Sport Psychology and Performance
- Online and Blended Learning
The University of Queensland
2022-2025
Queensland University of Technology
2019-2023
Doğuş University
2018
University of Nottingham
2015-2018
The relation between religiosity and well-being is one of the most researched topics in psychology religion, yet directionality robustness effect remains debated. Here, we adopted a many-analysts approach to assess this based on new cross-cultural dataset (N=10,535 participants from 24 countries). We recruited 120 analysis teams investigate (1) whether religious people self-report higher well-being, (2) self-reported depends perceived cultural norms religion (i.e., it considered normal...
Changing collective behaviour and supporting non-pharmaceutical interventions is an important component in mitigating virus transmission during a pandemic. In large international collaboration (Study 1, N = 49,968 across 67 countries), we investigated self-reported factors that associated with people reported adopting public health behaviours (e.g., spatial distancing stricter hygiene) endorsed policy closing bars restaurants) the early stage of pandemic (April-May 2020). Respondents who...
Humans frequently cooperate for collective benefit, even in one-shot social dilemmas. This provides a challenge theories of cooperation. Two views focus on intuitions but offer conflicting explanations. The Social Heuristics Hypothesis argues that people with selfish preferences rely cooperative and predicts deliberation reduces Self-Control Account emphasizes control over is consistent strong reciprocity-a preference conditional cooperation Here, we reconcile these explanations each other...
Does competition affect moral behavior? This fundamental question has been debated among leading scholars for centuries, and more recently, it tested in experimental studies yielding a body of rather inconclusive empirical evidence. A potential source ambivalent results on the same hypothesis is design heterogeneity-variation true effect sizes across various reasonable research protocols. To provide further evidence whether affects behavior to examine generalizability single study...
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...
In the present study, we tested three hypotheses about relationships between reflective thinking, intuitive thinking (both measured using Cognitive Reflection Test; CRT) and belief in God or gods (BiG) across 19 culturally geographically diverse countries (n = 7,771). support of our first hypothesis, found an overall negative relationship BiG; second positive BiG. Contrary to third no evidence that completing CRT before eliciting BiG influenced scores by priming thinking. Given this is large...
Experiments comparing intuitive and reflective decisions provide insights into the cognitive foundations of human behavior. However, relative strengths weaknesses frequently used experimental techniques for activating intuition reflection remain unknown. In a large-scale preregistered online experiment (N = 3667), we compared effects eight reflection, six intuition, two within-subjects manipulations on actual self-reported measures performance. Compared to overall control, long debiasing...
Understanding human cooperation is a major scientific challenge. While typically explained with reference to individual preferences, recent cognitive process view hypothesized that regulated by socially acquired heuristics. Evidence for the social heuristics hypothesis rests on experiments showing time-pressure promotes cooperation, result can be interpreted as demonstrating intuition cooperation. This interpretation, however, highly contested because of two potential confounds. First, in...
The causes and consequences of income wealth inequality have become matters deep interest, not only to social scientists but also the general public. In clear accessible language ...
Abstract Background Influenza vaccine uptake remains low worldwide, inflicting substantial costs to public health. Messages promoting social welfare have been shown increase vaccination intentions, and it has recommended that health professionals communicate the socially beneficial aspects of vaccination. We provide first test whether this prosocial hypothesis applies actual behaviour high-risk patients. Methods In a field experiment at tertiary care hospital in Istanbul, Turkey, we compare...
Abstract Manipulations for activating reflective thinking, although regularly used in the literature, have not previously been systematically compared. There are growing concerns about effectiveness of these methods as well increasing demand them. Here, we study five promising reflection manipulations using an objective performance measure — Cognitive Reflection Test 2 (CRT-2). In our large-scale preregistered online experiment (N = 1,748), compared a passive and active control condition...
Actively Open-Minded Thinking (AOT) is a set of standards for rational thinking. Because the thinking citizens and officials affects political decisions, good moral virtue, like honesty. AOT have two functions: people try to follow their own standards; they apply these evaluation others. The second function especially important in public policy, where most us often ``outsource'' our Individual differences primarily involve dimensions: open-mindedness, avoiding ``myside bias''; overconfidence...
Peer observation can influence social norm perceptions as well behavior in various moral domains, but is the tendency to be influenced by and conform with peers domain-general? In an online experiment (N = 815), we studied peer effects honesty cooperation tested individual-level links between these two domains. Participants completed both tasks after observing their peers. Consistent literature, separate analysis of domains indicated negative positive influences cooperation, tending...
Abstract Despite the considerable attention it has received, Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) remains open to criticisms regarding failure conceptualize moral domain. MFT was revised in response these criticisms, along with its measurement tool, Questionnaire (MFQ-2). However, validity of this theoretical structure and explanatory power relative existing alternatives, such as Morality Cooperation (MAC), not yet been independently tested. Here we first validated MFT’s six-factor using MFQ-2 a...
Abstract The dual-process model of the mind predicts that religious belief will be stronger for intuitive decisions, whereas reflective thinking lead to disbelief (i.e., hypothesis ). While early research found intuition promote and reflection weaken in God, more recent attempts no evidence hypothesis. Many previous studies are underpowered detect small effects, it is not clear whether cognitive process manipulations used these failed worked as intended. We investigated influence thought on...
In the present study, we tested three hypotheses about relationships between reflective thinking, intuitive thinking (both measured using Cognitive Reflection Test; CRT) and belief in God or gods (BiG) across 19 culturally geographically diverse countries (n = 7,771). support of our first hypothesis, found an overall negative relationship BiG; second positive BiG. Contrary to third no evidence that completing CRT before eliciting BiG influenced scores by priming thinking. Given this is large...
In an influential article, Shah et al. (2015) hypothesized that resource scarcity weakens the effect of irrelevant contextual factors on economic valuations. The hypothesis "scarcity frames value" qualifies applicability standard theories rational choice and suggests a revised psychological foundation. support, showed differences in willingness to pay for commodity depending where it was purchased (a fancy hotel vs. run-down store) travel receive fixed discount size purchase cheap expensive...
Experiments comparing intuitive and reflective decisions provide insights into the cognitive foundations of human behavior. However, relative strengths weaknesses frequently used experimental techniques for activating intuition reflection remain unknown. In a large-scale preregistered online experiment (N = 3,667), we compared effects eight reflection, six intuition, two within-subjects manipulations on actual self-reported measures performance. Compared to overall control, long debiasing...