Renatas Berniûnas
A5036954396- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Free Will and Agency
- Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
- Philosophy and History of Science
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Psychology of Social Influence
- Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Ethics in Business and Education
- Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Aesthetic Perception and Analysis
- Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Theology and Philosophy of Evil
- Categorization, perception, and language
Vilnius University
2015-2024
Aarhus University
2024
Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Psychology
2019
Queen's University
2014
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...
Since at least Hume and Kant, philosophers working on the nature of aesthetic judgment have generally agreed that common sense does not treat judgments in same way as typical expressions subjective preferences—rather, it endows them with intersubjective validity, property being right or wrong regardless disagreement. Moreover, this apparent validity has been taken to constitute one main explananda for philosophical accounts judgment. But is really case most people spontaneously having...
For scientific theories grounded in empirical data, replicability is a core principle, for at least two reasons. First, unless we accept to have rest on the authority of small number researchers, studies should be replicable, sense that its methods and procedure detailed enough someone else conduct same study. Second, results provide solid foundation theorizing, they also most attempts replicating original study produced them would yield similar results. The XPhi Replicability Project...
Philosophers have long debated whether, if determinism is true, we should hold people morally responsible for their actions since in a deterministic universe, are arguably not the ultimate source of nor could they done otherwise initial conditions and laws nature held fixed. To reveal how non-philosophers ordinarily reason about free will, conducted cross-cultural cross-linguistic survey (N = 5,268) spanning twenty countries sixteen languages. Overall, participants tended to ascribe moral...
In this paper we report a study conducted in Mongolia on the scope of morality, that is, extent to which people moralize different social domains. Following Turiel's moral‐conventional task, characterized moral transgressions (in contrast conventional transgressions) terms two dimensions: authority independence and generality scope. Different domains are then defined by grouping such their content (following Haidt's classification morally relevant domains). There four main results study....
Nichols and Bruno (2010) claim that the folk judge psychological continuity is necessary for personal identity. In this article, we evaluate claim. First, argue it likely in thinking about hypothetical cases of transformations, do not use a unitary concept identity, but instead rely on different concepts 'person', 'identity', 'individual'. Identity can be ascribed even when post-transformation individuals are no longer categorized as persons. Second, provide new empirical evidence suggesting...
Since at least Hume and Kant, philosophers working on the nature of aesthetic judgment have generally agreed that common sense does not treat judgments in same way as typical expressions subjective preferences—rather, it endows them with intersubjective validity, property being right or wrong regardless disagreement. Moreover, this apparent validity has been taken to constitute one main explananda for philosophical accounts judgment. But is really case most people spontaneously having...
Norenzayan and colleagues argue that culturally evolved beliefs in monitoring punishing supernatural agents contributed to the expansion of large-scale cooperation. Previous studies showed Western participants primed with God concept anonymous dictator games tended be more prosocial. However, there is a lack would investigate karmic its effect on pro-sociality, thus expanding scope punishment hypothesis. The current study one first attempts address question belief karma relation prosocial...
Abstract People vary both in their embrace of society’s traditions, and perception hazards as salient necessitating a response. Over evolutionary time, traditions have offered avenues for addressing hazards, plausibly resulting linkages between orientations toward tradition danger. Emerging research documents connections traditionalism threat responsivity, including pathogen-avoidance motivations. Additionally, because hazard-mitigating behaviors can conflict with competing priorities,...
Philosophers have long debated whether, if determinism is true, we should hold people morally responsible for their actions since in a deterministic universe, are arguably not the ultimate source of nor could they done otherwise initial conditions and laws nature held fixed. To reveal how non-philosophers ordinarily reason about free will, conducted cross-cultural cross-linguistic survey (N = 5,268) spanning twenty countries sixteen languages. Overall, participants tended to ascribe moral...
Many people believe that certain mental states, such as love, continue after physical death. However, the prevalence of ``continuity beliefs'' and their relationship with culture religious belief remains unclear. In current preregistered study we draw on a large diverse cross-cultural sample (24 countries, N = 10,195) to systematically quantify cultural variation in tendencies for continuity beliefs death precedence state (e.g., love) over bodily hunger). Our findings partly replicate...
Is behavioral integration (i.e., which occurs when a subject’s assertion that p matches her nonverbal behavior) necessary feature of belief in folk psychology? Our data fromover 5,000 people across 26 samples, spanning 22 countries suggests it is not. Given the surprising cross-cultural robustness our findings, we argue types evidence for ascription are, at least some circumstances, lexicographically ordered: assertions are first taken into account, and an agent sincerely asserts p,...
People tend to evaluate information from reliable sources more favourably, but it is unclear exactly how perceivers' worldviews interact with this source credibility effect. In a large and diverse cross-cultural sample (N = 10,195 24 countries), we presented participants obscure, meaningless statements attributed either spiritual guru or scientist. We found robust global effect for scientific authorities, which dub `the Einstein effect': across all countries scientists hold greater authority...
People vary in the extent to which they embrace their society’s traditions, impacting a range of social and political phenomena. also degree perceive disparate dangers as salient necessitating response. Over evolutionary time, traditions likely regularly offered direct indirect avenues for addressing hazards; consequently, via multiple possible pathways, orientations toward tradition danger may have become associated. Emerging research documents connections between individual differences...
Abstract Believing that your life is shaped by internal forces, such as own free will, usually thought to lead positive outcomes, being prosocial and happy. it external deterministic laws of nature, negative outcomes. However, whether the case might vary with culture nature force, specifically, force teleological. To test this, we investigated beliefs in five countries: China, India, Lithuania, Mongolia, USA. We importance choice (an internal, teleological force), gods fate (external,...