ONURCAN YILMAZ

Associate Professor
 ONURCAN YILMAZ

A BLOK 2. KAT 263.2

+90 (212) 533 65 32 / 1625

onurcan.yilmaz@khas.edu.tr

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https://www.moralintuitionslab.com

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Education

Doctorate

İSTANBUL ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Psikoloji

Master's Degree

İSTANBUL ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Psikoloji

Master's Degree

BOĞAZİÇİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Psikoloji

Bachelor's Degree

YEDİTEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Psikoloji

Research Areas

  • Moral Psychology
  • Decision-making
  • Cooperation
  • Group bias
  • Political psychology
  • Psychology of religion
  • Meta-science

Work Experience

2021 / Continuing Psychology, Associate Professor
Kadir Has University

2019 / 2021 Psychology, Assistant Professor
Kadir Has University

2019 / 2019 Psychology, Visiting Researcher
Kadir Has University

2013 / 2019 Research Assistant
Doğuş University

Publications

  • "Cognitive Reflection and Religious Belief: A Test of Two Models",
    Şeker, Fırat; Acem, Ensar; Bayrak, Fatih; Dogruyol, Burak; Isler, Ozan; Bahçekapili, Hasan G.; Yilmaz, Onurcan; , Judgment and Decision Making, (2025) Vol.20, DOI: 10.1017/jdm.2024.41
  • "Reflection predicts and leads to decreased conspiracy belief",
    Bayrak, Fatih; Sümer, Vahdet; Dogruyol, Burak; Saribay, S. Adil; Alper, Sinan; Isler, Ozan; Yilmaz, Onurcan; , Cognition, (2025) Vol.258, DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106085
  • "Does reflection increase accuracy rather than bias in the assessments of political fake news?",
    Bayrak, Fatih; Boyacioglu, Inci; Yilmaz, Onurcan; , Current Psychology, (2025) DOI: 10.1007/s12144-025-07578-5
  • "Fictitious conspiracy, paranormal, and pseudoscience beliefs are closely related to their regular counterparts",
    Alper, Sinan; Elcil, Tugcenaz; Karaca, Nazif; Bayrak, Fatih; Yilmaz, Onurcan; , Current Psychology, (2025) DOI: 10.1007/s12144-025-07654-w
  • "Validation of the moral foundations questionnaire-2 in the Turkish context: exploring its relationship with moral behavior",
    Dogruyol, Burak; Velioglu, İlayda; Bayrak, Fatih; Acem, Ensar; Isler, Ozan; Yilmaz, Onurcan; , Current Psychology, (2024) DOI: 10.1007/s12144-024-06097-z
  • "REFLECTION AND INTUITION IN A CRISIS- RIDDEN WORLD: Thinking Hard or Hardly Thinking?"
    Saribay, S. Adil; Yilmaz, Onurcan; (2024)
  • "How do beliefs in free will and determinism correlate with beliefs in conspiracy, paranormal, and pseudoscience beliefs?",
    Alper, Sinan; Konukoglu, Kivanc; Atalay, Eylul Deran; Duzgun, Aysenur; Yilmaz, Onurcan; , Personality and Individual Differences, (2024) Vol.229, DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2024.112765
  • "How to activate threat perceptions in behavior research: A simple technique for inducing health and resource scarcity threats",
    Isler, Ozan; Yilmaz, Onurcan; Maule, A. John; Gächter, Simon; , Behavior Research Methods, (2024) DOI: 10.3758/s13428-024-02481-6
  • "Social and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries",
    Azevedo, Flavio; Pavlović, Tomislav; Rêgo, Gabriel G.; Ay, F. Ceren; Gjoneska, Biljana; Etienne, Tom W.; Ross, Robert M.; Schönegger, Philipp; Riaño-Moreno, Julián C.; Cichocka, Aleksandra; Capraro, Valerio; Cian, Luca; Longoni, Chiara; Chan, Ho Fai; Van Bavel, Jay J.; Sjåstad, Hallgeir; Nezlek, John B.; Alfano, Mark; Gelfand, Michele J.; Birtel, Michèle D.; Cislak, Aleksandra; Lockwood, Patricia L.; Abts, Koen; Agadullina, Elena; Aruta, John Jamir Benzon; Besharati, Sahba Nomvula; Bor, Alexander; Choma, Becky L.; Crabtree, Charles David; Cunningham, William A.; De, Koustav; Ejaz, Waqas; Elbaek, Christian T.; Findor, Andrej; Flichtentrei, Daniel; Franc, Renata; Gruber, June; Gualda, Estrella; Horiuchi, Yusaku; Huynh, Toan Luu Duc; Ibanez, Agustin; Imran, Mostak Ahamed; Israelashvili, Jacob; Jasko, Katarzyna; Kantorowicz, Jaroslaw; Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, Elena; Krouwel, André; Laakasuo, Michael; Lamm, Claus; Leygue, Caroline; Lin, Ming Jen; Mansoor, Mohammad Sabbir; Marie, Antoine; Mayiwar, Lewend; Mazepus, Honorata; McHugh, Cillian; Minda, John Paul; Mitkidis, Panagiotis; Olsson, Andreas; Otterbring, Tobias; Packer, Dominic J.; Perry, Anat; Petersen, Michael Bang; Puthillam, Arathy; Rothmund, Tobias; Santamaría-García, Hernando; Schmid, Petra C.; Stoyanov, Drozdstoy; Tewari, Shruti; Todosijević, Bojan; Tsakiris, Manos; Tung, Hans H.; Umbres, Radu G.; Vanags, Edmunds; Vlasceanu, Madalina; Vonasch, Andrew; Yucel, Meltem; Zhang, Yucheng; Abad, Mohcine; Adler, Eli; Akrawi, Narin; Mdarhri, Hamza Alaoui; Amara, Hanane; Amodio, David M.; Antazo, Benedict G.; Apps, Matthew; Ba, Mouhamadou Hady; Barbosa, Sergio; Bastian, Brock; Berg, Anton; Bernal-Zárate, Maria P.; Bernstein, Michael; Białek, Michał; Bilancini, Ennio; Bogatyreva, Natalia; Boncinelli, Leonardo; Booth, Jonathan E.; Borau, Sylvie; Buchel, Ondrej; Cameron, C. Daryl; , Scientific data, (2023) Vol.10, No.1, 272 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02080-8
  • "Multidimensional intuitive–analytic thinking style and its relation to moral concerns, epistemically suspect beliefs, and ideology",
    Bayrak, Fatih; Dogruyol, Burak; Alper, Sinan; Yilmaz, Onurcan; , Judgment and Decision Making, (2023) Vol.18, DOI: 10.1017/JDM.2023.45
  • "Competition and moral behavior: A meta-analysis of forty-five crowd-sourced experimental designs",
    Huber, Christoph; Dreber, Anna; Huber, Jürgen; Johannesson, Magnus; Kirchler, Michael; Weitzel, Utz; Abellán, Miguel; Adayeva, Xeniya; Ay, Fehime Ceren; Barron, Kai; Berry, Zachariah; Bönte, Werner; Brütt, Katharina; Bulutay, Muhammed; Campos-Mercade, Pol; Cardella, Eric; Claassen, Maria Almudena; Cornelissen, Gert; Dawson, Ian G.J.; Delnoij, Joyce; Demiral, Elif E.; Dimant, Eugen; Doerflinger, Johannes Theodor; Dold, Malte; Emery, Cécile; Fiala, Lenka; Fiedler, Susann; Freddi, Eleonora; Fries, Tilman; Gasiorowska, Agata; Glogowsky, Ulrich; M Gorny, Paul; Gretton, Jeremy David; Grohmann, Antonia; Hafenbrädl, Sebastian; Handgraaf, Michel; Hanoch, Yaniv; Hart, Einav; Hennig, Max; Hudja, Stanton; Hütter, Mandy; Hyndman, Kyle; Ioannidis, Konstantinos; Isler, Ozan; Jeworrek, Sabrina; Jolles, Daniel; Juanchich, Marie; Kc, Raghabendra Pratap; Khadjavi, Menusch; Kugler, Tamar; Li, Shuwen; Lucas, Brian; Mak, Vincent; Mechtel, Mario; Merkle, Christoph; Meyers, Ethan Andrew; Mollerstrom, Johanna; Nesterov, Alexander; Neyse, Levent; Nieken, Petra; Nussberger, Anne Marie; Palumbo, Helena; Peters, Kim; Pirrone, Angelo; Qin, Xiangdong; Rahal, Rima Maria; Rau, Holger; Rincke, Johannes; Ronzani, Piero; Roth, Yefim; Saral, Ali Seyhun; Schmitz, Jan; Schneider, Florian; Schram, Arthur; Schudy, Simeon; Schweitzer, Maurice E.; Schwieren, Christiane; Scopelliti, Irene; Sirota, Miroslav; Sonnemans, Joep; Soraperra, Ivan; Spantig, Lisa; Steimanis, Ivo; Steinmetz, Janina; Suetens, Sigrid; Theodoropoulou, Andriana; Urbig, Diemo; Vorlaufer, Tobias; Waibel, Joschka; Woods, Daniel; Yakobi, Ofir; Yilmaz, Onurcan; Zaleskiewicz, Tomasz; Zeisberger, Stefan; Holzmeister, Felix; , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, (2023) Vol.120, No.23, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2215572120
  • "Effective health communication depends on the interaction of message source and content: two experiments on adherence to COVID-19 measures in Türkiye",
    Bayrak, Fatih; Aktar, Bengi; Aydas, Berke; Yilmaz, Onurcan; Alper, Sinan; Isler, Ozan; , Psychology and Health, (2023) DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2023.2285445
  • "Shared Group Memberships Mitigate Intergroup Bias in Cooperation",
    Uğurlar, Pınar; Dorrough, Angela R.; Isler, Ozan; Yilmaz, Onurcan; , Social Psychological and Personality Science, (2023) DOI: 10.1177/19485506231209788
  • "The positive association of education with the trust in science and scientists is weaker in highly corrupt countries",
    Alper, Sinan; Yelbuz, Busra Elif; Akkurt, Sumeyra Bengisu; Yilmaz, Onurcan; , Public Understanding of Science, (2023) DOI: 10.1177/09636625231176935
  • "Actively open- minded thinking and the political effects of its absence"
    , Baron, Jonathan; Isler, Ozan; Yilmaz, Onurcan; , Divided: Open-Mindedness and Dogmatism in a Polarized World, (2023)
  • "Scarcity improves economic valuations when cognitively salient",
    Isler, Ozan; Yilmaz, Onurcan; Dulleck, Uwe; , Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (2023) Vol.209, 362-371 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2023.02.019
  • "Predicting attitudinal and behavioral responses to COVID-19 pandemic using machine learning",
    Pavlović, Tomislav; Azevedo, Flavio; De, Koustav; Riaño-Moreno, Julián C.; Maglić, Marina; Gkinopoulos, Theofilos; Donnelly-Kehoe, Patricio Andreas; Payán-Gómez, César; Huang, Guanxiong; Kantorowicz, Jaroslaw; Birtel, Michèle D.; Schönegger, Philipp; Capraro, Valerio; Santamaría-García, Hernando; Yucel, Meltem; Ibanez, Agustin; Rathje, Steve; Wetter, Erik; Stanojević, Dragan; van Prooijen, Jan Willem; Hesse, Eugenia; Elbaek, Christian T.; Franc, Renata; Pavlović, Zoran; Mitkidis, Panagiotis; Cichocka, Aleksandra; Gelfand, Michele; Alfano, Mark; Ross, Robert M.; Sjåstad, Hallgeir; Nezlek, John B.; Cislak, Aleksandra; Lockwood, Patricia; Abts, Koen; Agadullina, Elena; Amodio, David M.; Apps, Matthew A.J.; Aruta, John Jamir Benzon; Besharati, Sahba; Bor, Alexander; Choma, Becky; Cunningham, William; Ejaz, Waqas; Farmer, Harry; Findor, Andrej; Gjoneska, Biljana; Gualda, Estrella; Huynh, Toan L.D.; Imran, Mostak Ahamed; Israelashvili, Jacob; Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, Elena; Krouwel, André; Kutiyski, Yordan; Laakasuo, Michael; Lamm, Claus; Levy, Jonathan; Leygue, Caroline; Lin, Ming Jen; Mansoor, Mohammad Sabbir; Marie, Antoine; Mayiwar, Lewend; Mazepus, Honorata; McHugh, Cillian; Olsson, Andreas; Otterbring, Tobias; Packer, Dominic; Palomäki, Jussi; Perry, Anat; Petersen, Michael Bang; Puthillam, Arathy; Rothmund, Tobias; Schmid, Petra C.; Stadelmann, David; Stoica, Augustin; Stoyanov, Drozdstoy; Stoyanova, Kristina; Tewari, Shruti; Todosijević, Bojan; Torgler, Benno; Tsakiris, Manos; Tung, Hans H.; Umbreș, Radu Gabriel; Vanags, Edmunds; Vlasceanu, Madalina; Vonasch, Andrew J.; Zhang, Yucheng; Abad, Mohcine; Adler, Eli; Mdarhri, Hamza Alaoui; Antazo, Benedict; Ay, F. Ceren; Ba, Mouhamadou El Hady; Barbosa, Sergio; Bastian, Brock; Berg, Anton; Białek, Michał; Bilancini, Ennio; Bogatyreva, Natalia; Boncinelli, Leonardo; Booth, Jonathan E.; , PNAS Nexus, (2022) Vol.1, No.3, DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac093
  • "How to activate intuitive and reflective thinking in behavior research? A comprehensive examination of experimental techniques",
    Isler, Ozan; Yilmaz, Onurcan; , Behavior Research Methods, (2022) DOI: 10.3758/s13428-022-01984-4
  • "A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being",
    Hoogeveen, Suzanne; Sarafoglou, Alexandra; Aczel, Balazs; Aditya, Yonathan; Alayan, Alexandra J.; Allen, Peter J.; Altay, Sacha; Alzahawi, Shilaan; Amir, Yulmaida; Anthony, Francis Vincent; Kwame Appiah, Obed; Atkinson, Quentin D.; Baimel, Adam; Balkaya-Ince, Merve; Balsamo, Michela; Banker, Sachin; Bartoš, František; Becerra, Mario; Beffara, Bertrand; Beitner, Julia; Bendixen, Theiss; Berkessel, Jana B.; Berniūnas, Renatas; Billet, Matthew I.; Billingsley, Joseph; Bortolini, Tiago; Breitsohl, Heiko; Bret, Amélie; Brown, Faith L.; Brown, Jennifer; Brumbaugh, Claudia C.; Buczny, Jacek; Bulbulia, Joseph; Caballero, Saúl; Carlucci, Leonardo; Carmichael, Cheryl L.; Cattaneo, Marco E.G.V.; Charles, Sarah J.; Claessens, Scott; Panagopoulos, Maxinne C.; Costa, Angelo Brandelli; Crone, Damien L.; Czoschke, Stefan; Czymara, Christian; D'Urso, E. Damiano; Dahlström, Örjan; Rosa, Anna Dalla; Danielsson, Henrik; De Ron, Jill; de Vries, Ymkje Anna; Dean, Kristy K.; Dik, Bryan J.; Disabato, David J.; Doherty, Jaclyn K.; Draws, Tim; Drouhot, Lucas; Dujmovic, Marin; Dunham, Yarrow; Ebert, Tobias; Edelsbrunner, Peter A.; Eerland, Anita; Elbaek, Christian T.; Farahmand, Shole; Farahmand, Hooman; Farias, Miguel; Feliccia, Abrey A.; Fischer, Kyle; Fischer, Ronald; Fisher-Thompson, Donna; Francis, Zoë; Frick, Susanne; Frisch, Lisa K.; Geraldes, Diogo; Gerdin, Emily; Geven, Linda; Ghasemi, Omid; Gielens, Erwin; Gligorić, Vukašin; Hagel, Kristin; Hajdu, Nandor; Hamilton, Hannah R.; Hamzah, Imaduddin; Hanel, Paul H.P.; Hawk, Christopher E.; K. Himawan, Karel; Holding, Benjamin C.; Homman, Lina E.; Ingendahl, Moritz; Inkilä, Hilla; Inman, Mary L.; Islam, Chris Gabriel; Isler, Ozan; Izydorczyk, David; Jaeger, Bastian; Johnson, Kathryn A.; Jong, Jonathan; Karl, Johannes A.; Kaszubowski, Erikson; Katz, Benjamin A.; Keefer, Lucas A.; , Religion, Brain and Behavior, (2022) DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2022.2070255
  • "Author Correction: National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic (Nature Communications, (2022), 13, 1, (517), 10.1038/s41467-021-27668-9)",
    Van Bavel, Jay J.; Cichocka, Aleksandra; Capraro, Valerio; Sjåstad, Hallgeir; Nezlek, John B.; Pavlović, Tomislav; Alfano, Mark; Gelfand, Michele J.; Azevedo, Flavio; Birtel, Michèle D.; Cislak, Aleksandra; Lockwood, Patricia L.; Ross, Robert Malcolm; Abts, Koen; Agadullina, Elena; Aruta, John Jamir Benzon; Besharati, Sahba Nomvula; Bor, Alexander; Choma, Becky L.; Crabtree, Charles David; Cunningham, William A.; De, Koustav; Ejaz, Waqas; Elbaek, Christian T.; Findor, Andrej; Flichtentrei, Daniel; Franc, Renata; Gjoneska, Biljana; Gruber, June; Gualda, Estrella; Horiuchi, Yusaku; Huynh, Toan Luu Duc; Ibanez, Agustin; Imran, Mostak Ahamed; Israelashvili, Jacob; Jasko, Katarzyna; Kantorowicz, Jaroslaw; Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, Elena; Krouwel, André; Laakasuo, Michael; Lamm, Claus; Leygue, Caroline; Lin, Ming Jen; Mansoor, Mohammad Sabbir; Marie, Antoine; Mayiwar, Lewend; Mazepus, Honorata; McHugh, Cillian; Minda, John Paul; Mitkidis, Panagiotis; Olsson, Andreas; Otterbring, Tobias; Packer, Dominic J.; Perry, Anat; Petersen, Michael Bang; Puthillam, Arathy; Riaño-Moreno, Julián C.; Rothmund, Tobias; Santamaría-García, Hernando; Schmid, Petra C.; Stoyanov, Drozdstoy; Tewari, Shruti; Todosijević, Bojan; Tsakiris, Manos; Tung, Hans H.; Umbreș, Radu G.; Vanags, Edmunds; Vlasceanu, Madalina; Vonasch, Andrew; Yucel, Meltem; Zhang, Yucheng; Abad, Mohcine; Adler, Eli; Akrawi, Narin; Mdarhri, Hamza Alaoui; Amara, Hanane; Amodio, David M.; Antazo, Benedict G.; Apps, Matthew; Ay, F. Ceren; Ba, Mouhamadou Hady; Barbosa, Sergio; Bastian, Brock; Berg, Anton; Bernal-Zárate, Maria P.; Bernstein, Michael; Białek, Michał; Bilancini, Ennio; Bogatyreva, Natalia; Boncinelli, Leonardo; Booth, Jonathan E.; Borau, Sylvie; Buchel, Ondrej; Cameron, C. Daryl; Carvalho, Chrissie F.; Celadin, Tatiana; Cerami, Chiara; Chalise, Hom Nath; Cheng, Xiaojun; Cian, Luca; , Nature Communications, (2022) Vol.13, No.1, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29658-x
  • "National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic",
    Van Bavel, Jay J.; Cichocka, Aleksandra; Capraro, Valerio; Sjåstad, Hallgeir; Nezlek, John B.; Pavlović, Tomislav; Alfano, Mark; Gelfand, Michele J.; Azevedo, Flavio; Birtel, Michèle D.; Cislak, Aleksandra; Lockwood, Patricia L.; Ross, Robert Malcolm; Abts, Koen; Agadullina, Elena; Aruta, John Jamir Benzon; Besharati, Sahba Nomvula; Bor, Alexander; Choma, Becky L.; Crabtree, Charles David; Cunningham, William A.; De, Koustav; Ejaz, Waqas; Elbaek, Christian T.; Findor, Andrej; Flichtentrei, Daniel; Franc, Renata; Gjoneska, Biljana; Gruber, June; Gualda, Estrella; Horiuchi, Yusaku; Huynh, Toan Luu Duc; Ibanez, Augustin; Imran, Mostak Ahamed; Israelashvili, Jacob; Jasko, Katarzyna; Kantorowicz, Jaroslaw; Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, Elena; Krouwel, André; Laakasuo, Michael; Lamm, Claus; Leygue, Caroline; Lin, Ming Jen; Mansoor, Mohammad Sabbir; Marie, Antoine; Mayiwar, Lewend; Mazepus, Honorata; McHugh, Cillian; Minda, John Paul; Mitkidis, Panagiotis; Olsson, Andreas; Otterbring, Tobias; Packer, Dominic J.; Perry, Anat; Petersen, Michael Bang; Puthillam, Arathy; Riaño-Moreno, Julián C.; Rothmund, Tobias; Santamaría-García, Hernando; Schmid, Petra C.; Stoyanov, Drozdstoy; Tewari, Shruti; Todosijević, Bojan; Tsakiris, Manos; Tung, Hans H.; Umbreș, Radu G.; Vanags, Edmunds; Vlasceanu, Madalina; Vonasch, Andrew; Yucel, Meltem; Zhang, Yucheng; Abad, Mohcine; Adler, Eli; Akrawi, Narin; Mdarhri, Hamza Alaoui; Amara, Hanane; Amodio, David M.; Antazo, Benedict G.; Apps, Matthew; Ay, F. Ceren; Ba, Mouhamadou Hady; Barbosa, Sergio; Bastian, Brock; Berg, Anton; Bernal-Zárate, Maria P.; Bernstein, Michael; Białek, Michał; Bilancini, Ennio; Bogatyreva, Natalia; Boncinelli, Leonardo; Booth, Jonathan E.; Borau, Sylvie; Buchel, Ondrej; Cameron, C. Daryl; Carvalho, Chrissie F.; Celadin, Tatiana; Cerami, Chiara; Chalise, Hom Nath; Cheng, Xiaojun; Cian, Luca; , Nature Communications, (2022) Vol.13, No.1, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27668-9
  • "Erratum: Publisher Correction: Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample (Nature human behaviour (2022) 6 6 (880-895))",
    Bago, Bence; Kovacs, Marton; Protzko, John; Nagy, Tamas; Kekecs, Zoltan; Palfi, Bence; Adamkovic, Matus; Adamus, Sylwia; Albalooshi, Sumaya; Albayrak-Aydemir, Nihan; Alfian, Ilham N.; Alper, Sinan; Alvarez-Solas, Sara; Alves, Sara G.; Amaya, Santiago; Andresen, Pia K.; Anjum, Gulnaz; Ansari, Daniel; Arriaga, Patrícia; Aruta, John Jamir Benzon R.; Arvanitis, Alexios; Babincak, Peter; Barzykowski, Krystian; Bashour, Bana; Baskin, Ernest; Batalha, Luisa; Batres, Carlota; Bavolar, Jozef; Bayrak, Fatih; Becker, Benjamin; Becker, Maja; Belaus, Anabel; Białek, Michał; Bilancini, Ennio; Boller, Daniel; Boncinelli, Leonardo; Boudesseul, Jordane; Brown, Benjamin T.; Buchanan, Erin M.; Butt, Muhammad M.; Calvillo, Dustin P.; Carnes, Nate C.; Celniker, Jared B.; Chartier, Christopher R.; Chopik, William J.; Chotikavan, Poom; Chuan-Peng, Hu; Clancy, Rockwell F.; Çoker, Ogeday; Correia, Rita C.; Adoric, Vera Cubela; Cubillas, Carmelo P.; Czoschke, Stefan; Daryani, Yalda; de Grefte, Job A.M.; de Vries, Wieteke C.; Burak, Elif G.Demirag; Dias, Carina; Dixson, Barnaby J.W.; Du, Xinkai; Dumančić, Francesca; Dumbravă, Andrei; Dutra, Natalia B.; Enachescu, Janina; Esteban-Serna, Celia; Eudave, Luis; Evans, Thomas R.; Feldman, Gilad; Felisberti, Fatima M.; Fiedler, Susann; Findor, Andrej; Fleischmann, Alexandra; Foroni, Francesco; Francová, Radka; Frank, Darius Aurel; Fu, Cynthia H.Y.; Gao, Shan; Ghasemi, Omid; Ghazi-Noori, Ali Reza; Ghossainy, Maliki E.; Giammusso, Isabella; Gill, Tripat; Gjoneska, Biljana; Gollwitzer, Mario; Graton, Aurélien; Grinberg, Maurice; Groyecka-Bernard, Agata; Harris, Elizabeth A.; Hartanto, Andree; Hassan, Widad A.N.M.; Hatami, Javad; Heimark, Katrina R.; Hidding, Jasper J.J.; Hristova, Evgeniya; Hruška, Matej; Hudson, Charlotte A.; Huskey, Richard; Ikeda, Ayumi; Inbar, Yoel; Ingram, Gordon P.D.; , Nature human behaviour, (2022) Vol.6, No.6, 897-898 DOI: 10.1038/s41562-022-01403-w
  • "Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample",
    Bago, Bence; Kovacs, Marton; Protzko, John; Nagy, Tamas; Kekecs, Zoltan; Palfi, Bence; Adamkovic, Matus; Adamus, Sylwia; Albalooshi, Sumaya; Albayrak-Aydemir, Nihan; Alfian, Ilham N.; Alper, Sinan; Alvarez-Solas, Sara; Alves, Sara G.; Amaya, Santiago; Andresen, Pia K.; Anjum, Gulnaz; Ansari, Daniel; Arriaga, Patrícia; Aruta, John Jamir Benzon R.; Arvanitis, Alexios; Babincak, Peter; Barzykowski, Krystian; Bashour, Bana; Baskin, Ernest; Batalha, Luisa; Batres, Carlota; Bavolar, Jozef; Bayrak, Fatih; Becker, Benjamin; Becker, Maja; Belaus, Anabel; Białek, Michał; Bilancini, Ennio; Boller, Daniel; Boncinelli, Leonardo; Boudesseul, Jordane; Brown, Benjamin T.; Buchanan, Erin M.; Butt, Muhammad M.; Calvillo, Dustin P.; Carnes, Nate C.; Celniker, Jared B.; Chartier, Christopher R.; Chopik, William J.; Chotikavan, Poom; Chuan-Peng, Hu; Clancy, Rockwell F.; Çoker, Ogeday; Correia, Rita C.; Adoric, Vera Cubela; Cubillas, Carmelo P.; Czoschke, Stefan; Daryani, Yalda; de Grefte, Job A.M.; de Vries, Wieteke C.; Burak, Elif G.Demirag; Dias, Carina; Dixson, Barnaby J.W.; Du, Xinkai; Dumančić, Francesca; Dumbravă, Andrei; Dutra, Natalia B.; Enachescu, Janina; Esteban-Serna, Celia; Eudave, Luis; Evans, Thomas R.; Feldman, Gilad; Felisberti, Fatima M.; Fiedler, Susann; Findor, Andrej; Fleischmann, Alexandra; Foroni, Francesco; Francová, Radka; Frank, Darius Aurel; Fu, Cynthia H.Y.; Gao, Shan; Ghasemi, Omid; Ghazi-Noori, Ali Reza; Ghossainy, Maliki E.; Giammusso, Isabella; Gill, Tripat; Gjoneska, Biljana; Gollwitzer, Mario; Graton, Aurélien; Grinberg, Maurice; Groyecka-Bernard, Agata; Harris, Elizabeth A.; Hartanto, Andree; Hassan, Widad A.N.M.; Hatami, Javad; Heimark, Katrina R.; Hidding, Jasper J.J.; Hristova, Evgeniya; Hruška, Matej; Hudson, Charlotte A.; Huskey, Richard; Ikeda, Ayumi; Inbar, Yoel; Ingram, Gordon P.D.; , Nature Human Behaviour, (2022) Vol.6, No.6, 880-895 DOI: 10.1038/s41562-022-01319-5
  • "Is negativity bias intuitive for liberals and conservatives?",
    Salter, Metin Ege; Duymaç, Firat Yavuz; Yilmaz, Onurcan; Bahçekapili, Hasan G.; Harma, Mehmet; , Current Psychology, (2022) DOI: 10.1007/s12144-021-02557-y
  • "A creative destruction approach to replication: Implicit work and sex morality across cultures",
    Tierney, Warren; Hardy, Jay; Ebersole, Charles R.; Viganola, Domenico; Clemente, Elena Giulia; Gordon, Michael; Hoogeveen, Suzanne; Haaf, Julia; Dreber, Anna; Johannesson, Magnus; Pfeiffer, Thomas; Huang, Jason L.; Vaughn, Leigh Ann; DeMarree, Kenneth; Igou, Eric R.; Chapman, Hanah; Gantman, Ana; Vanaman, Matthew; Wylie, Jordan; Storbeck, Justin; Andreychik, Michael R.; McPhetres, Jon; Uhlmann, Eric Luis; Abraham, Ajay T.; Adamkovic, Matus; Adam-Troian, Jais; Agadullina, Elena; Akkas, Handan; Amir, Dorsa; Anne, Michele; Arbeau, Kelly J.; Arnestad, Mads N.; Aruta, John Jamir Benzon; Ashraf, Mujeeba; Azar, Ofer H.; Baker, Bradley J.; Baník, Gabriel; Barbosa, Sergio; Mendes, Ana Barbosa; Baskin, Ernest; Bauman, Christopher W.; Bavolar, Jozef; Beckman, Stephanie E.; Bendixen, Theiss; Benjamin, Aaron S.; Berkers, Ruud M.W.J.; Bhattacharjee, Amit; Bodily, Samuel E.; Bottom, Vincent; Brick, Cameron; Brigden, Neil; Brown, Stephanie E.V.; Buckley, Jeffrey; Butterfield, Max E.; Caton, Neil R.; Chen, Zhang; Chen, Jessica F.; Chen, Fadong; Christensen, Irene; Cicerali, Ensari E.; Columbus, Simon; Cox, David J.; Cracco, Emiel; Crafa, Daina; Cummins, Jamie; Cutler, Jo; Dahms, Zech O.; Danvers, Alexander F.; Daum-Avital, Liora; Dawson, Ian G.J.; Day, Martin V.; Deprez, Philippe O.; Dietl, Erik; Dimant, Eugen; Dogan, Gönül; Domurat, Artur; Dores Cruz, Terence D.; du Plessis, Christilene; Dubrov, Dmitrii; Dwibedi, Esha; Elbaek, Christian T.; Elsherif, Mahmoud M.; Evans, Thomas R.; Field, Sarahanne M.; Firat, Mustafa; Francis, Zoë; Ganzach, Yoav; Gautam, Richa; Gearin, Brian; Geiger, Sandra J.; Ghasemi, Omid; Graf-Vlachy, Lorenz; Gram, Lu; Grigoryev, Dmitry; Guadagno, Rosanna E.; Hafenbrack, Andrew C.; Hafenbrädl, Sebastian; Hagen, Linda; Hagmann, David; Hammersley, Jonathan J.; , Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, (2021) Vol.93, DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2020.104060
  • "Are we at all liberal at heart? High-powered tests find no effect of intuitive thinking on moral foundations",
    Isler, Ozan; Yilmaz, Onurcan; Doğruyol, Burak; , Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, (2021) Vol.92, DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2020.104050
  • "All the Dark Triad and some of the Big Five traits are visible in the face",
    Alper, Sinan; Bayrak, Fatih; Yilmaz, Onurcan; , Personality and Individual Differences, (2021) Vol.168, DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2020.110350
  • "Inferring political and religious attitudes from composite faces perceived to be related to the dark triad personality traits",
    Alper, Sinan; Bayrak, Fatih; Yilmaz, Onurcan; , Personality and Individual Differences, (2021) Vol.182, DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.111070
  • "Psychological correlates of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs and preventive measures: Evidence from Turkey",
    Alper, Sinan; Bayrak, Fatih; Yilmaz, Onurcan; , Current Psychology, (2021) Vol.40, No.11, 5708-5717 DOI: 10.1007/s12144-020-00903-0
  • "Cognitive styles and religion",
    Yilmaz, Onurcan; , Current Opinion in Psychology, (2021) Vol.40, 150-154 DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2020.09.014
  • "Religion, parochialism and intuitive cooperation",
    Isler, Ozan; Yilmaz, Onurcan; John Maule, A.; , Nature Human Behaviour, (2021) Vol.5, No.4, 512-521 DOI: 10.1038/s41562-020-01014-3
  • "Validation of Morality as Cooperation Questionnaire in Turkey, and Its Relation to Prosociality, Ideology, and Resource Scarcity",
    Yilmaz, Onurcan; Harma, Mehmet; Doǧruyol, Burak; , European Journal of Psychological Assessment, (2021) Vol.37, No.2, 149-160 DOI: 10.1027/1015-5759/a000627
  • "Activating reflective thinking with decision justification and debiasing training",
    Isler, Ozan; Yilmaz, Onurcan; Dogruyol, Burak; , Judgment and Decision Making, (2020) Vol.15, No.6, 926-938
  • "Intergroup tolerance leads to subjective morality, which in turn is associated with (but does not lead to) reduced religiosity",
    Yilmaz, Onurcan; Bahçekapili, Hasan G.; Harma, Mehmet; Sevi, Barış; , Archive for the Psychology of Religion, (2020) Vol.42, No.2, 232-243 DOI: 10.1177/0084672419883349
  • "Do changes in threat salience predict the moral content of sermons? The case of Friday Khutbas in Turkey",
    Alper, Sinan; Bayrak, Fatih; Us, Elif Öykü; Yilmaz, Onurcan; , European Journal of Social Psychology, (2020) Vol.50, No.3, 662-672 DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.2632
  • "Does an Abstract Mind-Set Increase the Internal Consistency of Moral Attitudes and Strengthen Individualizing Foundations?",
    Alper, Sinan; Yilmaz, Onurcan; , Social Psychological and Personality Science, (2020) Vol.11, No.3, 326-335 DOI: 10.1177/1948550619856309
  • "Does intuitive mindset influence belief in god? A registered replication of shenhav, rand and greene (2012)",
    Saribay, S. Adil; Yilmaz, Onurcan; Körpe, Gülay Gözde; , Judgment and Decision Making, (2020) Vol.15, No.2, 193-202
  • "Are neo-liberals more intuitive? Undetected libertarians confound the relation between analytic cognitive style and economic conservatism",
    Yilmaz, Onurcan; Adil Saribay, S.; Iyer, Ravi; , Current Psychology, (2020) Vol.39, No.1, 25-32 DOI: 10.1007/s12144-019-0130-x
  • "Moral foundations explain unique variance in political ideology beyond resistance to change and opposition to equality",
    Yilmaz, Onurcan; Saribay, S. Adil; , Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, (2019) Vol.22, No.8, 1124-1138 DOI: 10.1177/1368430218781012
  • "Reflection increases belief in god through self-questioning among non-believers",
    Yilmaz, Onurcan; Isler, Ozan; , Judgment and Decision Making, (2019) Vol.14, No.6, 649-657
  • "How is the Big Five related to moral and political convictions: The moderating role of the WEIRDness of the culture",
    Alper, Sinan; Yilmaz, Onurcan; , Personality and Individual Differences, (2019) Vol.145, 32-38 DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2019.03.018
  • "An Investigation of Moral Foundations Theory in Turkey Using Different Measures",
    Yalçındağ, Bilge; Özkan, Türker; Cesur, Sevim; Yilmaz, Onurcan; Tepe, Beyza; Piyale, Zeynep Ecem; Biten, Ali Furkan; Sunar, Diane; , Current Psychology, (2019) Vol.38, No.2, 440-457 DOI: 10.1007/s12144-017-9618-4
  • "The link between intuitive thinking and social conservatism is stronger in WEIRD societies",
    Yilmaz, Onurcan; Alper, Sinan; , Judgment and Decision Making, (2019) Vol.14, No.2, 156-169
  • "Intuition and deliberation in morality and cooperation: An overview of the literature"
    , Isler, Ozan; Yilmaz, Onurcan; , Developing Informed Intuition for Decision-Making, (2019)
  • "Testing evolutionary and cultural theories regarding mate selection in Turkey",
    Göz, İlyas; Bahçekapili, Hasan G.; Yilmaz, Onurcan; , Personality and Individual Differences, (2018) Vol.135, 307-311 DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2018.07.041
  • "Meta-ethics and the mortality: Mortality salience leads people to adopt a less subjectivist morality",
    Yilmaz, Onurcan; Bahçekapili, Hasan G.; , Cognition, (2018) Vol.179, 171-177 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2018.06.014
  • "Different Types of Religiosity and Lay Intuitions About Free Will/Determinism in Turkey",
    Yilmaz, Onurcan; Bahçekapili, Hasan G.; Harma, Mehmet; , International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, (2018) Vol.28, No.2, 89-102 DOI: 10.1080/10508619.2018.1425062
  • "Lower levels of resistance to change (but not opposition to equality) is related to analytic cognitive style",
    Yilmaz, Onurcan; Saribay, S. Adil; , Social Psychology, (2018) Vol.49, No.2, 65-75 DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000328
  • "Relationships between core ideological motives, social and economic conservatism, and religiosity: Evidence from a Turkish sample",
    Saribay, Selahattin Adil; Yilmaz, Onurcan; , Asian Journal of Social Psychology, (2018) Vol.21, No.3, 205-211 DOI: 10.1111/ajsp.12213
  • "The relation between different types of religiosity and analytic cognitive style",
    Bahçekapili, Hasan G.; Yilmaz, Onurcan; , Personality and Individual Differences, (2017) Vol.117, 267-272 DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2017.06.013
  • "Is religion necessary for morality?",
    Bahçekapili, Hasan G.; Yilmaz, Onurcan; , Religion, Brain and Behavior, (2017) Vol.7, No.4, 279-281 DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2016.1249924
  • "Analytic Thought Training Promotes Liberalism on Contextualized (But Not Stable) Political Opinions",
    Yilmaz, Onurcan; Saribay, S. Adil; , Social Psychological and Personality Science, (2017) Vol.8, No.7, 789-795 DOI: 10.1177/1948550616687092
  • "Activating analytic thinking enhances the value given to individualizing moral foundations",
    Yilmaz, Onurcan; Saribay, S. Adil; , Cognition, (2017) Vol.165, 88-96 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2017.05.009
  • "Analytic cognitive style and cognitive ability differentially predict religiosity and social conservatism",
    Saribay, S. Adil; Yilmaz, Onurcan; , Personality and Individual Differences, (2017) Vol.114, 24-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2017.03.056
  • "Moral pluralism on the trolley tracks: Different normative principles are used for different reasons in justifying moral judgments",
    Aktas, Büsra; Yilmaz, Onurcan; Bahçekapili, Hasan G.; , Judgment and Decision Making, (2017) Vol.12, No.3, 297-307
  • "The relationship between cognitive style and political orientation depends on the measures used",
    Yilmaz, Onurcan; Adil Saribay, S.; , Judgment and Decision Making, (2017) Vol.12, No.2, 140-147
  • "Political orientations, ideological self-categorizations, party preferences, and moral foundations of young Turkish voters",
    Yılmaz, Onurcan; Sarıbay, S. Adil; Bahçekapılı, Hasan G.; Harma, Mehmet; , Turkish Studies, (2016) Vol.17, No.4, 544-566 DOI: 10.1080/14683849.2016.1221312
  • "Analytic Thinking, Religion, and Prejudice: An Experimental Test of the Dual-Process Model of Mind",
    Yilmaz, Onurcan; Karadöller, Dilay Z.; Sofuoglu, Gamze; , International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, (2016) Vol.26, No.4, 360-369 DOI: 10.1080/10508619.2016.1151117
  • "Validation of the Moral Foundations Questionnaire in Turkey and its relation to cultural schemas of individualism and collectivism",
    Yilmaz, Onurcan; Harma, Mehmet; Bahçekapili, Hasan G.; Cesur, Sevim; , Personality and Individual Differences, (2016) Vol.99, 149-154 DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2016.04.090
  • "An attempt to clarify the link between cognitive style and political ideology: A non-western replication and extension",
    Yilmaz, Onurcan; Adil Saribay, S.; , Judgment and Decision Making, (2016) Vol.11, No.3, 287-300
  • "Supernatural and secular monitors promote human cooperation only if they remind of punishment",
    Yilmaz, Onurcan; Bahçekapili, Hasan G.; , Evolution and Human Behavior, (2016) Vol.37, No.1, 79-84 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2015.09.005
  • "When science replaces religion: Science as a secular authority bolsters moral sensitivity",
    Yilmaz, Onurcan; Bahçekapilr, Hasan G.; , PLoS ONE, (2015) Vol.10, No.9, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0137499
  • "Without God, everything is permitted? The reciprocal influence of religious and meta-ethical beliefs",
    Yilmaz, Onurcan; Bahçekapili, Hasan G.; , Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, (2015) Vol.58, 95-100 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2015.01.003

Projects

Project Name Role in the Project Project Type Fund Establishment Start Date End Date
"Deprem Tehdidi Altında Toplumsal İş Birliği Nasıl Arttırılır?" Yürütücü Ulusal Proje TÜBİTAK ARDEB 01.11.2021
 01.11.2024
"FI-18688 Religion as Universal Moral Compass: Does Religious Belief Promote Behavioral Consistency Across Moral Domains?" Yürütücü Uluslararası Proje Diğer Uluslararası 03.01.2022
 01.10.2024
"Kaynak Kıtlığında İş Birliği Nasıl Teşvik Edilebilir? Sezgisel/Analitik Düşünmenin Düzenleyici Rolü" Yürütücü Ulusal Proje TÜBİTAK ARDEB 15.09.2021
 15.09.2024
"Önleyici Tedbirlere Uyumu Nasıl Arttırabiliriz? Kişisel ve Toplumsal Fayda Mesajlarının Etkisi " Yürütücü Ulusal Proje TÜBİTAK ARDEB 01.07.2020
 31.12.2020

Courses Offered

Course Name Course Code Period
Advanced Theoretical Discussions in Psychological Sciences PSY603 2024/25 Fall

2023, 100th Anniversary TÜBİTAK Incentive Award (TÜBİTAK Teşvik)

2023, The Outstanding Young Scientists Award (TÜBA-GEBİP)

2021, The Best Young Scientist Award (BAGEP)

2021, Sakıp Sabancı International Research Award