OUR FOCUS
The Moral Intuitions Lab (MINT Lab), directed by Prof. Onurcan Yılmaz at Kadir Has University, investigates one of the central questions of the human sciences:
How do humans transcend local loyalties, immediate intuitions, and self-interest to build cooperation with strangers, sustain moral communities, and create large-scale societies?
Humans are an unusual species. We are capable of extraordinary cooperation, extending concern far beyond kinship groups to nations, institutions, and even humanity as a whole. Yet we are also vulnerable to tribalism, ideological conflict, conspiracy thinking, and moral exclusion. Understanding how these opposing tendencies emerge, and how they can be shaped, is the central mission of our lab.
LATEST NEWS
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Prof. Onurcan Yılmaz will be giving lectures at the 2026 Religion Studies Summer Camp at Nesin Villages, taking place on 10 –16 August 2026. For details and applications, click here.
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We held a worksop on "Understanding Cooperation" on January 21, 2026. Click here to access the workshop program. You can also click here to access the recording of the workshop.
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We are happy to announce that Dr. Onurcan Yılmaz has been awarded the "Kadir Has University Rector's Award and the Outstanding Achievement Award" by Kadir Has University for his outstanding work and his research initiatives in the year 2024.
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We are pleased to announce the release of the new book "Reflection and Intuition in a Crisis-Ridden World: Thinking Hard or Hardly Thinking?" by Dr. Adil Sarıbay and Dr. Onurcan Yılmaz.
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We held a worksop on "Religion and Morality" on November 16, 2024. Click here to access the workshop program. You can also click here to access the recording of the workshop.