MINT Lab

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  2026

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• Varol, M., & Yılmaz, O. (2026). A Dual inheritance perspective on cultural bias, psychological science, and human diversity. Istanbul Antropological Review. https://doi.org/10.26650/IAR2025.1847261

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• Harma, M., Şeker, F., Doğruyol, B., & Yilmaz, O. (2026). Language speaks louder than performance: Linguistic indicators of cognitive processing across common threat scenarios. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 40, e70216. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70216

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  2025
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• Alper, S.,  Varol, O., &  Yilmaz, O. (2025).  Conspiracy theories as instruments of power: The case of conspiracy beliefs in the wake of the 2023 earthquakes in Türkiye. Political Psychology,  00,  1–20. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.70106

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• Cavdar, D., Tepe, B., Saribay, S. A., & Yilmaz, O. (2025). Moral framing effects on environmental attitudes: A conceptual replication and extension of Feinberg and Willer (2013). Journal of Environmental Psychology, 108, 102827. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102827

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• Yilmaz, O., & Isler, O. (2025). Epistemic norm differences matter. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2025.2507657

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• Ghasemi, O., Yilmaz, O., Isler, O., Terry, J., & Ross, R. M. (2025). Reflective thinking predicts disbelief in God across 19 countries. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02691-9

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• Bayrak, F., Kayatepe, E., Özman, N., Yilmaz, O., Isler, O., & Saribay, S. A. (2025). Can reflection mitigate COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy beliefs and hesitancy? Psychology & Health, 1–32. https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2025.2491598

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• Alper, S., & Yilmaz, O. (2025). The relevance of cognitive processes to the formation and consequences of conspiracy theory appraisals. Psychological Inquiry, 35(3–4), 200–202. https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2024.2442963

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• Alper, S., Elcil, T., Karaca, N., Bayrak, F., & Yilmaz, O. (2025). Fictitious conspiracy, paranormal, and pseudoscience beliefs are closely related to their regular counterparts. Current Psychology.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-025-07654-w

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• Bayrak, F., Boyacioglu, I., & Yilmaz, O. (2025). Does reflection increase accuracy rather than bias in the assessments of political fake news? Current Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-025-07578-5

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• Bayrak, F., Sümer, V., Dogruyol, B., Saribay, S. A., Alper, S., Isler, O., & Yilmaz, O. (2025). Reflection predicts and leads to decreased conspiracy belief. Cognition, 258, 106085. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106085

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• ​Şeker, F., Acem, E., Bayrak, F., Dogruyol, B., Isler, O., Bahçekapili, H. G., & Yilmaz, O. (2025). Cognitive reflection and religious belief: A test of two models. Judgment and Decision Making. 20, e13. https://doi.org/10.1017/jdm.2024.41

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  2024

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• ​Isler, O., Yilmaz, O., Maule, A. J., & Gächter, S. (2024). How to activate threat perceptions in behavior research: A simple technique for inducing health and resource scarcity threats. Behavior Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-024-02481-6

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• Alper, S., Konukoglu, K., Atalay, E. D., Duzgun, A., & Yilmaz, O. (2024). How do beliefs in free will and determinism correlate with beliefs in conspiracy, paranormal, and pseudoscience beliefs?. Personality and Individual Differences, 229, 112765. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2024.112765

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• Dogruyol, B., Velioglu, I., Bayrak, F., Acem, E., Isler, O., & Yilmaz, O. (2024). Validation of the moral foundations questionnaire-2 in the Turkish context: exploring its relationship with moral behavior. Current Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-024-06097-z

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  2023

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•   Bayrak, F., Dogruyol, B., Alper, S., & Yilmaz, O. (2023). Multidimensional intuitive–analytic thinking style and its relation to moral concerns, epistemically suspect beliefs, and ideology. Judgment and Decision Making, 18, E42. https://doi.org/10.1017/jdm.2023.45

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• Bayrak, F., Aktar, B., Aydas, B., Yilmaz, O., Alper, S., & Isler, O. (2023). Effective health communication depends on the interaction of message source and content: two experiments on adherence to COVID-19 measures in Türkiye. Psychology & Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2023.2285445

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• Ugurlar, P., Dorrough, A. R., Isler, O., & Yilmaz, O. (2023). Shared group memberships mitigate intergroup bias in cooperation. Social Psychological and Personality Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506231209788

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• Isler, O., & Yilmaz, O. (2023). How to activate intuitive and reflective thinking in behavior research? A comprehensive examination of experimental techniques. Behavior Research Methods, 55, 3679–3698. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-01984-4

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• Alper, S., & Yilmaz, O. (2023). What is wrong with conspiracy beliefs? Routledge Open Research, 2, 28. https://doi.org/10.12688/routledgeopenres.17926.1.

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• Alper, S., Yelbuz, B. E., Akkurt, S. B., & Yilmaz, O. (2023). The positive association of education with the trust in science and scientists is weaker in highly corrupt countries. Public Understanding of Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625231176935.

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• Huber, C., Dreber, A., Huber, J., Johannesson, M., Kirchler, M., Weitzel, U., ..., Woods, D., Yakobi, O., Yilmaz, O., Zaleskiewicz, T., Zeisberger, S., & Holzmeister, F. (2023). Competition and moral behavior: A meta-analysis of forty-five crowd-sourced experimental designs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120 (23). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2215572120.

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• Azevedo, F., Pavlović, T., Rêgo, G.G., ..., Yilmaz, O. et al. (2023). Social and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries. Scientific Data, 10, 272. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02080-8
   

• Isler, O., Yilmaz, O., & Dulleck, U. (2023). Scarcity improves economic valuations when cognitively salient. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 209, 362-371. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2023.02.019 (SSCI)
   

  2022
 

• Hoogeveen, S., Sarafoglou, A., Aczel, B.,..., Yilmaz, O., Zarzeczna, N. Zhao, Y., Zijlmans, J., van Elk, M., & Wagenmakers, E. (2022). A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being. Religion, Brain & Behavior, doi: 10.1080/2153599X.2022.2070255 (AHCI)
   

• Pavlović, T., Azevedo, F., De, K.,..., Yilmaz, O., Yogeeswaran, K., Ziemer, C., Zwaan, R., Boggio, P. S., Whillans, A., Van Lange, P. A., Prasad, R., Onderco, M., O'Madagain, C., Nesh-Nash, T., Laguna, O. M., Kubin, E., Gumren, M., Fenwick, A., Ertan, A. S., Bernstein, M. J., Amara, H., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2022). Predicting attitudinal and behavioral responses to COVID-19 pandemic using machine learning. PNAS nexus, 1(3), pgac093. doi: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac093 (National Academy of Sciences)
   

• Bago, B., Kovacs, M., Protzko, J.,..., Yilmaz, O., Yoon, S., Young, D. M., Zakharov, I., Zein, R. A., Zettler, I., Zezelj, I. L., Zhang, D. C., Zhang, J., Zheng, X., Hoekstra, R., & Aczel, B. (2022). Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample. Nature Human Behaviour, 6, 880–895. doi: 10.1038/s41562-022-01319-5 (SCI-E)
   

• Yılmaz, O., & Bayrak F. (2022). Ahlak psikolojisine giriş: Temel kavramlar, kuramsal yaklaşımlar ve tartışmalar [An introduction to moral psychology: Basic concepts, theoretical approaches, and debates]. Reflektif Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 3(1), 27-50. doi: 10.47613/reflektif.2022.53
   

• Yılmaz, O., Alper, S., & Nuhrat, Y. (2022). Onurcan Yılmaz ve Sinan Alper'le paradigma ve disiplinler üzerinden bir ahlak söyleşisi. Reflektif Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 3(1), 147-167. doi: 10.47613/reflektif.2022.61
   

• Bavel, J. J. V., Cichocka, A., Capraro, V., Sjåstad, H., Nezlek, J. B., Pavlović, T.,..., Lockwood, P.
  L., Yilmaz, O., Yogeeswaran, K., Ziemer, C.,. Zwaan, R. A., & Boggio, P. S. (2022). National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic: Results from 67 nations. Nature Communications. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-27668-9 (SCI-E).
   

• Salter, M. E., Duymaç, F. Y., Yilmaz, O., Bahçekapili, H. G., & Harma, M. (2022). Is negativity bias intuitive for liberals and conservatives?. Current Psychology. doi: 10.1007/s12144-021-02557-y (SSCI).
   

  2021

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• Bayrak, F., Alper, S., & Yilmaz, O. (2021). Çözüm önerisinin itici görülüp görülmemesi Kürt sorununu kabul etmeyi etkiliyor mu? [Does perception of solution proposal as aversive affect the acknowledgment of Kurdish question?]. Kalem Eğitim ve İnsan Bilimleri Dergisi, 11(1), 1-20. doi: 10.23863/kalem.2020.145.
   

• Alper, S., Bayrak, F., Yilmaz, O. (2021). Inferring political and religious attitudes from composite faces perceived to be related to the dark triad personality traits. Personality and Individual Differences, 182, 111070. (SSCI)
   

• Isler, O., Yilmaz, O., & Maule, J. (2021). Religion, parochialism and intuitive cooperation. Nature Human Behavior, doi: 10.1038/s41562-020-01014-3. (SCI-E)
   

• Yilmaz, O., Harma, M., & Doğruyol, B. (2021). Validation of Morality as Cooperation Questionnaire in Turkey, and its relation to prosociality, ideology, and resource scarcity European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 37(2), 149-160 (SSCI)
   

• Yilmaz, O. (2021). Cognitive styles and religion. Current Opinion in Psychology, 40, 150-154. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2020.09.014 (SSCI)
   

• Alper, S., Bayrak, F., & Yilmaz, O. (2021). Psychological correlates of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs and preventive measures: Evidence from Turkey Current Psychology, doi: 10.1007/s12144-020-00903-0 (SSCI)
   

• Isler, O., Yilmaz, O., & Doğruyol, B. (2021). Are we at all liberal at heart? High-powered tests find no effect of intuitive thinking on moral foundations. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 92, 104050. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2020.104050 (SSCI)
   

• Alper, S., Bayrak, F., & Yilmaz, O. (2021). All the Dark Triad and some of the Big Five traits are visible in the face. Personality and Individual Differences, 168, 104050. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2020.110350 (SSCI)

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  2020

 

• Isler, O., Yilmaz, O., & Doğruyol, B. (2020) Activating reflective thinking with decision justification and debiasing training. Judgment and Decision Making, 15(6), 926-938.
   

• Yilmaz, O., Bahçekapili, H.G., Harma, M., & Sevi, B. (2020). Intergroup tolerance leads to subjective morality, which in turn is associated with (but does not lead to) reduced religiosity. Archive for the Psychology of Religion, 42(2), 232-243. doi: 10.1177/0084672419883349 (SSCI)
   

• Alper, S., Bayrak, F., Us, E. Ö., & Yilmaz, O. (2020). Do changes in threat salience predict the moral content of sermons? The case of Friday Khutbas in Turkey. European Journal of Social Psychology, 50, 662-672. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2632 (SSCI)
   

• Alper, S., & Yilmaz, O. (2020). Does an abstract mindset increase the internal consistency of moral attitudes and strengthen individualizing foundations?. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 11(3), 326-335. doi: 10.1177/1948550619856309 (SSCI)
   

• Saribay, S. A., Yilmaz, O., & Körpe, G. G. (2020). Does intuitive mindset influence belief in God? A registered replication of Shenhav, Rand and Greene (2012). Judgment and Decision Making, 15(2), 193-202. (SSCI)
   

• Yilmaz, O., Saribay, S. A., & Iyer, R. (2020). Are neo-liberals more intuitive? Undetected libertarians confound the relation between analytic cognitive style and economic conservatism. Current Psychology, 39(1), 25-32. doi:10.1007/s12144-019-0130-x (SSCI)
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  2019

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• Yalçındağ, B., Özkan, T., Cesur, S., Yilmaz, O., Tepe, B., Piyale, Z. E., Biten, A. F., & Sunar, D. (2019). An investigation of moral foundations theory in Turkey using different measures. Current Psychology. 38, 440-457. doi: 10.1007/s12144-017-9618-4 (SSCI)
   

• Yilmaz, O., & Saribay, S. A. (2019). Moral foundations explain unique variance in political ideology beyond resistance to change and opposition to equality. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 22(8), 1124-1138. doi: 10.1177/1368430218781012 (SSCI)
   

• Yılmaz, O., Bayrak, F., & Alper, S. (2019). Wittengstein'ın psikoloji bilimine dair görüşlerine eleştirel bir bakış [A Critical Look at Wittgenstein's Opinions on Psychology]. Curr Res Soc Sci, 5(2), 130-142. doi: 10.30613/curesosc.556600 (ULAKBİM)
   

• Yilmaz, O. & Isler, O. (2019) Reflection increases belief in God through self-questioning among non-believers. Judgment and Decision Making, 14(6), 649-657 (SSCI)
   

• Doğruyol, B., Alper, S., & Yilmaz, O. (2019) The five-factor model of the moral foundations theory is stable across WEIRD and non-WEIRD cultures. Personality and Individual Differences, doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2019.109547 (SSCI)
   

• Yilmaz, O., & Bahçekapili, H. G. (2019). Rethinking the golden age of social psychology. Studies in Psychology, doi: 10.26650/SP2018-0016 (ESCI)
   

• Yilmaz, O., & Alper, S. (2019) The link between intuitive thinking and social conservatism is stronger in WEIRD societies. Judgment and Decision Making, 14(2), 156-169. (SSCI)
   

• Alper, S., & Yilmaz, O. (2019). How is the Big Five related to moral and political convictions: The moderating role of the WEIRDness of the culture. Personality and Individual Differences, 145, 32-38. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2019.03.018 (SSCI)
   

  2018

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• Bayramoglu, Y., Harma, M., & Yilmaz, O. (2018). The relationship between attachment to god, prosociality, and image of God. Archive for the Psychology of Religion, 40(2-3), 202-224. doi: 10.1163/15736121-12341356 (SSCI)
   

• Göz, I., Bahçekapili, H.G., & Yilmaz, O. (2018). Testing evolutionary and cultural theories regarding mate selection in Turkey. Personality and Individual Differences, 135, 307-311. (SSCI)
   

• Yilmaz, O., & Bahçekapili, H. G. (2018). Meta-ethics and the mortality: Mortality salience leads people to adopt a less subjectivist morality. Cognition, 179, 171-177. (SSCI)
   

• Yilmaz, O., Cesur, S., & Bayad, A. (2018). Türklerin ve Kürtlerin birbirlerine karşı olumsuz tutumlarının bazı psikolojik değişkenlerle ilişkisi [Psychological correlates of negative attitudes of Turks and Kurds toward one another]. Türk Psikoloji Yazıları [Turkish Psychological Articles], 21, 82-99. (ULAKBİM)
   

• Cesur, S., Bayad, A., Yilmaz, O., & Tepe, B. (2018). Bir değerler skalasının geliştirilmesi ve bu skalanın politik ve dini yönelimle ilişkisi [The development of a values scale and its relationship with political and religious orientations]. Elektronik Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi [Electronic Journal of Social Sciences], 17(66), 401-420. (ULAKBİM)
   

• Yilmaz, O., & Saribay, S. A. (2018). Lower levels of resistance to change (but not opposition to equality) is related to analytic cognitive style. Social Psychology, 49, 65-75. (SSCI)
   

• Saribay, S. A., & Yilmaz, O. (2018). Relationships between core ideological motives, social and economic conservatism, and religiosity: Evidence from a Turkish sample. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 21(3), 205-211. (SSCI)
   

• Yilmaz, O., Bahçekapili, H. G., & Harma, M (2018). Different types of religiosity and lay intuitions about free will/determinism in Turkey. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 28(2), 89-102. (SSCI)
   

  2017

 

• Bahçekapili, H. G., & Yilmaz, O. (2017). The relation between different types of religiosity and analytic cognitive style. Personality and Individual Differences, 117, 267-272. (SSCI)
   

• Yilmaz, O., & Saribay, S. A. (2017). Activating analytic thinking enhances the value given to individualizing moral foundations. Cognition, 165, 88-96. (SSCI)
   

• Aktas, B., Yilmaz, O., & Bahçekapili, H. G. (2017). Moral pluralism on the trolley tracks: Different normative principles are used for different reasons in justifying moral judgments. Judgment and Decision Making, 12(3), 297-307. (SSCI)
   

• Saribay, S. A., & Yilmaz, O. (2017). Analytic cognitive style and cognitive ability differentially predict religiosity and social conservatism. Personality and Individual Differences, 114, 24-29. (SSCI)
   

• Yilmaz, O., & Saribay, S. A. (2017). The relationship between cognitive style and political orientation depends on the measures used. Judgment and Decision Making, 12(2), 140-147. (SSCI)
   

• Yilmaz, O., & Saribay, S. A. (2017). Analytic thought training promotes liberalism on contextualized (but not stable) political opinions. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8(7), 789-795. (SSCI)
   

• Bahçekapili, H. G., & Yilmaz, O. (2017). Is religion necessary for morality?. Special Issue on “What are the Hilbert problems in the study of religion”, Religion, Brain, & Behavior, 7(4), 279-281. (AHCI)
   

• Saribay, S. A., Olcaysoy, I., & Yilmaz, O. (2017). Kişisel ve toplumsal düzeylerde eşitliğe karşıtlık ve değişime direnmenin muhafazakârlıkla ilişkisi [The relationship between conservatism and opposition to equality and resistance to change at the personal and societal levels]. Türk Psikoloji Yazıları [Turkish Psychological Articles], 20, 24-41. (ULAKBİM)
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  2016

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• Yılmaz, O., Sarıbay, S. A., Bahçekapılı, H. G., & Harma, M. (2016). Political orientations, ideological self-categorizations, party preferences, and moral foundations of young Turkish voters. Turkish Studies, 17(4), 544–566. (SSCI)
   

• Yilmaz, O., & Saribay, S. A. (2016). An attempt to clarify the link between cognitive style and    political ideology: A non-Western replication and extension. Judgment and Decision Making, 11(3), 287-300. (SSCI)
   

• Yilmaz, O., Harma, M., Bahçekapili, H. G., & Cesur, S. (2016). Validation of the Moral Foundations Questionnaire in Turkey and its relation to cultural schemas of individualism and collectivism. Personality and Individual Differences, 99, 149-154. (SSCI)
   

• Yilmaz, O., Karadoler, D. Z., & Sofuoglu, G. (2016). Analytic thinking, religion and prejudice: An experimental test of the dual-process model of mind. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 26(4), 360-369. (SSCI)
   

• Yilmaz, O., & Bahçekapili, H.G. (2016). Supernatural and secular monitors promote human cooperation only if they remind of punishment. Evolution and Human Behavior, 37(1), 79-84. (SSCI)
   

  2015

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• Yilmaz, O., & Bahçekapili, H.G. (2015). When science replaces religion: Science as a secular authority bolsters moral sensitivity. PLOS ONE, 10(9): e0137499. (SCI-E)

 

• Yilmaz, O., & Bahçekapili, H. G. (2015). Without God everything is permitted? The reciprocal influence of religious and meta-ethical beliefs. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 58, 95-100. (SSCI)

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