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2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2024

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

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

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

2023

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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)

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)

2019

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

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)