Director
Dr. Onurcan Yılmaz is a social psychologist whose research investigates how biological predispositions and cultural learning jointly shape human morality, cooperation, and belief systems. His work integrates dual-process models of cognition (reflection vs. intuition) with Dual Inheritance Theory, examining how cognitive styles interact with cultural norms to influence phenomena such as religious and ideological belief, conspiracy thinking, and prosocial behavior.
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Dr. Yılmaz has led multiple national and international projects, and published widely in top journals (such as Nature Human Behaviour, Cognition, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and Psychonomic Bulletin & Review), and serves on the editorial boards of Judgment and Decision Making and Political Psychology.
Co-directors
Dr. Burak DoÄŸruyol’s research focuses on moral judgment, political ideology, and cooperation, with a particular emphasis on how cultural and cognitive factors shape moral decision-making. He has published in leading journals including Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, European Journal of Psychological Assessment, and Cognition.
Dr. Ozan Ä°ÅŸler specializes in cooperation, social heuristics, and moral decision-making. His research combines behavioral experiments and economic models to explore how social norms and incentives shape cooperative behavior. He is an external fellow of the University of Nottingham’s Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx), with publications in Nature Human Behaviour, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Behavior Research Methods, and Judgment and Decision Making.
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