MINT Lab

• 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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• Prof. Onurcan Yılmaz delivered a CeDEx Seminar at the University of Nottingham on March 4, 2026, titled "Is Cooperation Intuitive? A Systematic Preregistered Test of the Social Heuristics Hypothesis." Click here to access the seminar page.

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• Prof. Onurcan Yılmaz presented "A Moral Compass? Behavioral Consistency in Religious and Secular Belief Systems" at the Social Consequences of Religion (SCORE) Conference, held at the University of Oxford, Rhodes House. Click here to access the preprint related to the talk.

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• Prof. Onurcan Yılmaz presented "What Does Moral Conduct Actually Show? CRISP as a Proximate Motivational Architecture" at the Workshop on Interdisciplinary Advances in Cooperation Research, held at the University of Nottingham on May 13, 2026. Click here to access the workshop program.

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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.

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• We organized the "Psychological Origins of Cooperation" workshop on June 26, 2024. Click here to access the workshop program.

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