Publications

2025/In Press

• Shariff, A. (2025). Taking faculty diversity seriously means asking why it matters. Nature Reviews Psychology.
• Billet, M.I., White, C., Shariff, A., & Norenzayan, A. (2025). End of world beliefs are common, diverse, and predict how people perceive and respond to global risks. OSF.
• Rahwan, I., Shariff, A., & Bonnefon, J.F. (2025). The science fiction science method. Nature.
• Wiwad, D., Waldfogel, H., Shariff, A., & Kteily, N. (2025). Trade-offs in economic preferences: Partisans perceive ideological divergence where there is strong convergence. OSF.

2024

• Dong, M., Conway, J.R., Bonnefon, J.F., Shariff, A., & Rahwan, I. (2024). Fears about artificial intelligence across 20 countries and six domains of application. American Psychologist.
• Voelkel, J.G., Stagnaro, M.N., Chu, J.Y., Pink, S.L., Mernyk, J.S., Redekopp, C., … & Shariff, A. (2024). Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity. Science.
• Koo, H.J., Piff, P.K., Moskowitz, J.P., & Shariff, A.F. (2024). System circumvention: Dishonest‐illegal transgressions are perceived as justified in non‐meritocratic societies. British Journal of Social Psychology.
• Maheshka, C., Doyle, M., Mercier, B., Shariff, A., & Clark, C. J. (2024). Perceived mental illness is associated with judgments of less agency, yet more moral wrongness. Possibility Studies & Society.
• Clark, C.J., Isch, C., & Shariff, A.F. (2024). Why do organizations take political stances? A review of reasons and risks. Social and Personality Psychology Compass.
• Robertson, C. E., Shariff, A., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2024). Morality in the anthropocene: The perversion of compassion and punishment in the online world. PNAS Nexus.
• Ruggerii, K. et al. (2024). A synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioral science during COVID-19 Nature.
• Kelly, J.M., Kramer, S.R., & Shariff, A.F. (2024). Religiosity predicts prosociality, especially when measured by self-report: A meta-analysis of almost 60 years of research. Psychological Bulletin.

2023

• Bonnefon, J.F., Rahwan, I. & Shariff, A.F. (2023). The moral psychology of artificial intelligence. Annual Review of Psychology.
• Yam, K. C., Tan, T., Jackson, J. C., Shariff, A., & Gray, K. (2023). Cultural differences in people’s reactions and applications of robots, algorithms, and artificial intelligence. Management and Organization Review.
• Jackson, J.C., Yam, K.C., Tang, P.M. & Shariff, A.F. (2023). Exposure to Robot Preachers Undermines Religious Commitment Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
• Pasek, M.H., Kelly, J.M., Shackleford, C., White, C.J.M., Vishkin, A., Smith, J.M., Norenzayan, A., Shariff, A.F & Ginges, J. (2023). Thinking about God Encourages Prosociality Towards Religious Outgroups: A Cross-Cultural Investigation. Psychological Science.

2022

• Celniker, J.B. Gregory, A., Koo, H., Piff, P.K., Ditto, P.H., & Shariff, A.F. (2022). The Moralization of Effort. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
• Koo, H., Piff, P.K., & Shariff, A.F. (2022). If I could do it, so can they: among the rich, those with humbler origins are less sensitive to the difficulties of the poor. Social and Personality Psychological Science.
• Awad, E., Bago, B., Bonnefon, J.F., Christakis, N. & Sharff, A. (2022). Polarized Citizen Preferences for the Ethical Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in 20 Countries. Medical Decision Making Policy and Practice.
• Mercier, B., Celniker, J. B., & Shariff, A. F. (2022). Overestimating Reported Prejudice Causes Democrats to Believe Disadvantaged Groups Are Less Electable Political Psychology.
• Rathje, S., Shariff, A., & Schnall, S. (2022). Ideology trumps self-interest: continued support for a political leader despite disappointing tax returns Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties.

2021

• Shariff, A., Bonnefon, J.F. & Rahwan, I. (2021). How safe is safe enough? Psychological mechanisms underlying extreme safety demands for self-driving cars Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies.
• Clark, C. J., Winegard, B. M., & Shariff, A.F. (2021). Motivated free will beliefs: The theory, new (preregistered) studies, and three meta-analyses. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
• Wiwad, D., Mercier, B., Piff, P.K., Shariff, A. & Aknin, L.B. (2021). Recognizing the Impact of Covid-19 on the Poor Alters Attitudes Towards Poverty and Inequality. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
• Syropoulos, S., Watkins, H., Shariff, A.F., Hodges, S.D., Markowitz, E. (2021). The Role of Gratitude in Motivating Intergenerational Environmental Stewardship Journal of Environmental Psychology.
• Beheim, B., Atkinson, Q., Bulbulia, J. A., Gervais, W. M., Gray, R., Henrich, J., Lang, M. Monroe, M.W., Muthukrishna, M., Norenzayan, A., Purzycki, B.G., Shariff, A., Slingerland, E., Spicer, R. & Willard, A. (2021). Matters Arising: Treatment of missing data determines conclusions regarding moralizing gods: Comment on Whitehouse et al. 2019. Nature.

2020

• Shariff, A., Green, J. & Jettinghoff, W. (2020). The Privacy Mismatch: Evolved Intuitions in a Digital World Current Directions in Psychological Science.
• Clark, C. J., Winegard, B.M. & Shariff, A. (2020). Motivated free will belief: The theory, new (preregistered) studies, and three meta-analyses Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
• Van Bavel, J. J., Baicker, K., Boggio, P. S., Capraro, V., Cichocka, A., Cikara, M., Crockett, M. J., Crum, A. J., Douglas, K. M., Druckman, J. N. Drury, J., Dube, O., Ellemers, N., Finkel, E. J., Fowler, J. H., Gelfand, M., Han, S., Haslam, S. A., Jetten, J., Kitayama, S., Mobbs, D., Napper, L. E., Packer, D. J., Pennycook, G., Peters, E., Petty, R. E., Rand, D. G., Reicher, S. D., Schnall, S., Shariff, A., Skitka, L. J., Smith, S. S., Sunstein, C. R., Tabri, N., Tucker, J. A., van der Linden, S., Van Lange, P. A. M., Weeden, K. A., Wohl, M. J. A., Zaki, J., Zion, S. & Willer, R. (2020). Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response Nature Human Behavior.
• Everett, J. A., Clark, C. J., Meindl, P., Luguri, J., Earp, B. D., Ditto, P., Graham, J. & Shariff, A. (2020). Political differences in free will belief are linked to differences in moralization Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
• Piff, P.K., Wiwad, D. Robinson, A., Aknin, L.B., Mercier, B. & Shariff, A (2020). Shifting Attributions for Poverty Motivates Opposition to Inequality and Enhances Egalitarianism Nature Human Behavior.
• Awad, E., Dsouza, S., Kim, R., Schultz, J. Henrich, J., Shariff, A.F. Bonnefon, J.F. & Rahwan, I. (2020). Reply to: Life and death decisions of autonomous vehicles Nature.
• Awad, E., Levine, S., Kleiman-Weiner, M., Dsouza, S., Tenenbaum, J.B., Shariff, A.F. Bonnefon, J.F. & Rahwan, I. (2020). Blaming humans for shared responsibility in automated vehicle accidents Nature Human Behavior.
• Awad, E., Dsouza, S., Shariff, A.F., Rahwan, I. & Bonnefon, J.F. (2020). Universals and variations in moral decisions made in 42 countries by 70,000 participants Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

2019

• Wiwad, D., Mercier, B., Maraun, M. D., Robinson, A. R., Piff, P. K., Aknin, L. B., & Shariff, A. F. (2019). The Support for Economic Inequality Scale: Development and adjudication PLoS one.
• Rahwan, I., Cebrian, M., Obradovich, N., Bongard, J., Bonnefon, J.F., Breazeal, C., Crandall, J.W., Christakis, N.A. Couzin, I.A., Jackson, M.O., Jennings, N.R., Kamar, E., Kloumann, I.E., Larochelle, H., Lazer, D., McElreath, R., Mislove, A., Parkes, D.C., Pentland, A., Roberts, E., Shariff, A.F., Tenenbaum, J.B., & Wellman, M. (2019). Machine Behavior Nature.
• White, C.J.M., Kelly, J.M., Shariff, A.F., Norenzayan, A. (2019). Supernatural norm enforcement: Thinking about Karma and God reduces selfishness among believers Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
• Bonnefon, J.F., Shariff, A.F., Rahwan, I. (2019). The trolley, the bull bar, and why engineers should care about the ethics of autonomous cars Proceedings of the IEEE.

2018

• Mercier, B., Norris, A., Shariff, A.F. (2018). Muslim mass shooters are perceived as less mentally ill and more motivated by religion Psychology of Violence.
• Awad, E., Dsouza, S., Kim, R., Schultz, J. Henrich, J., Shariff, A.F. Bonnefon, J.F. & Rahwan, I. (2018). The Moral Machine Experiment Nature.
• Mercier, B.M., Kramer, S.R., & Shariff, A.F. (2018) The Belief in God: Why People Believe and Why They Don’t Current Directions in Psychological Science.
• Crandall, J.W., Oudah, M., Ishowo-Oloko, Abdallah, S., Bonnefon, J.F., Cebrian, M. Shariff, A.F., Goodrich, M.A. & Rahwan, I. (2018) Cooperating with machines Nature Communications.

2017

• Shariff, A.F., Rahwan, I., & Bonnefon, J.F (2017) Psychological roadblocks to the adoption of self-driving cars. Nature Human Behavior.
• Christian, C.B., & Shariff, A.F. (2017) Asymmetry and empathy: Higher asymmetry is associated with lower levels of mentalizing Early Human Development.
• Shariff, A.F. (2017) Are Wrathful Gods the Killer App of Religion? Two Nits to Pick with Johnson’s God is Watching You Religion, Brain & Behavior.

2016

• Willard, A.K. Shariff, A.F., & Norenzayan, A. (2016) Religious Priming as a research tool for studying religion: Evidentiary Value, Current Issues, and Future Directions Current Opinion in Psychology.
• DeBono, A.E., Shariff, A.F., Poole, S. and Muraven, M. (2016) Forgive Us Our Trespasses: Priming a Forgiving (But Not a Punishing) God Increases Unethical Behavior Psychology of Religion and Spirituality.
• Shariff, A.F., Willard, A.K., Murthukrishna, M., Kramer, S.R., & Henrich, J. (2016) What is the association between religious affiliation and children’s altruism? Current Biology.
• Bonnefon, J.F, Shariff, A.F., & Rahwan, I. (2016) The Social Dilemma of Autonomous Vehicles Science.
• Shariff, A.F. Wiwad, D., & Aknin, L.B. (2016) Income Mobility Breeds Tolerance for Income Inequality: Cross-national and Experimental Evidence Perspectives on Psychological Science. (Supplementary Materials)
• Kramer, S.R. & Shariff, A.F. (2016) Religion, deception and self-deception [chapter] Cheating, Corruption and Concealment
• Norenzayan, A., Shariff, A.F., Gervais, W.M., Willard, A.K., McNamara, R., Slingerland, E., & Henrich, J. (2016). The Cultural Evolution of Prosocial Religions Behavioral and Brain Sciences [target article]

2015

• Shariff, A.F. & Norenzayan, A. (2015) A Question of Reliability or of Boundary Conditions? Commentary on Gomes & McCullough Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
• Shariff, A.F. (2015). Does Religion Increase Moral Behavior? Current Opinion in Psychology
• Rios, K., Cheng, Z.H., Trotton, R., & Shariff, A.F. (2015). Negative Stereotypes Cause Christians to Underperform in and Disidentify with Science Social and Personality Psychology Science
• Shariff, A.F., Willard, A.K., Andersen, T., & Norenzayan, A., (2015). Religious Priming: A Meta-analysis with a Focus on Prosociality Personality and Social Psychology Review

2014

• *Shariff, A.F., *Piazza, J., & *Kramer, S.R. (2014). Morality and the Religious Mind: Why Theists and Non-theists differ Trends in Cognitive Sciences
• Shariff, A.F., Greene, J.D., Karremans, J.C., Luguri, J., Clark, C. J., Schooler, J.W., Baumeister, R.F. & Vohs, K.D. (2014). Free Will and Punishment: A Mechanistic View of Human Nature Reduces Retribution Psychological Science (Supplementary Materials)
• Clark, C. J., Luguri, J., Ditto, P.H., Knobe, J., Shariff, A.F., & Baumeister, R.F. (2014). Free to Punish: A Motivated Account of Free Will Belief. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
• Shariff, A.F., Purzycki, B.G., & Sosis, R. (2014). Religions as Cultural Solutions to Social Living [chapter] Culture Reexamined: Broadening Our Understanding of Social and Evolutionary Influences
• Tsang, J., Rowatt, W.C., & Shariff, A.F. (2014). Religion and Prosociality [chapter] Oxford Handbook of Religion
• Rahwan, I., Krasnoshtan, D., Shariff, A.F., & Bonnefon, J.F. (2014). Analytical reasoning task reveals limits of social learning in networks. Journal of the Royal Society Interface (Supplementary Materials)
• Shariff, A.F. & Aknin, L.B. (2014). The Emotional Toll of Hell: Cross-national and experimental evidence for the negative well-being effects of Hell beliefs. PLoS One

2013

• Tracy, J.L., Shariff, A.F., Zhao, W., & Henrich, J. (2013). Cross-Cultural Evidence that the Nonverbal Expression of Pride is an Automatic Status Signal. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. (Supplementary Materials)

2012

• Shariff, A.F. & Rhemtulla, M. (2012). Divergent effects of heaven and hell beliefs on national crime. PLoS One