Though this is typically a forum for news about the lab, and I don’t typically write blog-type posts, I wanted to make an exception to make some clarifications about a discussion of our research on another blog. Jerry Coyne, a biologist, had a post about free will, compatibilism and morality on his blog whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com, in which he heavily discussed—but misrepresented—an article that Kathleen Vohs and I wrote for...

Azim was named one of the Association for Psychological Science’s Rising Stars for 2015. According to the APS website “The Rising Star designation recognizes outstanding psychological scientists in the earliest stages of their research career post-PhD whose innovative work has already advanced the field and signals great potential for their continued contributions.”

Our new paper with SFU’s Dylan Wiwad and Lara Aknin, Income Mobility Breeds Tolerance for Income Inequality: Cross-national and Experimental Evidence, is now in press at Perspectives on Psychological Science. The abstract appears below, and the you can download the pre-print draft here. American politicians often justify income inequality by referencing the opportunities people have to move between economic stations. Though past research...

There have been some requests for the data for Shariff & Rhemtulla (2012)–which shows how national crime rates are divergently predicted by the country’s belief in Heaven and belief in Hell. These data are all freely available, but I’ve compiled them here for download in SPSS format. I’ve updated the data to the most recent versions. Also, I’m just including the crime data for homicide rates, rather than for...

Azim’s new paper, Does Religion Increase Moral Behavior?, just accepted in Current Opinion in Psychology. In press paper linked here.