Our new paper, Outsourcing punishment to god: Beliefs in divine control reduce earthly punishment (with colleagues Kristin Laurin, Aaron Kay, and Joe Henrich) was just accepted at the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. The paper demonstrates how the belief in morally-involved, controlling God, reduces the motivation to punish moral transgressors oneself, and the…
The Week has an ‘in-depth briefing’ on the rise of atheism in America, which discusses some of our research on atheism and distrust. A true to the topic of how atheists are routinely disparaged, they call Will a sociologist. You can read the article here.
Azim will be presenting a talk on The Psychology of Religion for APS’s Current Directions in Psychological Science Speaker Series April 18th. Details on the event, and how to join the webinar are here: http://www.pearsonhighered.com/currentdirections/index.html Azim’s talk, titled Does Religion Make Us Good? will be 1:00-1:45pm EST, and the abstract is below: 1:00 PM –…
Nicholas Kristoff briefly mentions our work in a new op-ed piece title “Learning to Respect Religion.” In it, he suggesting that the intellectual discussion on religion is shifting from the adversarial stance taken by the New Atheists to a more nuanced approach (as exemplified by recent books by Alain de Botton, E.O. Wilson, and Jon…
Our new paper, Cross-Cultural Evidence that the Nonverbal Expression of Pride is an Automatic Status Signal, with Jess Tracy, Wanying Zhao and Joe Henrich, was just accepted in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. You can download the in-press copy of the paper here. Abstract: To test whether the pride expression is an implicit, reliably developing…
Check out our new paper in Nature Climate Change on the 6 challenges and 6 solutions for getting people to care about and act on climate change, with Ezra Markowitz. You can download the paper here.
See New Scientist‘s new special issue on science and religion, including a probing article by Ara Norenzayan on how religion was the key to human civilization [behind subscriber wall].
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Read Azim and Jess Tracy’s new paper on the evolution of emotion expressions in Current Directions in Psychology, plus a debate with Lisa Feldman Barrett.
Jessica Tracy, Jeff Markusoff and I have a new paper just accepted to Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin looking at the degree to which emotion expressions can shape our everyday judgments of people–even in the face of contradictory information. You can download an ‘in press’ version of the paper here, and read the abstract…