Our new research paper, Negative Stereotypes Cause Christians to Underperform in and Disidentify with Science, with collaborators Kimberly Rios and Rebecca Trotton, and CaML members Zhen Cheng and Azim Shariff  is now in press at Social and Personality Psychological Science. The paper shows how negative stereotypes about Christians’ performance in science can actually diminish their performance at analytical tasks and sap their interest...

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Brett Mercier, a newly-dubbed second year doctoral student and Azim’s fellow Canadian, has been awarded the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s doctoral fellowship.  Brett received this award for his proposal to study the relationship between religion and wealth inequality. More information on the SSHRC award found here. Congratulations, Brett!

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One of our talented undergraduate researchers, Adam Norris, has received the APS Summer Research Grant from Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology.  This summer, Adam will be working on a project with Azim and Stephanie which will examine how religiosity factors into moral appraisals of terrorists and terrorist acts. Congratulations, Adam!

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Azim’s paper with Aiyana Willard, Tess Andersen and Ara Norenzayan, Religious Priming: A meta-analysis with a focus on religious prosociality, has just been accepted at Personality and Social Psychology Review. The paper contains several effect size and p-curve analyses for 93 religious priming studies (n = 11, 653). The abstract is appended below, and the in press draft of the paper is available here. You can find a near comprehensive...

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For those interested, we’ve started collecting a running list of papers that have used religious priming. You can access this page here. If you know of a paper that isn’t listed, but should be, please email us.

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Read Azim’s post about Belief in free will and our sense of justice on the SPSP blog.  

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