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Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response
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Evidence from a selection of research topics relevant to pandemics is discussed, including work on navigating threats, social and cultural influences on behaviour, science communication, moral decision-making, leadership, and stress and coping.
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God Is Watching You
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Two studies aimed at resolving experimentally whether religion increases prosocial behavior in the anonymous dictator game are presented, focusing on the hypotheses that the religious prime had an ideomotor effect on generosity or that it activated a felt presence of supernatural watchers.
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The Origin and Evolution of Religious Prosociality
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Converging evidence from various fields for religious prosociality is synthesized, address its specific boundary conditions, and point to unresolved questions and novel predictions.
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The social dilemma of autonomous vehicles
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Even though participants approve of autonomous vehicles that might sacrifice passengers to save others, respondents would prefer not to ride in such vehicles, and regulating for utilitarian algorithms may paradoxically increase casualties by postponing the adoption of a safer technology.
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The cultural evolution of prosocial religions
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It is explained how a package of culturally evolved religious beliefs and practices characterized by increasingly potent, moralizing, supernatural agents, credible displays of faith, and other psychologically active elements conducive to social solidarity promoted high fertility rates and large-scale cooperation with co-religionists, often contributing to success in intergroup competition and conflict.
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The Moral Machine experiment
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The Moral Machine, an online experimental platform designed to explore the moral dilemmas faced by autonomous vehicles, gathered 40 million decisions in ten languages from millions of people in 233 countries and territories to shed light on similarities and variations in ethical preferences among different populations.
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Do you believe in atheists? Distrust is central to anti-atheist prejudice.
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These 6 studies are the first to systematically explore the social psychological underpinnings of anti-atheist prejudice, and converge to indicate the centrality of distrust in this phenomenon.
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Climate change and moral judgement
Converging evidence from the behavioural and brain sciences suggests that climate change fails to generate strong moral intuitions and therefore it does not stimulate an urgent need for action.…
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A Naturalist’s View of Pride
Although pride has been central to philosophical and religious discussions of emotion for thousands of years, it has largely been neglected by psychologists. However, in the past decade a growing…
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Religious Priming
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Results show that religious priming has robust effects across a variety of outcome measures—prosocial measures included—suggesting that priming depends on the cognitive activation of culturally transmitted religious beliefs.
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