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Are those who believe in God really more prosocial?

Michael N. Stagnaro, Antonio A. Arechar, and David G. Rand (2019). Religion, Brain & Behavior. doi:10.1080/2153599X.2019.1695656.

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PostedDecember 16, 2019
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsReligion, Cooperation, 2019, Intuition

Cross-cultural support for a link between analytic thinking and disbelief in God: Evidence from India and the United Kingdom

Michael N. Stagnaro, Robert M. Ross, Gordon Pennycook, and David G. Rand (2019). Judgment and Decision Making, 14(2), 179–186.

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PostedApril 1, 2019
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2019, Religion, Intuition

Belief in Fake News Is Associated with Delusionality, Dogmatism, Religious Fundamentalism, and Reduced Analytic Thinking

Michael V. Bronstein, Gordon Pennycook, Adam Bear, David G. Rand, and Tyrone D. Cannon (2018). Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition.

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PostedOctober 2, 2018
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsReligion, Politics, Intuition, 2018, Misinformation

Performance on the Cognitive Reflection Test is stable across time

Michael Stagnaro, Gordon Pennycook, and David G. Rand (2018). Judgment and Decision Making, 13(3), 260–267 .

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PostedMay 31, 2018
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsReligion, Intuition, Politics, 2018

The relationship between intertemporal choice and following the path of least resistance across choices, preferences, and beliefs

Amitai Shenhav, David G. Rand, and Joshua D. Greene (2017). Judgment and Decision Making, Vol. 12, No. 1, January 2017, pp. 1–18.  [Data]

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PostedJanuary 29, 2017
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsIntuition, Religion, 2017

The Coevolution of Religious Belief and Intuitive Cognitive Style via Individual-Level Selection

Michael N. Stagnaro and David G. Rand (2016). “Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology and Religion.” Eds. Liddle JR, Shackelford T. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press

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PostedJuly 5, 2016
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsBook chapters, Religion, 2016

How Good is the Samaritan, and Why? An Experimental Investigation of the Extent and Nature of Religious Prosociality Using Economic Games

Jim Everett, Omar S. Haque, and David G. Rand (2016) Social Psychology and Personality Science. doi:10.1177/1948550616632577

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PostedJanuary 21, 2016
AuthorScienceSites
TagsCooperation, Religion, Intergroup, 2016

Religious Motivations for Cooperation: An Experimental Investigation Using Explicit Primes

David G. Rand, Anna Dreber, Omar S. Haque, Rob J. Kane, Martin A. Nowak, and Sarah Coakley (2014). Religion, Brain & Behavior.  4 31-48.

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PostedJanuary 31, 2014
AuthorScienceSites
Categoriesjournal-article, social-behaviors-beliefs
Tags2014, Cooperation, Intergroup, Religion

Divine Intuition: Cognitive Style Influences Belief in God

Amitai Shenhav, David Rand, Joshua D. Greene (2012). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 141, 423–428 [Data and code]

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PostedJuly 25, 2013
AuthorScienceSites
Categories2012, journal-article, social-behaviors-beliefs
Tags2012, Intuition, Religion

The Online Laboratory: Conducting Experiments in a Real Labor Market

John J. Horton, David Rand, Richard J. Zeckhauser (2011). Experimental Economics  14, 399–425

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PostedJuly 25, 2013
AuthorScienceSites
Categories2011, online-labor-markets, journal-article
Tags2011, Cooperation, Mechanical turk, Religion

Differences in Cognitive Style, Emotional Processing, and Ideology as Crucial Variables in Understanding Meaning Making (commentary)

Omar Sultan Haque, Amitai Shenhav, David Rand (2011). Religion, Brain & Behavior 1, 223–225

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PostedJuly 25, 2013
AuthorScienceSites
Categories2011, journal-article
Tags2011, Intuition, Religion

Featured Articles

Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI


Thomas H. Costello, Gordon Pennycook, and David G. Rand (2024). Science

Quantifying the impact of misinformation and vaccine-skeptical content on Facebook


Jennifer Allen, Duncan Watts, and David G. Rand (2024). Science

Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online


Gordon Pennycook, Ziv Epstein, Mohsen Mosleh, Antonio A. Arechar, Dean Eckles, and David Rand (2021). Nature

Scaling up fact-checking using the wisdom of crowds


Jennifer Allen, Antonio A. Arechar, Gordon Pennycook, and David Rand (2021). Science Advances

Fighting misinformation on social media using crowdsourced judgments of news source quality


Gordon Pennycook and David Rand (2019). PNAS

 

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