Ozlem Yilmaz
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1405683 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ozlem Yilmaz |
| PRENOMES | Ozlem |
| SOBRENOME | Yilmaz |
| ASSINATURA | YILMAZ O |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Kadir Has University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6094-7162 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Language Speaks Louder Than Performance
Psychological theories suggest that threat universally suppresses analytical reasoning by triggering intuitive, emotionally driven responses. We conducted a large‐scale experiment ( N = 2708) to compare the effects of 11 threat manipulations on cognitive performance and linguistic expression. Using behavioral tasks and linguistic analysis, we found threats did not significantly impair cognitive performance; they did affect linguistic indicators o…
Stable Worldviews or Context-Sensitive Systems? Longitudinal Evidence on the Development of Epistemically Suspect Beliefs Across Two Sociopolitical Contexts
Are epistemically suspect beliefs (ESBs)—including conspiracy, paranormal, and pseudoscientific beliefs—stable worldviews, or do they shift alongside changes in the sociopolitical context? Although often treated as enduring dispositions, little is known about their within-person development or sensitivity to sociopolitical conditions. We address this question using two five-wave panel studies conducted over 2 years in Türkiye ( N = 595–2,077) and…
Reflective thinking predicts disbelief in God across 19 countries
In the present study, we tested three hypotheses about relationships between reflective thinking, intuitive thinking (both measured using the Cognitive Reflection Test; CRT), and belief in God or gods (BiG) in university students across 19 culturally and geographically diverse countries ( n = 7,771). In support of our first hypothesis, we found a negative relationship between reflective thinking and BiG; and in support of our second hypothesis, w…
Does reflection increase accuracy rather than bias in the assessments of political fake news
The literature emphasizes two theoretical frameworks to explain the psychological mechanisms underlying belief in political fake news: motivated vs. reflective reasoning. The motivated reasoning account asserts that individuals are predisposed to accept fake news aligned with their political identity, with reflection further entrenching such beliefs through an identity-protective function. Conversely, the reflective reasoning account argues that …
Fictitious conspiracy, paranormal, and pseudoscience beliefs are closely related to their regular counterparts
Belief in various types of Epistemically Suspect Beliefs (ESBs), such as conspiracy theories, paranormal phenomena, and pseudoscientific claims, tends to strongly correlate. However, the use of ESB scales in the literature, which often include phenomena frequently encountered in daily life with familiar content, challenges the clarity of inferences about this relationship. To address this issue, we developed a scale for Fictitious Epistemically S…
Can reflection mitigate Covid-19 vaccine conspiracy beliefs and hesitancy
OBJECTIVE DESIGN: Periods of social turmoil, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, tend to amplify conspiracy beliefs, evidenced by increased vaccine hesitancy. Despite this trend, effective interventions targeting vaccine-related conspiracy beliefs remain scarce, partly due to underexplored cognitive processes. Three competing theoretical accounts offer differing predictions about the role of reflective thinking in supporting conspiracy beliefs: the Mo…
Reflection predicts and leads to decreased conspiracy belief
Shared Group Memberships Mitigate Intergroup Bias in Cooperation
Research on cooperation between groups tends to consider a single social identity at a time. However, individuals naturally share group membership in one social category (e.g., religious belief) while diverging in membership to others (e.g., political ideology). Here, we test the effects of mixed-group membership on actual cooperative behavior relative to completely sharing (in-group) and completely diverging (out-group) group memberships. In thr…
Epistemic norm differences matter
Conspiracy theories as instruments of power
The prevalent view associates political disempowerment with increased conspiracy beliefs. However, the function of conspiracy theories for those in power to sustain their dominance is less understood, particularly in ecologically valid and non‐WEIRD ( W estern, E ducated, I ndustrialized, R ich, D emocratic) settings. Our research examined the emergence of conspiracy theories following the 2023 earthquakes in Türkiye and their relation to voting …
Numaralı Galata Şer'iyye Sicili
Asırlar boyunca geniş bir coğrafyaya hükmeden ve hükmü altında zengin bir etnik yapı barındıran Osmanlı Devleti’ne dair olaylar ve olgular günümüze intikal eden arşiv kaynaklarından yararlanarak tespit edebilmekteyiz. Zengin arşiv kaynakları içerisinde yer alan şer‘iyye sicillerinin incelenmesiyle sosyal ve kültürel, idarî, hukukî ve iktisadî alanlarındaki pek çok bilgiye ulaşabilmekteyiz. Mahkeme kaydı dediğimiz bu siciller hukukun nasıl uygulan…
Validation of the moral foundations questionnaire-2 in the Turkish context
Despite the considerable attention it has received, Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) remains open to criticisms regarding failure to conceptualize the moral domain. MFT was revised in response to these criticisms, along with its measurement tool, the Moral Foundations Questionnaire (MFQ-2). However, the validity of this revised theoretical structure and its explanatory power relative to existing alternatives, such as Morality as Cooperation Theory …
Effective health communication depends on the interaction of message source and content
OBJECTIVE: Following the COVID-19 outbreak, authorities recommended preventive measures to reduce infection rates. However, adherence to calls varied between individuals and across cultures. To determine the characteristics of effective health communication, we investigated three key features: message source, content, and audience. METHODS: Using a pre-test and two experiments, we tested how message content (emphasizing personal or social benefit…
The positive association of education with the trust in science and scientists is weaker in highly corrupt countries
One of the most prominent correlates of trust in science and scientists is education level, possibly because educated individuals have higher levels of science knowledge and thinking ability, suggesting that trusting science and scientists relies more on reflective thinking abilities. However, it is relatively more reasonable for highly educated individuals to suspect authority figures in highly corrupt countries. We tested this prediction in two…
Is negativity bias intuitive for liberals and conservatives
A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being
The relation between religiosity and well-being is one of the most researched topics in the psychology of religion, yet the directionality and robustness of the effect remains debated. Here, we adopted a many-analysts approach to assess the robustness of this relation based on a new cross-cultural dataset (N=10,535 participants from 24 countries). We recruited 120 analysis teams to investigate (1) whether religious people self-report higher well-…
National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic
Changing collective behaviour and supporting non-pharmaceutical interventions is an important component in mitigating virus transmission during a pandemic. In a large international collaboration (Study 1, N = 49,968 across 67 countries), we investigated self-reported factors associated with public health behaviours (e.g., spatial distancing and stricter hygiene) and endorsed public policy interventions (e.g., closing bars and restaurants) during …
Gissing’in New Grub Street Adlı Romanında Alternatif Erkeklik Betimlemeleri ve Eril Anksiyete Tasvirleri
This study aims to contribute to the development of literary masculinity studies by investigating the construction of alternative masculinities in George Gissing’s New Grub Street, which was written in Victorian fin de siècle, during which British society witnessed great transformations in its social structure and gender order. In fin de siècle Britain, because of the societal pressures, men who found it difficult to fit into pre-determined hegem…
Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample
Psychological correlates of Covid-19 conspiracy beliefs and preventive measures
Religion, parochialism and intuitive cooperation
Does an Abstract Mind-Set Increase the Internal Consistency of Moral Attitudes and Strengthen Individualizing Foundations
Recent research suggests that experimentally inducing an abstract (vs. a concrete) mind-set enhances political sophistication by increasing the consistency in political attitudes; it also enhances individualizing moral foundations and decreases binding moral foundations. However, the evidence is mixed regarding whether abstract mind-set increases or decreases the strength of moral convictions in general. In this context, the aim of this study was…
Intergroup tolerance leads to subjective morality, which in turn is associated with (but does not lead to) reduced religiosity
Although the effect of religious belief on morally relevant behavior is well demonstrated, the reverse influence is less known. In this research, we examined the influence of morality on religious belief. In the first study, we used two samples from Turkey and the United States, and specifically tested the hypothesis that intergroup tolerance predicts a shift in meta-ethical views toward subjective morality, which in turn predicts decreased relig…
Do changes in threat salience predict the moral content of sermons? The case of Friday Khutbas in Turkey
We analyzed the content of “Friday Khutbas” delivered in Turkish mosques between January 2001 and December 2018 to test the prediction of moral foundations theory (MFT) literature that threat salience would lead to an increased endorsement of binding moral foundations. As societal‐level indicators of threat, we examined (a) historical data on the proportion of terrorism‐related news published in a Turkish newspaper, (b) the geopolitical risk scor…
Are we at all liberal at heart? High-powered tests find no effect of intuitive thinking on moral foundations
Analytic Thinking, Religion, and Prejudice
Dual-process models of the mind, as well as the relation between analytic thinking and religious belief, have aroused interest in recent years. However, few studies have examined this relation experimentally. We predicted that religious belief might be one of the causes of prejudice, while analytic thinking reduces both. The first experiment replicated, in a mostly Muslim sample, past research showing that analytic thinking promotes religious dis…
Without God, everything is permitted? The reciprocal influence of religious and meta-ethical beliefs
Political orientations, ideological self-categorizations, party preferences, and moral foundations of young Turkish voters
Political ideology is often characterized along a liberal–conservative continuum in the United States and the left–right continuum in Europe. However, no study has examined what this characterization means to young Turkish voters or whether it predicts their approach to morality. In Study 1, we investigated in two separate samples the relation between young Turkish participants’ responses to the one-item left-to-right political orientation questi…
Do changes in threat salience predict the moral content of sermons? The case of Friday Khutbas in Turkey
We analyzed the content of “Friday Khutbas” delivered in Turkish mosques between January 2001 and December 2018 to test the prediction of moral foundations theory (MFT) literature that threat salience would lead to an increased endorsement of binding moral foundations. As societal‐level indicators of threat, we examined (a) historical data on the proportion of terrorism‐related news published in a Turkish newspaper, (b) the geopolitical risk scor…
Lower Levels of Resistance to Change (but not Opposition to Equality) Is Related to Analytic Cognitive Style
In recent years, there has been increasing research attention to cognitive style differences between liberals and conservatives. While some studies have found a negative relation between conservatism and analytic thinking tendency, others have not observed such a relation. None of these studies has measured the core motives underlying conservative ideology and investigated their relation with analytic cognitive style (ACS). We predicted that ACS …
Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample
Religion, parochialism and intuitive cooperation
Moral foundations explain unique variance in political ideology beyond resistance to change and opposition to equality
Moral foundations theory (MFT), while inspiring much empirical work, has been the target of both methodological and theoretical criticism. One important criticism of MFT is that, in its attempt to explain variability in political ideology, it only repackages the core motives (resistance to change and opposition to equality) and does not actually provide additional explanatory potential. Indeed, some previous studies show that moral foundations do…
Different Types of Religiosity and Lay Intuitions About Free Will/Determinism in Turkey
Religiosity has been found to be positively associated with belief in free will (FW) in the Western world. In the Muslim world, however, religiosity exhibits several characteristics that set it apart from the Western world, including an overemphasis on fate or divine predestination. We, therefore, investigated FW/determinism beliefs and different types of religiosity and conservatism in two samples in Turkey, a predominantly Muslim country (N = 1…
Without God, everything is permitted? The reciprocal influence of religious and meta-ethical beliefs
Successes and failures of compulsory risk mitigation
The Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool (TCIP) is one of the best practices of public-private partnerships in an emerging market designed to reduce economic losses from disasters. This paper reviews the application of this compulsory mechanism along with data relating to the performance of the scheme following recent earthquakes in Turkey. We also consider the current perceptions of Turkish society towards the TCIP and how they can be enhanced. Ou…
Supernatural and secular monitors promote human cooperation only if they remind of punishment
Political orientations, ideological self-categorizations, party preferences, and moral foundations of young Turkish voters
Political ideology is often characterized along a liberal–conservative continuum in the United States and the left–right continuum in Europe. However, no study has examined what this characterization means to young Turkish voters or whether it predicts their approach to morality. In Study 1, we investigated in two separate samples the relation between young Turkish participants’ responses to the one-item left-to-right political orientation questi…
Analytic Thinking, Religion, and Prejudice
Dual-process models of the mind, as well as the relation between analytic thinking and religious belief, have aroused interest in recent years. However, few studies have examined this relation experimentally. We predicted that religious belief might be one of the causes of prejudice, while analytic thinking reduces both. The first experiment replicated, in a mostly Muslim sample, past research showing that analytic thinking promotes religious dis…
Analytic Thought Training Promotes Liberalism on Contextualized (But Not Stable) Political Opinions
Previous research revealed that inducing an intuitive thinking style led people to adopt more conservative social and economic attitudes. No prior study, however, has shown a causal effect of analytic cognitive style (ACS) on political conservatism. It is also not clear whether these cognitive-style manipulations influence stable or contextualized (less stable) political attitudes differentially. The current research investigated the causal effec…
Is religion necessary for morality
As a possible Hilbert question in the scientific study of religion, this article tries to explicate one specific relation between religion and morality: whether religion is necessary for morality. More specifically, how does the introduction of religion transform morality? The article operationalizes morality as normative and meta-ethical judgments and tries to specify ways to answer the question at three different levels: phylogenetic, historica…
The Relationship between Attachment to God, Prosociality, and Image of God
Although religiosity fosters some antisocial behaviors (e.g., support for suicide attacks), it is well-known that it also enhances in-group cooperation and prosociality (e.g., donating to charity). Supernatural punishment hypothesis suggests that the fear of punishment from an invisible, potent, and powerful supernatural agent can keep everyone in line, and encourage prosociality. We first investigated this relationship in a predominantly Muslim …
Moral foundations explain unique variance in political ideology beyond resistance to change and opposition to equality
Moral foundations theory (MFT), while inspiring much empirical work, has been the target of both methodological and theoretical criticism. One important criticism of MFT is that, in its attempt to explain variability in political ideology, it only repackages the core motives (resistance to change and opposition to equality) and does not actually provide additional explanatory potential. Indeed, some previous studies show that moral foundations do…
Different Types of Religiosity and Lay Intuitions About Free Will/Determinism in Turkey
Religiosity has been found to be positively associated with belief in free will (FW) in the Western world. In the Muslim world, however, religiosity exhibits several characteristics that set it apart from the Western world, including an overemphasis on fate or divine predestination. We, therefore, investigated FW/determinism beliefs and different types of religiosity and conservatism in two samples in Turkey, a predominantly Muslim country (N = 1…
Lower Levels of Resistance to Change (but not Opposition to Equality) Is Related to Analytic Cognitive Style
In recent years, there has been increasing research attention to cognitive style differences between liberals and conservatives. While some studies have found a negative relation between conservatism and analytic thinking tendency, others have not observed such a relation. None of these studies has measured the core motives underlying conservative ideology and investigated their relation with analytic cognitive style (ACS). We predicted that ACS …
Evolution of Human Sociality, The
Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind
Puzzle of Altruism, The
Theory of Moral Development
Evolutionary Perspectives on Religion
Prejudice as an Expression of Tribalism
Evolutionary Perspective, The
Moralizing Gods and the Rise of Civilization
Does an Abstract Mind-Set Increase the Internal Consistency of Moral Attitudes and Strengthen Individualizing Foundations
Recent research suggests that experimentally inducing an abstract (vs. a concrete) mind-set enhances political sophistication by increasing the consistency in political attitudes; it also enhances individualizing moral foundations and decreases binding moral foundations. However, the evidence is mixed regarding whether abstract mind-set increases or decreases the strength of moral convictions in general. In this context, the aim of this study was…
Intergroup tolerance leads to subjective morality, which in turn is associated with (but does not lead to) reduced religiosity
Although the effect of religious belief on morally relevant behavior is well demonstrated, the reverse influence is less known. In this research, we examined the influence of morality on religious belief. In the first study, we used two samples from Turkey and the United States, and specifically tested the hypothesis that intergroup tolerance predicts a shift in meta-ethical views toward subjective morality, which in turn predicts decreased relig…
Do changes in threat salience predict the moral content of sermons? The case of Friday Khutbas in Turkey
We analyzed the content of “Friday Khutbas” delivered in Turkish mosques between January 2001 and December 2018 to test the prediction of moral foundations theory (MFT) literature that threat salience would lead to an increased endorsement of binding moral foundations. As societal‐level indicators of threat, we examined (a) historical data on the proportion of terrorism‐related news published in a Turkish newspaper, (b) the geopolitical risk scor…
Are we at all liberal at heart? High-powered tests find no effect of intuitive thinking on moral foundations
Psychological correlates of Covid-19 conspiracy beliefs and preventive measures
Religion, parochialism and intuitive cooperation
Psychology (34 obras) · Social Psychology (27 obras) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (20 obras) · Political science (17 obras) · Philosophy (14 obras) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (13 obras) · Sociology (13 obras) · Cultural Differences and Values (11 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Epistemology (10 obras)