Michael N Stagnaro
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1751918 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael N Stagnaro |
| PRENOMES | Michael N |
| SOBRENOME | Stagnaro |
| ASSINATURA | STAGNARO M N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5512-7218 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
On the role of analytic thinking in religious belief change
How to design and conduct a megastudy
Author Correction
Understanding and combatting misinformation across 16 countries on six continents
Do religious and market-based institutions promote cooperation in Hadza hunter-gatherers
Humans’ willingness to bear costs to benefit others is an evolutionary puzzle. Cultural group selection proposes a possible answer to this puzzle—cooperative norms and institutions proliferate due to group-level benefits. For instance, belief in knowledgeable, moralizing deities is theorized to decrease selfishness and favoritism through threat of supernatural punishment. Similarly, norms of fairness and cooperation are theorized to have coevolve…
Interventions reducing affective polarization do not necessarily improve anti-democratic attitudes
Are those who believe in God really more prosocial
Whether those who believe in God are more prosocial has been a long debated topic. Here we shed new light on this question by examining giving in incentivized Dictator Games where no mention of religion was made, played online with anonymous strangers. Study 1 (N = 15,827) found a significant correlation between belief and giving, r = .122 (robust to demographics). Study 2 (N = 2334) included the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) to examine whether…
Breaches of Trust Change the Content and Structure of Religious Appeals
Considerable work suggests that social and environmental pressures can influence religious commitment, the content of beliefs, and features of ritual. Some ecologically minded theories of religion posit that crosscultural variation in beliefs and practices can be partly explained by their utility in addressing persistent threats to cooperation and coordination. However, little experimental work has assessed whether or not socioecological pressure…
Profit Versus Prejudice
We examine the possibility that self-interest, typically thought to undermine social welfare, might reduce in-group bias. We compared the dictator game (DG), where participants unilaterally divide money between themselves and a recipient, and the ultimatum game (UG), where the recipient can reject these offers. Unlike the DG, there is a self-interested motive for UG giving: If participants expect the rejection of unfair offers, they have a moneta…
Stereotyping From the Perspective of Perceivers and Targets
This article provides insight into the process of stereotyping from two different perspectives: the perceiver and the target. From the perceiver's perspective, motivational and cognitive reasons for relying on stereotypes for judgment are discussed. From the targets’ perspective, stereotype threat research is reviewed. From both perspectives, it is clear that stereotypes represent a dual-edged sword for both perceiver and target group members. Fi…
Interventions reducing affective polarization do not necessarily improve anti-democratic attitudes
Understanding and combatting misinformation across 16 countries on six continents
Breaches of Trust Change the Content and Structure of Religious Appeals
Considerable work suggests that social and environmental pressures can influence religious commitment, the content of beliefs, and features of ritual. Some ecologically minded theories of religion posit that crosscultural variation in beliefs and practices can be partly explained by their utility in addressing persistent threats to cooperation and coordination. However, little experimental work has assessed whether or not socioecological pressure…
Stereotyping From the Perspective of Perceivers and Targets
This article provides insight into the process of stereotyping from two different perspectives: the perceiver and the target. From the perceiver's perspective, motivational and cognitive reasons for relying on stereotypes for judgment are discussed. From the targets’ perspective, stereotype threat research is reviewed. From both perspectives, it is clear that stereotypes represent a dual-edged sword for both perceiver and target group members. Fi…
Profit Versus Prejudice
We examine the possibility that self-interest, typically thought to undermine social welfare, might reduce in-group bias. We compared the dictator game (DG), where participants unilaterally divide money between themselves and a recipient, and the ultimatum game (UG), where the recipient can reject these offers. Unlike the DG, there is a self-interested motive for UG giving: If participants expect the rejection of unfair offers, they have a moneta…
Are those who believe in God really more prosocial
Whether those who believe in God are more prosocial has been a long debated topic. Here we shed new light on this question by examining giving in incentivized Dictator Games where no mention of religion was made, played online with anonymous strangers. Study 1 (N = 15,827) found a significant correlation between belief and giving, r = .122 (robust to demographics). Study 2 (N = 2334) included the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) to examine whether…
Breaches of Trust Change the Content and Structure of Religious Appeals
Considerable work suggests that social and environmental pressures can influence religious commitment, the content of beliefs, and features of ritual. Some ecologically minded theories of religion posit that crosscultural variation in beliefs and practices can be partly explained by their utility in addressing persistent threats to cooperation and coordination. However, little experimental work has assessed whether or not socioecological pressure…
Do religious and market-based institutions promote cooperation in Hadza hunter-gatherers
Humans’ willingness to bear costs to benefit others is an evolutionary puzzle. Cultural group selection proposes a possible answer to this puzzle—cooperative norms and institutions proliferate due to group-level benefits. For instance, belief in knowledgeable, moralizing deities is theorized to decrease selfishness and favoritism through threat of supernatural punishment. Similarly, norms of fairness and cooperation are theorized to have coevolve…
Interventions reducing affective polarization do not necessarily improve anti-democratic attitudes
Author Correction
Understanding and combatting misinformation across 16 countries on six continents
How to design and conduct a megastudy
On the role of analytic thinking in religious belief change
Psychology (8 obras) · Social Psychology (7 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (3 obras) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (3 obras) · Sociology (3 obras) · Cognitive psychology (2 obras) · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (2 obras) · Economics (2 obras)