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PUBLICATIONS

  1. Alper, S. (2018). An abstract mind is a principled one: Abstract mindset increases consistency in responses to political attitude scales. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 77, 89-101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2018.04.008 (SSCI)

  2. Alper, S. (2018). Personal control. In V. Ziegler-Hill & T. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1803-1 (Book Chapter)

  3. Alper, S. (2019). Does abstract mindset decrease or increase deception? Social Psychology, 50, 94-104. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000367 (SSCI)

  4. Alper, S. (2019). Personal agency. In V. Ziegler-Hill & T. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1871-1 (Book Chapter)

  5. Alper, S. (2019). Power distance. In V. Ziegler-Hill ve T. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1888-1 ((Book Chapter)

  6. Alper, S. (2020). Explaining the complex effect of construal level on moral and political attitudes. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 29(2), 115-120. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721419896362 (SSCI)

  7. Alper, S. (2021). Does the association between illness-related and religious searches on the internet depend on the level of religiosity?. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12(4), 497-505. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1948550620923233 (SSCI)

  8. Alper, S. (2022). There are higher levels of conspiracy beliefs in more corrupt countries. European Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2919 (SSCI)

  9. Alper, S., Bayrak, F., Us, E. Ö., & Yilmaz, O. (2020). Do changes in threat salience predict the moral content of sermons? The case of Friday Khutbas in Turkey. European Journal of Social Psychology, 50(3), 662-672. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2632 (SSCI)

  10. Alper, S., Bayrak, F., & Yilmaz, O. (2020). All the Dark Triad and some of the Big Five traits are visible in the face. Personality and Individual Differences, 168, 110350. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110350 (SSCI)

  11. Alper, S., Bayrak, F., & Yilmaz, O. (2021). Inferring political and religious attitudes from composite faces perceived to be related to the dark triad personality traits. Personality and Individual Differences, 182, 111070. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.111070 (SSCI)

  12. Alper, S., Bayrak, F., & Yilmaz, O. (2021). Psychological correlates of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs and preventive measures: Evidence from Turkey, Current Psychology, 40, 5708-5717. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007%2Fs12144-020-00903-0 (SSCI)

  13. Alper, S., Douglas, K., & Capraro, V. (2021, December 20). Conspiracy beliefs and generosity across 52 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/fdyxr (Preprint)

  14. Alper, S., & Imhoff, R. (2022). Suspecting foul play when it is objectively there: The association of political orientation with general and partisan conspiracy beliefs as a function of corruption levels. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 19485506221113965. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506221113965

  15. Alper, S., Konukoglu, K., Atalay, E. D., Duzgun, A., & Yilmaz, O. (2024). How do beliefs in free will and determinism correlate with beliefs in conspiracy, paranormal, and pseudoscience beliefs?. Personality and Individual Differences, 229, 112765. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2024.112765 (SSCI)

  16. Alper, S., Kunter, E., & Uz, İ. (2018). Zamir kullanımının erkek ve kadınlarda bireycilik ve toplulukçuluğa etkisi [Sex differences in the effect of pronoun type on self-construal]. Nesne, 6(12), 68-81. https://doi.org/10.7816/nesne-06-12-04 (TR Dizin)

  17. Alper, S., & Özkan, T. (2015). Do internals speed less and externals speed more to cope with the death anxiety? Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behavior, 32, 68-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2015.05.002 (SSCI)

  18. Alper, S., & Sümer, N. (2017). Özgür irade ve belirlenimcilik ölçeginin Türkçeye uyarlaması ve psikometrik özellikleri [The Adaptation of Free Will and Determinism Plus (FAD-Plus) Scale into Turkish and Its Psychometric Properties]. Türk Psikoloji Yazıları, 20(39), 26-35. (TR Dizin)

  19. Alper, S., & Sümer, N. (2019). Control deprivation decreases, not increases, belief in a controlling god for people with independent self-construal. Current Psychology, 38, 1490-1494. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-017-9710-9 (SSCI)

  20. Alper, S., & Tasman, D. R. (2019). Sosyal karşılaştırmaların ulusal nostalji üzerindeki etkisi [The effect of social comparisons on national nostalgia]. Türk Psikoloji Yazıları, 22(43), 69-73. https://doi.org/10.31828/tpy1301996120180316m000005 (TR Dizin)

  21. Alper, S., Toribio-Flórez, D., Capraro, V., & Douglas, K. M. (2024). Stronger conspiracy beliefs are associated with a stronger tendency to act dishonestly and an overestimation of others’ dishonesty. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 19485506241302878. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506241302878 (SSCI)

  22. Alper, S., & Us E. Ö. (2021). The role of intentionality in perceiving terrorism as a more important problem than traffic accidents. Current Psychology, 40, 4063-4071. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-019-00372-0 (TR Dizin)

  23. Alper, S., Us, E. Ö., & Tasman, D. R. (2019). The evil eye effect: Vertical pupils are perceived as more threatening. Cognition and Emotion, 33(6), 1249-1260. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2018.1550741 (SSCI)

  24. Alper, S., Yelbuz, B. E., Akkurt, S. B., & Yilmaz, O. (2023). The positive association of education with the trust in science and scientists is weaker in highly corrupt countries. Public Understanding of Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625231176935 (SSCI)

  25. Alper, S., Yelbuz, B. E., & Konukoglu, K. (2023). Perceived expert and laypeople consensus predict belief in local conspiracy theories in a non-WEIRD culture: Evidence from Turkey. Judgment and Decision Making, 18, e35. https://doi.org/10.1017/jdm.2023.33

  26. Alper, S., & Yilmaz, O. (2019). How is the Big Five related to moral and political convictions: The moderating role of the WEIRDness of the culture. Personality and Individual Differences, 145, 32-38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2019.03.018 (SSCI)

  27. Alper, S., & Yilmaz, O. (2020). Does an abstract mind-set increase the internal consistency of moral attitudes and strengthen individualizing foundations?. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 11(3), 326-335. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1948550619856309 (SSCI)

  28. Alper, S., & Yilmaz, O. (2020). Sağcılığın ve solculuğun psikolojisi: Farklı dünyaların insanları [The psychology of the political rightism and the leftism: People from separate worlds]. Nobel Akademik Yayincilik. (Book)

  29. Alper, S., & Yilmaz, O. (2023). What is wrong with conspiracy beliefs? Routledge Open Research, 2, 2(28). https://doi.org/10.12688/routledgeopenres.17926.1

  30. Alper, S. & Yilmaz, O. (2024). Komplo Teorilerine Neden İnanırız? Komplo İnançlarının Psikolojisi Üzerine [Why Do We Believe in Conspiracy Theories? On the Psychology of Conspiracy Beliefs]. Dogan Yayincilik. (Book)

  31. Alper, S., Yilmaz, O., & Saribay, S. A. (2021). How do cognitive styles influence political Attitudes? A joint consideration of Dual-Process Model and Construal Level Theory. In J. D. Sinnott & J. S. Rabin (Eds.), The Psychology of Political Behavior in a Time of Change (pp. 177-193). Springer, Cham. (Book Chapter)

  32. Bago, B., Kovacs, M., Protzko, J., Nagy, T., Kekecs, Z., Palfi, B., ... & Matibag, C. J. (2022). Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample. Nature Human Behaviour, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01319-5 (SSCI)

  33. Bayrak, F., Aktar, B., Aydas, B., Yilmaz, O., Alper, S., & Isler, O. (2023). Effective health communication depends on the interaction of message source and content: two experiments on adherence to COVID-19 measures in Türkiye. Psychology & Health, 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2023.2285445 (SSCI)

  34. Bayrak, F., & Alper, S. (2021). A tale of two hashtags: An examination of moral content of pro‐and anti‐government tweets in Turkey. European Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2763 (SSCI)

  35. Bayrak, F., Alper, S., & Yilmaz, O. (2021). Çözüm önerisinin itici görülüp görülmemesi Kürt sorununu kabul etmeyi etkiliyor mu? [Does perception of solution proposal as aversive affect the acknowledgment of Kurdish question?]. Kalem Eğitim ve İnsan Bilimleri Dergisi, 11(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.23863/kalem.2020.145 (TR Dizin)

  36. Bayrak, F., Dogruyol, B., Alper, S., & Yilmaz, O. (2023). Multidimensional intuitive–analytic thinking style and its relation to moral concerns, epistemically suspect beliefs, and ideology. Judgment and Decision Making, 18, e42. https://10.0.3.249/jdm.2023.45 (SSCI)

  37. Buttrick, N., Choi, H., Wilson, T. D., Oishi, S., Boker, S. M., Gilbert, D. T., Alper, S., ... & Wilks, D. C. (2018). Cross-cultural consistency and relativity in the enjoyment of thinking versus doing. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 117(5), e71-e83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000198 (SSCI)

  38. Dogruyol, B., Alper, S., & Yilmaz, O. (2019). The five-factor model of the moral foundations theory is stable across WEIRD and non-WEIRD cultures. Personality and Individual Differences, 151, 109547. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2019.109547 (SSCI)

  39. Jones, B. C., DeBruine, L., Flake, J. K., Aczel, B., Adamkovic, M., Alaei, R., ... Alper, S., …& Vergauwe, E. (2018). To which world regions does the valence-dominance model of social perception apply?, Nature Human Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-01007-2 (SSCI)

  40. Klein, R. A., Vianello, M., Hasselman, F., Adams, B. G., Adams, R. B., Alper, S., … & Nosek, B. A. (2018). Many Labs 2: Investigating variation in replicability across samples and settings. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1(4), 443–490. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245918810225 (SSCI)

  41. van Mulukom, V., Pummerer, L. J., Alper, S., Bai, H., Čavojová, V., Farias, J., ... & Žeželj, I. (2022). Antecedents and consequences of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs: A systematic review. Social Science & Medicine, 114912. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114912

  42. Yelbuz, B. E., Madan, E., & Alper, S. (2022). Reflective thinking predicts lower conspiracy beliefs: A meta-analysis. Judgment and Decision Making, 17(4), 720-744. https://sjdm.org/journal/22/220408/jdm220408.pdf (SSCI)

  43. Yilmaz, O., & Alper, S. (2019). The link between intuitive thinking and social conservatism is stronger in WEIRD societies. Judgment and Decision Making, 14(2), 156-169. http://journal.sjdm.org/18/181212/jdm181212.pdf (SSCI)

  44. Yilmaz, O., Bayrak, F., & Alper, S. (2019). Wittgenstein’ın psikoloji bilimine dair görüşlerine eleştirel bir bakış [A critical look at Wittgenstein's opinions on psychology]. Current Research in Social Sciences, 5(2), 130-142. (TR Dizin)

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