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Do changes in threat salience predict the moral content of sermons? The case of Friday Khutbas in Turkey
Alper, Sinan; Bayrak, Fatih; Us, Elif Oyku; Yilmaz, Onurcan (2019)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 ... -
The evil eye effect: vertical pupils are perceived as more threatening
Alper, Sinan; Us, Elif Oyku; Tasman, Dicle Rojda (2019)Popular culture has many examples of evil characters having vertically pupilled eyes. Humans have a long evolutionary history of rivalry with snakes and their visual systems were evolved to rapidly detect snakes and ... -
The role of intentionality in perceiving terrorism as a more important problem than traffic accidents
Alper, Sinan; Us, Elif Oyku (2021)We hypothesized that perceived intentionality is one of the factors explaining why terrorism is perceived to be a more important problem than traffic accidents. In Study 1, we conducted an experiment on a large Turkish ...