Dr Ozan Isler
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Economics
Room 644, Level 5, Colin Clark Building (#39)
Book Chapters
Baron, Jonathan, Isler, Ozan and Yılmaz, Onurcan (2023). Actively open-minded thinking and the political effects of its absence. Divided: Open-Mindedness and Dogmatism in a Polarized World. (pp. 162-C9P184) edited by Victor Ottati and Chadly Stern. New York, NY United States: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780197655467.003.0009
Isler, Ozan and Yilmaz, Onurcan (2020). Intuition and deliberation in morality and cooperation: an overview of the literature. Developing informed intuition for decision-making. (pp. 101-113) edited by Jay Liebowitz. Boca Raton, FL United States: CRC Press. doi: 10.1201/9780429298097-6
Isler, Ozan (2020). Bounded Rationality. Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. (pp. 1-3) Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2156-1
Isler, Ozan (2020). Rational Actors. Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. (pp. 1-2) Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2155-1
Isler, Ozan (2019). Resource Scarcity. Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. (pp. 1-3) Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1585-1
Journal Articles
Isler, Ozan, Yilmaz, Onurcan, Maule, A. John and Gächter, Simon (2024). How to activate threat perceptions in behavior research: A simple technique for inducing health and resource scarcity threats. Behavior Research Methods, 56 (8), 1-17. doi: 10.3758/s13428-024-02481-6
Dogruyol, Burak, Velioglu, Ilayda, Bayrak, Fatih, Acem, Ensar, Isler, Ozan and Yilmaz, Onurcan (2024). Validation of the moral foundations questionnaire-2 in the Turkish context: exploring its relationship with moral behavior. Current Psychology, 43 (29), 24438-24452. doi: 10.1007/s12144-024-06097-z
Bayrak, Fatih, Aktar, Bengi, Aydas, Berke, Yilmaz, Onurcan, Alper, Sinan and Isler, Ozan (2023). Effective health communication depends on the interaction of message source and content: two experiments on adherence to COVID-19 measures in Türkiye. Psychology and Health. doi: 10.1080/08870446.2023.2285445
Uğurlar, Pınar, Dorrough, Angela R., Isler, Ozan and Yilmaz, Onurcan (2023). Shared group memberships mitigate intergroup bias in cooperation. Social Psychological and Personality Science. doi: 10.1177/19485506231209788
Huber, Christoph, Dreber, Anna, Huber, Jürgen, Johannesson, Magnus, Kirchler, Michael, Weitzel, Utz, Abellán, Miguel, Adayeva, Xeniya, Ay, Fehime Ceren, Barron, Kai, Berry, Zachariah, Bönte, Werner, Brütt, Katharina, Bulutay, Muhammed, Campos-Mercade, Pol, Cardella, Eric, Claassen, Maria Almudena, Cornelissen, Gert, Dawson, Ian G J, Delnoij, Joyce, Demiral, Elif E., Dimant, Eugen, Doerflinger, Johannes Theodor, Dold, Malte, Emery, Cécile, Fiala, Lenka, Fiedler, Susann, Freddi, Eleonora, Fries, Tilman ... Holzmeister, Felix (2023). Competition and moral behavior: A meta-analysis of forty-five crowd-sourced experimental designs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120 (23) e2215572120, 1-10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2215572120
Azevedo, Flavio, Pavlović, Tomislav, Rêgo, Gabriel G., Ay, F. Ceren, Gjoneska, Biljana, Etienne, Tom W., Ross, Robert M., Schönegger, Philipp, Riaño-Moreno, Julián C., Cichocka, Aleksandra, Capraro, Valerio, Cian, Luca, Longoni, Chiara, Chan, Ho Fai, Van Bavel, Jay J., Sjåstad, Hallgeir, Nezlek, John B., Alfano, Mark, Gelfand, Michele J., Birtel, Michèle D., Cislak, Aleksandra, Lockwood, Patricia L., Abts, Koen, Agadullina, Elena, Aruta, John Jamir Benzon, Besharati, Sahba Nomvula, Bor, Alexander, Choma, Becky L., Crabtree, Charles David ... Sampaio, Waldir M. (2023). Social and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries. Scientific Data, 10 (1) 272, 1-26. doi: 10.1038/s41597-023-02080-8
Isler, Ozan, Yilmaz, Onurcan and Dulleck, Uwe (2023). Scarcity improves economic valuations when cognitively salient. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 209, 362-371. doi: 10.1016/j.jebo.2023.02.019
Van Bavel, Jay J., Cichocka, Aleksandra, Capraro, Valerio, Sjåstad, Hallgeir, Nezlek, John B., Pavlović, Tomislav, Alfano, Mark, Gelfand, Michele J., Azevedo, Flavio, Birtel, Michèle D., Cislak, Aleksandra, Lockwood, Patricia L., Ross, Robert Malcolm, Abts, Koen, Agadullina, Elena, Aruta, John Jamir Benzon, Besharati, Sahba Nomvula, Bor, Alexander, Choma, Becky L., Crabtree, Charles David, Cunningham, William A., De, Koustav, Ejaz, Waqas, Elbaek, Christian T., Findor, Andrej, Flichtentrei, Daniel, Franc, Renata, Gjoneska, Biljana, Gruber, June ... Boggio, Paulo S. (2022). National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic. Nature Communications, 13 (1) 517, 1-14. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-27668-9
Isler, Ozan and Yilmaz, Onurcan (2022). How to activate intuitive and reflective thinking in behavior research? A comprehensive examination of experimental techniques. Behavior Research Methods, 55 (7), 1-20. doi: 10.3758/s13428-022-01984-4
Pavlović, Tomislav, Azevedo, Flavio, De, Koustav, Riaño-Moreno, Julián C., Maglić, Marina, Gkinopoulos, Theofilos, Donnelly-Kehoe, Patricio Andreas, Payán-Gómez, César, Huang, Guanxiong, Kantorowicz, Jaroslaw, Birtel, Michèle D., Schönegger, Philipp, Capraro, Valerio, Santamaría-García, Hernando, Yucel, Meltem, Ibanez, Agustin, Rathje, Steve, Wetter, Erik, Stanojević, Dragan, van Prooijen, Jan-Willem, Hesse, Eugenia, Elbaek, Christian T., Franc, Renata, Pavlović, Zoran, Mitkidis, Panagiotis, Cichocka, Aleksandra, Gelfand, Michele, Alfano, Mark, Ross, Robert M. ... Van Bavel, Jay Joseph (2022). Predicting attitudinal and behavioral responses to COVID-19 pandemic using machine learning. PNAS Nexus, 1 (3) pgac093, pgac093. doi: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac093
Isler, Ozan, Rojas, Andres and Dulleck, Uwe (2022). Easy to shove, difficult to show: effect of educative and default nudges on financial self-management. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 1 100639, 100639-10. doi: 10.1016/j.jbef.2022.100639
Bago, Bence, Kovacs, Marton, Protzko, John, Nagy, Tamas, Kekecs, Zoltan, Palfi, Bence, Adamkovic, Matus, Adamus, Sylwia, Albalooshi, Sumaya, Albayrak-Aydemir, Nihan, Alfian, Ilham N., Alper, Sinan, Alvarez-Solas, Sara, Alves, Sara G., Amaya, Santiago, Andresen, Pia K., Anjum, Gulnaz, Ansari, Daniel, Arriaga, Patrícia, Aruta, John Jamir Benzon R., Arvanitis, Alexios, Babincak, Peter, Barzykowski, Krystian, Bashour, Bana, Baskin, Ernest, Batalha, Luisa, Batres, Carlota, Bavolar, Jozef, Bayrak, Fatih ... Aczel, Balazs (2022). Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample. Nature Human Behaviour, 6 (6), 880-895. doi: 10.1038/s41562-022-01319-5
Isler, Ozan and Gaechter, Simon (2022). Conforming with peers in honesty and cooperation. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 195, 75-86. doi: 10.1016/j.jebo.2021.12.026
Nurse, Matthew S., Ross, Robert M., Isler, Ozan and Van Rooy, Dirk (2022). Analytic thinking predicts accuracy ratings and willingness to share COVID-19 misinformation in Australia. Memory and Cognition, 50 (2), 425-434. doi: 10.3758/s13421-021-01219-5
Hoogeveen, Suzanne, Sarafoglou, Alexandra, Aczel, Balazs, Aditya, Yonathan, Alayan, Alexandra J., Allen, Peter J., Altay, Sacha, Alzahawi, Shilaan, Amir, Yulmaida, Anthony, Francis-Vincent, Kwame Appiah, Obed, Atkinson, Quentin D., Baimel, Adam, Balkaya-Ince, Merve, Balsamo, Michela, Banker, Sachin, Bartoš, František, Becerra, Mario, Beffara, Bertrand, Beitner, Julia, Bendixen, Theiss, Berkessel, Jana B., Berniūnas, Renatas, Billet, Matthew I., Billingsley, Joseph, Bortolini, Tiago, Breitsohl, Heiko, Bret, Amélie, Brown, Faith L. ... Wagenmakers, Eric-Jan (2022). A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being. Religion, Brain and Behavior, 13 (3), 237-283. doi: 10.1080/2153599x.2022.2070255
Isler, Ozan, Gächter, Simon, Maule, A. John and Starmer, Chris (2021). Contextualised strong reciprocity explains selfless cooperation despite selfish intuitions and weak social heuristics. Scientific Reports, 11 (1) 13868, 1-17. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-93412-4
Isler, Ozan, Flew, Terry, Erol, Isil and Dulleck, Uwe (2021). Market news and credibility cues improve house price predictions: an experiment on bounded rationality in real estate. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 31 100550, 100550. doi: 10.1016/j.jbef.2021.100550
Isler, Ozan, Yilmaz, Onurcan and John Maule, A. (2021). Religion, parochialism and intuitive cooperation. Nature Human Behaviour, 5 (4), 512-521. doi: 10.1038/s41562-020-01014-3
Isler, Ozan, Yilmaz, Onurcan and Doğruyol, Burak (2021). Are we at all liberal at heart? High-powered tests find no effect of intuitive thinking on moral foundations. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 92 104050, 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2020.104050
Isler, Ozan, Yilmaz, Onurcan and Dogruyol, Burak (2020). Activating reflective thinking with decision justification and debiasing training. Judgment and Decision Making, 15 (6), 926-938. doi: 10.1017/s1930297500008147
Isler, Ozan, Isler, Burcu, Kopsacheilis, Orestis and Ferguson, Eamonn (2020). Limits of the social-benefit motive among high-risk patients: A field experiment on influenza vaccination behaviour. BMC Public Health, 20 (1) 240, 1-9. doi: 10.1186/s12889-020-8246-3
Yilmaz, Onurcan and Isler, Ozan (2019). Reflection increases belief in god through self-questioning among non-believers. Judgment and Decision Making, 14 (6), 649-657. doi: 10.1017/s1930297500005374
Isler, Ozan, Maule, John and Starmer, Chris (2018). Is intuition really cooperative? Improved tests support the social heuristics hypothesis. PLoS ONE, 13 (1) e0190560, 1-14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0190560