Cindel J. M. White

Schimmelpfennig, R., Spicer, R., White, C. J. M., Gervais, W., Norenzayan, A., Heine, S., Henrich, S., & Muthukrishna, M. (In Press). Methodological Concerns Underlying a Lack of Evidence for Cultural Heterogeneity in the Replication of Psychological Effects. Communications Psychology. Preprint available at https://psyarxiv.com/hmnrx/

 

Hofer, M. K., Lai, A., White, C.J.M., & Schaller, M. (2024).  Does caring breed contempt?: Examining the hypothesis that activation of a “parental” mindset causes harsher moral judgments.  Collabra: Psychology, 10(1): 118835. doi: 10.1525/collabra.118835

 

Mosley, A. J., White, C. J. M., & Solomon, L.H. (2024). Children’s Moral Evaluations of and Behaviors toward People Who are Curious about Religion and Science.  Child Development, 95 (4), e224-e235. doi: 10.1111/cdev.14088

 

Salvador, C. E., White, C. J. M., & Ai, T. (In press).  Who is your biggest critic? Cultural variation in moral judgements of the self and others.  Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. Preprint available at https://osf.io/3ncq2

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Schimmelpfennig, R., Spicer, R., White, C. J. M., Gervais, W., Norenzayan, A., Heine, S., Henrich, S., & Muthukrishna, M. (2024). The Moderating Role of Culture in the Generalizability of Psychological Phenomena. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 7 (1), 1 – 6.

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Vishkin, A., Kim, M.Y., Solak, N., Szymaniak, K., White, C.J.M., & Kitayama, S. (2024). Cultural Variation in the Motivational Correlates of Gratitude. Emotion. doi: 10.1037/emo0001425

 

White, C. J. M., & Billet, M. I. (2024). The roles of anthropomorphism, spirituality, and gratitude in pro-environmental attitudes.  Religion, Brain, & Behavior. doi: 10.1080/2153599X.2024.2363759

 

White, C. J. M., Dean, C. M., Laurin, K. (2024). Do reminders of God increase willingness to take risks? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 110, 104539. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2023.104539

 

White, C. J. M., Johnson, K. A., Mirbozorgi, B., & Farias Martelli, G. (2024).  Varieties of Gratitude: Identifying Patterns of Emotional Responses to Positive Experiences Attributed to God, Karma, and Human Benefactors.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition, 127(3), 497-517. doi: 10.1037/pspa0000398

 

White, C. J. M., Johnson, K. A., & Mirbozorgi, B. (2024). Unique cognitive and emotional profiles of interpersonal gratitude and spiritual gratitude. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 19(1). doi: 10.1080/17439760.2023.2239781

 

White, C. J. M., Mosley, A. J., & Solomon, L. H. (2024). Adults Show Positive Moral Evaluations of Curiosity about Religion.  Social Psychological and Personality Science, 15 (6), 670-681. doi: 10.1177/19485506231195915

 

White, C.J.M., & Willard, A. K. (2024). Victim blaming and belief in karma. Asian Journal of Social Psychology. doi: 10.1111/ajsp.12654

 

Pasek, M. H., Kelly, J. M., Shackleford, C., White, C.J.M., Vishkin, A., Smith, J., Norenzayan, A., Shariff, A., & Ginges, J. (2023). Thinking about God encourages prosociality towards religious outgroups: A cross-cultural investigation. Psychological Science, 34(6). doi: u.ca/10.1177/09567976231158576

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Hoogeveen, S., Sarafoglou, A., … White, C. J. M., …van Elk, M., Wagenmakers, E. (In press). Many-Analysts Approach to the Relation Between Religiosity and Well-being.  Religion, Brain, & Behavior. doi: 10.1080/2153599X.2022.2070255

 

White, C. J. M., Schaller, M., Abraham, E., Rottman, J. (In press). Navigating between punishment, avoidance, and instruction: The form and function of responses to moral violations varies across adult and child transgressors.  Cognition, 223, 105048. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105048 PDF

 

White, C. J. M., & Norenzayan, A. (2022).  Karma and God: Convergent and divergent mental representations of supernatural norm enforcement.  Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 14(1), 70–85. doi:  10.1037/rel0000436 PDF

 

White, C. J. M., Muthukrishna, M., & Norenzayan., A. (2021).  Cultural similarity among co-religionists within and between countries.  PNAS, 118 (37): e2109650118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2109650118 PDF

 

Baimel, A., White, C. J. M., Sarkissian, H. & Norenzayan, A. (2021).  How is analytical thinking related to religious belief?  A test of three theoretical models.  Religion, Brain, and Behavior, 11 (3): 239-260. doi:  10.1080/2153599X.2021.1878259 PDF

 

White, C. J. M., Willard, A.K., Baimel, A., & Norenzayan, A. (2021).  Cognitive pathways to belief in karma and belief in God. Cognitive Science, 45(1): e12935.  doi: 10.1111/cogs.12935 PDF

 

​​White, C. J. M., Baimel, A., & Norenzayan, A. (2021).  How cultural learning and cognitive biases shape religious beliefs.  Current Opinion in Psychology, 40, 34-39.  doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2020.07.033 PDF

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White, C. J. M., Schaller, M., & Norenzayan, A. (2020).  How strongly do moral character inferences predict forecasts of the future?  Testing the moderating roles of transgressor age, implicit personality theories, and belief in karma. PLoS ONE, 15(12): e0244144. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0244144

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White, C. J. M., Kelly, J. M., Shariff, A. F., & Norenzayan, A. (2019).  Supernatural norm enforcement: Thinking about karma and God reduces selfishness among believers.  Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 84, 103797. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2019.03.008  PDF

 

White, C. J. M., & Norenzayan, A. (2019). Belief in karma: How cultural evolution, cognition, and motivations shape belief in supernatural justice. In J. M. Olson (Ed.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (Vol. 60, pp. 1–63). doi: 10.1016/bs.aesp.2019.03.001  PDF

 

White, C. J. M., Norenzayan, A., & Schaller, M. (2019).  The content and correlates of belief in Karma across cultures.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 45, 1184-1201.  doi: 10.1177/0146167218808502  PDF

 

White, C. J. M., & Schaller, M.  (2018).  Are children perceived to be morally exceptional? Different sets of psychological variables predict adults’ moral judgments about adults and about young children. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44, 1147 – 1162.  doi: 10.1177/0146167218760800  PDF

 

Hofer, M. K., Buckels, E. E., White, C. J. M., Beall, A. T., and Schaller, M. (2018).  Individual differences in activation of the parental care motivational system: An empirical distinction between protection and nurturance.  Social Psychological and Personality Science.  doi: 10.1177/1948550617728994  PDF

 

White, C., Baimel, A., & Norenzayan, A. (2017).  What are the causes and consequences of belief in karma?. Religion, Brain, and Behavior, 7(4), 339 – 342.  doi: 10.1080/2153599X.2016.1249921  PDF