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Azim Shariff
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Latest papers
The science fiction science method.
Nature · 2025
Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity.
Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2024
Morality in the anthropocene: The perversion of compassion and punishment in the online world.
PNAS nexus · 2024
Latest funding
- $286,482
Unjust world theory
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $700,000
Canada 150 Research Chair in Moral Psychology
SSHRC · 2017 · Principal investigator
- $1,662,500
Canada 150 Research Chair in Moral Psychology
SSHRC · 2017 · Principal investigator
15 publications.
The science fiction science method.
Rahwan I, Shariff A, Bonnefon JF
Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity.
Voelkel JG, Stagnaro MN, Chu JY, Pink SL, Mernyk JS, Redekopp C, Ghezae I, Cashman M, Adjodah D, Allen LG, Allis LV, Baleria G, Ballantyne N, Van Bavel JJ, Blunden H, Braley A, Bryan CJ, Celniker JB, Cikara M, Clapper MV, Clayton K, Collins H, DeFilippis E, Dieffenbach M, Doell KC, Dorison C, Duong M, Felsman P, Fiorella M, Francis D, Franz M, Gallardo RA, Gifford S, Goya-Tocchetto D, Gray K, Green J, Greene J, Güngör M, Hall M, Hecht CA, Javeed A, Jost JT, Kay AC, Kay NR, Keating B, Kelly JM, Kirk JRG, Kopell M, Kteily N, Kubin E, Lees J, Lenz G, Levendusky M, Littman R, Luo K, Lyles A, Lyons B, Marsh W, Martherus J, Maurer LA, Mehl C, Minson J, Moore M, Moore-Berg SL, Pasek MH, Pentland A, Puryear C, Rahnama H, Rathje S, Rosato J, Saar-Tsechansky M, Almeida Santos L, Seifert CM, Shariff A, Simonsson O, Spitz Siddiqi S, Stone DF, Strand P, Tomz M, Yeager DS, Yoeli E, Zaki J, Druckman JN, Rand DG, Willer R
Morality in the anthropocene: The perversion of compassion and punishment in the online world.
Robertson CE, Shariff A, Van Bavel JJ
The Moral Psychology of Artificial Intelligence.
Bonnefon JF, Rahwan I, Shariff A
A synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19.
Ruggeri K, Stock F, Haslam SA, Capraro V, Boggio P, Ellemers N, Cichocka A, Douglas KM, Rand DG, van der Linden S, Cikara M, Finkel EJ, Druckman JN, Wohl MJA, Petty RE, Tucker JA, Shariff A, Gelfand M, Packer D, Jetten J, Van Lange PAM, Pennycook G, Peters E, Baicker K, Crum A, Weeden KA, Napper L, Tabri N, Zaki J, Skitka L, Kitayama S, Mobbs D, Sunstein CR, Ashcroft-Jones S, Todsen AL, Hajian A, Verra S, Buehler V, Friedemann M, Hecht M, Mobarak RS, Karakasheva R, Tünte MR, Yeung SK, Rosenbaum RS, Lep Ž, Yamada Y, Hudson STJ, Macchia L, Soboleva I, Dimant E, Geiger SJ, Jarke H, Wingen T, Berkessel JB, Mareva S, McGill L, Papa F, Većkalov B, Afif Z, Buabang EK, Landman M, Tavera F, Andrews JL, Bursalıoğlu A, Zupan Z, Wagner L, Navajas J, Vranka M, Kasdan D, Chen P, Hudson KR, Novak LM, Teas P, Rachev NR, Galizzi MM, Milkman KL, Petrović M, Van Bavel JJ, Willer R
Treatment of missing data determined conclusions regarding moralizing gods.
Beheim B, Atkinson QD, Bulbulia J, Gervais W, Gray RD, Henrich J, Lang M, Monroe MW, Muthukrishna M, Norenzayan A, Purzycki BG, Shariff A, Slingerland E, Spicer R, Willard AK
Recognizing the Impact of COVID-19 on the Poor Alters Attitudes Towards Poverty and Inequality.
Wiwad D, Mercier B, Piff PK, Shariff A, Aknin LB
Reply to Claessens et al.: Maybe the Footbridge sacrifice is indeed the only one that sends a negative social signal.
Awad E, Dsouza S, Shariff A, Rahwan I, Bonnefon JF
Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response.
Bavel JJV, Baicker K, Boggio PS, Capraro V, Cichocka A, Cikara M, Crockett MJ, Crum AJ, Douglas KM, Druckman JN, Drury J, Dube O, Ellemers N, Finkel EJ, Fowler JH, Gelfand M, Han S, Haslam SA, Jetten J, Kitayama S, Mobbs D, Napper LE, Packer DJ, Pennycook G, Peters E, Petty RE, Rand DG, Reicher SD, Schnall S, Shariff A, Skitka LJ, Smith SS, Sunstein CR, Tabri N, Tucker JA, Linden SV, Lange PV, Weeden KA, Wohl MJA, Zaki J, Zion SR, Willer R
Shifting attributions for poverty motivates opposition to inequality and enhances egalitarianism.
Piff PK, Wiwad D, Robinson AR, Aknin LB, Mercier B, Shariff A
Unjust world theory
Principal investigators: Shariff, Azim
Canada 150 Research Chair in Moral Psychology
Principal investigators: Shariff, Azim
Keywords: Morality, Religion, Evolutionary Psychology, Culture, Social Psychology
Canada 150 Research Chair in Moral Psychology
Principal investigators: Shariff, Azim
Keywords: Morality, Religion, Evolutionary Psychology, Culture, Social Psychology
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Edward Slingerland and Ara Norenzayan: 2 shared papers
- Azim Shariff and Nassim Tabri: 2 shared papers
- Edward Slingerland and Azim Shariff: 1 shared paper
- Ara Norenzayan and Azim Shariff: 1 shared paper
- Azim Shariff and Gordon Pennycook: 1 shared paper
- Gordon Pennycook and Nassim Tabri: 1 shared paper
- Department of Philosophy
- Social Psychology
- Other
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