Hammad will be giving a talk at the annual meeting of ISPP in Chicago on ‘Infusing Sacredness: How Threat and Religious Ritual Combine to Sacralize Disputed Issues’ in July. He will also be presenting a poster on “Religious Ritual Leads to the Emergence of Sacred Values” at the APS Annual Convention in May
Ginges Lab
Social and Political Psychology Lab
We are social and political psychologists studying moral reasoning and sacred values, and how these affect intractable, often violent, conflicts.
Lab News
March 2012
March 30th - Jeremy Ginges gave a talk on “Collective ritual and parochial altruism” at a Social Science Research Council symposium on “New Directions in the Study of Prayer” in New York.
March 29th - The Ginges Lab hosted a meeting of the MURI project “Modelling cultural factors in negotiation and collaboration”
Hammad was elected to the university student senate, and will be representing the New School for Social research in the next academic year. He also published his first paper as the primary author of “Religion, group threat and sacred values” in “Judgement and Decision Making.”
February 2012
February 17th - Jeremy Ginges gave a talk on “Sacred values and intergroup conflict” at Yeshiva University, New York.
January 2012
Hammad, and Kate presented posters at the SPSP conference in San Diego, CA.
August 2011
Hammad Sheikh is going to give a presentation on ”Collective Religious Ritual and Parochial Altruism,” at the 2012 SPSP conference in San Diego, January 26-28.
Nichole Argo & Josh Rosenberg run a study on “Situational Judgments”
July 2011
July 12: Hammad Sheikh gave a talk on “The Emergence of Sacred Values in the Context of Ethno-Political Conflict” at ISPP in Istanbul.
January 2011
Jan. 29: Kate Jassin presented a poster titled, “Psychological Distance, Affect, and Morality: Harsher Moral Judgments for Temporally Distant Violations That Provoke Strong Affective Responses”.
Jan 28: Hammad Sheikh presented a poster titled, “How Ingroup Support and Outgroup Opposition Affect Importance of Values” at SPSP in San Antonio.
February 2011
Feb 1: Nichole Argo’s chapter, “Suicide Bombers are Motivated by Social Rather than Religious Injustice,” comes out in Laurie Willis, ed., Extremism (New Haven, CT: Greenhaven Press).
