Publications

Publications

Working papers

  • Ghasemi, O., Pass, K., Bradley, G., Deshpande, S., Ransom, C., & Newell, B. (under review). Do personal climate actions crowd out collective action and policy support? Evidence from a longitudinal study. Preprint

  • Ghasemi, O., Ghane-Ezabadi, A., Hojjat, R., Afshin Mahjoub, M., Arastouy Irani, T., Gholampour, E., Solhirad, M., & Newell, B. (under review). People are aware of the impact of defaults and use them strategically. Preprint

  • Ghasemi, O., & Newell, B. (in preparation). Evaluating the impact of climate risk scores on property purchase decisions. Project

  • Stanley, S., Kirkland, K., Karl, J., Ghasemi, O., et al. (under review). Validating the Climate Policy Support Scale in 63 countries and examining responses across political divides. Preprint

2026

  • Handley, S. J., Ghasemi, O., Howarth, S., Stephens, R. G., Newman, I., & Thompson, V. A. (2026). A single process for deductive and inductive inference? Examining the impact of conclusion typicality and argument validity on immediate inferences. Cognitive Psychology. Paper (shared first authorship)

  • Ghasemi, O., Malavasi, M., Ransom, C., & Newell, B. (2026). A decade of weather extremes and their influence on environmental beliefs and actions across Australia. Journal of Environmental Psychology. Paper

2025

  • Ghasemi, O., Almasi, M., Khaki, M., Fallahi, F., Solhirad, M., & Newell, B. (2025). Exposure to individual climate solutions does not reduce support for systemic solutions: A cross-cultural study in Australia and Iran. Behavioural Public Policy. Paper

  • Mede, N., Cologna, V., et al., Ghasemi, O., et al. (2025). Public communication about science in 68 countries: Global evidence on how people encounter and engage with information about science. Science Communication. Paper

  • Stanley, S. K., Ghasemi, O., et al. (2025). Community attitudes towards restoring climate justice with climate aid. Journal of Environmental Psychology. Paper

  • Cologna, V., Meiler, S., et al., Ghasemi, O., et al. (2025). Extreme weather event attribution predicts climate policy support across the world. Nature Climate Change. Paper

  • Ghasemi, O., Cologna, V., Mede, N. G., et al. (2025). Gaps in public trust between scientists and climate scientists: A 68-country study. Environmental Research Letters. Paper

  • Toribio-Flórez, D., Altenmüller, M. S., et al., Ghasemi, O., et al. (2025). Victims of conspiracies? European Journal of Social Psychology. Paper

  • Cologna, V., et al., Ghasemi, O., et al. (2025). Trust in scientists and their role in society across 67 countries. Nature Human Behaviour. Paper

  • Mede, N. G., Cologna, V., et al., Ghasemi, O., et al. (2025). Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries: The TISP dataset. Scientific Data. Paper

  • Ghasemi, O., Stephens, R., & Handley, S. (2025). Logical intuitions or matching heuristic? Examining the effect of deduction training on belief-based reasoning judgments. Memory & Cognition. Paper Preprint

  • Ghasemi, O., Yilmaz, O., Isler, O., Terry, J., & Ross, R. M. (2025). Reflective thinking predicts disbelief in God across 19 countries. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Paper

  • Ghasemi, O., Harris, A., & Newell, B. R. (2025). From preference shifts to information leaks: Examining individuals’ sensitivity to information leakage in the framing effect. Cognition. Paper Preprint

  • Stanley, S. K., Ghasemi, O., et al. (2025). Anticipatory solastalgia in the Antipodes. Journal of Climate Change and Health. Paper

  • Ghasemi, O., & Newell, B. (2025). Heuristics. Edward Elgar Encyclopedia of Behavioural and Experimental Economics. Paper

  • Ghasemi, O., & Newell, B. (2025). Intuition. Edward Elgar Encyclopedia of Behavioural and Experimental Economics. Paper

  • Phills, C. E., Miller, J. K., et al., Ghasemi O., et al. (2025). Multi-region investigation of ‘man’ as default in attitudes. PLOS ONE. Paper

  • Chen, S. C., Buchanan, E. M., et al., Ghasemi O., et al. (2025). Investigating object orientation effects across 18 languages. Current Psychology. Paper

2024

  • Ghasemi, O. (2024). Reframing rational judgement. Nature Reviews Psychology, 3(8), 508. Paper

  • Formosa, P., Bankins, S., Matulionyte, R., & Ghasemi, O. (2024). Can ChatGPT be an author? AI & Society. Paper

  • Vaidis, D., Sleegers, W., et al., Ghasemi, O., et al. (2024). A multi-lab replication of the induced compliance paradigm of cognitive dissonance. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. Paper

2023

  • Ghasemi, O., Handley, S., & Howarth, S. (2023). Illusory intuitive inferences: Matching heuristics explain logical intuitions. Cognition. Preprint

  • Handley, S., Ghasemi, O., & Bialek, M. (2023). Illusory intuitions: Challenging the claim of non-exclusivity. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Preprint

  • Formosa, P., Montefiore, T., Ghasemi, O., & McEwan, M. (2023). An experimental investigation of the gamer’s dilemma. Behaviour & Information Technology. Paper

  • Schaerer, M., Du Plessis, C., et al., Ghasemi, O., et al. (2023). On the trajectory of discrimination. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Paper

  • Terry, J., et al., Ghasemi, O., et al. (2023). SMARVUS dataset. Journal of Open Psychology Data. Paper

2022 and earlier

  • Ghasemi, O., Handley, S., Howarth, S., Newman, I., & Thompson, V. (2022). Logical intuition is not really about logic. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Paper Preprint

  • Bago, B., et al., Ghasemi, O., et al. (2022). Situational factors shape moral judgments. Nature Human Behaviour. Paper

  • Hoogeveen, S., et al., Ghasemi, O., et al. (2022). Religiosity and well-being. Religion, Brain & Behaviour. Paper Preprint

  • Delios, A., et al. (2022). Generalizability of research findings from archival data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Paper

  • Ghasemi, O., Handley, S., & Howarth, S. (2021). The bright homunculus in our head. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Paper Preprint

  • Tierney, W., et al. (2021). Creative destruction in science. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Paper

  • Tierney, W., et al. (2021). A creative destruction approach to replication. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Paper

  • Amirbeigi, M., Sarafraz, M. R., Ghasemi, O., & Firouzabadi, A. (2021). The mediating role of self-knowledge processes. Journal of Applied Psychological Research. Paper