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. Link
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. Link
Ghasemi, O., & Newell, B. (in preparation). Evaluating the impact of climate risk scores on property purchase decisions. Link
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. Link
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. Link (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. Link
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. Link
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. Link
Stanley, S. K., Ghasemi, O., et al. (2025). Community attitudes towards restoring climate justice with climate aid. Journal of Environmental Psychology. Link
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. Link
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. Link
Toribio-Flórez, D., Altenmüller, M. S., et al., Ghasemi, O., et al. (2025). Victims of conspiracies? European Journal of Social Psychology. Link
Cologna, V., et al., Ghasemi, O., et al. (2025). Trust in scientists and their role in society across 67 countries. Nature Human Behaviour. Link
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. Link
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. Link
Ghasemi, O., Yilmaz, O., Isler, O., Terry, J., & Ross, R. M. (2025). Reflective thinking predicts disbelief in God across 19 countries. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Link
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. Link
Stanley, S. K., Ghasemi, O., et al. (2025). Anticipatory solastalgia in the Antipodes: Evidence of future-oriented distress about environmental change in Australia and New Zealand. Journal of Climate Change and Health. Link
Ghasemi, O., & Newell, B. (2025). Heuristics. In Edward Elgar Encyclopedia of Behavioural and Experimental Economics. Link
Ghasemi, O., & Newell, B. (2025). Intuition. In Edward Elgar Encyclopedia of Behavioural and Experimental Economics. Link
Phills, C. E., Miller, J. K., et al., Ghasemi, O., et al. (2025). Multi-region investigation of ‘man’ as default in attitudes. PLoS One. Link
Chen, S. C., Buchanan, E. M., et al., Ghasemi, O., et al. (2025). Investigating object orientation effects across 18 languages. Current Psychology. Link
2024
Ghasemi, O. (2024). Reframing rational judgement. Nature Reviews Psychology, 3(8), 508. Link
Formosa, P., Bankins, S., Matulionyte, R., & Ghasemi, O. (2024). Can ChatGPT be an author? AI & Society. Link
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. Link
2023
Ghasemi, O., Handley, S., & Howarth, S. (2023). Illusory intuitive inferences: Matching heuristics explain logical intuitions. Cognition. [preprint] Link
Handley, S., Ghasemi, O., & Bialek, M. (2023). Illusory intuitions: Challenging the claim of non-exclusivity. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Link
Formosa, P., Montefiore, T., Ghasemi, O., & McEwan, M. (2023). An experimental investigation of the gamer’s dilemma. Behaviour & Information Technology. Link
Schaerer, M., Du Plessis, C., et al., Ghasemi, O., et al. (2023). On the trajectory of discrimination. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Link
Terry, J., et al., Ghasemi, O., et al. (2023). SMARVUS dataset. Journal of Open Psychology Data. Link
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. Link
Bago, B., et al., Ghasemi, O., et al. (2022). Situational factors shape moral judgments. Nature Human Behaviour. Link
Hoogeveen, S., et al., Ghasemi, O., et al. (2022). Religiosity and well-being. Religion, Brain & Behaviour. Link
Delios, A., et al. (2022). Generalizability of research findings from archival data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Link
Ghasemi, O., Handley, S., & Howarth, S. (2021). The bright homunculus in our head. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Link
Tierney, W., et al. (2021). Creative destruction in science. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Link
Tierney, W., et al. (2021). A creative destruction approach to replication. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Link
Amirbeigi, M., Sarafraz, M. R., Ghasemi, O., & Firouzabadi, A. (2021). The mediating role of self-knowledge processes. Journal of Applied Psychological Research. Link
Talks, keynotes, and presentations
Understanding how people respond to climate risks in the real world. Online seminar hosted by the Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk (IPUR), National University of Singapore.
Emotional cost of climate change. Invited keynote presentation given at the Net Zero Next Gen Assembly, University of Sydney, Australia.
Individual and systemic climate solutions: Conflict or complement? Presentation given at A National Interdisciplinary Conversation on the Environment, University of Queensland, Australia.
Do individual climate actions come at the expense of support for systemic policies? Presentation given at the ICRR Early Career Workshop.
Political drivers of public trust in climate scientists versus general scientists: Evidence from 68 countries. Presentation given at the Conference on Communication and Environment, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia.
Global trust in scientists and climate scientists: Patterns and predictors from 68 countries. Presentation given at the Experimental Psychology Conference, Sydney, Australia (symposium: Psychological Science and the Climate Challenge).
Challenging the notion of default neglect in decision-making. Presentation given at the Experimental Psychology Conference, Sydney, Australia.
Ten years of extreme weather events and their influence on climate beliefs and behaviours across Australia. Presentation given at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria.
Examining the trust gap between climate scientists and general scientists across 68 countries. Presentation given at the ICRR Early Career Workshop.
Understanding sensitivity to information leakage in attribute framing. Presentation given at the International Conference on Thinking (ICT), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
Logic or heuristic? Examining the source of intuitive inferences. Presentation given at the International Conference on Thinking (ICT), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
Does cognitive reflection predict belief in God? A cross-cultural test of three hypotheses. Presentation given at the International Association for the Cognitive and Evolutionary Sciences of Religion (IACESR), University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
Gods and cognition: Cognitive reflection predicts disbelief in God across 19 countries. Presentation given at the Atheism Explained Conference, Oxford Natural History Museum, United Kingdom.
Evaluating the impact of climate risk scores on property purchase decisions. Presentation given at the Risk Quotient Conference, Melbourne, Australia.
Exploring the rationality of the framing effect. Presentation given at the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ASPP), Canberra, Australia.
Reframing the framing effect: The importance of information leakage. Presentation given at the Australian Experimental Psychology Conference (EPC), Canberra, Australia.
The impact of training on logic-based and belief-based reasoning. Presentation given at the Sydney Postgraduate Psychology Conference (SPPC), Sydney, Australia.
Do statistical rules interfere with political beliefs? Presentation given at the University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
Logical intuitions are not really about logic. Presentation given at the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ASPP), Brisbane, Australia.
Intuitive and deliberative logic: Individual differences. Symposium presentation at the International Conference on Thinking (ICT), Paris, France.
Detecting a conflict when there is none. Presentation given at the Australian Experimental Psychology Conference (EPC), Brisbane, Australia.
Open science and the replication crisis. Invited talk at Tehran University of Medical Sciences.
Individual differences in logical intuitions. Poster presented at HDR FIESTA, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.