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Adam B. Cohen (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is Assistant Professor of psychology at Arizona State University, USA.   Dr. Cohen's main research interests fuse cultural, social, and personality psychology. He is interested in how religious differences function as cultural differences, affecting domains including religious identity and motivation, well-being, moral judgment, forgiveness, and the like. Cohen is also interested in applying evolutionary theory to religion. He is the author of 40 or so articles and chapters, including in leading journals like American Psychologist, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.  He is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, and Religion, Brain, and Behavior.  He was the 2009 Margaret Gorman early career award winner from the American Psychological Association. 

PUBLICATIONS

Cohen, A. B. (2009).  Many forms of culture. American Psychologist, 64, 194-204.

Cohen, A. B., Malka, A., Hill, E. D., Thoemmes, F., Hill, P. C., & Sundie, J. M. (2009).  Race as a moderator of the relationship between religiosity and political alignment. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 271-282.

Weeden, J., Cohen, A. B., & Kenrick, D. T. (2008).  Religious participation and reproductive strategies.  Evolution and Human Behavior, 29, 327-334.

Cohen, A. B., & Hill, P. C.  (2007).  Religion as culture: Religious individualism and collectivism among American Catholics, Jews, and Protestants.  Journal of Personality, 75, 709-742.

Cohen, A. B., Malka, A., Rozin, P., & Cherfas, L.  (2006).  Religion and unforgivable offenses. Journal of Personality, 74, 85-118.

Cohen, A. B., Hall, D. E., Koenig, H. G., & Meador, K. G. (2005).  Social versus individual motivation: Implications for normative definitions of religious orientation.  Personality & Social Psychology Review, 9, 48-61.

Cohen, A. B., Siegel, J. I., & Rozin, P.  (2003).  Faith versus practice: Different bases for religiosity judgments by Jews and Protestants.  European Journal of Social Psychology, 33, 287-295. 

Cohen, A. B., & Rozin, P.  (2001).  Religion and the morality of mentality.  Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 81, 697-710.  

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