Journal Article

Preston, Jesse L. and Baimel, Adam (2020) Towards a psychology of religion and the environment : the good, the bad, and the mechanisms. Current Opinion in Psychology . doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2020.09.013 (In Press)

Preston, Jesse L. and Shin, Faith (2020) Anthropocentric biases in teleological thinking : how nature seems designed for humans. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General . doi:10.1037/xge0000981 (In Press)

Shin, Faith and Preston, Jesse (2019) Green as the gospel : the power of stewardship messages to improve climate change attitudes. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality . doi:10.1037/rel0000249 (In Press)

Preston, Jesse and Shin, Faith (2017) Spiritual experiences evoke awe through the small self in both religious and non-religious individuals. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 70 . pp. 212-221. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2016.11.006

Salomon, Erika, Preston, Jesse and Tannenbaum, Melanie B. (2017) Climate change helplessness and the (de)moralization of individual energy behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychology : Applied, 23 (1). pp. 15-28. doi:10.1037/xap0000105

Yang, Daniel Y.-J., Chen, Xia, Xu, Jing, Preston, Jesse L. and Chiu, Chi-yue (2016) Cultural symbolism and spatial separation : some ways to deactivate exclusionary responses to culture mixing. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 47 (10). pp. 1286-1293. doi:10.1177/0022022116665169

Ritter, R. S., Preston, Jesse, Salomon, E. and Relihan-Johnson, D. (2015) Imagine no religion : heretical disgust, anger, and the symbolic purity of mind. Cognition and Emotion, 30 (4). pp. 778-796. doi:10.1080/02699931.2015.1030334

Ritter, Ryan S., Preston, Jesse Lee and Hernandez, Ivan (2014) Happy Tweets : Christians Are Happier, More Socially Connected, and Less Analytical Than Atheists on Twitter. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 5 (2). pp. 243-249. doi:10.1177/1948550613492345

Book Item

Rutjens, Bastiaan T. and Preston, Jesse (2020) Science and religion : a rocky relationship shaped by shared psychological functions. In: Vail III, Kenneth E. and Routledge, Clay, (eds.) The science of religion, spirituality, and existentialism. Elsevier: Academic Press, pp. 373-385. ISBN 9780128172049

Preston, Jesse (2018) The egocentric teleological bias : how self‑serving morality shapes perceptions of intelligent design. In: Gray, K. and Graham, J., (eds.) Atlas of moral psychology. The Guilford Press, pp. 352-359. ISBN 9781462541225