Sinan Alper

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 692 citations indexed

About

Sinan Alper is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Cognitive Neuroscience and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sinan Alper has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 692 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 19 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 15 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Sinan Alper's work include Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (19 papers), Misinformation and Its Impacts (14 papers) and Social and Intergroup Psychology (10 papers). Sinan Alper is often cited by papers focused on Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (19 papers), Misinformation and Its Impacts (14 papers) and Social and Intergroup Psychology (10 papers). Sinan Alper collaborates with scholars based in Türkiye, Germany and United Kingdom. Sinan Alper's co-authors include Onurcan Yılmaz, Fatih Bayrak, Burak Doğruyol, Ljiljana B. Lazarević, Jéssica Esther Machado Farias, Gaëlle Marinthe, Jakub Šrol, Vladimíra Čavojová, Cameron S. Kay and Irena Pavela Banai and has published in prestigious journals such as Social Science & Medicine, Cognition and Personality and Individual Differences.

In The Last Decade

Sinan Alper

31 papers receiving 665 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Antecedents and consequences of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs: A systematic review

2022 193 citations Valerie van Mulukom, Lotte Pummerer et al. Social Science & Medicine profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sinan Alper Türkiye	11	492	277	206	146	111	33	692
Jakub Šrol Slovakia	13	515 1.0×	289 1.0×	227 1.1×	92 0.6×	149 1.3×	34	768
Vladimíra Čavojová Slovakia	16	562 1.1×	287 1.0×	236 1.1×	128 0.9×	181 1.6×	47	876
Pascal Wagner‐Egger Switzerland	11	402 0.8×	194 0.7×	143 0.7×	114 0.8×	78 0.7×	24	594
Ricky Green United Kingdom	11	452 0.9×	210 0.8×	129 0.6×	114 0.8×	141 1.3×	23	592
Mikey Biddlestone United Kingdom	12	482 1.0×	188 0.7×	103 0.5×	102 0.7×	107 1.0×	25	602
Kinga Bierwiaczonek Norway	13	569 1.2×	151 0.5×	138 0.7×	175 1.2×	123 1.1×	24	759
Lotte Pummerer Germany	9	492 1.0×	211 0.8×	225 1.1×	43 0.3×	84 0.8×	21	615
Pia Lamberty Germany	7	909 1.8×	417 1.5×	298 1.4×	91 0.6×	137 1.2×	12	1.0k
Robert Brotherton United Kingdom	6	743 1.5×	325 1.2×	175 0.8×	131 0.9×	76 0.7×	7	867
Joseph A. Vitriol United States	14	404 0.8×	131 0.5×	89 0.4×	144 1.0×	80 0.7×	35	548

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20 of 20 papers shown

Alper, Sinan, et al.. (2025). Fictitious conspiracy, paranormal, and pseudoscience beliefs are closely related to their regular counterparts. Current Psychology. 44(7). 6376–6395.

Bayrak, Fatih, Burak Doğruyol, S. Adil Sarıbay, et al.. (2025). Reflection predicts and leads to decreased conspiracy belief. Cognition. 258. 106085–106085. 1 indexed citations

Alper, Sinan, et al.. (2024). How do beliefs in free will and determinism correlate with beliefs in conspiracy, paranormal, and pseudoscience beliefs?. Personality and Individual Differences. 229. 112765–112765.

Alper, Sinan, et al.. (2024). Stronger Conspiracy Beliefs Are Associated With a Stronger Tendency to Act Dishonestly and an Overestimation of Others’ Dishonesty. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 16(8). 963–974. 3 indexed citations

Bayrak, Fatih, Burak Doğruyol, Sinan Alper, & Onurcan Yılmaz. (2023). Multidimensional intuitive–analytic thinking style and its relation to moral concerns, epistemically suspect beliefs, and ideology. Judgment and Decision Making. 18. 1 indexed citations

Alper, Sinan, et al.. (2023). Perceived expert and laypeople consensus predict belief in local conspiracy theories in a non-WEIRD culture: Evidence from Turkey. Judgment and Decision Making. 18. 1 indexed citations

Alper, Sinan & Onurcan Yılmaz. (2023). What is wrong with conspiracy beliefs?. 2. 28–28. 4 indexed citations

Alper, Sinan, et al.. (2023). The positive association of education with the trust in science and scientists is weaker in highly corrupt countries. Public Understanding of Science. 33(1). 2–19. 9 indexed citations

Alper, Sinan & Roland Imhoff. (2022). Suspecting Foul Play When It Is Objectively There: The Association of Political Orientation With General and Partisan Conspiracy Beliefs as a Function of Corruption Levels. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 14(5). 610–620. 29 indexed citations

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Mulukom, Valerie van, Lotte Pummerer, Sinan Alper, et al.. (2022). Antecedents and consequences of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs: A systematic review. Social Science & Medicine. 301. 114912–114912. 193 indexed citations breakdown →

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Alper, Sinan, et al.. (2022). Reflective thinking predicts lower conspiracy beliefs: A meta-analysis. Judgment and Decision Making. 17(4). 720–744. 27 indexed citations

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Alper, Sinan. (2022). There are higher levels of conspiracy beliefs in more corrupt countries. European Journal of Social Psychology. 53(3). 503–517. 23 indexed citations

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Bayrak, Fatih & Sinan Alper. (2021). A tale of two hashtags: An examination of moral content of pro‐ and anti‐government tweets in Turkey. European Journal of Social Psychology. 51(3). 585–596. 3 indexed citations

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Alper, Sinan. (2020). Does the Association Between Illness-Related and Religious Searches on the Internet Depend on the Level of Religiosity?. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 12(4). 497–505. 5 indexed citations

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Mulukom, Valerie van, Lotte Pummerer, Sinan Alper, et al.. (2020). Antecedents and consequences of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs: a systematic review. Pure (Coventry University). 54 indexed citations

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Alper, Sinan, Fatih Bayrak, & Onurcan Yılmaz. (2020). Psychological correlates of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs and preventive measures: Evidence from Turkey. Current Psychology. 40(11). 5708–5717. 128 indexed citations

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Alper, Sinan & Onurcan Yılmaz. (2019). Does an Abstract Mind-Set Increase the Internal Consistency of Moral Attitudes and Strengthen Individualizing Foundations?. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 11(3). 326–335. 9 indexed citations

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Yılmaz, Onurcan & Sinan Alper. (2019). The link between intuitive thinking and social conservatism is stronger in WEIRD societies. Judgment and Decision Making. 14(2). 156–169. 17 indexed citations

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Alper, Sinan, et al.. (2019). Do changes in threat salience predict the moral content of sermons? The case of Friday Khutbas in Turkey. European Journal of Social Psychology. 50(3). 662–672. 9 indexed citations

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Alper, Sinan & Nebi Sümer. (2017). Özgür İrade ve Belirlenimcilik Ölçeği’nin Türkçeye Uyarlaması ve Psikometrik Özellikleri. OpenMETU (Middle East Technical University). 20(39). 26–38. 2 indexed citations

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