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Jesse Lee Preston

Division: Social-Personality

Assistant Professor of Psychology

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Contact Information:

  • Address:
    419 Psychology Bldg.
    603 E. Daniel Street
    Champaign, IL 61820
  • Telephone: (217) 333-0344

Research Description

Interests include causal thinking and explanation, perception of agency in self and others, psychology of religion, and moral judgment. 

Education

  • PhD, Social Psychology, Harvard University, 2005
  • B.A. Psychology, University of Winnipeg, 1999

Courses

  • Psych 332: Research methods in Social Psychology

Recent Publications

Ritter, R. S. & Preston, J. L. (2011) Gross gods and icky atheism: Disgust responses to rejected religious beliefs. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 1255-1230.

Preston, J. L., Ritter, R. S., & Hernandez, J. I. (2010). Principles of religious prosociality: A review and reformulation. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 4, 574-590.

Preston, J. & Epley, N. (2009). Science and God: An automatic opposition between ultimate explanations. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 238-241

Dijksterhuis, A., Preston, J., Wegner, D. M., & Aarts, H. (2008). Effects of subliminal priming of self and God on judgments of authorship. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 2-9