Specializations

• Moral Purity, Moral Judgment, Religious Cognition, Mind Perception, Experimental Philosophy

Education

• M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2010)
• B.A., University of Nevada, Reno (2007)

Courses

• PSYC 201: Introduction to 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, 1225-1230.

Preston, J. L., Ritter, R. S., & Wegner, D. M. (2011). Action embellishment: An intention bias in the perception of success. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101, 233-244.

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.