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Paul Conway,
2026
Type: conference
Michael Bishop, Adam Feltz & Paul Conway,
2026, Journal of Applied Psychology
Type: article
I. Oltay, E. Yilmaz, F.N. Akyalçın, B. Tekirdağlı, M.A. Kuşkucu, F. Can, S. İncir, Paul Conway & H. Yapıcı Eser,
2026
Type: conference
Elena Brandt, Jason Lam & Paul Conway,
2025, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 55(11), 940-960
DOI: 10.1111/jasp.70018
Type: article
Serena Celeste Romanelli & Paul Conway,
2025
Type: conference
Constantine Sedikides, Tim Wildschut, Paul Conway & Jannine D. Lasaleta,
2025
Type: bookChapter
Paul Conway, Jason Lam & Constantine Sedikides,
2025, Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Type: letterEditorial
Samantha Lundrigan, Paul Conway & Ellen Daly,
2025, Child Protection and Practice, 4
Type: article
Paul Conway, Theresa Redmond, Samantha Lundrigan, Deanna Davy, Simon Bailey & Peter Lee,
2024, Depression and Anxiety, 2024(1)
DOI: 10.1155/da/1854312
Type: article
Paweł Niszczota, Paul Conway & Michał Białek,
2024, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 115
Type: article
External roles and responsibilities
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Moral injury, coping styles, and mental health of UK police officers and staff investigating child sexual abuse material.
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2024
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Protecting the protectors: Moral injury, coping styles, and mental health of UK police officers and staff investigating child sexual abuse material.
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2023
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Protecting the protectors: Moral injury, coping styles, and mental health of UK police officers and staff investigating child sexual abuse material.
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2023
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What is social about sacrificial dilemmas? How social evaluations and concerns about the self shape and flow from dilemma decisions.
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2024
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Does pandemic triage undermine trust in the medical system? How lay people and medical practitioners view covid-19 sacrificial decisions.
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2023
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Protecting the protectors: Moral injury, coping styles, and mental health of UK police officers and staff investigating child sexual abuse material.
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2023
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Protecting the protectors: Wellbeing of online police investigators.
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2023
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Moral psychology: How people decide right and wrong.
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2023
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Protecting the protectors: Moral injury, coping styles, and mental health of UK police officers and staff investigating child sexual abuse material.
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2023
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Moral psychology: How people decide right and wrong.
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2023
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Protecting the protectors: UK child sexual abuse and exploitation national police wellbeing survey, 2022.
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2022
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Morality and Social Norms in Digital Contexts
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2023
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Statistics Bootcamp
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2024
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Protecting the protectors: Moral injury, coping styles, and mental health of UK police officers and staff investigating child sexual abuse material. Conway, P., Redmond, T., Lundrigan, S., Davy, D., Bailey, S., & Lee, P.
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2024
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Protecting the protectors: Moral injury, coping styles, and mental health of UK police officers and staff investigating child sexual abuse material.
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2024
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Protecting the protectors: Moral injury, coping styles, and mental health of UK police officers and staff investigating child sexual abuse material.
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2023
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Protecting the protectors: Moral injury, coping styles, and mental health of UK police officers and staff investigating child sexual abuse material.
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2023
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Moral psychology: How people decide right and wrong.
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2024
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The more you know with Paul Conway: Skinner (Comedy Show).
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2024
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The more you know with Paul Conway: Freud (Comedy Show)
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2024
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A brief jaunt into moral psychology, or how the trolley problem ruined my life (Comedy Show)
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2024
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Workshop: Computational models of collective behavior and cognition.
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2024
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An Examination of the Endorsement Utilitarian Decisions: Victim Group Derogation as a Defensive Response
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2023
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An Exploration of Racially Minoritised People's Experiences of Race-Based Stereotype Threat During Police-Initiated Encounters
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2023
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Striving for a moral future: future individual and collective continuity increases present-day moral considerations
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2023
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Decision-making and Memory: An Investigation on the Recollection of a Moral Dilemma
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2022
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The more you know with Paul Conway: Zimbardo (Comedy Show).
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2024
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The more you know with Paul Conway: Stapel (Comedy Show).
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The More You Know with Paul Conway: Gino (Comedy Show)
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2024
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The More You Know with Paul Conway: Arina K Bones Part 1 (Comedy Show)
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2025
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The More You Know with Paul Conway: Arina K Bones Part 2 (Comedy Show)
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2025
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A brief jaunt into moral psychology, or how the trolley problem ruined my life.
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2025
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A brief jaunt into moral psychology, or how the trolley problem ruined my life. (comedy show)
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2025
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A brief jaunt into moral psychology, or how the trolley problem ruined my life (comedy show)
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2025
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Moral psychology: How people decide right and wrong
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2025
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The Dark Side of ´We´ Unpacking Psychological Mechanisms of Collaborative Corruption
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2025
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When and Why Morality Seems Objective: Perceived Moral Objectivity as Truth Robustness
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2025
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Rethinking Sacrificial Dilemmas from the Ground Up: A Meta-Moral Account.
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2025
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Spirituality in science: Perceptions and implications for scientists
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2024
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Standing up or giving up? Moral foundations mediate political differences in evaluations of Black Lives Matter and other protests
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2024
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Standing up or giving up? Moral foundations mediate political differences in evaluations of Black Lives Matter and other protests
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2023
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How decisions and justifications in realistic sacrificial dilemmas impact judgments of the moral self
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2024
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The (hard) dual process model is dead; Long live the (soft) dual process model.
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Moving beyond hypotheticality: Concerns about self and social presentation impact realistic sacrificial dilemmas
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2023
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How decisions and justifications in realistic sacrificial dilemmas impact judgments of the moral self
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2023
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Saintly fund managers cannot earn the license to invest in sin stocks
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2023
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Is it fair to kill a baby to save a village? How just world beliefs shape sacrificial moral decision-making
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2022
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Does Pandemic Triage Undermine Trust in The Medical System? How Lay People and Medical Practitioners view Covid-19 Sacrificial Decisions
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2022
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Moral injury, coping styles, and mental health for staff investigating child sexual abuse material
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2025
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Protecting the protectors: Moral injury, coping styles, and mental health of UK police officers and staff investigating child sexual abuse material
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2025
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The influence of norm violations on causal judgments: A systematic review and meta-analyses
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2025
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What is social about sacrificial dilemmas? How social evaluations and concerns about the self shape and flow from dilemma decisions
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2022
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What is social about sacrificial dilemmas? How social evaluations and concerns about the self shape and flow from dilemma decisions
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2023
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What is social about sacrificial dilemmas? How social evaluations and concerns about the self shape and flow from dilemma decisions.
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2023
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How variation in oxytocin receptor gene polymorphism influences sacrificial moral judgments.
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2025
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Harm aversion of medical professionals performing invasive procedures
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2025
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Harm aversion of medical professionals performing invasive procedures
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2024
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The partisan dilemma: Evaluations of politician dilemma decisions depend on their party membership.
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2024
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The trolley that got away: Do moral judgments in sacrificial dilemmas resemble moral behavior in an economic setting?
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2023
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Moral Injury Damages Wellbeing in UK Police Officers and Military Chaplains
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2026
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Moral injury, faith and wellbeing in retired UK military chaplains and civilian clergy
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2026
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Cold but Competent? Cultural Differences in Moral Thinking.
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2026
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Baymax versus The Terminator: People in the UK but not China infer that utilitarian sacrifices by AI reflect cold and immoral rather than competent thinking (Symposium co-chair)
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2026
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Souls versus synapses: Dualists believe in a true self grounded in the soul, whereas physicalists believe in a true self grounded in the brain
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2026
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The partisan dilemma: Evaluations of politician dilemma decisions depend on their party membership.
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2023
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Souls versus synapses: Dualists believe in a true self grounded in the soul, whereas physicalists believe in a true self grounded in the brain
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2026
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Incongruent metaethical stances amplify the perceived warmth-competence trade-off between relativistic and objectivistic targets
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2026
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Specific contexts and personal disagreements reverse and eliminate perceived moral differences between objectivists and relativists
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2026
Biography
I study the psychology of morality: how people decide what is right and wrong and who is good and bad, why people are motivated to do good and sometimes fail, and why people agree and disagree over moral matters.
Personal Website: www.paulconway.org
Prizes
- Fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (2014)
- APS Rising Star (2020)
- Best Working Paper Award (2015)
- Dissertation Award (2014)
- Governor General’s Gold Medal (2014)
- Student Publication Award (2013)
- Student Poster Award (2013)
- Outstanding Research Award Honorable Mention (2013)
- Student Poster Award Runner-Up (2009)
- Undergraduate Mentoring Award Nomination (2016)
- Transformation in Teaching Award (2018)
- Faculty Undergraduate Research Mentor Award (2019)
- University of Southampton Research & Innovation Services Impact Fund Award. (2024)
- Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences Higher Education Innovation Fund (2023)
- EASP Seedcorn Grant: The trolley that got away: Do moral judgments in sacrificial dilemmas resemble moral behavior in an economic setting? (2022)
- RAPID: Comparing healthcare providers’ and laypeople’s perceptions of COVID-19 sacrifices to reduce reactance to medical advice (2020)
- The gravity of corporate sins: an experimental analysis (2019)
- Moral Decision-making among people on the Autism spectrum (2019)
- Clarifying the psychophysiology of moral judgment, (2018)
- Virtual reality equipment for advancing psychological study (2017)
- Do harm acceptance judgments in moral dilemmas reflect utilitarian considerations or immoral motivations? (2016)
- Moral judgments of racial passing: role of perceiver ideology and consequences for social distancing behavior (2016)
- Theoretical Award (2026)
- Most Entertaining Lecturer Nomination (2025)