I'm a lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Southampton.
Previously, I was a lecturer in the Centre for Culture and Evolution at Brunel University of London and a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse in the Toulouse School of Economics. My PhD is from Arizona State University.
My research focuses on religion, morality, and prejudice, usually taking an evolutionary perspective. All of my publications are available in the Publications page.
Some of what I've worked on recently:
A theoretical paper on strategic morality, available as a preprint.
Set of studies examining the social perceptions of people expressing antisemitism and other prejudices, published in American Psychologist.
Method paper and tutorial for using Google Trends data in social science, published in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.
Set of studies showing that people who are strongly opposed to abortion show a consistent preference for policies that would reduce abortion while discouraging casual sex, published in Social Psychological and Personality Science.
Several studies examining the effects of religious fasting with funding from Templeton World Charity Foundation.
Contact: j.w.moon(at)soton.ac.uk