About OTTO Lab

OTTO Lab (Observational Target Trial Operations) uses causal inference to ask and answer questions in psychological science. We are interested in real-world problems.

We are based in the School of Psychological Sciences at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, We also work closly with the Centre for Applied Cross-Cultural Research (CACR).

We maintain Places Map, open research infrastructure for mapping places of worship and supporting cross-cultural policy research. The underlying codebase is available at github.com/go-bayes/places-of-worship.

Contact

Email: joseph.bulbulia@vuw.ac.nz
School: School of Psychological Sciences
Centre affiliation: Centre for Applied Cross-Cultural Research (CACR)
Institution: Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Location: Easterfield Building, Room EA 324, Kelburn Campus
X (Twitter): @prof_joe_

Location

Funding

The OTTO Lab group gratefully acknowledges support from:

Templeton Religion Trust

TRT-2021-0418: “New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study Matching Grant”
- Joseph Bulbulia (Contact PI) and Donnie Davis, Ken Rice, Chris G Sibley, Geoffrey Troughton
TRT-2022-30666: “Mapping Places of Worship: A Tool for Efficient Global Data Collection on Religious Communities”
- Joseph Bulbulia (Contact PI) and Joseph Watts

Victoria University of Wellington

Templeton Religion Trust

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title: "About OTTO Lab"
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OTTO Lab (Observational Target Trial Operations) uses causal inference to ask and answer questions in psychological science. We are interested in real-world problems.

We are based in the [School of Psychological Sciences](https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/psyc) at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, We also work closly with the [Centre for Applied Cross-Cultural Research (CACR)](https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/cacr).

We maintain [Places Map](https://religionmap.org/), open research infrastructure for mapping places of worship and supporting cross-cultural policy research. The underlying codebase is available at [github.com/go-bayes/places-of-worship](https://github.com/go-bayes/places-of-worship).


## Contact

**Email:** joseph.bulbulia@vuw.ac.nz  
**School:** [School of Psychological Sciences](https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/psyc)  
**Centre affiliation:** [Centre for Applied Cross-Cultural Research (CACR)](https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/cacr)  
**Institution:** Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand  
**Location:** Easterfield Building, Room EA 324, Kelburn Campus  
**X (Twitter):** [@prof_joe_](https://x.com/prof_joe_)

### Location

```{r}
#| echo: false
#| message: false
#| warning: false
#| column: body-outset

library(leaflet)
leaflet() %>%
  addTiles() %>%
  addMarkers(
    lng = 174.7681, lat = -41.2889,
    popup = "OTTO Lab<br>Easterfield Building EA 324<br>Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington"
  )
```

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## Funding

The OTTO Lab group gratefully acknowledges support from:

**Templeton Religion Trust**

- TRT-2021-0418: "New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study Matching Grant"
  - Joseph Bulbulia (Contact PI) and Donnie Davis, Ken Rice, Chris G Sibley, Geoffrey Troughton
  
- TRT-2022-30666: "Mapping Places of Worship: A Tool for Efficient Global Data Collection on Religious Communities"
  - Joseph Bulbulia (Contact PI) and Joseph Watts
  

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