Research

Featured Infrastructure

Places Map

Places Map is a core OTTO Lab research infrastructure project. It supports mapping, curation, and analysis of places of worship and related cultural data for open science and policy targeting. Project code and workflows are available at github.com/go-bayes/places-of-worship.

Complete Publication List

For a comprehensive and up-to-date list of publications, please visit:

ORCID Profile

Selected Recent Publications

2026

Australia and New Zealand: The psychology of religion up to 2020
Counted, V., Miner, M., & Bulbulia, J.
In K. L. Ladd, J. Basu, V. DeMarinis, Ü. Ok, W. Zangari, & M. L. Ladd (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of the International Psychology of Religion, pp. 27-49
Cambridge University Press
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Beyond deficit narratives: Religious practice, meaning, and resilience in a national sample of New Zealand Muslims
Bulbulia, J. A., Afzali, M. U., Rasheed, A. A., Troughton, G., Yogeeswaran, K., & Sibley, C. G.
Religion, Brain & Behavior, in press
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Religion, cooperation, and prosocial behavior: Methods and evidence for causality
McCullough, M. E., Davis, D. E., & Bulbulia, J. A.
Religion, Brain & Behavior, in press
Full Text
Target trial emulation shows that supported causal effects of religious attendance on well-being are selective Bulbulia, J. A., Davis, D. E., Park, C. L., Rice, K. G., Troughton, G., Van Tongeren, D. R., & Sibley, C. G. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 8 Full Text

2025 Preprints

An Invitation to Causal Inference in Environmental Psychology
OSF Preprint

2024

Causal effects of religious service attendance on charity and volunteering using novel measures from a national longitudinal panel
Bulbulia, J. A., Davis, D. E., Rice, K., Sibley, C. G., & Troughton, G.
Archive for the Psychology of Religion 46(3), 244-267
Full Text
Methods in Causal Inference Series
- Part 1: Causal Diagrams and Confounding
- Part 2: Interaction, Mediation, and Time-Varying Treatments
- Part 3: Measurement Error and External Validity Threats
- Part 4: Confounding in Experiments
  Evolutionary Human Sciences, 6
The anatomy of prejudice during pandemic lockdowns: Evidence from a national panel study
Kempthorne, J., Yogeeswaran, K., Sibley, C. G., & Bulbulia, J. A.
PLOS ONE, 19(5), 1–14
Full Text

2023

A workflow for causal inference in cross-cultural psychology
Bulbulia, J. A.
Religion, Brain & Behavior, 13(3), 291-306
Full Text
Long-term causal effects of far-right terrorism in New Zealand
Bulbulia, J. A., Afzali, M. U., Yogeeswaran, K., & Sibley, C. G.
PNAS Nexus, 2(8), pgad242
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Software

boilerplate: A lightweight and flexible toolkit for reporting workflows and measures, for reproducible research
J. A. Bulbulia
R package version 1.3.0, License: MIT, 2024
Package Website | CRAN | DOI
margot: MARGinal Observational Treatment-effects
J. A. Bulbulia
R package version 0.2.3, License: CC BY 4.0, 2024
Package Website | DOI

Working Papers

Visit our GitHub for preprints and working papers.

Citation Formats

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--- title: "Research" --- ## Featured Infrastructure ### Places Map [Places Map](https://www.placesmap.org/) is a core OTTO Lab research infrastructure project. It supports mapping, curation, and analysis of places of worship and related cultural data for open science and policy targeting. Project code and workflows are available at [github.com/go-bayes/places-of-worship](https://github.com/go-bayes/places-of-worship). ## Complete Publication List For a comprehensive and up-to-date list of publications, please visit: - [ORCID Profile](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5861-2056) ## Selected Recent Publications ### 2026 - **Australia and New Zealand: The psychology of religion up to 2020** Counted, V., Miner, M., & Bulbulia, J. In K. L. Ladd, J. Basu, V. DeMarinis, Ü. Ok, W. Zangari, & M. L. Ladd (Eds.), *The Cambridge Handbook of the International Psychology of Religion*, pp. 27-49 Cambridge University Press [Full Text](https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108771122.003) - **Beyond deficit narratives: Religious practice, meaning, and resilience in a national sample of New Zealand Muslims** Bulbulia, J. A., Afzali, M. U., Rasheed, A. A., Troughton, G., Yogeeswaran, K., & Sibley, C. G. *Religion, Brain & Behavior*, in press [Full Text](https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2026.2645568) - **Religion, cooperation, and prosocial behavior: Methods and evidence for causality** McCullough, M. E., Davis, D. E., & Bulbulia, J. A. *Religion, Brain & Behavior*, in press [Full Text](https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2026.2695639) - **Target trial emulation shows that supported causal effects of religious attendance on well-being are selective** Bulbulia, J. A., Davis, D. E., Park, C. L., Rice, K. G., Troughton, G., Van Tongeren, D. R., & Sibley, C. G. *Evolutionary Human Sciences*, 8 [Full Text](https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2026.10043) ### 2025 Preprints - **An Invitation to Causal Inference in Environmental Psychology** [OSF Preprint](https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/tbjx8_v1) ### 2024 - **Causal effects of religious service attendance on charity and volunteering using novel measures from a national longitudinal panel** Bulbulia, J. A., Davis, D. E., Rice, K., Sibley, C. G., & Troughton, G. *Archive for the Psychology of Religion* 46(3), 244-267 [Full Text](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00846724241302810) - **Methods in Causal Inference Series** - Part 1: [Causal Diagrams and Confounding](https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2024.35) - Part 2: [Interaction, Mediation, and Time-Varying Treatments](https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2024.32) - Part 3: [Measurement Error and External Validity Threats](https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2024.33) - Part 4: [Confounding in Experiments](https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2024.34) *Evolutionary Human Sciences*, 6 - **The anatomy of prejudice during pandemic lockdowns: Evidence from a national panel study** Kempthorne, J., Yogeeswaran, K., Sibley, C. G., & Bulbulia, J. A. *PLOS ONE*, 19(5), 1–14 [Full Text](https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0303845) ### 2023 - **A workflow for causal inference in cross-cultural psychology** Bulbulia, J. A. *Religion, Brain & Behavior*, 13(3), 291-306 [Full Text](https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2022.2070245) - **Long-term causal effects of far-right terrorism in New Zealand** Bulbulia, J. A., Afzali, M. U., Yogeeswaran, K., & Sibley, C. G. *PNAS Nexus*, 2(8), pgad242 [Full Text](https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad242) ## Software - **boilerplate: A lightweight and flexible toolkit for reporting workflows and measures, for reproducible research** J. A. Bulbulia R package version 1.3.0, License: MIT, 2024 [Package Website](https://go-bayes.github.io/boilerplate/) | [CRAN](https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=boilerplate) | [DOI](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13370825) - **margot: MARGinal Observational Treatment-effects** J. A. Bulbulia R package version 0.2.3, License: CC BY 4.0, 2024 [Package Website](https://go-bayes.github.io/margot/) | [DOI](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10907724) ## Working Papers Visit our [GitHub](https://github.com/go-bayes) for preprints and working papers. --- ::: {.callout-tip} ## Citation Formats All publications include DOI links when available. Click on any publication for full citation details and export options. :::