REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

International

Firat, Rengin and Jennifer McCoy. “Moral Polarization” Paper presented at the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists-the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SASP-SPSSI) Conference on the Morality of Conflict and Cooperation, Melbourne, Australia. April 2017.

Firat, Rengin. “Coalitional Affiliation as a Missing Link Between Ethnic Polarization and Well-being: An Empirical Test from the European Social Survey.” Paper presented at the New Methodological Challenges to Investigation of Human Values Session at the joint 7th LCSR International Workshop on Subjective Well-Being and Growing Inequality Across the Globe and the XVIII April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, Moscow, Russia. April 2017.

Firat, Rengin and Camilo Cristancho. “The Socio-psychology of polarization and de-polarization” Paper presented at the Workshop on Polarized Polities: Causes, Consequences and Solutions, Budapest, Hungary. March 2017.

Firat, Rengin, Hye Won Kwon and Steven Hitlin. “Moral Inclusion and Social Identities: A cross-national investigation of in-group and out-group values” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Nagoya, Japan. August 2016.

Firat, Rengin. “Ethnic Polarization and Well-being: The Moderating Effects of Agentic Value Orientations” Paper presented at the Prosociality, Value Orientations, and Well-being Session at the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Warsaw, Poland. July 2016.

Firat, Rengin. “Investigating Moral Conflict and Political Decisions in the Human Brain” Paper presented at the Brain Processes Involved in Political Decisions Session at the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Warsaw, Poland. July 2016.

Firat, Rengin. “Discrimination and Subjective Well-being: The Moderating Effects of Agentic Value Orientations. (Progress Report)” Paper presented at the 5th International Annual Research Conference of the LCSR “Cultural and Economic changes under cross-national perspective,” Moscow, Russia. November 2015.

Firat, Rengin, Steven Hitlin and Hye Won Kwon. “Values and Group Boundaries: A Novel Measurement Technique.” Paper presented at the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland. July 2015.

Firat, Rengin, Steven Hitlin and Hye Won Kwon. “Values, Social Identities and Civic Engagement.” Paper presented at the 68th Annual World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina. July 2015.

Firat, Rengin. “The Moral Basis of Racial Cognition in the Human Brain.” Paper presented at the Prosociality and Cognition Session at the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association (EHBEA) Conference, Helsinki, Finland. March 2015.

Firat, Rengin. “Discrimination and Subjective Well-being: The Moderating Effects of Value Orientations.” Paper presented at the Social Capital and Subjective Well-being Session at the XVI April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, Moscow, Russia. April 2015.

Firat, Rengin. “Coalitional Affiliation as a Missing Link Between Ethnic Polarization and Well-being: An Empirical Test from the European Social Survey.” Paper presented at the 4th LCSR international conference on Cultural and Economic Changes in Cross-National Perspective, St. Petersburg, Russia. November 2014.

Firat, Rengin. “Coalitional Psychology: The Missing Link between Ethnic Polarization and Well-being.” Paper presented at the Understanding Democracy and Polarization Session at the XV April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, Moscow, Russia. April 2014.

National

Firat, Rengin, Shayna La Scala and Bruce Link. “Covid-19 Related Discrimination Contributes to Mental Health Disparities for Black and Asian American Populations” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science, Baltimore, MD. October 2021.

La Scala, Shayna, Rengin Firat and Bruce Link. “The Influence of COVID-19 Stress on Smoking and Alcohol Consumption” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, virtual meeting. August 2021.

Firat, Rengin and Bruce Link. “Ethno-Racial Disparities of Covid Related Stress and Mental Health Problems” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, virtual meeting. August 2021.

Firat, Rengin and Bruce Link. (Invited). “The Mental Health Consequences of COVID-19 on Ethnic and Racial Minorities” Invited talk at the Group Processes and Covid panel at the 33rd Group Processes Annual Meeting, virtual meeting. August 2021.

Firat, Rengin. “Biomarkers of Cultural Coping Strategies in Response to Inter-Ethnic Stress” Paper presented at the Group Processes Pre-conference Parallel Sessions at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York City, NY. August 2019.

Firat, Rengin. (Invited). “Capturing Emotions using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)” Paper presented at the Methodological Advances in the Sociology of Emotions Invited Session at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, PA. August 2018.

Firat, Rengin and Linzie Taylor. “An fMRI Investigation of the Effects of Individualistic vs. Collectivistic Priming on Responses to Social Exclusion” Paper presented at the Neurosociology: Fundamental Advances and Applications Invited Session at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, PA. August 2018.

Firat, Rengin. (Invited). “Moral Polarization and Support for Democracy: Polarizing Around Values” Paper presented at the invited half-day workshop on Extreme Political Polarization and Legitimacy at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), San Francisco, CA. August 2017.

Firat, Rengin. “Why Do We Need the Frontal Lobes? The Neurological Foundations of Complex Human Social Life” Paper presented at the Sociology of Mental Health, Biosociology, Neurosociology and Mental Health Session at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada. August 2017.

Hitlin, Steven, Hye Won Kwon and Rengin Firat. “Moral Boundaries Across Cultures” Paper presented at the Social Psychology Session at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada. August 2017.

Firat, Rengin. (Invited).  “New Approaches to Morality: Integrating Sociology with Neuroscience” Paper presented at the Section on Sociology of Emotions Invited Session. New Frontiers: Morality, Altruism, and Emotions (co-sponsored with Section on Altruism, Morality and Social Solidarity) at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Seattle, WA. August 2016.

Rogers, Ethan, Rengin Firat, Hye Won Kwon and Steven Hitlin. “A New Measure of Moral Boundaries: Investigating Group Values.” Paper presented at the Altruism, Morality and Social Solidarity Section Session at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Seattle, WA. August 2016.

Firat, Rengin, Ethan Rogers, Steven Hitlin and Hye Won Kwon. “Value Boundaries, Altruism and Well-Being.” Paper presented at the Altruism, Morality and Social Solidarity Section Session at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL. August 2015.

Firat, Rengin and Steven Hitlin. “Moral Schemas, Cultural Conflict, and Socio-Political Action.” Paper presented at the regular session on Peace and Conflict at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA. August 2014.

Firat, Rengin. “A Theory of Prejudice in Everyday Life: From Symbolic Markers to Somatic Markers.” Refereed Roundtables for the Section on Social Psychology at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Denver, CO. August 2012.

Firat, Rengin. “Moral Emotions and Racial Prejudice: A Neurosociological Approach.” New Directions in Social Psychology Session for the Section on Social Psychology at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Las Vegas, NV. August 2011.

Firat, Rengin and Jennifer L. Glanville. “Voluntary Associations and Tolerance: The Role of Membership Composition.” Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations Session at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA. August 2010.

Regional

Firat, Rengin. “Invited Book Panel: Race/Ethnicity: Tacit Racism, by Ann Warfield Rawls and Waverly Duck” Panelist at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association (PSA), virtual meeting, April 2021.

Firat, Rengin. (Invited). “Politics, the State and Military: Town Hall Meeting: The 2020 Election & Beyond” Panelist at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association (PSA), virtual meeting, April 2021.

Flores, Justino J., Ilana J. Bennett, Rachel Wu and Rengin Firat. “Ethnic and Age Differences in Psychological Wellbeing.” Poster presented at the 24th Annual UCLA Research Conference on Aging, Los Angeles, CA. May 2019.

Abilova, Dariga and Rengin Firat. “Can Values Explain Attitudes towards Petty Bribery?” Paper presented at the Legitimacy, Values and Political Behavior Session at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, IL. April 2018.

Firat, Rengin. “Agency, Ethnic Polarization and Well-being: A Cross-national Analysis” Paper presented at the Suicidal Ideation, Agency and Meaning Panel at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society (SSS), Atlanta, GA. April 2016.

Firat, Rengin. “Moral Emotions.” Social Psychology Session, Joint Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society/North Central Sociological Association, Chicago, IL. March 2010.

Civettini, Nicole H.W., stef shuster and Rengin Firat. “Effects of Same Sex Unions on Mental Well-Being.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Des Moines, IA. March 2009.

INVITED TALKS & COLLOQUIA

2021                Firat, Rengin. “Neurosociology of Race: An fMRI Investigation of the Effects of Social Values on Neural Responses to Social Exclusion.” Sociology Colloquium at UC Berkeley.

2021                Firat, Rengin. “COVID-19 Related Stress and Ethno-Racial Disparities of Mental Health.” UCR School of Medicine Psychiatry and Neuroscience Grand Rounds.

2020                Firat, Rengin. “Imaging Race: An fMRI Investigation of the Effects of Individualistic vs. Collectivistic Values on Responses to Social Exclusion in African American and White American Individuals.” Neuroscience Graduate Program Seminar at UC Riverside.

2016                Firat, Rengin. “From Brains to Minds: A Novel Approach to Investigating Moral Boundaries of Race.” Race & Diversity Lecture Series at Dept. of Sociology, University of Georgia.

2013                Firat, Rengin. “Sosyal Nörobilime Yeni Bir Bakıs Açısı: Sosyo-Politik Davranıslar Üzerine Disiplinler ve Uluslar Arası Bir Proje.” (“A New Way of Looking at Social Neuroscience: An Inter-disciplinary and Inter-national Investigation of Socio-Political Behavior.”) Dept. of Neurology, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.

2012                Firat, Rengin. “Evaluations of Race and Social Class in the Human Brain.” Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Iowa.

2012                Firat, Rengin. “Symbolic Boundaries and the Human Brain.” Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Iowa.