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Ayse Payir, PhD

Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate

Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development

Human Development

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ORCID : 0000-0003-1210-2082

Ayse Payir is a postdoctoral research associate at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She studies children’s religious cognition under the supervision of Kathleen Corriveau (Boston University) and Paul Harris (Harvard University). She completed a PhD in psychology with her work on the development of counterfactual thinking-based emotions and social judgments under the supervision of Robert Guttentag (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) while she was also studying the development of the virtue of gratitude under the supervision of Jonathan Tudge.

BU Research

A peaceful coexistence or an inevitable clash? The development of scientific and religious thinking across two cultures
06/01/2022 - 11/30/2023 (Subcontract PI)
University of Birmingham TempletonRelig Trust

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Payir A, Corriveau KH, Harris PL. Children's beliefs in invisible causal agents-Both religious and scientific. Adv Child Dev Behav. 2023; 65:1-34. PMID: 37481295

McLoughlin N, Cui YK, Davoodi T, Payir A, Clegg JM, Harris PL, Corriveau KH. Expressions of uncertainty in invisible scientific and religious phenomena during naturalistic conversation. Cognition. 2023 Aug; 237:105474. PMID: 37146359

Freitas LBL, Palhares F, Cao H, Liang Y, Zhou N, Mokrova IL, Lee S, Payir A, Kiang L, Mendonça SE, Merçon-Vargas EA, O'Brien L, Tudge JRH. How weird is the development of children's gratitude in the United States? Cross-cultural comparisons. Dev Psychol. 2022 Sep; 58(9):1767-1782. PMID: 35587410; DOI: 10.1037/dev0001383;

Davoodi T, Jamshidi-Sianaki M, Payir A, Cui YK, Clegg J, McLoughlin N, Harris PL, Corriveau KH. Miraculous, magical, or mundane? The development of beliefs about stories with divine, magical, or realistic causation. Mem Cognit. 2023 Apr; 51(3):695-707. PMID: 35192175; DOI: 10.3758/s13421-021-01270-2;

Payir A, Heiphetz L, Harris PL, Corriveau KH. What could have been done? Counterfactual alternatives to negative outcomes generated by religious and secular children. Dev Psychol. 2022 Feb; 58(2):376-391. PMID: 35113603; DOI: 10.1037/dev0001294;

Payir A, Heiphetz L. Children’s and adults’ attribution of moral judgments to human and supernatural agents. Journal of Cognition and Development. 2022; 4(23):524-544. View Publication
Tudge JRH, Merçon-Vargas EA, Payir A. Sourcebook of family theories and methodologies, eds. Adamsons K, Few-Demo A, Proulx C, Roy K. Urie Bronfenbrenner's bioecological theory: Its development, core concepts, and critical issues. Wiley. New York City. 2022; 235-254.

Payir A, Mcloughlin N, Cui YK, Davoodi T, Clegg JM, Harris PL, Corriveau KH. Children's Ideas About What Can Really Happen: The Impact of Age and Religious Background. Cogn Sci. 2021 Oct; 45(10):e13054. PMID: 34647360; DOI: 10.1111/cogs.13054;

Tudge JRH, Navarro J, Payir A, Merçon-Vargas E, Cao H, Zhou N, Liang Y, Mendonça, S. Using cultural-ecological theory to construct a mid-range theory for the development of gratitude as a virtue. Journal of Family Theory and Review. 2021; 2(14):157-174. View Publication
Tudge JRH, Navarro J, Merçon-Vargas E, Payir A. The promise and practice of early childhood educare in the writings of Urie Bronfenbrenner. Early Child Development and Care. 2021; 7-8(191):1079-1088. View Publication

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Payir A, Davoodi T, Cui KY, Clegg JM, Harris PL, Corriveau K. Are high levels of religiosity inconsistent with a high valuation of science? Evidence from the United States, China and Iran. Int J Psychol. 2021 Apr; 56(2):216-227. PMID: 32617973; DOI: 10.1002/ijop.12701;

Davoodi T, Cui YK, Clegg JM, Yan FE, Payir A, Harris PL, Corriveau KH. Epistemic justifications for belief in the unobservable: The impact of minority status. Cognition. 2020 Jul; 200:104273. PMID: 32388141; DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104273;

Payir A, Guttentag R. Counterfactual thinking and age differences in judgments of regret and blame. J Exp Child Psychol. 2019 Jul; 183:261-275. PMID: 30928889; DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2019.02.007;

Liang Y, Tudge JRH, Mokrova IL, Freitas LB, Merçon-Vargas EA, Mendonça SE, O’Brian L, Kiang L, Payir A, Cao H, Zhou N. Measuring parents’ developmental goals for their children: Updating Kagitçibasi’s approach to autonomy-relatedness in the United States and China. Current Psychology. 2018; 1-10. View Publication
Payir A, Davoodi T, Jamshidi SM, Harris PL, Corriveau K. Coexisting religious and scientific beliefs among Iranian parents. Peace & Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. 2018; 24(2):240-244. View Publication
Davoodi T, Sianaki MJ, Abedi F, Payir A, Cui KY, Harris PL, Corriveau KH. Beliefs about religious and scientific entities among parents and children in Iran. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 2018; 10(7):847-855. View Publication
Kiang L, Merçon-Vargas E, Payir A, O’Brien L. Developing gratitude in children and adolescents, eds. Tudge JRH, Freitas L. The development of gratitude and its relation to spending preferences and materialism. Cambridge University Press. New York City, New York. 2017; 154-174. View Publication
Payir A, Zeytinoglu S. Children’s and adolescents’ expression of gratitude across societies: Findings from Turkey. Journal of Cross-Cultural Research. 2017; 52(1):117-134. View Publication
Mendonca S, Merçon-Vargas E, Payir A, O'Brien L, Tudge JRH. The development of gratitude in seven societies: Cross-cultural highlights. Journal of Cross-Cultural Research. 2017; 52(1). View Publication
Tudge JRH, Merçon-Vargas E, Liang Y, Payir A. Theories of early childhood education: Developmental, behaviorist, and critical, eds. Cohen L, Waite-Stupiansky S. The importance of Urie Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological theory for early childhood education. Routledge. London, UK. 2017; 45-57. View Publication
Payir A, Mendonça S, Palhares F, Liang Y, Merçon-Vargas E, Freitas L, Tudge JRH. Developing gratitude in children and adolescents, eds. Tudge J, Freitas L. Cross-cultural variations in the development of gratitude. Cambridge University Press. New York City. 2017; 111-134. View Publication

Payir A, Guttentag R. "It could have been worse": Developmental change in the use of a counterfactual consoling strategy. J Exp Child Psychol. 2016 Aug; 148:119-30. PMID: 27156177; DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2016.04.001;

Tudge JRH, Payir A, Merçon-Vargas E, Cao H, Liang Y, Li J. Still misused after all these years? A re-evaluation of the uses of Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological theory of human development. Journal of Family Theory & Review. 2016; 8(4):427-445. View Publication
Tudge JRH, Rosa EM, Payir A. The Sage Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development, ed. Bornstein, MH. Urie Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological theory of human development. Sage. Thousand Oaks, California. 2016; 251-252.
Kiang L, Mendonca S, Liang Y, Payir A, O'Brien L, Tudge JRH, Freitas L. If children won lotteries: Materialism, gratitude, and imaginary windfall spending. Young Consumers. 2016; 17(4):404-418. View Publication

This graph shows the total number of publications by year, by first, middle/unknown, or last author.

Bar chart showing 25 publications over 8 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2017 and 2022

Bar chart showing 25 publications over 8 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2017 and 2022

Year	Publications
2016	4
2017	5
2018	3
2019	1
2020	2
2021	3
2022	5
2023	2

2016 Society for Cross-cultural Research: Best Poster Award

2008-2010 Fulbright Association: Fulbright Scholar Fellowship

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