Azim Shariff is an assistant professor of Psychology and Social Behavior at the University of California, Irvine. His research broadly focuses on moral psychology, with a focus on religion’s psychological and social consequences. This work has appeared in top academic journals such as Science and Trends in Cognitive Sciences, and has been covered in popular media outlets such as The Economist, New Scientist and The New York Times. In 2012 he was awarded the Margaret Gorman Early Career Award from the American Psychological Association’s Division for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality.
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