Publications of Rima-Maria Rahal

Fahrenwaldt, A., Olsen, J., Rahal, R.-M., & Fiedler, S. (2025). Intuitive deontology? A systematic review and multivariate, multilevel meta-analysis of experimental studies on the psychological drivers of moral judgments. Psychological bulletin, 151(4), 428–454

Rahal, R.-M., Siebers, T., Sleegers, W. W. A., & van Beest, I. (2024). Your lies don't leave me cold: Assessing direct, indirect and physiological measures of lie detection. Acta Psychologica, 251, 104548

Brohmer, H., Hofer, G., Bauch, S. A., Beitner, J., Berkessel, J. B., Corcoran, K., … Athenstaedt, U. (2024). Effects of the generic masculine and its alternatives in germanophone countries: A multi-lab replication and extension of Stahlberg, Sczesny, and Braun (2001). International Review of Social Psychology, 37(1), 17

Lohse, J., Rahal, R.-M., Schulte-Mecklenbeck, M., Sofianos, A., & Wollbrant, C. (2024). Investigations of decision processes at the intersection of psychology and economics. Journal of Economic Psychology, 103, 102741

Fiedler, S., Habibnia, H., Fahrenwaldt, A., & Rahal, R.-M. (2024). Motivated cognition in cooperation. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 19(2), 385–403

Luebber, F., Krach, S., Martinez Mateo, M., Paulus, F. M., Rademacher, L., Rahal, R.-M., & Specht, J. (2023). Rethink funding by putting the lottery first. Nature Human Behavior, 7, 1031–1033

Huber, C., Dreber, A., Huber, J., Holzmeister, F., Fiedler, S., Rahal, R.-M., & et al. (2023). Competition and moral behavior: A meta-analysis of forty-five crowd-sourced experimental designs. PNAS, 120(23), e22155721

Buchanan, E. M., C. Lewis, S., Paris, B., Forscher, P. S., Pavlacic, J. M., Beshears, J. E., … et al. (2023). PSACR: The Psychological Science Accelerator's COVID-19 Rapid-response Dataset. OSF Preprints

Heck, T., Steinhardt, I., Rahal, R.-M., Schubotz, M., Scholl, D., & Behrens, S. (2023). Bootstrapping the Open Science culture: The fellowship approach. Research Ideas and Outcomes, 9, e103675

Buchanan, E. M., Lewis, S. C., Paris, B., Forscher, P. S., Pavlacic, J. M., Beshears, J. E., … Primbs, T. R. & M. A. (2023). The psychological science accelerator’s COVID-19 rapid-response dataset. Scientific Data, 10, 87

Rahal, R.-M., Fiedler, S., Adetula, A., Berntsson, R. P.-A., Dirnagl, U., Feld, G. B., … Azevedo, F. (2023). Quality research needs good working conditions. Nature Human Behaviour, 7, 164–167

Rahal, R.-M., Hamann, H., Brohmer, H., & Pethig, F. (2022). Sharing the recipe: Reproducibility and replicability in research across disciplines. Research Ideas and Outcomes, 8, e89980

Delios, A., Clemente, E. G., Wu, T., Tan, H., Wang, Y., Gordon, M., … et al. (2022). Examining the generalizability of research findings from archival data. PNAS, 119(30), e2120377119

Psychological Science Accelerator Self-Determination Theory Collaboration, Rahal, R.-M., & et al. (2022). A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. PNAS, 119(22), e21110911

Dorison, C., Lerner, J. S., Heller, B. H., Rothman, A., Kawachi, I. I., Wang, K., … et al. (2022). In COVID-19 health messaging, loss framing increases anxiety with little-to-no concomitant benefits: Experimental evidence from 84 countries. Affective Science, 3, 577–602

van Beest, I., & Rahal, R.-M. (2022). Social change: Conflict and competition. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Psychology in the Real World

Rahal, R.-M., & Fiedler, S. (2021). Cognitive and affective processes of prosociality. Current Opinion in Psychology

Wang, K., Goldenberg, A., Dorison, C. A., Rahal, R.-M., & et al. (2021). A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Human Behaviour, 5, 1089–1110

Wanders, F., Homan, A. C., van Vianen, A. E. M., Rahal, R.-M., & van Kleef, G. A. (2021). How norm violators rise and fall in the eyes of others: The role of sanctions. PLOS ONE

Tierney, W., Hardy, J., Ebersole, C. R., Viganola, D., Clemente, E. G., Gordon, M., … Rahal, R.-M. (2021). A creative destruction approach to replication: Implicit work and sex morality across cultures. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 93, 104060

Tierney, W., Hardy, J. H., Ebersole, C. R., Leavitt, K., Viganola, D., Clemente, E. G., … et al. (2020). Creative destruction in science. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 161, 291–309

Rahal, R.-M., Fiedler, S., & De Dreu, C. K. W. (2020). Prosocial preferences condition decision effort and ingroup biased generosity in intergroup decision-making. Scientific Reports, 10132

Rahal, R.-M., & Fiedler, S. (2019). Understanding cognitive and affective mechanisms in social psychology through eye-tracking. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 85, 103842

Rahal, R.-M. (2018). The fire burns within: Individual motivations for self-sacrifice. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41, e214

Bouwmeester, S., Verkoeijen, P. P. J. L., Aczel, B., Barbosa, F., Bègue, L., Brañas-Garza, P., … Wollbrant, C. E. (2017). Registered replication report: Rand, Greene, and Nowak (2012). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 1–16

Open Science Collaboration, Fiedler, S., Rahal, R.-M., & et al. (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349(6251)

Engel, C., Golder, J., & Rahal, R.-M. (2024). Who is afraid of the pink elephant? Character evidence, wiretapping, and debiasing interventions. Bonn: Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Discussion Paper 2024/17

Engel, C., & Rahal, R.-M. (2022). Eye-tracking as a method for legal research. Bonn: Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Discussion Paper 2022/7

Engel, C., & Rahal, R.-M. (2020). What the judge argues is not what the judge thinks: Eye tracking as a window into judicial decision making. Bonn: Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Discussion Paper 2020/3