Rima-Maria Rahal
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Rima-Maria Rahal
@rimamrahal.bsky.social
Decision Making, Process Tracing, Open Science. Researcher (Cognition and Behavior, WU Vienna). she/her.
What happens when a lottery determines which proposals for third-party funding get reviewed?

Details here (#OpenAccess and fresh off the press): doi.org/10.1038/s414...
November 7, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Thinking about applying for GYA membership but still have questions?
Then join us 22 August from 13:00 – 14:30 UTC for an informational webinar featuring GYA members and Executive Committee members!
Register here: leopoldina-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
More info and QR registration 👇👇👇
August 14, 2025 at 10:36 AM
I love 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 projects, bringing together many minds to tackle a questions together 🙏 But leading a project with many coauthors also comes with a particular set of ✨challenges✨. Here are our recommendations for taking the lead for a many-authored publication: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Ten simple rules for leading a many-author non-empirical paper
Many-author non-empirical papers include recommendations or consensus statements, catalogs of ideas, roadmaps for future research, calls to action, or “how to” articles. These papers have great potent...
doi.org
August 18, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Just published in Forschung & Lehre: Our take on 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫. Given current international developments restricting academic freedom through grant reallocations, we use this opportunity to speak up for 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬.

🔗 www.forschung-und-lehre.de/forschung/gu...
Gute Forschungs-Förderung braucht Erforschung!
Peer-Review-Verfahren kommen immer wieder zu suboptimalen, verzerrten Entscheidungen. Wie lässt sich die Vergabe von Forschungsmitteln verbessern?
www.forschung-und-lehre.de
August 12, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Now published: Our paper investigating cognitive processes of ingroup favoritism across 20 countries. Free to read (hashtag#OpenAccess) at www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2417456122
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
August 6, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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We’re beyond honored to receive the SIPS Mission Award 🏆 & thrilled to have received 5 SIPS Commendations 🏆 for projects across our 4 core pillars: Metascience, Social Justice & DEIA, Community, and Education in OS.

We are so grateful to all contributors who made this possible 💜

[All links below]
We are very pleased to announce the 2025 Commendations for the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science! Join us in celebrating the exceptional projects that have revolutionized the field of psychological science.
buff.ly/rzTeLYL
July 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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In Deutschland wird leidenschaftlich über mögliche Änderungen an den Strukturen der wissenschaftlichen Zusammenarbeit diskutiert. Das Ziel ist, die vielfältigen Verführungen zum Machtmissbrauch, die das gegenwärtige deutsche System beinhaltet, stärker zu beschränken.
July 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Diese Woche kuratiere ich den Account von Real Scientists Deutschland @realscientists.de. Die Idee: zeigen, wer und was bei Wissenschaft dahinter steckt.

Wenn ihr Lust habt, über meine Arbeit und meinen Alltag zu lesen, schaut vorbei ⬇️
July 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
💎 Diamond 💎 #OpenAccess (no fee to read, no fee to publish) is sparking hope for solving parts of the dilemma of sharing research without feeding for-profit publishers. In a PLOS webinar, we discussed if and how we might ✨ achieve the impossible (?) ✨ of making change towards Diamond OA.
July 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
🍀#morethanluck Rethinking Research Funding
Making a splash: What are challenges involved with changing the way research is funded? Join via zoom 🔗https://bit.ly/fundingluck

⬇️ Program for Today ⬇️
July 3, 2025 at 5:01 AM
🍀#morethanluck Rethinking Research Funding
Experience from practice. Are alternatives to classical funding allocation procedures proving their worth? Join via zoom 🔗https://bit.ly/fundingluck

⬇️ Today's program ⬇️
Events - Universität Bielefeld
Events at ZiF, Dates, Conferences, what is happening when?
bit.ly
July 2, 2025 at 5:33 AM
🍀#morethanluck Rethinking Research Funding
Today we're focused on the essentials: Does the we currently allocate research funding make sense? Join via zoom 🔗https://bit.ly/fundingluck
⬇️ Program ⬇️
July 1, 2025 at 5:13 AM
🍀#morethanluck Rethinking #Research Funding workshop tomorrow! Public program + Zoom 🔗https://bit.ly/fundingluck

Program ⬇️
🍀Jul 1: Essentials. Does the way we fund research make sense?
🍀Jul 2: Practice. How are funders dealing with challenges?
🍀Jul 3: Future. How can research funding work better?
June 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
🍀 More than Luck: Rethinking Research Funding 💵

Research costs money. Are we making the most of it?
🔗 Program & Zoom Access: bit.ly/fundingluck

#MetaScience #OpenScience #SciencePolicy
LinkedIn
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lnkd.in
June 26, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Will I see you for #SIPS2025? If you're around on Wednesday, come drop by at our #hackaton where we'll work on (re)writing the book ✏📖 on Social Psychology creating an Open Educational Resource. We will document shifts in the field and revisit classic studies in light of recent replication efforts.
Join us for the exciting unconferences during #SIPS2025 in Budapest on June 25-27!

We will be discussing #OpenScience, AI, replication studies, critical thinking, integrity, transparency, trust, community, peer review, public engagement, preprints, the future of SIPS, and more!

#PsychSciSky
June 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Intuitive deontology? Here’s our new ✨ meta-analysis ✨ on whether intuition favors rule-following over sacrificial welfare-maximization. Spoiler: It’s complicated.

doi.org/10.1037/bul0...
Free version: hdl.handle.net/21.11116/000...
with Alina Fahrenwaldt, Jerome Olsen & @susafiedler.bsky.social
APA PsycNet
doi.org
June 3, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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EADM is now on BlueSky.
We will post about JDM news, papers, and events (like spudm2025.imtlucca.it, see you there)
Home
The 2025 “Subjective Probability, Utility, and Decision Making” meeting will be held at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca. It will take place from August 31st to September 4th 2025 and will ...
spudm2025.imtlucca.it
April 15, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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📖 Open Social Psychology Textbook 📖
Call for Contributors 🙋🏻‍♀️

New FORRT initiative to develop an open-access textbook on social psychology. Goal: summarize 🏛️ classical findings 🏛️ and discuss them in light of replication attempts.

🧵 Find out how you can get involved below 👇
February 4, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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JOIN OUR TEAM!
Seeking a PhD candidate to become part of the Institute for Cognition and Behavior at WU Vienna. 📷 wirtschaftsuniversitaet-wien-portal.rexx-systems.com/Teaching-and...
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Job opportunity Teaching and Research Associate at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien Jobportal
others in Wien
wirtschaftsuniversitaet-wien-portal.rexx-systems.com
January 16, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Week 2 in the US — a trip to NYC! Presented our #EyeTracking research on discrimination at #SJDM2024. Now swapping skyscrapers for gorges as I head back to Cornell. Loving this mix of ideas and places 🥰
November 25, 2024 at 6:12 PM
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Hello #neuroeconomists and decision (neuro)scientists - did I miss you in this starterpack? Just reply to this post or DM if you'd like to be added!

go.bsky.app/1K9Suh
November 23, 2024 at 8:13 PM
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‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky

For me, it certainly feels good to be here!

@natureportfolio.bsky.social @bsky.app

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky
Researchers say the social-media platform — an alternative to X — offers more control over the content they see and the people they engage with.
www.nature.com
November 22, 2024 at 6:49 AM
Long time in the making 🧪, published today: Can people catch liars? Probably not -- lie detection accuracy was as good as a coin flip. But could we turn people's physical responses into a lie detector of sorts? We tried, and we found no evidence that it works: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Your lies don't leave me cold: Assessing direct, indirect and physiological measures of lie detection
People tend to be bad at detecting lies: When explicitly asked to infer whether others tell a lie or the truth, people often do not perform better tha…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 20, 2024 at 2:36 AM
Pumpkins are such a mood 😳

#1: Melting into a sad puddle of despair 🫠
November 18, 2024 at 3:15 PM
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🚨Excited that our meta-analysis is out in JPSP @APA_Journals. We synthesized 6 decades (1958-2017) of empirical evidence on social dilemmas and tested which structural features (most strongly) promote cooperation:
doi.org/10.1037/pspi...
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November 5, 2024 at 9:40 AM