publications.
2025
Schimmelpfennig, R., Elbaek, C., Mitkidis, P., Singh, A., Roberson, Q. (2025). The WEIRDest Organizations in the World? Assesssing the Lack of Sample Diversity in Organizational Research. Journal of Management (2025 Yearly Review Issue). (Link to Paper | Twitter Thread)
2024
Schimmelpfennig, R., Spicer, R., White, C. J., Gervais, W., Norenzayan, A., Heine, S., Henrich, J., & Muthukrishna, M. (2024). Methodological Concerns Underlying A Lack of Evidence for Cultural Heterogeneity in the Replication of Psychological Effects. Communications Psychology. (Link to Paper)
Schimmelpfennig, R. & Muthukrishna, M. (2024). Cultural Evolution and Public Policy. The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution. Jamshid J. Tehrani (ed.) et al. (Link to Paper)
Schimmelpfennig, R., Spicer, R., White, C. J., Gervais, W., Norenzayan, A., Heine, S., Henrich, J., & Muthukrishna, M. (2024). The Moderating Role of Culture in the Generalizability of Psychological Phenomena. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. (Link to Paper | Twitter Thread)
2023
Maxi Heitmayer & Schimmelpfennig, R. (2023). Netiquette as Digital Social Norms. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. (Link to Paper | Media Coverage, Podcast)
Schimmelpfennig, R. & Muthukrishna, M. (2023). Cultural Evolutionary Behavioural Science and Public Policy. Behavioural Public Policy (Link to paper)
2022
Schimmelpfennig, R., Razek, L., Schnell, E., & Muthukrishna, M. (2022). Paradox of diversity in the collective brain. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377(1843), 20200316. (Link to Paper | Illustration) (Media: LSE News | Twitter Thread | Video )
2021
Schimmelpfennig, R., Vogt, S., Ehret, S., & Efferson, C. (2021). Promotion of behavioural change for health in a heterogeneous population. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 99(11), 819–827. https://doi.org/10.2471/BLT.20.285227. (Link to Paper) (Media: The Communication Initiative Network | Twitter Thread)
Lahlou, S., Pea, R., Heitmayer, M., G. Russell, M., Schimmelpfennig, R., Yamin, P., ... & P. Dawes, A. (2021, May). Are we ‘Beyond being there’yet? Towards better interweaving epistemic and social aspects of virtual reality conferencing. In Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-6). (Link to Paper) (Media: Stanford Media X)
working papers, pre-prints & other writing
2024
Schimmelpfennig, R., Efferson, C., & Bastardoz, N. (2024). Credible Leadership Signals. Revise and Resubmit.
2022
Jochim, J., & Schimmelpfennig, R., (2022). Der Mensch als Innovation. German Journal of the United Nations, 2022(2), 63–68. DOI: 10.35998/VN-2022-0008. (Link to Paper | PDF)
2021
Schnell, E., Schimmelpfennig, R., & Muthukrishna, M. (2021). The Size of the Stag Determines the Level of Cooperation. bioRxiv. (Pre-print)
Schimmelpfennig, R., & Muthukrishna, M. (2021). What ultimately predicts witchcraft and its variation around the world? Current Anthropology. (Link to Paper)
talks & conferences.
Upcoming
Invited Talk: Universidade de Lisboa, Centro de Filosofia das Ciências. April 2024
Schimmelpfennig, R., Efferspm. C.. (2025). Socially Engineering Change in Organizational Culture. Lausanne Management & Economics Workshop 2025. Lausanne: 17-19 June.
Past
Schimmelpfennig, R., Davani, A., Diaz, M., Prabhakaran, V. (2024). Humanizing AI Across Cultures. Psychology of Technology Conference 2024. Boston: 12-13 October.
Schimmelpfennig, R., Elbaek, C., Mitkidis, P., Singh, A., Roberson, Q. (2024). Assesssing the Lack of Sample Diversity in Organizational Research. Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2024. Chicago: 09-13 August. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2024.15484abstract
Invited Talk: Advances in Cultural Psychology Pre-conference - SPSP Annual Convention. San Diego: 8-10 February.
Invited Talk: Stanford Culture Group Seminar. Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford.
Invited Talk: Aarhus University: Department for Psychology and Behavioral Sciences. Aarhus: 8 November.
Schimmelpfennig, R. & Efferson, C. (2023). Jointly integrating psychological processes of ingroup conformity and outgroup differentiation for decision-making in a population. Conference of the German Society of Social Psychology. Graz: 11-13 September.
Schimmelpfennig, R. & Efferson, C. (2023). Jointly integrating psychological processes of ingroup conformity and outgroup differentiation for decision-making in a population. International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sciences. Lisbon: 15-18 Mai.
Schimmelpfennig, R., Ehret, S., Vogt, S., & Efferson, C. (2022). Leveraging social influence for the wisdom of the crowd. Cultural Evolution Society Annual Meeting. Aarhus: 20-23 September.
Schimmelpfennig, R. & Muthukrishna, M. (2022). The Evolution of Behavioral Science in Public Policy. Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2022. Seattle: 04-10 August.
Schimmelpfennig, R. & Muthukrishna, M. (2022). Cultural Evolutionary Behavioral Science in Public Policy. Annual International Behavioural Public Policy Conference 2022. London: 08-10 September.
Schimmelpfennig, R. & Muthukrishna, M. (2022). Paradox of Diversity in the Collective Brain. EHBEA 2022. Leipzig: 19-22 April.
Schimmelpfennig, R. & Muthukrishna, M. (2022). Paradox of Diversity in the Collective Brain. Royal Society Discussion Meeting. London: 14-15 March.