Publications

Peer-reviewed

2024

Micheli, L. & Schumacher, A. Anticipated scarcity and stockpiling during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of perceived threat, childhood SES and materialism. PLOS One, 19(3): e0294497 (link)

2023

Micheli, L., Breil, C., & Böckler, A. Golden Gazes: Gaze Direction and Emotional Context Promote Prosocial Behavior by Increasing Attributions of Empathy and Perspective-Taking. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: IRGP,126(4), 643–659. (link)

Korbmacher, M., Azevedo, F., Pennington, C., Hartmann, H., Pownall, M., Schmidt, K., Elsherif, M., … Micheli, L. & Evans, T. The replication crisis has led to positive structural, procedural, and community changes. Communications Psychology 1, 3. (link)

Pownall, M., Azevedo, F., König, L.M., Slack, H.R., Evans, T., Flack, Z., Grinschgl, S., … Micheli, L. … & FORRT. Teaching open and reproducible scholarship: a critical review of the evidence base for current pedagogical methods and their outcomes. Royal Society Open Science, 10: 221255. (link)

Azevedo, F., Micheli, L., & Bolesta., D. S. Does Stereotype Threat contribute to the Political Knowledge Gender Gap? A Preregistered Replication Study of Ihme and Tausendpfund (2018). Journal of Experimental Political Science. (link)

2022

Micheli, L., Negrini, M., Schuhmann, T., & Riedl, A. (2022). Brain stimulation reveals distinct motives underlying reciprocal punishment and reward. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 289: 20221590. (link)

Breznau, N., Rinke, E., Wuttke, A., Nguyen, H. H. V., Adem, M., Adriaans, J., Alvarez-Benjumea, A., … Micheli, L., … & Żółtak, T. (2022). Observing Many Researchers Using the Same Data and Hypothesis Reveals a Hidden Universe of Uncertainty. PNAS, 119(44), e2203150119. (link) [Team Science Contributorship: Data Analysis]

Dorison, C.A., Lerner, J.S., Heller, B.H., Rothman, A., Kawachi, I.I., Wang, K., … Micheli, L. … & Coles, N.A. (2022). In COVID-19 Health Messaging, Loss Framing Increases Anxiety with Little-to-No Concomitant Benefits: Experimental Evidence from 84 Countries. Affective Science. (link) [Team Science Contributorship: Resources; Writing: review and editing]

Azevedo, F., Marques, T., & Micheli, L. (2022). In pursuit of racial equality: Identifying the determinants of support for the Black Lives Matter Movement with a systematic review and multiple meta-analyses. Perspectives on Politics, 20(4), 1305-1327. (link)

Azevedo, F., Liu, M., Pennington, C. R., Pownall, M., Evans, T. R., Parsons, S., Elsherif, M., Micheli, L., Westwood, S., & FORRT. (2022). Towards a culture of open scholarship: The role of pedagogical communities. BMC Research Notes, 15(75). (link) | (Preprint)

Parsons, S., Azevedo, F., Elsherif, M. M., Guay, S., Shahim, O. N., Govaart, G. H., Norris, E., … Micheli, L., & Aczel, B. (2022). A Community-Sourced Glossary of Open Scholarship Terms. Nature Human Behavior. (link) | (preprint) [Team Science Contributorship: Resources; Writing: review and editing]

Psychological Science Accelerator Self-Determination Theory Collaboration (2022). A Global Experi- ment on Motivating Social Distancing During the COVID-19 Pandemic. PNAS, 119(22), e2111091119. (link) | (preprint) [Team Science Contributorship: Resources; Writing: review and editing]

2021

Micheli, L., Stallen, M., & Sanfey, A.G. (2021). The effect of centralized financial and social incentives on cooperative behavior and its underlying neural mechanisms. Brain Sciences, 11(3), 317. (link) | (data)

Wang K., Goldenberg A., Dorison, C.A., Miller, J.K., Uusberg, A., Lerner, J.S., Gross, J.J., … Micheli, L., … & Moshontz, H. (2021). A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Human Behavior 5, 1089–1110. (link)
[Team Science Contributorship: Resources; Writing: review and editing]

2020

Micheli, L. & Gagnon, N.(2020). Unequal chances: Ex ante fairness and individual control. Scientific Reports, 10, 21862. (link).

Tierney, W., Hardy, J. H. III., Ebersole, C., Leavitt, K., Viganola, D., Clemente, E., Gordon, M., Dreber, A.A., Johannesson, M., Pfeiffer, T., Hiring Decisions Forecasting Collaboration, & Uhlmann, E.L. (2020). Creative destruction in science. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 161, 291-309. (link).
[Team Science Contributorship: Member of Forecasting Collaboration]

2019

Huijsmans, I., Ma, I., Micheli, L., Civai, C., Stallen, M., & Sanfey, A.G. (2019). A scarcity mindset alters neural processing underlying value-based decision making. PNAS, 116(24), 11699-11704. (link)

In Preparation

Micheli, L., Geyskens, K., Goukens, C., & Riedl, A. More opportunities, better outcomes: Does inequality in opportunity call for outcome redistribution?

The rise of economic inequality has brought to light the debate of unequal opportunities in societies. While the demand for levelling the playing field is currently high, it is less clear how inequality in opportunity should be rectified. Here, we explore whether outcome redistribution is seen as a legitimate compensation for unequal opportunities. In doing so, we examine the behavior of both involved and non-involved individuals (i.e., stakeholders and spectators). In an experimental setting, stakeholders received either high or low chances to win a monetary prize. Before knowing who the winner was, stakeholders were asked to report how they would redistribute the monetary prize in case they were themselves the winner while spectators were asked how they would redistribute the prize in case a person with high or low chances was the winner. The source of inequality in opportunities was varied. Results show that stakeholders with higher winning chances felt more entitled to the monetary prize and redistributed less of it than stakeholders with low winning chances. Moreover, source of inequality differentially influenced ex ante redistribution of stakeholders with high and low winning chances. Spectators’ ex ante redistributive decisions were neither influenced by individuals’ chances nor by the source of inequality. Results are discussed in light of possible implications to redistributive policies that aim to address inequality in opportunities.

Micheli, L., Geyskens, K., Briers, B., & Goukens, C. Climbing the ladder: Perceptions of high upward economic mobility increase status consumption among bottom-tier consumers.

Beliefs in upward economic mobility are prevalent in many societies and especially pervasive among the poor. This research focuses on bottom-tier consumers—and examines how beliefs in upward mobility affect status seeking and the likelihood to engage in conspicuous consumption. Because perceptions of high economic mobility enhance the perceived legitimacy of inequality and thus the credibility of status goods, bottom-tier consumers are expected to become more prone to signal their status under high rather than low economic mobility. Four studies provide evidence for this hypothesis across various measures of status consumption and show the underlying process through perceived legitimacy of inequality. The effect of perceptions of upward mobility on preference for status consumption is independent of the perceived level of economic inequality and only present when income is not directly observable, suggesting that status consumption is used to signal one’s income. The present research sheds light on the importance of investigating societal perceptions among the poor to understand consumer behavior and offers implications for policy making.

Work in Progress

Micheli, L., Seubert, O. & Böckler, A. Effects of gaze direction and face visibility on third-party punishment and compensation. (Preregistration)