Dr. Rima Maria Rahal
Main Focus
Rima-Maria Rahal works on understanding the cognitive and affective processes that determine how individuals make decisions in the context of norms. Her research focuses on attentional mechanisms involved in deciding whether to follow a norm or not.
Curriculum Vitae
Rima-Maria Rahal received PhD from Leiden University for her work on cognitive decision processes in social and moral dilemmas, which she completed at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn. After positions in Frankfurt, Tilburg, Bonn, and Heidelberg, she is now an Assistant Professor on tenure track at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law. She works on her Habilitation project on processes of normative decisions at Heidelberg University. She is active in Open Science, an alumna of the Fellowship Program Freies Wissen and a former member of the steering group of the German Reproducibility Network.