Research

Working Papers: 

• Boredom and Psychological Well-Being Among the Self-Employed (with Raquel Ortega-Lapiedra, Shigehiro Oishi, Stefan Pfattheicher)

• How Sensitive Are Synthetic LLM Participants to Experimenter-Demand Effects? (with José Alberto Molina)

Published Papers:

• Navarro-Martinez, D., & Pirla, S. (2025). Searching for the External Validity of Social Preference Games: A Guide of Field Environments Based on Expert Perceptions. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 239, 107251.

• Pirla, S., Navarro-Martinez, D., Pfattheicher, S., & Quoidbach, J. (2025). Income and boredom: Evidence from 30 countries. Journal of Economic Psychology, 111, 102847.

  • Fred van Raaij Prize for the Best Research Article in the Journal of Economic Psychology in 2025.

• Müller-Boysen, T., Pirla, S., & Pfattheicher, S. (2025). On the relation between boredom and social behavior: A registered report. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 121, 104804.

• Nockur, L., Pirla, S., & Pfattheicher, S. (2025). The misperception of carbon footprints of the rich and the poor. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 102545. 

• Pirla, S. (2024). A psychological model of collective risk perceptions. Judgment and Decision Making, 19, e13. 

• Pirla, S., Taquet, M., & Quoidbach, J. (2023). Measuring affect dynamics: An empirical framework. Behavior Research Methods, 55(1), 285-300. 

• Pirla, S., & Navarro-Martinez, D. (2022). Does boredom affect economic risk preferences? Judgment and Decision Making, 17(5), 1094-1122.