Publications

Alam, R., Rai, T. (2025) Moral Agreement with Punished Acts Decreases Perceptions of Punisher Legitimacy and Willingness to Obey the Law. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Alam, R., Rai, T. (2025) Profitable Third-Party Punishment Destabilizes Cooperation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Alam, R., Rai, T. (2025) Knowledge of Politician Stock Trading Reduces Congressional Legitimacy and Compliance with the Law. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Rai, T. (2025) Mind Denial of Palestinian Civilians, but not Hamas Terrorists, Predicts Support for Violence. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology.

Rai, T. S. (2022). Material benefits crowd out moralistic punishment. Psychological Science, 33(5), 789-797.

Rai, T. S. (2021). Toward a moral psychology untethered from long-term cooperation: Comment on" The sense of should: A biologically-based framework for modeling social pressure" by Jordan E. Theriault, Liane Young, and Lisa Feldman Barrett. Physics of life reviews, 36, 7-8.

Rai, T. S. (2019). Higher self-control predicts engagement in undesirable moralistic aggression. Personality and individual differences, 149, 152-156.

Rai, T. S., & Diermeier, D. (2019). Strategic consequences of being unsympathetic: For‐profit companies benefit more than individuals from focusing on responsibility. Psychology & Marketing, 36(2), 150-156.

Rai, T. S. (2018). Relationship regulation theory. Atlas of moral psychology, 231-40.

Rai, T. S., Valdesolo, P., & Graham, J. (2018). Reply to Fincher et al.: Conceptual specificity in dehumanization research is a feature, not a bug. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(15), E3331-E3332.

Rai, T. S., Valdesolo, P., & Graham, J. (2017). Dehumanization increases instrumental violence, but not moral violence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(32), 8511-8516.

Rai, T. S. (2017). Exile of the accidental witch: Character and intention in an uncertain social world. In Moral inferences (pp. 199-213). Psychology Press.

Rai, T. S., & Diermeier, D. (2015). Corporations are cyborgs: Organizations elicit anger but not sympathy when they can think but cannot feel. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 126, 18-26.

Rai, T. S., & Holyoak, K. J. (2014). Rational hypocrisy: A Bayesian analysis based on informal argumentation and slippery slopes. Cognitive Science, 38(7), 1456-1467.

Rai, T. S., & Holyoak, K. J. (2013). Exposure to moral relativism compromises moral behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49(6), 995-1001.

Rai, T. S., & Fiske, A. P. (2012). Beyond harm, intention, and dyads: Relationship regulation, virtuous violence, and metarelational morality. Psychological inquiry, 23(2), 189-193.

Rai, T. S., & Fiske, A. P. (2011). Moral psychology is relationship regulation: moral motives for unity, hierarchy, equality, and proportionality. Psychological review, 118(1), 57.

Nettle, D., Panchanathan, K., Rai, T. S., & Fiske, A. P. (2011). The evolution of giving, sharing, and lotteries. Current Anthropology, 52(5), 747-756.

Rai, T. S., & Holyoak, K. J. (2010). Moral principles or consumer preferences? Alternative framings of the trolley problem. Cognitive Science, 34(2), 311-321.

Rai, T. S., & Fiske, A. (2010). ODD (observation-and description-deprived) psychological research. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33(2-3), 106.