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.
Alam, R., Vitriol, J. (2025) Reveling in Mayhem: The Need for Chaos in Pandemic Psychology. Journal of Social Issues.
Gill, M., Alam, R., Shapiro, M. (2025). Wise Blame Wins the Blame Game: Less Blame and More Forgiveness Toward Peer Transgressors Improves Peer Relationships and the Blamer’s Mental Health. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology.
Alam, R., Lyons, M., Nguyen, T., Waltzer, T., Aron, A. (2025) The Impact of a Climate Crisis Class on Collective Action Participation. Environmental Psychology Open.
Alam, R., Jones-Taylor, V., Bell, A. (2024) The Role of Entitativity and Collective Blame of BLM in Conservative Opposition to BLM and Anti-Racism. Race and Social Problems.
Alam, R., Gill, M. (2024) Partisan Animosity Through the Lens of Blame: Partisan Animosity Can Be Reduced by a Historicist Thinking Intervention. PLoS ONE.
Gill, M., Alam, R., Nagelhout, C. (2023). Tweeting Others with Respect: Historicist Thinking Can Reduce Blame and Hostile Retaliation to Nasty Communications from Partisan Opponents. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
Papers Under Review or in Preparation
Alam, R., Gill, M. (Under Review) Partisan Animosity as Blame: A Unifying and Generative Framework for Understanding and Transforming Our Affectively Polarized Political Sphere.
Alam, R., Rai, T. ( Under Review) Moral Agreement With Punished Acts Decreases Perceptions of Legitimacy and Willingness to Obey the Law.
Alam, R., Rai, T. ( Under Review) Moralistic Crimes Are Less Sensitive to Punishment.
Dimaggio, A., Wahlrab, A., Ochs, H., Alam, R. (Under Review) Democracy at Risk: The Rise of Authoritarianism in Election Politics.
Alam, R., Rai, T. (In Prep) A Perpetrator-Victim Asymmetry in Moral Motive Attributions Harms Social Relationships and Drives Desires for Punishment over Dialogue.
Alam, R. (2023) Examining the Effects of a Blame Inefficacy Intervention for Reducing Blame and Improving Relationships in College Roommates.
Alam, R. (2023). The Benefits and Pitfalls of High Trust in Danish Society.