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Ditlmann, R. K., & Moustakas, L. (in press). Participatory football and social development: Evaluating the impact of football3 on and off the pitch. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology.
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Firestone, B., Ditlmann, R., & Turkoglu, O. (in press). Confronting the past in a polarized present: The effect of Holocaust representations on mobilization for symbolic justice and against antisemitism. Social Forces.
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Ditlmann, R. K., Firestone, B., & Turkoglu, O. (2025). Participating in a digital history project mobilizes people to take action against contemporary injustice. Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976251331040 [Replication data is available]
Press coverage:
Interactive Approaches Enhance Understanding of Nazi Atrocities, Study Finds (Science Magazine)
The Memory Project That’s Reshaping How We Combat Hate (StudyFinds)
Participatory formats for remembering Nazi atrocities are effective (EurekAltert!)
Participatory formats for remembering Nazi atrocities found effective (Phys.org)
NS Verbrechen: Mit Partizipation gegen das Vergessen (Mitteldeustche Rundfunk)
Aktives Erinnern – Soziologin Berenike Firestone über partizipative Formate (Deutschlandfunk)
Digitale, partizipative Erinnerungsformate wirken (haGalil.com)
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Ditlmann, R., & Turkoglu, O. (2025). Authorities impact intergroup contact intentions. Political Psychology, 00, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.70007 [Replication data is available]
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Pesin-Michael, G., Shnabel, N., & Ditlmann, R.K. (2024). From the lab to the field and back: The effects of need satisfaction on reconciliation among Germans and Israelis. Frontiers in Social Psychology, 15, 1243158, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1243158 [Replication data is available]
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Barron, K., Ditlmann, R. K., Gehrig, S., & Schweighofer-Kodritsch, S. (2024). Explicit and implicit belief-based gender discrimination. Management Science, 70(3), 555–570. [Replication data is available]
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Asimovic, N., Ditlmann, R. K. & Samii, C. (2024). Estimating the effect of intergroup contact over years: Evidence from a youth program in Israel. Political Science Research and Methods, 12(3), 475 - 493. https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2024.8 [Replication data is available]
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Turkoglu, O., Ditlmann, R. K., & Firestone, B. (2023). Commemorating local victims of past atrocities, and far-right support over time. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(28). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2221158120 [Replication data is available]
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Stadler, G., Chesaniuk, M., Haering, S., Roseman, J., Straßburger, V. M., Schraudner, M. and the Diversity Assessment Working Group (2023). Diversified innovations in the health sciences: Proposal for a Diversity Minimal Item Set (DiMIS). Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy, (33). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scp.2023.101072
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Hässler, T., Ullrich, J., Sebben, S., Shnabel, N., Bernardino, M., Ditlmann, R.K., … Pistella, J. (2022). Needs satisfaction in intergroup contact: A multi-national study of pathways toward social change. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes, 122(4), 634-658. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/MDNGF [Replication data available]
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Alizade, J., Dancygier, R., & Ditlmann, R. (2021). National penalties reversed: The local politics of citizenship and politician responsiveness to immigrants. Journal of Politics, 83(3), 867–883. https://doi.org/10.1086/711056 [Replication is available]
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Hässler, T., Ullrich, J., Bernardino, M., Shnabel, N., Van Laar, C., Valdenegro, D., Sebben, S., Tropp, L., Visintin, E.P., González, R., Ditlmann, R. K., Abrams, D. Selvanatha, H. P., Bankovic, M, Wright, S., Von Zimmermann, J., Pasek, M. H., Aydin, A. L., Žeželj, I., … Ugarte, L.M. (2020). A large-scale test for the link between intergroup contact and social change. Nature Human Behaviour, 4(4), 380-386. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0815-z [Replication data available]
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Ditlmann, R.K., & Kopf-Beck, J. (2019). The meaning of being German: An inductive approach to national identity. Journal of Political and Social Psychology, 7(1), 423-447. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v7i1.557
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Ditlmann, R. K., Samii, C., & Zeitzoff, T. (2017). Addressing intergroup conflict from the bottom-up? Social Issues and Policy Review, 11(1), 38-77. https://doi.org/10.1111/sipr.12027
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Ditlmann, R. K., Purdie-Vaughns, V., & Dovidio, J. (2017). The implicit power motive in interracial dialogues about the history of slavery. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 112(1), 116-135. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000118
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Ditlmann, R. K., & Samii, C. (2016). Can intergroup contact affect ingroup dynamics? Insights from a field study with Jewish and Arab-Palestinian youth in Israel. Journal of Peace Psychology, 22(4), 380-392. https://doi:10.1037/pac0000217
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Ditlmann, R. K., & Paluck, E. L. (2015). Field experiments. In J. Wright (Ed.), International encyclopedia of social and behavioral sciences, (2nd ed., pp.128-134) Amsterdam, New York: Elsevier.
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Ditlmann, R. K., & Lagunes, P. (2014). The (identification) cards you are dealt: Biased treatment of Anglos and Latinos using municipal-issued versus unofficial ID Cards. Journal of Political Psychology, 35(4), 539-555. https://doi: 10.1111/pops.12044 [Replication data is available]
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Ditlmann, R. K., Wright, E., & Purdie-Vaughns, V. (2014). Organizational and individual colorblindness approaches to past injustice. In V. Plaut, K. Thomas, & M. Tran (Eds.), Diversity ideologies in organizations (pp. 93-117). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
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Dovidio, J. F., Gaertner, S. L., Ditlmann, R. K., & West, T. V. (2012). Intergroup Relations in Post‐Conflict Contexts: How the Past Influences the Present (and Future). In K. J. Jonas & T. A. Morton (Eds.), Restoring civil societies: The psychology of intervention and engagement following crisis (pp. 135–155). Wiley Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118347683.ch8
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Lagunes, P., Levin, B., & Ditlmann, R.K. (2012). Documenting the undocumented: A review of the United States’ first municipal ID program. Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy, 24, 43-62. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8TX3MQS
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Ditlmann, R. K., Purdie-Vaughns, V., & Eibach, R. (2011). Heritage and ideology-based national identities and their implications for immigrant citizen relations in the United States and in Germany. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 35(4), 395-405. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2010.07.002
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Dovidio, J. F., Gluszek, A., John, M. S., Ditlmann, R.K., & Lagunes, P. (2010). Understanding bias toward Latinos: Discrimination, dimensions of difference, and experience of exclusion. Journal of Social Issues, 66(1), 59 - 78. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-4560.2009.01633.x
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Purdie-Vaughns, V., & Ditlmann, R. (2010). Reflection on diversity science in social psychology. Psychological Inquiry, 21(2), 153-159. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2010.486758
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Purdie-Vaughns,V., Steele, C. M., Davies, P. G., Ditlmann, R. K., & Randall-Crosby, J. (2008). Social identity contingencies: How diversity cues signal threat or safety for African Americans in mainstream institutions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94(4), 615-630. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.94.4.615
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Annabring, U., Ditlmann, R. K., & Kempf, W. (2005). Rezeption und Akzeptanz konstruktiver Nachkriegsberichterstattung [Reception and acceptance of constructive post-war media coverage]. In Projektruppe Friedensforschung (Hrsg.), Nachrichtenmedien als Mediatoren von Demokratisierung, Peace-Building und Versöhnung in Nachkriegsgesellschaften. Regene.