Selected academic articles and chapters:

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

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. link

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

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. link

Rai, T. S. (2018). Relationship regulation theory. Atlas of moral psychology, 231-240. link

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. link

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. link

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. link

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. link

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. link

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

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. link

Rai, T. S., & Fiske, A. P. (2011). Moral psychology is relationship regulation: moral motives for unity, hierarchy, equality, and proportionality. Psychological review, 118(1), 57-75. link

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

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

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

Ongoing projects: 

Puthillam, A. & Rai, T. S. (in preparation). Harm is more painful when it is undeserved.

Rai, T. S. (in preparation). Social-relational laws of sympathetic magic.