Country of Residence
Discipline(s)
Institution
Vienna University of Economics and Business
Institute of Cognition and Behavior
Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Vienna, Austria
Research Interests
Rima’s research focus is on understanding the socio-cognitive processes of decision making. She investigates how people weigh their options and construct a choice in situations that demand trade-offs, such as between helping others or helping oneself, or between what might be considered right or wrong.
Topics to speak on:
psychology, economics, open science
Biography
Rima studied psychology in Heidelberg and Amsterdam, and received her doctorate from Leiden University for her dissertation on the cognitive foundations of decisions in social and moral dilemmas, which she worked on at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn. She worked on understanding cognitive processes via eye-tracking in moral and legal decision making at the MPI Collective Goods in Bonn, and on developing infrared thermal imaging as an affective process tracing method in social decision-making contexts at Tilburg University. She is an alumna of the Fellowship Free Knowledge, where she developed an open online course on the methodological basics of scientific experimentation, incorporating open science practices. She has now joined the Institute of Cognition and Behavior at Vienna University of Economics and Business.