Journal Articles

Samahita, M. (2026). “Luxury beliefs”: Signaling through ideology? Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 121:102538.

Holm, H. J., Samahita, M., Wengström, E. & van Veldhuizen, R. (2025). Anchoring and subjective belief distributions. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 240:107304.

Lades, L. K., Samahita, M., Martin, L., Sunstein, C. R., & Baekgaard, M. (2025). Vulnerability to and acceptability of different types of sludge. Behavioural Public Policy, 1-30. [policy brief]

Lago, M. E., Samahita, M., & Doyle, O. (2025). Unraveling gender norms: Social and personal norms in the preferential promotion of women. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 115:102336.

Getik, D., Islam, M., & Samahita, M. (2024). The inelastic demand for affirmative action. European Economic Review, 170:104862. [twitter]

Samahita, M., & Devereux, K. (2024). Are economics conferences gender-neutral? Evidence from Ireland. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 86(1):101-118. [podcast] [twitter]

Devereux, K., & Samahita, M. (2023). Gender, productivity, and promotion in the Irish economics profession. Economics Bulletin, 43(3):1225-1234. [podcast]

Samahita, M., & Lades, L. K. (2023). Compliance spending aversion: An unintended consequence of charity regulation. Journal of Behavioral Public Administration, 6(1):1-30. [twitter]

Conzo, P. ⓡ Taylor, L. K. ⓡ Morales, J. S. ⓡ Samahita, M. ⓡ Gallice, A. (2023). Can ♥s change minds? Social media endorsements and policy preferences. Social Media + Society, 9(2). Erratum: Figure 5 right panel should be this. [the conversation] [twitter]

Samahita, M., & Holm, H. J. (2023). No mood effects in the field: The case of car inspections. Journal of Economic Psychology, 96:102612. [twitter]

Ek, C., & Samahita, M. (2023). Too much commitment? An online experiment with tempting YouTube content. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 208:21-38. [online appendices] [twitter]

Mundaca, L., & Samahita, M. (2020). What drives home solar PV uptake? Subsidies, peer effects and visibility in Sweden. Energy Research & Social Science, 60:101319.

Samahita, M. (2020). Pay-what-you-want in competition. The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 20(1):20180063. [pdf]

Holm, H. J., & Samahita, M. (2018). Curating social image: Experimental evidence on the value of actions and selfies. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 148:83-104. [radio]

Samahita, M. (2017). Venting and gossiping in conflicts: Verbal expression in ultimatum games. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 67:111-121.

Kahsay, G. A., & Samahita, M. (2015). Pay-what-you-want pricing schemes: A self-image perspective. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 7:17-28.

Samahita, M. (2013). Effect of effort on self-image: Monotonically increasing self-image functions. Economics Bulletin, 33(1):152-157.

Large-scale Research Collaborations

Aczel, B., Szaszi, B., Kósa, L., Torma, Z., Kumpel, H., Clelland, H. T., Hoffmann, S., Kovács, M., Ahnström, L., Holzmeister, F., Nilsonne, G., & the Multi100 Collaboration. (2025). Investigating the analytical robustness of the social and behavioural sciences. Nature (accepted).

Huntington-Klein, N., Pörtner, C. C., McCarthy, I., & the Many-Economists Research Collective. (2025). The sources of researcher variation in economics. NBER Working Paper No. 33729.

Fišar, M., Greiner, B., Huber, C., Katok, E., Ozkes, A., & the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration. (2024). Reproducibility in Management Science. Management Science, 70(3):1343–1356.

Schaerer, M., Du Plessis, C., Nguyen, M. H. B., Van Aert, R. C., Tiokhin, L., Lakens, D., Clemente, E. G., Pfeiffer, T., Dreber, A., Johannesson, M., Clark, C. J., Uhlmann, E. L., & the Gender Audits Forecasting Collaboration. (2023). On the trajectory of discrimination: A meta-analysis and forecasting survey capturing 44 years of field experiments on gender and hiring decisions. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 179:104280.

Tierney, W., Hardy III, J. H., Ebersole, C. R., Leavitt, K., Viganola, D., Clemente, E. G., Gordon, M., Dreber, A., Johannesson, M., Pfeiffer, T., the Hiring Decisions Forecasting Collaboration, & Uhlmann, E. L. (2020). Creative destruction in science. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 161:291–309.

Book Chapter

Mundaca, L., Samahita, M., Sonnenschein, J. & Seidl, R. (2020). Behavioural economics for energy and climate change policies and the transition to a sustainable energy use: A Scandinavian perspective. In M. Lopes, C. Henggeler Antunes & K. B. Janda (Eds.), Energy and Behavior: Towards a Low Carbon Future, pp. 45–87. London: Academic Press.