Submitted to PNAS, 2026
A working paper studying whether making tax dividends visible increases public support for carbon pricing in Austria.
Recommended citation: Benda, J., Blanco, E., Holzknecht, A., Huber, J., Kirchler, M., & Schwaiger, R. (2026). Visible Tax Dividends and Support for Carbon Pricing: Evidence from Austria. Working paper.
Submitted to PNAS, 2026
A working paper examining how virtual nature in open-world games affects psychological restoration and indirectly promotes environmental behavior.
Recommended citation: Flecke, S. L., Greitemeyer, T., & Schwaiger, R. (2026). Virtual Nature in Open-World Games Increases Psychological Restoration and Indirectly Promotes Environmental Behavior. Working paper.
Under review at European Economic Review, 2026
A working paper with Stefan Zeisberger and Michael Strucks on the mechanism behind myopic loss aversion.
Recommended citation: Schwaiger, R., Zeisberger, S., & Strucks, M. (2026). Decision Flexibility, Not Information Feedback, Explains Myopic Loss Aversion. Working paper.
Under review at Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2026
A working paper with Sarah L. Flecke introducing a digital Digit Span Backwards task for laboratory research.
Recommended citation: Schwaiger, R., & Flecke, S. L. (2026). A Digital Version of the Digit Span Backwards (DSB) Task to Measure Cognitive Fatigue in the Lab. Working paper.
Preregistration and data collection, 2026
A work-in-progress project on analytical flexibility, strategic analyses, and research credibility.
Recommended citation: Baumeister, R., Clark, C., Kirchler, M., Schwaiger, R., Szászi, B., Tetlock, P., Tice, D., Vora, P., & Uhlmann, E. (2026). Can Researchers Extract Significant Results from Any Given Experiment? An Adversarial Investigation of Strategic Analyses. Work in progress.
Code development, 2026
A work-in-progress project connected to the private solution trap in collective action problems across 34 nations.
Recommended citation: Ertl, A., Flecke, S. L., Kiss, H. J., Malthouse, E., & Schwaiger, R. (2026). What Determines First-Round Contributions in "The Private Solution Trap in Collective Action Problems across 34 Nations"? Work in progress.
Manuscript in preparation for an invited submission to Psychological Science, 2026
A large-scale collaborative project on reproducibility in psychological science.
Recommended citation: Brodeur, A., et al. (2026). Mass Reproducibility in Psychological Science. Work in progress.
Study design and preregistration, 2026
A megastudy developing and comparing behavioral interventions designed to increase green investment.
Recommended citation: Duchene, S., Strucks, M., Nguyen Huu, A., Holzknecht, A., & Schwaiger, R. (2026). Behavioral Interventions and Green Investments: A Megastudy. Work in progress.
Data analysis and manuscript preparation, 2026
A work-in-progress project comparing green and brown consumption choices in Germany and Austria.
Recommended citation: Düll, A., Flecke, S. L., & Schwaiger, R. (2026). Choosing Green or Brown? A Comparative Experimental Study of Consumption Choices in Germany and Austria. Work in progress.
Conceptualization, 2026
A work-in-progress project on adaptive intervention design and policy impact.
Recommended citation: Holzknecht, A., Nguyen Huu, A., & Schwaiger, R. (2026). Adaptive Behavioral Interventions: A Machine-Learning-Guided Optimization for Maximizing Policy Impact. Work in progress.