Dr Lukas Wallrich
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Overview
Overview
Biography
Lukas is a researcher and lecturer in the Birkbeck Department of Organisational Psychology. Earlier in his life, he worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, and then completed his PhD in Social Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London.
At present, his main research interest is how workforce diversity can be harnessed to improve organisational performance. Apart from that, he is interested in intergroup contact, attitude change and sees himself as a proponent of Open Science practices.
Office hours
Digital office hours are by appointment. Please email me or use the booking link on Moodle.
Web profiles
Professional memberships
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Member of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science
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Member of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (APA Division 2)
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Member of the International Society of Political Psychology
ORCID
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Research
Research
Research interests
- Effects of workforce diversity on organisational success
- Relationship between diversity ideologies and intergroup contact
- Attitude change and media effects
- Motivators and barriers to pro-social behaviour
- Open research practices and replications
- "Big data" and natural language processing
Research clusters and groups
- Member, Diversity Research Group, Goldsmiths
- Member, Contact Research Group London/South-East
- Member, Equalab, Goldsmiths
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students who are interested in undertaking research in any of my areas of research interest. Please contact me by email to discuss potential research projects and supervision.
Current doctoral researchers
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NIKITA DSOUZA
Teaching
Teaching modules
- Perspectives in Social Psychology
- Consultancy and Professional Practice
- Research Project
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Riley, T. and Young, S. and Paxton, A. and Wallrich, Lukas and Hair, K. and Grainger, M. (2026) CiteSource: An R package for data-driven search strategy development and enhanced evidence synthesis reporting. Research Synthesis Methods pp. 1-19. ISSN 1759-2887.
- Brodeur, A. and Valenta, D. and Marcoci, A. and Aparicio, J.P. and Mikola, D. and Barbarioli, B. and Alexander, R. and Deer, L. and Stafford, T. and Vilhuber, L. and Bensch, G. and Motoki, F. and Abdelhady, M. and Abdelmoula, Y. and Baki, G.A. and Aguirre, T. and Aiyer, S. and Akhtar, S. and Akhtar, F. and Albada, M.R. and Altman, M. and Angenendt, D. and Arjmandi Lari, Z. and De León Tejada, J.A. and Arana, D.R. and Asanov, I. and Noha, A.-M. and Ashong, R. and Auer, T. and Bahamonde-Birke, F.J. and Baker, B.J. and Bartram, S.M. and Bao, D. and Batinovic, L. and Batistoni, T. and Beeder, M. and Beland, L.-P. and Gero Bienz, C. and Aryanto, C.B. and Bolibaugh, C. and Bonander, C. and Bravo, R. and Bronnikov, E. and Bruns, S. and Buliskeria, N. and Caicedo-Silva, S. and Calef, A. and Sebastian Cano Arias, J. and A. Castillo Alvarez, G. and Caulker, S. and Cepenas, S. and Chatton, A. and Chen, Z. and Chioma Ewurum, N. and Ciocîrlan, A.-B. and Clouth, F.J. and Collins, J. and Cook, N. and Cornejo, C. and Craveiro, J. and Créchet, J. and Cui, J. and Chalil Vayalabron, N. and Czymara, C. and Bermúdez Jaramillo, C.D. and Datta, H. and Denoo, L. and Dhaliwal, A. and Dhameja, N. and Djemai, E. and Dujeancourt, E. and Dündar, U. and Duprey, T. and Eissa, Y. and El Fassi, Y. and El Fassi, I. and Ellis, K. and Elminejad, A. and Elsherif, M. and Emirmahmutoglu, A. and Etingin-Frati, G. and Eze, E. and Dollbaum, J.F. and Feld, J. and Felipe Rengifo Jaramillo, A. and Fenig, G. and Fernandes, V. and Fiala, L. and Fink, L. and Firouzjaeiangalougah, M. and Fish, S. and Fitzgerald, J. and Forshaw, R. and Fortier-Chouinard, A. and Fréget, L. and Frese, J. and Gabani, J. and Gallegos, S. and Gamill, M.C. and Gáspár, A. and Gauriot, R. and Gavrilova, E. and Geraldes, D. and Cantone, G.G. and Gibson, G. and Goldschmitt, D. and Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, A. and Gregor de Varda, A. and Grigoryeva, I. and Gugushvili, A. and Fletcher, A.H.A. and Habermann, F. and Hablicsek, M. and Haddad, J. and Hall, J.D. and Hammar, O. and Hassouneh, M. and Hausladen, C.I. and Hendrikse, S.C.F. and Hepplewhite, M. and Ho, A.T.Y. and Hogan-Hennessy, S. and Howley, E. and Huang, G. and Hulstaert, H. and Ilchovska, Z.G. and Jaimes Santamaria, P. and Jakobsson, N. and Jansson, J. and Jarosz, E. and Jebeli, H. and Jiang, Y. and Junaid, H. and Kalluraya, R. and Karim, S. and Kelly, E. and Kimel, E. and Kingsuwankul, S. and Klotzbücher, V. and Krähmer, D. and Krūminas, P. and Kruus, N. and Kujansuu, E. and Kurz, C.F. and Küster, S. and Lee-Whiting, B. and Lewandowski, F. and Li, T. and Li, R. and Liu, D. and Liu, J. and Lo, H. and Loter, K. and Macedo Dias, F. and Madan, C.R. and Mäder, N. and Mandas, M. and Mantilla, C. and Marcus, J. and Marino Fages, D. and Martin, X. and McWay, R. and Medina-Gaspar, D. and Meng, S. and Meng, L. and Merz, S. and Miller, A.P. and Mirabel, T. and Mishra, D.D. and Mishra, S. and Moges, B.W. and Mohandes Mojarrad, M. and Mohnen, M. and Morin, L.-P. and Muehlenbachs, L. and Mullin, G. and Musulan, A. and Muzzì, S. and Myers, J.A.C. and Neubauer, F. and Nguyen, T. and Niazi, Ali and Nordstrom, A. and Nowak, B.j and O’Habib, D. and Ölkers, T. and Ong, J. and Orozco Castiblanco, V. and Özak, Ö. and Ozkes, A.I. and Paaso, M. and Pandey, S. and Papazoglou, V. and Penheiro, R. and Pham, L. and Phieler, U. and Pütz, P. and Qi, Q. and Qiu, J. and Rein, M.T. and Reinstein, D.A. and Repo, J. and Rudolf, N. and Saha, S. and Saka, O. and Saponaro, C. and Sator, G. and Schoenmakers, M. and Seri, R. and Shah, M. and Sibille, P. and Siemroth, C. and Skavysh, V. and Slater, B. and Song, W. and Staubli, S. and Steindl, T. and Waongo, N.S. and Stott, P. and Strobel, S. and Sudhaharan, R. and Sun, P. and Swain, S.D. and Talavera, O. and Tantiangco, H.M. and Tarasenko, G. and Tarlinton, B. and Tarraf, M. and Teoh, K. and Thériault, R. and Thompson, B. and Tian, T. and Tian, W. and Tolani, E. and Borgen, N. and Topstad Borgen, S. and Torralba, J. and Velez-Ospina, C. and Mak, M.W. and Wallrich, Lukas and Wang, Z. and Ward, L. and Webb, M.D. and Webb, D. and Weber, B.S. and Weber, C. and Weng, W.-C. and Westheide, C. and Wilkinson, T. and Wong, K.-Y. and Wroński, M. and Wu, Z. and Wu, Q. and Wu, V.Y. and Xiao, B. and Xu, F. and Xu, C. and Yadav, P. and Yang Chou, Y. and Yap, L. and Yazbeck, M. and Yao, B. and Zagrodzka, Z. and Zahra, T. and Zaneva, M. and Zhang, X. and Zhao, Z. and Zhong, H. and Zirgulis, A. and Zou, J. and Zoutman, F. and Zozoungbo, C. (2026) AI-assisted teams outperform AI-led teams but not human-only teams in assessing research reproducibility in quantitative social science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 123 (22), ISSN 0027-8424.
- Nagy, T. and Hergert, J. and Elsheriff, M. and Wallrich, Lukas and Schmidt, K. and Waltzer, T. and Payne, J. and Gjoneska, B. and Seetahul, Y. and Wang, Y.A. and Scharfenberg, D. and Tyson, G. and Yang, Y.-F. and Skvortsova, A. and Alarie, S. and Graves, K. and Sotola, L.K. and Moreau, D. and Rubínová, E. (2025) Bestiary of questionable research practices in psychology. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science 8 (3), ISSN 2515-2459.
- Reed, W.R. and Röseler, L. and Saam, M. and Wallrich, Lukas (2025) No room at the inn? The case for dedicated replication journals. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (102502), ISSN 2214-8043.
- Höfler, M. and Kräplin, A. and Elsherif, M.M. and Schepke, M. and Montefinese, M. and Seetahul, Y. and Sætrevik, B. and Peikert, A. and Varga, M.A. and Wallrich, Lukas (2025) Evaluate what is claimed to be confirmed: initial version of a Falsification Assessment Form (FAF). Methodology 21 (3), pp. 180-196. ISSN 1614-2241.
- Wallrich, Lukas and Opara, V. and Wesołowska, M. and Barnoth, D. and Sayeh, Y. (2024) The relationship between team diversity and team performance: reconciling promise and reality through a comprehensive meta-analysis registered report. Journal of Business and Psychology ISSN 0889-3268.
- Röseler, L. and Kaiser, L. and Doetsch, C. and Klett, N. and Seida, C. and Schütz, A. and Aczel, B. and Adelina, N. and Agostini, V. and Alarie, S. and Albayrak-Aydemir, N. and Aldoh, A. and Al-Hoorie, A.H. and Azevedo, F. and Baker, B.J. and Barth, C.L. and Beitner, J. and Brick, C. and Brohmer, H. and Chandrashekar, S.P. and Chung, K.L. and Cockcroft, J.P. and Cummins, J. and Diveica, V. and Dumbalska, T. and Efendic, E. and Elsherif, M. and Evans, T. and Feldman, G. and Fillon, A. and Förster, N. and Frese, J. and Genschow, O. and Giannouli, V. and Gjoneska, B. and Gnambs, T. and Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, A. and Graham, C.J. and Hartmann, H. and Haviva, C. and Herderich, A. and Hilbert, L.P. and Holgado, D. and Hussey, I. and Ilchovska, Z.G. and Kalandadze, T. and Karhulahti, V.-M. and Kasseckert, L. and Klingelhöfer-Jens, M. and Koppold, A. and Korbmacher, M. and Kulke, L. and Kuper, N. and LaPlume, A. and Leech, G. and Lohkamp, F. and Lou, N.M. and Lynott, D. and Maier, M. and Meier, M. and Montefinese, M. and Moreau, D. and Mrkva, K. and Nemcova, M. and Oomen, D. and Packheiser, J. and Pandey, S. and Papenmeier, F. and Paruzel-Czachura, M. and Pavlov, Y.G. and Pavlović, Z. and Pennington, C.R. and Pittelkow, M.-M. and Plomp, W. and Plonski, P.E. and Pronizius, E. and Pua, A.A. and Pypno-Blajda, K. and Rausch, M. and Rebholz, T.R. and Richert, E. and Röer, J.P. and Ross, R. and Schmidt, K. and Skvortsova, A. and Sperl, M.F.J. and Tan, A.W.M. and Thürmer, J.L. and Tołopiło, A. and Vanpaemel, W. and Vaughn, L.A. and Verheyen, S. and Wallrich, Lukas and Weber, L. and Wolska, J.K. and Zaneva, M. and Zhang, Y. (2024) The replication database: documenting the replicability of psychological science. Journal of Open Psychology Data 12 (8), pp. 1-23. ISSN 2050-9863.
- Wallrich, Lukas (2022) {{Re}} Groups of diverse problem-solvers outperform groups of highest-ability problem-solvers - most of the time. ReScience C 8 (1), ISSN 2430-3658.
- Wallrich, Lukas and West, K. and Rutland, A. (2022) Valuing diversity: an undervalued mediator of intergroup contact. European Journal of Social Psychology 52 (1), pp. 160-173. ISSN 1099-0992.
- Wallrich, Lukas (2022) Making diversity work: transforming assessment and selection to hire for culture-add, not culture-fit. Occupational Psychology Outlook 1, pp. 40-48. ISSN 2753-426X.
- Wallrich, Lukas and West, K. and Rutland, A. (2021) Civic understanding mediates of the effect of educational tracks on voting intentions in German schools. Citizenship, Social and Economics Education 20 (2), pp. 84-102. ISSN 2047-1734.
- Wallrich, Lukas and Palmer, S.B. and Rutland, A. (2021) Adolescents challenging discrimination: the benefits of a perspective-taking and action-planning intervention on self-efficacy. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology 31 (5), pp. 530-536. ISSN 1052-9284.
- Wallrich, Lukas and West, K. and Rutland, A. (2020) Painting all foreigners with one brush? How the salience of Muslims and refugees shapes judgements. Journal of Social and Political Psychology 8 (1), pp. 246-265. ISSN 2195-3325.