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Adam Waytz publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Adam Waytz sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 112 publications — 28th percentile

28% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Adam Waytz D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Adam Waytz sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Adam Waytz is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States and has contributed to research primarily within the social sciences. Their publications span several subfields including sociology and political science, social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and safety research.

Waytz's work covers a variety of topics, with a concentration on psychology related to moral and emotional judgment, social and intergroup psychology, death anxiety and social exclusion, data visualization and analytics, data analysis using R, emotions and moral behavior, as well as misinformation and its impacts.

Frequent publication venues for Waytz include:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • UNC Libraries
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • Psychological Science

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Waytz include:

  • "Algorithmic discrimination causes less moral outrage than human discrimination," 2022, Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • "Concerns About Automation and Negative Sentiment Toward Immigration," 2020, Psychological Science
  • "Language as a window into mind perception: How mental state language differentiates body and mind, human and nonhuman, and the self from others," 2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • "Exposure to automation explains religious declines," 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Theory of mind network activity is associated with metaethical judgment: An item analysis," 2020, Neuropsychologia

Waytz collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Liane Young
  • Monica Gamez-Djokic
  • Desman Wilson
  • Kurt Gray
  • Shane Schweitzer

Their research combines elements of data analysis and cognitive neuroscience to examine the psychological underpinnings of social behavior, moral judgment, and emotional processes.

Best Publications

  • On seeing human: A three-factor theory of anthropomorphism.

    Nicholas Epley;Adam Waytz;John T. Cacioppo

  • The mind in the machine: Anthropomorphism increases trust in an autonomous vehicle

    Adam Waytz;Joy Heafner;Nicholas Epley

  • Who Sees Human?: The Stability and Importance of Individual Differences in Anthropomorphism

    Adam Waytz;John Cacioppo;Nicholas Epley

  • Mind Perception Is the Essence of Morality

    Kurt James Gray;Liane Young;Adam Waytz

  • WHEN WE NEED A HUMAN: MOTIVATIONAL DETERMINANTS OF ANTHROPOMORPHISM

    Nicholas Epley;Adam Waytz;Scott Akalis;John T. Cacioppo

  • Creating Social Connection Through Inferential Reproduction: Loneliness and Perceived Agency in Gadgets, Gods, and Greyhounds

    Nicholas Epley;Scott Akalis;Adam Waytz;John T. Cacioppo

  • Causes and consequences of mind perception

    Adam Waytz;Kurt James Gray;Nicholas Epley;Daniel M. Wegner

  • The ascent of man: Theoretical and empirical evidence for blatant dehumanization.

    Nour S. Kteily;Emile Bruneau;Adam Waytz;Sarah Cotterill

  • Making sense by making sentient: Effectance motivation increases anthropomorphism.

    Adam Waytz;Carey K. Morewedge;Nicholas Epley;George Monteleone

  • Dehumanization in Medicine: Causes, Solutions, and Functions

    Omar Sultan Haque;Adam Waytz

  • Social Cognition Unbound Insights Into Anthropomorphism and Dehumanization

    Adam Waytz;Nicholas Epley;John T. Cacioppo

  • The whistleblower's dilemma and the fairness–loyalty tradeoff

    Adam Waytz;James Dungan;Liane Young

  • Racial bias in perceptions of others' pain.

    Sophie Trawalter;Kelly M. Hoffman;Adam Waytz

  • Social connection enables dehumanization

    Adam Waytz;Nicholas Epley

  • The Moral Dyad: A Fundamental Template Unifying Moral Judgment.

    Kurt Gray;Adam Waytz;Liane Young

  • A Superhumanization Bias in Whites’ Perceptions of Blacks

    Adam Waytz;Kelly Marie Hoffman;Sophie Trawalter

  • Response of Dorsomedial Prefrontal Cortex Predicts Altruistic Behavior

    Adam Waytz;Jamil Zaki;Jason P. Mitchell

  • Ideological differences in the expanse of the moral circle

    Adam Waytz;Ravi Iyer;Liane Young;Jonathan Haidt

  • Motive attribution asymmetry for love vs. hate drives intractable conflict

    Adam Waytz;Liane L. Young;Jeremy Ginges

  • Mental simulation and meaning in life.

    Adam Waytz;Hal E. Hershfield;Diana I. Tamir

  • Mere exposure to money increases endorsement of free-market systems and social inequality.

    Eugene M. Caruso;Kathleen D. Vohs;Brittani Baxter;Adam Waytz

Frequent Co-Authors

Liane Young
Liane Young Boston College
Nicholas Epley
Nicholas Epley University of Chicago
Nour Kteily
Nour Kteily Northwestern University
John T. Cacioppo
John T. Cacioppo University of Chicago
Kurt Gray
Kurt Gray University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Michael I. Norton
Michael I. Norton Harvard University
Sophie Trawalter
Sophie Trawalter University of Virginia
Jason P. Mitchell
Jason P. Mitchell Harvard University
Jesse Graham
Jesse Graham University of Utah
Wilhelm Hofmann
Wilhelm Hofmann Ruhr University Bochum

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