2026 Bahador Bahrami: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	46	6658	6124	562	532	157	9027
Psychology	46	6410	5966	304	299	154	8938

Overview

Bahador Bahrami is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on neuroscience and psychology, with a substantial body of work in cognitive neuroscience and social psychology.

The scientist's work covers diverse subfields including:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Social Psychology
Sociology and Political Science
Safety Research
General Decision Sciences

Bahrami's main topics of study include:

Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Action Observation and Synchronization
Social and Intergroup Psychology
Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
Behavioral Health and Interventions

Publications have appeared in several frequent venues such as:

Scientific Reports
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
PLoS Biology
Royal Society Open Science
PLoS ONE

Selected recent papers authored by Bahrami include:

"The actions of others act as a pseudo-reward to drive imitation in the context of social reinforcement learning," 2020, PLoS Biology
"The Diversity Gap: When Diversity Matters for Knowledge," 2021, Perspectives on Psychological Science
"Distinct neurocomputational mechanisms support informational and socially normative conformity," 2022, PLoS Biology
"Many heads are more utilitarian than one," 2021, Cognition
"Joining a group diverts regret and responsibility away from the individual," 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Frequent collaborators contributing to Bahrami's body of work include:

Ophélia Deroy
Uri Hertz
Jamal Esmaily
Joaquín Navajas
Stefano Palminteri

Best Publications

Coming of age: a review of embodiment and the neuroscience of semantics.

Lotte Meteyard;Sara Rodriguez Cuadrado;Bahador Bahrami;Bahador Bahrami;Bahador Bahrami;Gabriella Vigliocco

948
Citations
Optimally Interacting Minds

Bahador Bahrami;Karsten Olsen;Peter E. Latham;Andreas Roepstorff

903
Citations
Online social network size is reflected in human brain structure

R. Kanai;B. Bahrami;R. Roylance;G. Rees

509
Citations
Coming to Terms Quantifying the Benefits of Linguistic Coordination

Riccardo Fusaroli;Bahador Bahrami;Bahador Bahrami;Bahador Bahrami;Karsten Olsen;Andreas Roepstorff

405
Citations
Attentional Load Modulates Responses of Human Primary Visual Cortex to Invisible Stimuli

Bahador Bahrami;Nilli Lavie;Geraint Rees

296
Citations
Human parietal cortex structure predicts individual differences in perceptual rivalry

Ryota Kanai;Bahador Bahrami;Bahador Bahrami;Bahador Bahrami;Geraint Rees;Geraint Rees

288
Citations
Motion Detection and Motion Verbs: Language Affects Low-Level Visual Perception

Lotte Meteyard;Bahador Bahrami;Gabriella Vigliocco

263
Citations
Sensory and association cortex in time perception

Domenica Bueti;Bahador Bahrami;Vincent Walsh

253
Citations
Brain Structure Links Loneliness to Social Perception

Ryota Kanai;Bahador Bahrami;Bahador Bahrami;Brad Duchaine;Agnieszka Janik

210
Citations
Aggregated knowledge from a small number of debates outperforms the wisdom of large crowds

Joaquin Navajas;Joaquin Navajas;Tamara Niella;Tamara Niella;Gerry Garbulsky;Bahador Bahrami;Bahador Bahrami

193
Citations
Doubly Bayesian Analysis of Confidence in Perceptual Decision-Making

Laurence Aitchison;Dan Bang;Bahador Bahrami;Peter E. Latham

179
Citations
Object property encoding and change blindness in multiple object tracking

Bahador Bahrami

170
Citations
The idiosyncratic nature of confidence.

Joaquin Navajas;Joaquin Navajas;Chandni Hindocha;Hebah Foda;Mehdi Keramati

165
Citations
Structural and functional fractionation of right superior parietal cortex in bistable perception

Ryota Kanai;David Carmel;David Carmel;David Carmel;Bahador Bahrami;Bahador Bahrami;Bahador Bahrami;Geraint Rees;Geraint Rees

152
Citations
Unconscious orientation processing depends on perceptual load

Bahador Bahrami;David Carmel;Vincent Walsh;Geraint Rees

149
Citations
Modulating attentional load affects numerosity estimation: evidence against a pre-attentive subitizing mechanism.

Petra Vetter;Brian Butterworth;Bahador Bahrami

145
Citations
Unconscious evaluation of faces on social dimensions.

Lorna H. Stewart;Sara Ajina;Spas Getov;Bahador Bahrami

144
Citations
Distractibility in Daily Life Is Reflected in the Structure and Function of Human Parietal Cortex

Ryota Kanai;Mia Yuan Dong;Bahador Bahrami;Geraint Rees

140
Citations
Equality bias impairs collective decision-making across cultures.

Ali Mahmoodi;Dan Bang;Dan Bang;Karsten Olsen;Karsten Olsen;Yuanyuan Aimee Zhao

140
Citations
Confidence matching in group decision-making

Dan Bang;Laurence Aitchison;Laurence Aitchison;Rani Moran;Rani Moran;Santiago Herce Castanon

135
Citations
Together, Slowly but Surely: The Role of Social Interaction and Feedback on the Build-Up of Benefit in Collective Decision-Making

Bahador Bahrami;Karsten Olsen;Dan Bang;Andreas Roepstorff

131
Citations
Precision of working memory for visual motion sequences and transparent motion surfaces

Nahid Zokaei;Nikos Gorgoraptis;Bahador Bahrami;Bahador Bahrami;Bahador Bahrami;Paul M. Bays

91
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Geraint Rees University College London

Ryota Kanai University of Sussex

Chris D. Frith University College London

Andreas Roepstorff Aarhus University

Vincent Walsh University College London

Brian Butterworth University College London

Nilli Lavie University College London

Morten Overgaard Aarhus University

Gabriella Vigliocco University College London

Jennifer Y. F. Lau Queen Mary University of London

External Links

Personal website of Bahador Bahrami

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