2026 Christopher K. Hsee: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	57	3945	3637	2208	1988	137	27629

Overview

Christopher K. Hsee is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States and contributes to research primarily within the social sciences and decision sciences. Their work spans various subfields including general decision sciences, sociology and political science, safety research, applied psychology, and economics and econometrics.

The research topics covered by Christopher K. Hsee include:

Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
Behavioral Health and Interventions
Economic and Environmental Valuation
Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Social and Intergroup Psychology
Traffic and Road Safety

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Christopher K. Hsee are:

"Bounded Rationality in Strategic Decisions: Undershooting in a Resource Pool-Choice Dilemma," 2021, Management Science
"A framing effect in the judgment of discrimination," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"The Psychology of Marginal Utility," 2020, Journal of Consumer Research (co-authored by Xilin Li)
""It Could Be Better" Can Make It Worse: When and Why People Mistakenly Communicate Upward Counterfactual Information," 2022, Journal of Marketing Research (co-authored by Xilin Li)
"Obligatory Publicity Increases Charitable Acts," 2021, Journal of Consumer Research (co-authored by Adelle Yang)

Christopher K. Hsee has frequently collaborated with several coauthors, including:

Xilin Li
Ying Zeng
Alex Imas
Bowen Ruan
Yang Yang

Their research has appeared multiple times in several publication venues, notably:

Journal of Consumer Research
Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
Management Science
Behavioral Science & Policy
Journal of Marketing Research

In addition to journal articles, Christopher K. Hsee has contributed to the publication of books. One notable book published with Emerald Publishing Limited is "Continuing to Broaden the Marketing Concept," released in 2020.

Best Publications

Risk as feelings.

George F. Loewenstein;Elke U. Weber;Christopher K. Hsee;Ned Welch

8473
Citations
The Evaluability Hypothesis: An Explanation for Preference Reversals between Joint and Separate Evaluations of Alternatives☆

Christopher K. Hsee

1611
Citations
Cross-Cultural Differences in Risk Perception, But Cross-Cultural Similarities in Attitudes Towards Perceived Risk

Elke U. Weber;Christopher Hsee

1405
Citations
Preference reversals between joint and separate evaluations of options: A review and theoretical analysis.

Christopher K. Hsee;George F. Loewenstein;Sally Blount;Max H. Bazerman

1298
Citations
Money, Kisses, and Electric Shocks: On the Affective Psychology of Risk

Yuval Rottenstreich;Christopher K. Hsee

1156
Citations
Music, pandas, and muggers: on the affective psychology of value.

Christopher K. Hsee;Yuval Rottenstreich

963
Citations
Cross-national differences in risk preference and lay predictions.

Christopher K. Hsee;Elke U. Weber

868
Citations
Risk as Feelings

George Loewenstein;Elke U. Weber;Christopher K. Hsee

680
Citations
A Fundamental Prediction Error: Self-Others Discrepancies in Risk Preference

Christopher K. Hsee;Elke U. Weber

603
Citations
Emotional intelligence and the self-regulation of affect.

Peter Salovey;Christopher K. Hsee;John D. Mayer

598
Citations
Less is better: when low‐value options are valued more highly than high‐value options

Christopher K. Hsee

533
Citations
Velocity relation : satisfaction as a function of the first derivative of outcome over time

Christopher K. Hsee;Robert P. Abelson

531
Citations
General Evaluability Theory.

Christopher K. Hsee;Jiao Zhang

528
Citations
Distinction bias: Misprediction and mischoice due to joint evaluation

Christopher K. Hsee;Jiao Zhang

417
Citations
The effect of power on susceptibility to emotional contagion

Christopher K. Hsee;Elaine Hatfield;John G. Carlson;Claude Chemtob

410
Citations
Decision and experience: why don't we choose what makes us happy?

Christopher K. Hsee;Reid Hastie

402
Citations
Will Products Look More Attractive When Presented Separately or Together

Christopher K. Hsee

385
Citations
Stretching the Truth: Elastic Justification and Motivated Communication of Uncertain Information

Maurice E. Schweitzer;Christopher K. Hsee

371
Citations
Elastic Justification: How Unjustifiable Factors Influence Judgments

Christopher K. Hsee

323
Citations
What Folklore Tells Us about Risk and Risk Taking: Cross-Cultural Comparisons of American, German, and Chinese Proverbs.

Elke U Weber;Christopher K Hsee;Joanna Sokolowska

314
Citations
Cross-cultural Differences in Risk Perception,but Cross-cultural Similarities in Attitudes Towards Perceived Risk

Christopher K. Hsee;Elke U. Weber

229
Citations
The Construction of Preference: Music, Pandas, and Muggers: On the Affective Psychology of Value

Christopher K. Hsee;Yuval Rottenstreich

3
Citations
The Construction of Preference: Preference Reversals Between Joint and Separate Evaluations of Options: A Review And Theoretical Analysis

Christopher K. Hsee;George Loewenstein;Sally Blount;Max H. Bazerman

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Elke U. Weber Princeton University

Reid Hastie University of Chicago

Robert P. Abelson Yale University

George Loewenstein Carnegie Mellon University

Ayelet Fishbach University of Chicago

Peter Salovey Yale University

Elaine Hatfield University of Hawaii at Manoa

Baba Shiv Stanford University

Maurice E. Schweitzer University of Pennsylvania

John D. Mayer University of New Hampshire

External Links

Personal website of Christopher K. Hsee Google Scholar page

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