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122
Citations
85084
World Ranking
235
National Ranking
150

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Dacher Keltner is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily spans psychology, with a marked focus on social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and the intersections with sociology and political science. Their work reflects significant contributions in experimental and cognitive psychology as well as literature and literary theory.

The main topics addressed in their research include media influence and health, cultural differences and values, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, face recognition and perception, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, attachment and relationship dynamics, and emotions and moral behavior.

Frequent coauthors in their research collaborations include Alan Cowen, María Monroy, Serena Chen, Panagiotis Tzirakis, and Alice Baird.

They have published extensively in several academic venues, with multiple papers appearing in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, arXiv (Cornell University), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Affective Science.

Selected recent papers include:

  • Machine learning uncovers the most robust self-report predictors of relationship quality across 43 longitudinal couples studies, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • What music makes us feel: At least 13 dimensions organize subjective experiences associated with music across different cultures, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Sixteen facial expressions occur in similar contexts worldwide, 2020, Nature
  • Emotional Well-Being: What It Is and Why It Matters, 2022, Affective Science
  • The rise of affectivism, 2021, Nature Human Behaviour

Keltner has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2020 and was named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Fear, anger, and risk.

    Jennifer S. Lerner;Dacher Keltner

  • Beyond valence: Toward a model of emotion-specific influences on judgement and choice

    Jennifer S. Lerner;Dacher Keltner

  • Power, approach, and inhibition.

    Dacher Keltner;Deborah H. Gruenfeld;Cameron Anderson

  • Compassion: An Evolutionary Analysis and Empirical Review

    Jennifer L. Goetz;Dacher Keltner;Emiliana Simon-Thomas

  • Approaching awe, a moral, spiritual, and aesthetic emotion.

    Dacher Keltner;Jonathan Haidt

  • Social Functions of Emotions at Four Levels of Analysis

    Dacher Keltner;Jonathan Haidt

  • Having Less, Giving More: The Influence of Social Class on Prosocial Behavior

    Paul K. Piff;Michael W. Kraus;Stéphane Côté;Bonnie Hayden Cheng

  • Social class, solipsism, and contextualism: how the rich are different from the poor.

    Michael W. Kraus;Paul K. Piff;Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton;Michelle L. Rheinschmidt

  • Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior

    Paul K. Piff;Daniel M. Stancato;Stéphane Côté;Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton

  • Beyond simple pessimism: effects of sadness and anger on social perception.

    Dacher Keltner;Phoebe C. Ellsworth;Kari Edwards

  • Functional Accounts of Emotions

    Dacher Keltner;James J. Gross

  • Awe, the small self, and prosocial behavior.

    Paul K. Piff;Pia Dietze;Matthew Feinberg;Daniel M. Stancato

  • Social Class, Sense of Control, and Social Explanation

    Michael W. Kraus;Paul K. Piff;Dacher Keltner

  • Emotion, social function, and psychopathology.

    Dacher Keltner;Ann M. Kring

  • Who attains social status? Effects of personality and physical attractiveness in social groups.

    Cameron Anderson;Oliver P. John;Dacher Keltner;Ann M. Kring

  • The nature of awe: Elicitors, appraisals, and effects on self-concept

    Michelle N. Shiota;Dacher Keltner;Amanda Mossman

  • Positive emotion dispositions differentially associated with Big Five personality and attachment style

    Michelle N. Shiota;Dacher Keltner;Oliver P. John

  • Signs of appeasement: evidence for the distinct displays of embarrassment, amusement, and shame

    Dacher Keltner

  • The personal sense of power.

    Cameron Anderson;Oliver P. John;Dacher Keltner

  • Embarrassment: its distinct form and appeasement functions.

    Dacher Keltner;Brenda N. Buswell

  • Expressions of positive emotion in women's college yearbook pictures and their relationship to personality and life outcomes across adulthood.

    LeeAnne Harker;Dacher Keltner

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael W. Kraus
Michael W. Kraus University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Paul K. Piff
Paul K. Piff University of California, Irvine
Emily A. Impett
Emily A. Impett University of Toronto
Cameron Anderson
Cameron Anderson University of California, Berkeley
June Gruber
June Gruber University of Colorado Boulder
Oliver P. John
Oliver P. John University of California, Berkeley
Serena Chen
Serena Chen University of California, Berkeley
Jonathan Haidt
Jonathan Haidt New York University
George A. Bonanno
George A. Bonanno Columbia University
Stéphane Côté
Stéphane Côté University of Toronto

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