2026 Dan M. Kahan: Law Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Law	61	28	27	25	24	155	26624

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award
2013 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Dan M. Kahan is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields and subfields, including History, Gender Studies, Economics and Econometrics, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics, such as:

American Sports and Literature
Sports, Gender, and Society
Sports Analytics and Performance
Psychological and Educational Research Studies

Dan M. Kahan has published in a variety of academic venues. These include:

Journal of Sports Analytics
PsycTESTS Dataset
Tennessee journal of law & policy

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Dan M. Kahan include:

"Fielding before and after baseball's great transformation," 2025, Journal of Sports Analytics
"Science Curiosity Scale--Reduced Form," 2021, PsycTESTS Dataset
"In the Eye of the Beholder," 2021, Tennessee journal of law & policy

Frequent collaborators in research projects include:

Matt Motta
Daniel S. Chapman
Kathryn Haglin

In 2013, Dan M. Kahan was recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Best Publications

The polarizing impact of science literacy and numeracy on perceived climate change risks

Dan M. Kahan;Ellen Peters;Maggie Wittlin;Paul Slovic

3020
Citations
Cultural cognition of scientific consensus

Dan M. Kahan;Hank Jenkins‐Smith;Donald Braman

2159
Citations
Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White-Male Effect in Risk Perception

Dan M. Kahan;Donald Braman;John W. Gastil;Paul Slovic

1250
Citations
Motivated numeracy and enlightened self-government

Dan M. Kahan;Ellen Peters;Erica Cantrell Dawson;Paul Slovic

1151
Citations
Social Influence, Social Meaning, and Deterrence

Dan M. Kahan

1078
Citations
Ideology, motivated reasoning, and cognitive reflection

Dan M. Kahan

1001
Citations
Climate-Science Communication and the Measurement Problem

Dan M. Kahan

872
Citations
Cultural Cognition and Public Policy

Dan M Kahan;Donald Braman

790
Citations
Two Conceptions of Emotion in Criminal Law

Dan M Kahan;Martha C. Nussbaum

746
Citations
Fixing the Communications Failure

Dan Kahan

745
Citations
Cultural cognition of the risks and benefits of nanotechnology

Dan M. Kahan;Donald Braman;Paul Slovic;John W. Gastil

742
Citations
The secret ambition of deterrence

Dan M. Kahan

609
Citations
Whose Eyes Are You Going to Believe? Scott v. Harris and the Perils of Cognitive Illiberalism.

Dan M. Kahan;David A. Hoffman;Donald Braman

590
Citations
The Logic of Reciprocity: Trust, Collective Action, and Law

Dan M. Kahan

589
Citations
Who Fears the HPV Vaccine, Who Doesn’t, and Why? An Experimental Study of the Mechanisms of Cultural Cognition

Dan M. Kahan;Donald Braman;Geoffrey L. Cohen;John Gastil

517
Citations
Gentle Nudges vs. Hard Shoves: Solving the Sticky Norms Problem

Dan M. Kahan

507
Citations
More Statistics, Less Persuasion: A Cultural Theory of Gun-Risk Perceptions

Dan M. Kahan;Donald Braman

401
Citations
SHAMING WHITE-COLLAR CRIMINALS: A PROPOSAL FOR REFORM OF THE FEDERAL SENTENCING GUIDELINES*

Dan M. Kahan;Eric A. Posner

377
Citations
Social Meaning and the Economic Analysis of Crime

Dan M. Kahan

350
Citations
The Politically Motivated Reasoning Paradigm, Part 1: What Politically Motivated Reasoning Is and How to Measure It

Dan M. Kahan

339
Citations
28 Cultural Cognition as a Conception of the Cultural Theory of Risk

Dan M. Kahan

338
Citations
The Oxford handbook of the science of science communication

Kathleen Hall Jamieson;Dan Kahan;Dietram A. Scheufele

329
Citations
Lenity and Federal Common Law Crimes

Dan M. Kahan

304
Citations
Law and (Norms of) Order in the Inner City

Tracey L. Meares;Dan M. Kahan

302
Citations
Misconceptions, Misinformation, and the Logic of Identity-Protective Cognition

Dan M. Kahan

293
Citations
Why we are poles apart on climate change.

Dan Kahan

259
Citations
Geoengineering and Climate Change Polarization Testing a Two-Channel Model of Science Communication

Dan M. Kahan;Hank Jenkins-Smith;Tor Tarantola;Carol L. Silva

242
Citations
The Tragedy of the Risk-Perception Commons: Culture Conflict, Rationality Conflict, and Climate Change

Dan Kahan;Ellen Peters;Ellen Peters;Donald Braman;Paul Slovic

242
Citations
UPDATING THE STUDY OF PUNISHMENT

Tracey L. Meares;Dan M. Kahan;Neal Katyal

163
Citations
A Risky Science Communication Environment for Vaccines

Dan M. Kahan

152
Citations
The Second National Risk and Culture Study: Making Sense of—and Making Progress In— the American Culture War of Fact

Donald Braman;Dan M. Kahan;Paul Slovic;John Gastil

105
Citations
Signaling or Reciprocating? A Response to Eric Posner's Law and Social Norms

Dan M. Kahan

104
Citations
Who Fears the HPV Vaccine, Who Doesn't, and Why? An Experimental Study of the Mechanisms of Cultural Cognition

Dan M. Kahan;Donald Braman;Geoffrey L. Cohen;Paul Slovic

93
Citations
Affect, Values, and Nanotechnology Risk Perceptions: An Experimental Investigation

Donald Braman;Dan M Kahan;Paul Slovic;John Gastil

89
Citations
Fear of Democracy: A Cultural Evaluation of Sunstein on Risk

Dan M. Kahan;Paul Slovic;Donald Braman;John Gastil

75
Citations
Vaccine Risk Perceptions and Ad Hoc Risk Communication: An Empirical Assessment

Dan M. Kahan

70
Citations
Modeling Facts, Culture, and Cognition in the Gun Debate

Donald Braman;Dan M. Kahan;James Grimmelmann

68
Citations
Making Climate-Science Communication Evidence-Based — All the Way Down

Dan M. Kahan

39
Citations
More Statistics, Less Persuasion: A Cultural Theory of Gun-Risk Perceptions

Donald Braman;Dan M. Kahan

23
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Slovic University of Oregon

Ellen Peters University of Oregon

Geoffrey L. Cohen Stanford University

Eric A. Posner University of Chicago

C. K. Mertz University of Oregon

John Monahan University of Virginia

Jeffrey J. Rachlinski Cornell University

Dietram A. Scheufele University of Wisconsin–Madison

Keith E. Stanovich University of Toronto

Stephen J. Ceci Cornell University

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