2026 Daniel B. M. Haun: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	42	7473	6968	356	350	210	8966

Daniel B. M. Haun 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 Daniel B. M. Haun sits on this spectrum.

31 publications 705+

This scientist: 210 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Daniel B. M. Haun 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 Daniel B. M. Haun sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Daniel B. M. Haun is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of psychology. Their research spans a broad range of topics within psychology, with a particular focus on social and developmental aspects as well as primate behavior.

The main fields and subfields of study covered in their work include:

Psychology
Social Psychology
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Sociology and Political Science
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Cultural Studies

The primary research topics that frequently appear in their publications are:

Child and Animal Learning Development
Primate Behavior and Ecology
Cultural Differences and Values
Language and Cultural Evolution
Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior
Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

Among recent papers, representative works include:

"Cross-cultural variation in how much, but not whether, children overimitate" (2020), Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
"Chimpanzees behave prosocially in a group-specific manner" (2021), Science Advances
"Children across societies enforce conventional norms but in culturally variable ways" (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Chimpanzees consider alternative possibilities" (2021), Current Biology
"What isn't social tolerance? The past, present, and possible future of an overused term in the field of primatology" (2021), Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Daniel B. M. Haun include:

Roman Stengelin
Edwin J. C. van Leeuwen
Manuel Bohn
Robert Hepach
Luke Maurits

Their work is often published in recurring venues such as:

PLoS ONE
Scientific Reports
Developmental Psychology
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
iScience

Best Publications

Can language restructure cognition? The case for space

Asifa Majid;Melissa Bowerman;Sotaro Kita;Daniel B. M. Haun

1000
Citations
The persistent sampling bias in developmental psychology: A call to action

Mark Nielsen;Mark Nielsen;Daniel Haun;Joscha Kärtner;Cristine H. Legare

993
Citations
Returning the tables: language affects spatial reasoning

Stephen C Levinson;Sotaro Kita;Daniel B.M Haun;Björn H Rasch

520
Citations
Conformity to peer pressure in preschool children

Daniel B. M. Haun;Daniel B. M. Haun;Michael Tomasello

494
Citations
How does cognition evolve? Phylogenetic comparative psychology

Evan L. MacLean;Luke J. Matthews;Brian A. Hare;Charles L. Nunn

304
Citations
Keeping track of time: evidence for episodic-like memory in great apes

Gema Martin-Ordas;Gema Martin-Ordas;Daniel B. M. Haun;Fernando Colmenares;Josep Call

290
Citations
Cognitive cladistics and cultural override in Hominid spatial cognition.

Daniel B. M. Haun;Christian J. Rapold;Josep Call;Gabriele Janzen

282
Citations
Fair Is Not Fair Everywhere

Marie Schäfer;Daniel B. M. Haun;Michael Tomasello

271
Citations
Plasticity of human spatial cognition: spatial language and cognition covary across cultures.

Daniel B. M. Haun;Christian J. Rapold;Christian J. Rapold;Gabriele Janzen;Stephen C. Levinson

248
Citations
Majority-Biased Transmission in Chimpanzees and Human Children, but Not Orangutans

Daniel B.M. Haun;Yvonne Rekers;Michael Tomasello

232
Citations
Children, but not chimpanzees, prefer to collaborate

Yvonne Rekers;Daniel B.M. Haun;Daniel B.M. Haun;Michael Tomasello

198
Citations
Body-based senses enhance knowledge of directions in large-scale environments

David Waller;Jack M. Loomis;Daniel B. M. Haun

181
Citations
Children Conform to the Behavior of Peers; Other Great Apes Stick With What They Know

Daniel B. M. Haun;Yvonne Rekers;Michael Tomasello

153
Citations
A group-specific arbitrary tradition in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

Edwin J. C. Van Leeuwen;Katherine A. Cronin;Daniel B. M. Haun

149
Citations
Aging and path integration skill: kinesthetic and vestibular contributions to wayfinding.

Gary L. Allen;Kathleen C. Kirasic;Matthew A. Rashotte;Daniel B. M. Haun

148
Citations
Why developmental psychology is incomplete without comparative and cross-cultural perspectives.

Mark Nielsen;Daniel Haun

144
Citations
Establishing an infrastructure for collaboration in primate cognition research.

Many Primates;Drew M. Altschul;Michael J. Beran;Manuel Bohn;Manuel Bohn

143
Citations
Categorical Perception of Emotional Facial Expressions Does Not Require Lexical Categories

Disa A. Sauter;Oliver LeGuen;Daniel B. M. Haun

125
Citations
Majority influence in children and other animals

Daniel B. M. Haun;Daniel B. M. Haun;Edwin J. C. Van Leeuwen;Micah G. Edelson

122
Citations
Neighbouring chimpanzee communities show different preferences in social grooming behaviour

Edwin J. C. van Leeuwen;Katherine A. Cronin;Daniel B. M. Haun;Roger Mundry

111
Citations
Like Me: A Homophily-Based Account of Human Culture

Daniel Haun;Harriet Over

110
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Josep Call University of St Andrews

Katja Liebal Leipzig University

Michael Tomasello Duke University

Stephen C. Levinson Radboud University

Disa Sauter University of Amsterdam

Judith M. Burkart University of Zurich

Hannes Rakoczy University of Göttingen

Carel P. van Schaik University of Zurich

Mark Nielsen University of Queensland

Asifa Majid University of York

External Links

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