2026 Daniel Houser: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	40	5223	4845	2464	2243	199	10567

Daniel Houser publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Daniel Houser sits on this spectrum.

44 publications 570+

This scientist: 199 publications — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Daniel Houser D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Daniel Houser sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Daniel Houser is affiliated with George Mason University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in social sciences, focusing on areas including safety research, economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, general decision sciences, and management science and operations research.

Their research primarily centers on experimental behavioral economics studies, decision-making and behavioral economics, game theory and applications, evolutionary game theory and cooperation, complex systems and time series analysis, culture, economy and development studies, and sports analytics and performance.

Frequent collaborators in their work include Jian Song, Jianxin Wang, Moumita Roy, Shan Gui, and Junhuan Zhang.

They have published regularly in several academic venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
European Economic Review
Economics Letters
The Singapore Economic Review

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Daniel Houser include:

Checking out temptation: A natural experiment with purchases at the grocery register, 2021, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
The aspirational income hypothesis: On the limits of the relative income hypothesis, 2020, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Vulnerability of scale-free cryptocurrency networks to double-spending attacks, 2021, European Journal of Finance
If wages fell during a recession, 2020, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Non-exclusive group contests: An experimental analysis, 2021, Journal of Economic Psychology

Best Publications

A Functional Imaging Study of Cooperation in Two-Person reciprocal Exchange

Kevin McCabe;Daniel Houser;Lee Ryan;Vernon Smith

1312
Citations
Reputation in Auctions: Theory, and Evidence from eBay ∗

Daniel Houser;John Wooders

1138
Citations
Emotion expression in human punishment behavior

Erte Xiao;Daniel Houser

726
Citations
Experiments investigating cooperative types in humans: A complement to evolutionary theory and simulations

Robert Kurzban;Daniel Houser

689
Citations
Emotion regulation and decision making under risk and uncertainty.

Renata M. Heilman;Liviu G. Crişan;Daniel Houser;Mircea Miclea

528
Citations
Anxiety impairs decision-making: Psychophysiological evidence from an Iowa Gambling Task

Andrei C. Miu;Renata M. Heilman;Daniel Houser

424
Citations
Fairness and Cheating

Daniel Houser;Stefan Vetter;Joachim Winter

394
Citations
Distinguishing trust from risk: An anatomy of the investment game

Daniel Houser;Daniel Schunk;Joachim Winter

388
Citations
DISPOSITION, HISTORY AND CONTRIBUTIONS IN PUBLIC GOODS EXPERIMENTS *

Anna Gunnthorsdottir;Daniel Houser;Kevin McCabe

363
Citations
Revisiting Kindness and Confusion in Public Goods Experiments

Daniel Houser;Robert Kurzban

338
Citations
Individual differences in cooperation in a circular public goods game

Robert Kurzban;Daniel Houser

264
Citations
When punishment fails: Research on sanctions, intentions and non-cooperation

Daniel Edward Houser;Erte Xiao;Kevin McCabe;Vernon Smith

257
Citations
BEHAVIOR IN A DYNAMIC DECISION PROBLEM: AN ANALYSIS OF EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE USING A BAYESIAN TYPE CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM

Daniel Houser;Michael Keane;Kevin McCabe

192
Citations
Classification of natural language messages using a coordination game

Daniel Edward Houser;Erte Xiao

155
Citations
What you don’t know won’t hurt you: a laboratory analysis of betrayal aversion

Jason A. Aimone;Daniel Houser

142
Citations
Avoiding the Sharp Tongue: Anticipated Written Messages Promote Fair Economic Exchange

Erte Xiao;Daniel Edward Houser

137
Citations
Leadership, cheap talk and really cheap talk

David M Levy;Kail Padgitt;Sandra Peart;Daniel Edward Houser

130
Citations
Neural signatures of betrayal aversion: an fMRI study of trust

Jason A. Aimone;Daniel Houser;Bernd Weber;Bernd Weber

126
Citations
Neural responses to sanction threats in two-party economic exchange

Jian Li;Erte Xiao;Daniel Edward Houser;P Read Montague

117
Citations
Punish in Public

Erte Xiao;Daniel Edward Houser

116
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Joachim Winter Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

John A. List University of Chicago

Kevin McCabe George Mason University

Thomas Stratmann George Mason University

Marie Claire Villeval Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

Vernon L. Smith Chapman University

Robert Kurzban University of Pennsylvania

Michael Keane Johns Hopkins University

Philip J. Grossman Monash University

Lee Ryan University of Arizona

External Links

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