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75
Citations
23895
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1775
National Ranking
205

Daniel Nettle 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 Nettle sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 234 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Daniel Nettle 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 Nettle sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 75 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Daniel Nettle is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom and primarily works in the field of Social Sciences. Their research spans a range of subfields including General Health Professions, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Health, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The scientist has contributed to several main topics within their research, focusing on:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Daniel Nettle include:

  • Life-history theory in psychology and evolutionary biology: one research programme or two?, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Why has the COVID-19 pandemic increased support for Universal Basic Income?, 2021, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
  • Why do inequality and deprivation produce high crime and low trust?, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Preferences for redistribution are sensitive to perceived luck, social homogeneity, war and scarcity, 2020, Cognition
  • Current debates in human life history research, 2020, Evolution and Human Behavior

Frequently collaborating co-authors include:

  • Melissa Bateson
  • Elliott Johnson
  • Matthew Johnson
  • Willem E. Frankenhuis
  • Clare Andrews

Publication venues where Daniel Nettle's work has appeared most frequently are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Appetite
  • CrimRxiv
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Daniel Nettle's book publications include titles released through Policy Press, with notable titles titled "Basic Income" scheduled for release in 2025.

Best Publications

  • The Evolution of Cognitive Bias

    Martie G. Haselton;Daniel Nettle;Paul W. Andrews

  • Cues of being watched enhance cooperation in a real-world setting

    Melissa Bateson;Daniel Nettle;Gilbert Roberts

  • The Evolution of Personality Variation in Humans and Other Animals.

    Daniel Nettle

  • The Paranoid Optimist: An Integrative Evolutionary Model of Cognitive Biases:

    Martie G. Haselton;Daniel Nettle

  • Effects of eye images on everyday cooperative behavior: a field experiment

    Max Ernest-Jones;Daniel Nettle;Melissa Bateson

  • Happiness: The Science Behind Your Smile

    Daniel Nettle

  • Dying young and living fast: Variation in life history across English neighborhoods.

    Daniel Nettle

  • The behavioural constellation of deprivation: Causes and consequences

    Gillian V Pepper;Daniel Nettle

  • Time perspective, personality and smoking, body mass, and physical activity: An empirical study

    Jean Adams;Daniel Nettle

  • Schizotypy, creativity and mating success in humans

    Daniel Nettle;Helen Clegg

  • Schizotypy and mental health amongst poets, visual artists, and mathematicians

    Daniel Nettle

  • An evolutionary approach to the extraversion continuum

    Daniel Nettle

  • The evolution of predictive adaptive responses in human life history

    Daniel Nettle;Willem E. Frankenhuis;Ian J. Rickard

  • Strong Imagination: Madness, Creativity and Human Nature

    Daniel Nettle

  • Social Markers and the Evolution of Reciprocal Exchange

    Daniel Nettle;Robin I. M. Dunbar

  • Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are

    Daniel Nettle

  • Cognition in harsh and unpredictable environments

    Willem E Frankenhuis;Karthik Panchanathan;Daniel Nettle

  • Adaptive developmental plasticity: what is it, how can we recognize it and when can it evolve?

    Daniel Nettle;Melissa Bateson

  • Using Social Impact Theory to simulate language change

    Daniel Nettle

  • The watching eyes effect in the Dictator Game: it's not how much you give, it's being seen to give something

    Daniel Nettle;Zoe Harper;Adam Kidson;Rosie Stone

Frequent Co-Authors

Melissa Bateson
Melissa Bateson Newcastle University
Thomas V. Pollet
Thomas V. Pollet Northumbria University
Pat Monaghan
Pat Monaghan University of Glasgow
Jean Adams
Jean Adams University of Cambridge
Abraham P. Buunk
Abraham P. Buunk University of Groningen
Robin I. M. Dunbar
Robin I. M. Dunbar University of Oxford
Suzanne Romaine
Suzanne Romaine University of Oxford
Mark van Vugt
Mark van Vugt Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Martie G. Haselton
Martie G. Haselton University of California, Los Angeles

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