2026 David Stillwell: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	45	6530	6077	660	628	96	17816

Overview

David Stillwell is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines within social sciences and psychology, focusing primarily on computational and social aspects of human behavior.

Their main fields of study include:

Psychology
Social Sciences

Within these fields, their work touches on several subfields such as:

Sociology and Political Science
Artificial Intelligence
Social Psychology
Clinical Psychology
Cognitive Neuroscience

Stillwell's research engages with a variety of interconnected topics, including:

Social and Intergroup Psychology
Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
Cultural Differences and Values
Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Social Media and Politics
Personality Traits and Psychology
Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining

Some of the notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Stillwell are:

"Workshop on Computational Personality Recognition: Shared Task," 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
"Mining Facebook Data for Predictive Personality Modeling," 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
"Values in Words: Using Language to Evaluate and Understand Personal Values," 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
"Facebook and Privacy: The Balancing Act of Personality, Gender, and Relationship Currency," 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
"Construction and validation of a game-based intelligence assessment in Minecraft," 2021, Computers in Human Behavior

Their frequent co-authors include:

Michał Kosiński
Ahmed Izzidien
Stephen Fitz
Peter Romero
Luning Sun

Stillwell's work is published across various prominent venues, with a notable concentration in:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Academy of Management Proceedings
Scientific Reports
Computers in Human Behavior

Best Publications

Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior

Michal Kosinski;David Stillwell;Thore Graepel

3677
Citations
Personality, Gender, and Age in the Language of Social Media: The Open-Vocabulary Approach

H. Andrew Schwartz;Johannes C. Eichstaedt;Margaret L. Kern;Lukasz Dziurzynski

2156
Citations
Computer-based personality judgments are more accurate than those made by humans

Wu Youyou;Michal Kosinski;David Stillwell

1395
Citations
Facebook as a research tool for the social sciences: Opportunities, challenges, ethical considerations, and practical guidelines.

Michal Kosinski;Sandra C. Matz;Samuel D. Gosling;Vesselin Popov

1262
Citations
Psychological targeting as an effective approach to digital mass persuasion.

Sandra C. Matz;Michal Kosinski;Gideon Nave;David J. Stillwell

1007
Citations
Automatic personality assessment through social media language.

Gregory Park;H. Andrew Schwartz;Johannes C. Eichstaedt;Margaret L. Kern

882
Citations
Our Twitter Profiles, Our Selves: Predicting Personality with Twitter

Daniele Quercia;Michal Kosinski;David Stillwell;Jon Crowcroft

690
Citations
Personality and patterns of Facebook usage

Yoram Bachrach;Michal Kosinski;Thore Graepel;Pushmeet Kohli

601
Citations
Manifestations of user personality in website choice and behaviour on online social networks

Michal Kosinski;Yoram Bachrach;Pushmeet Kohli;David Stillwell

408
Citations
Divided we stand: three psychological regions of the United States and their political, economic, social, and health correlates.

Peter J. Rentfrow;Samuel D. Gosling;Markus Jokela;David J. Stillwell

400
Citations
Towards Assessing Changes in Degree of Depression through Facebook

H. Andrew Schwartz;Johannes Eichstaedt;Margaret L. Kern;Gregory Park

286
Citations
Computational personality recognition in social media

Golnoosh Farnadi;Geetha Sitaraman;Shanu Sushmita;Fabio Celli

270
Citations
The personality of popular facebook users

Daniele Quercia;Renaud Lambiotte;David Stillwell;Michal Kosinski

270
Citations
Developing Age and Gender Predictive Lexica over Social Media

Maarten Sap;Gregory Park;Johannes Eichstaedt;Margaret Kern

269
Citations
Mining Facebook Data for Predictive Personality Modeling

Dejan Markovikj;Sonja Gievska;Michal Kosinski;David J. Stillwell

218
Citations
Money Buys Happiness When Spending Fits Our Personality

Sandra C. Matz;Joe J. Gladstone;David J. Stillwell

199
Citations
PREDICTING INDIVIDUAL WELL-BEING THROUGH THE LANGUAGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA.

H. Andrew Schwartz;Maarten Sap;Margaret L. Kern;Johannes C. Eichstaedt

197
Citations
Musical Preferences Predict Personality: Evidence From Active Listening and Facebook Likes:

Gideon Nave;Juri Minxha;David M. Greenberg;Michal Kosinski

193
Citations
Women are Warmer but No Less Assertive than Men: Gender and Language on Facebook.

Gregory Park;David Bryce Yaden;H. Andrew Schwartz;Margaret L. Kern

185
Citations
The Song Is You Preferences for Musical Attribute Dimensions Reflect Personality

David M. Greenberg;David M. Greenberg;Michal Kosinski;David J. Stillwell;Brian L. Monteiro

181
Citations
The online social self: An open vocabulary approach to personality.

Margaret L. Kern;Johannes C. Eichstaedt;H. Andrew Schwartz;Lukasz Dziurzynski

173
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Michal Kosinski Stanford University

Margaret L. Kern University of Melbourne

Johannes C. Eichstaedt Stanford University

Martin E. P. Seligman University of Pennsylvania

John Rust University of Cambridge

Maarten Sap Carnegie Mellon University

Peter J. Rentfrow University of Cambridge

Samuel D. Gosling The University of Texas at Austin

Stefan C. Schmukle Leipzig University

Daniel J. Levitin McGill University

External Links

Personal website of David Stillwell

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