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David Trafimow 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 David Trafimow sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 262 publications — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

David Trafimow 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 David Trafimow sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

David Trafimow is affiliated with New Mexico State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans mathematics, with a substantial emphasis on statistics and probability.

The scientist's work covers various subfields including statistics and probability, social psychology, management science and operations research, artificial intelligence, and uncertainty within statistical frameworks. Key topics of research include statistical distribution estimation and applications, statistical methods and Bayesian inference, clinical trial statistics, advanced statistical models, meta-analysis and systematic reviews, cultural differences and values, as well as Bayesian modeling and causal inference.

Frequent publication venues where David Trafimow's work appears include:

  • Theory & Psychology
  • Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour
  • Methodology
  • Psychological Methods
  • Asian Journal of Economics and Banking

Frequent collaborators in their research include Tonghui Wang, Tingting Tong, David M. Bøje, Xiangfei Chen, and Cong Wang.

Selected recent papers authored by David Trafimow include:

  • "Barriers to Converting Applied Social Psychology to Bettering the Human Condition," 2022, Basic and Applied Social Psychology
  • "A New Way to Think About Internal and External Validity," 2022, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "The (im)precision of scholarly consumer behavior research," 2020, Journal of Business Research

Other notable recent publications related to the field include works by Rohny Saylors and Tom St Quinton, which indicate the thematic context of Trafimow's research interests:

  • "Why the Increasing Use of Complex Causal Models Is a Problem: On the Danger Sophisticated Theoretical Narratives Pose to Truth," 2020, Organizational Research Methods
  • "Untangling the Theory of Planned Behavior's auxiliary assumptions and theoretical assumptions: Implications for predictive and intervention studies," 2020, New Ideas in Psychology

In terms of book publications, David Trafimow has contributed extensively to volumes published by World Scientific and Springer Nature. Specifically, six books were published by World Scientific titled "A World Scientific Encyclopedia of Business Storytelling" in 2023. Another key publication is "Prediction and Causality in Econometrics and Related Topics" published by Springer Nature in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Some tests of the distinction between the private self and the collective self.

    David Trafimow;Harry C. Triandis;Sharon G. Goto

  • The Importance of Subjective Norms for a Minority of People: between Subjects and within-Subjects Analyses

    David Trafimow;Krystina A. Finlay

  • Evidence that perceived behavioural control is a multidimensional construct: Perceived control and perceived difficulty

    David Trafimow;Paschal Sheeran;Mark Conner;Krystina A. Finlay

  • Replication, falsification, and the crisis of confidence in social psychology

    Brian D. Earp;David Trafimow

  • Some Tests of the Distinction between Cognitive and Affective Beliefs

    David Trafimow;Paschal J. Sheeran

  • Inferential statistics as descriptive statistics: there is no replication crisis if we don't expect replication

    Valentin Amrhein;David Trafimow;Sander Greenland

  • How Priming the Private Self or Collective Self Affects the Relative Weights of Attitudes and Subjective Norms

    Oscar Ybarra;David Trafimow

  • Predicting behaviour from perceived behavioural control: tests of the accuracy assumption of the theory of planned behaviour.

    Paschal Sheeran;David Trafimow;Christopher J. Armitage

  • Does the Temporal Stability of Behavioral Intentions Moderate Intention-Behavior and Past Behavior-Future Behavior Relations?

    Paschal Sheeran;Sheina Orbell;David Trafimow

  • The Effects of Language and Priming on the Relative Accessibility of the Private Self and the Collective Self

    David Trafimow;Ellen S. Silverman;Ruth Mei-Tai Fan;Josephine Shui Fun Law

  • Mental habits: metacognitive reflection on negative self-thinking

    Bas Verplanken;Oddgeir Friborg;Catharina E. Wang;David Trafimow

  • The Theory of Reasoned Action A Case Study of Falsification in Psychology

    David Trafimow

  • Inferences about the morality of an aggressor: the role of perceived motive.

    Glenn D. Reeder;Shamala Kumar;Matthew S. Hesson-McInnis;David Trafimow

  • Hypothesis testing and theory evaluation at the boundaries: Surprising insights from Bayes's theorem.

    David Trafimow

  • The Importance of Subjective Norms on Intentions to Perform Health Behaviors

    Krystina A. Finlay;David Trafimow;Eri Moroi

  • Affective and cognitive control of persons and behaviours

    David Trafimow;Paschal J. Sheeran;Bridget Lombardo;Krystina A. Finlay

  • The Moderating Effect of Behavior Type on the Subjective Norm-Behavior Relationship

    David Trafimow;Martin Fishbein

  • Evidence that the type of person affects the strength of the perceived behavioural control-intention relationship.

    Paschal Sheeran;David Trafimow;Krystina A. Finlay;Paul Norman

  • Habit as both a direct cause of intention to use a condom and as a moderator of the attitude-intention and subjective norm-intention relations

    David Trafimow

  • The Importance of Attitudes in the Prediction of College Students' Intentions to Drink

    David Trafimow

Frequent Co-Authors

Paschal Sheeran
Paschal Sheeran University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Martin Fishbein
Martin Fishbein University of Pennsylvania
Glenn D. Reeder
Glenn D. Reeder Illinois State University
Gunther Meinlschmidt
Gunther Meinlschmidt University Hospital of Basel
Susan E. Middlestadt
Susan E. Middlestadt Indiana University
Harry C. Triandis
Harry C. Triandis University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rens van de Schoot
Rens van de Schoot Utrecht University
Bas Verplanken
Bas Verplanken University of Bath
Christopher J. Armitage
Christopher J. Armitage University of Manchester
Juana Gómez-Benito
Juana Gómez-Benito University of Barcelona

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