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Elke U. Weber 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 Elke U. Weber sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 249 publications — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Elke U. Weber 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 Elke U. Weber sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 95 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Elke U. Weber is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research predominantly spans the social sciences and environmental science fields, with a strong focus on interdisciplinary approaches that intersect sociology, political science, policy, law, and environmental change. Within these broad fields, specific subfields of study include sociology and political science, management and policy, global and planetary change, economics and econometrics, and decision sciences.

The scientist's research topics concentrate significantly on climate change communication and perception, environmental education and sustainability, social acceptance of renewable energy, decision-making and behavioral economics, sustainability and climate change governance, social and intergroup psychology, and innovation in sustainability and human-machine systems.

Elke U. Weber has contributed to various scholarly publications, frequently publishing in the following venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • npj Urban Sustainability
  • Energy Research & Social Science
  • Nature Energy

Their recent papers cover a range of issues related to environmental and societal challenges. These include:

  • Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere, 2021, AMBIO
  • Stewardship of global collective behavior, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Scaling Up Change: A Critical Review and Practical Guide to Harnessing Social Norms for Climate Action, 2022, Gothic.net
  • Americans experience a false social reality by underestimating popular climate policy support by nearly half, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Carbon Capture and Storage in the United States: Perceptions, preferences, and lessons for policy, 2021, Energy Policy

Elke U. Weber has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Sara M. Constantino, Simon A. Levin, Carl Folke, Marten Scheffer, and Stephen R. Carpenter.

The scientist has received recognition within the academic community, holding memberships and fellowships such as:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2020)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2018)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2016)

Best Publications

  • Risk as feelings.

    George F. Loewenstein;Elke U. Weber;Christopher K. Hsee;Ned Welch

  • Perception of Risk Posed by Extreme Events

    Paul Slovic;Elke U. Weber

  • A domain-specific risk-attitude scale: measuring risk perceptions and risk behaviors

    Elke U. Weber;Ann Renée Blais;Nancy E. Betz

  • A Domain-Specific Risk-Taking (DOSPERT) scale for adult populations

    Ann-Renée Blais;Elke U. Weber

  • Decisions from Experience and the Effect of Rare Events in Risky Choice

    Ralph Hertwig;Greg Barron;Elke U. Weber;Ido Erev

  • Mindful judgment and decision making

    Elke U. Weber;Eric J. Johnson

  • Experience-Based and Description-Based Perceptions of Long-Term Risk: Why Global Warming does not Scare us (Yet)

    Elke U. Weber

  • The Drama of the Commons

    Elinor Ostrom;Thomas Dietz;Nives Dolšak;Paul C. Stern

  • Cross-Cultural Differences in Risk Perception, But Cross-Cultural Similarities in Attitudes Towards Perceived Risk

    Elke U. Weber;Christopher Hsee

  • Perceived risk attitudes: relating risk perception to risky choice

    Elke U. Weber;Richard A. Milliman

  • Public understanding of climate change in the United States.

    Elke U. Weber;Paul C. Stern

  • Beyond nudges: Tools of a choice architecture

    Eric J. Johnson;Suzanne B. Shu;Benedict G. C. Dellaert;Craig Fox

  • What shapes perceptions of climate change

    Elke U. Weber

  • Affective and deliberative processes in risky choice: Age differences in risk taking in the Columbia Card Task.

    Bernd Figner;Rachael J. Mackinlay;Friedrich Wilkening;Elke U. Weber

  • Lateral prefrontal cortex and self-control in intertemporal choice

    Bernd Figner;Daria Knoch;Eric J Johnson;Amy R Krosch;Amy R Krosch

  • Predicting risk sensitivity in humans and lower animals: risk as variance or coefficient of variation.

    Elke U. Weber;Sharoni Shafir;Ann Renée Blais

  • Positive and negative spillover of pro-environmental behavior: An integrative review and theoretical framework

    Heather Barnes Truelove;Amanda R. Carrico;Elke U. Weber;Kaitlin Toner Raimi

  • Cross-national differences in risk preference and lay predictions.

    Christopher K. Hsee;Elke U. Weber

  • Towards demand-side solutions for mitigating climate change

    Felix Creutzig;Joyashree Roy;William F. Lamb;Inês M. L. Azevedo

  • Social norms as solutions

    Karine Nyborg;John M. Anderies;Astrid Dannenberg;Therese Lindahl

  • Risk as Feelings

    George Loewenstein;Elke U. Weber;Christopher K. Hsee

  • Cross-cultural Differences in Risk Perception,but Cross-cultural Similarities in Attitudes Towards Perceived Risk

    Christopher K. Hsee;Elke U. Weber

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher K. Hsee
Christopher K. Hsee University of Chicago
Valentina Bosetti
Valentina Bosetti Bocconi University
Howard Kunreuther
Howard Kunreuther University of Pennsylvania
Denis J. Hilton
Denis J. Hilton Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Daniel G. Goldstein
Daniel G. Goldstein Microsoft (United States)
Ulf Böckenholt
Ulf Böckenholt Northwestern University
Ido Erev
Ido Erev Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Martin Weber
Martin Weber University of Mannheim
Richard P. Larrick
Richard P. Larrick Duke University
Daniel R. Ames
Daniel R. Ames Columbia University

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