2026 Fathali M. Moghaddam: 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	48	3072	2818	1491	1347	216	14025

Overview

Fathali M. Moghaddam is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States and specializes in the fields of Social Sciences. Their research spans several subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Political Science and International Relations, and Clinical Psychology.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics, with frequent focus on Social and Intergroup Psychology, Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence, Racial and Ethnic Identity Research, Cultural Differences and Values, Migration, Refugees, and Integration, Peace and Human Rights Education, and Political Conflict and Governance.

Fathali M. Moghaddam has contributed to numerous academic publications, with frequent publication venues including Peace and Conflict Journal of Peace Psychology, Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Cambridge University Press eBooks, Culture & Psychology, and Political Psychology.

Their recent papers include:

The Volatility of Collective Action: Theoretical Analysis and Empirical Data (2020, Political Psychology)
How Collective-Action Failure Shapes Group Heterogeneity and Engagement in Conventional and Radical Action Over Time (2021, Psychological Science)
Failure Leads Protest Movements to Support More Radical Tactics (2021, Social Psychological and Personality Science)
The effect of perceived threat on human rights: A meta-analysis (2020, Group Processes & Intergroup Relations)
Human Security Psychology: A Linking Construct for an Eclectic Discipline (2022, Review of General Psychology)

Frequent co-authors of Moghaddam's work include Winnifred R. Louis, Emma F. Thomas, Catherine E. Amiot, Margaret J. Hendricks, and Craig McGarty.

They have authored several books published by Cambridge University Press and Springer International Publishing. Titles published by Cambridge University Press include The Psychology of Revolution (2024), Political Plasticity (2023), How Psychologists Failed (2022), and Shakespeare and the Experimental Psychologist (2021). Titles from Springer International Publishing include The Psychology of Multiculturalism, Assimilation, and Omniculturalism (2024) and Collective Irrationality (2025).

Best Publications

The Staircase to Terrorism: A Psychological Exploration.

Fathali M. Moghaddam

1772
Citations
Theories of intergroup relations: International social psychological perspectives

Donald M. Taylor;Fathali M. Moghaddam

1328
Citations
Responding to membership in a disadvantaged group : from acceptance to collective protest

Stephen C. Wright;Donald M. Taylor;Fathali M. Moghaddam

1201
Citations
Recent Advances in Positioning Theory

Rom Harré;Fathali M. Moghaddam;Tracey Pilkerton Cairnie;Daniel Rothbart

1105
Citations
The Self and Others: Positioning Individuals and Groups in Personal, Political, and Cultural Contexts

Rom Harré;Fathali M. Moghaddam

777
Citations
The Personal/Group Discrimination Discrepancy Perceiving My Group, but not Myself, to be a Target for Discrimination

Donald M. Taylor;Stephen C. Wright;Fathali M. Moghaddam;Richard N. Lalonde

767
Citations
Terrorism, radicalization, and de-radicalization

Bertjan Doosje;Fathali M Moghaddam;Arie W Kruglanski;Arjan de Wolf

562
Citations
Social Psychology in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Fathali M. Moghaddam;Donald M. Taylor;Stephen C. Wright

447
Citations
Introduction: The Self and Others in Traditional Psychology and in Positioning Theory.

Rom Harré;Fathali Moghaddam

392
Citations
From the terrorists' point of view : what they experience and why they come to destroy

Fathali M. Moghaddam

337
Citations
Psychology in the three worlds: As reflected by the crisis in social psychology and the move toward indigenous third-world psychology.

Fathali M. Moghaddam

336
Citations
Social Psychology: Exploring Universals Across Cultures

Fathali M. Moghaddam

292
Citations
Multiculturalism and Intergroup Relations: Psychological Implications for Democracy in Global Context

Fathali M. Moghaddam

229
Citations
Disadvantaged group responses to perceived inequality: from passive acceptance to collective action

Donald M. Taylor;Fathali M. Moghaddam;Ian Gamble;Evelyn Zellerer

194
Citations
Understanding terrorism: Psychosocial roots, consequences, and interventions.

Fathali M. Moghaddam;Anthony J. Marsella

191
Citations
Global conflict resolution through positioning analysis

Fathali M. Moghaddam;Rom Harré;Naomi Lee

188
Citations
ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR TOWARD HUMAN RIGHTS ACROSS DIFFERENT CONTEXTS: THE ROLE OF RIGHT‐WING AUTHORITARIANISM, POLITICAL IDEOLOGY, AND RELIGIOSITY*

Fathali M. Moghaddam;Vuk Vuksanovic

171
Citations
Similarity and attraction among majority and minority groups in a multicultural context

Lisa M. Osbeck;Fathali M. Moghaddam;Stephane Perreault

153
Citations
The Process of Social Identification for Visible Immigrant Women in a Multicultural Context

Richard N. Lalonde;Donald M. Taylor;Fathali M. Moghaddam

128
Citations
The relationship of perceptions and emotions to behavior in the face of collective inequality

Stephen C. Wright;Donald M. Taylor;Fathali M. Moghaddam

104
Citations
The Volatility of Collective Action: Theoretical Analysis and Empirical Data

Winnifred Louis;Emma Thomas;Craig McGarty;Morgana Lizzio-Wilson

103
Citations
The Staircase to Terrorism

Fathali M. Moghaddam

59
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald M. Taylor McGill University

Rom Harré Georgetown University

Stephen C. Wright Simon Fraser University

Richard N. Lalonde York University

Philip G. Zimbardo Stanford University

Bertjan Doosje University of Amsterdam

Wallace E. Lambert McGill University

John Duckitt University of Auckland

Walter G. Stephan New Mexico State University

Blaine Ditto McGill University

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