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Jamil Zaki 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 Jamil Zaki sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 133 publications — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jamil Zaki 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 Jamil Zaki sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% 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

  • 2013 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Jamil Zaki is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research concentrates primarily in the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with a particular focus on subfields including Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Applied Psychology.

The main topics that characterize their work include:

  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Media Influence and Health

Key recent publications by Jamil Zaki include:

  • "Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response" (2020), published in Nature Human Behaviour
  • "Mental Health During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review and Recommendations for Moving Forward" (2022), published in Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "Policy stringency and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal analysis of data from 15 countries" (2022), published in The Lancet Public Health
  • "Catastrophe Compassion: Understanding and Extending Prosociality Under Crisis" (2020), published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • "A synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19" (2023), published in Nature

Jamil Zaki frequently publishes in several scientific venues, notably:

  • Nature Human Behaviour
  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Emotion
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their research collaborations involve frequent co-authors such as:

  • Desmond C. Ong
  • Robb Willer
  • Patricia Chen
  • Jay Joseph Van Bavel
  • Mina Cikara

An award received by Jamil Zaki includes the Hellman Fellow honor in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response.

    Jay J. Van Bavel;Katherine Baicker;Paulo S. Boggio;Valerio Capraro

  • Social effects of oxytocin in humans: context and person matter.

    Jennifer A. Bartz;Jamil Zaki;Niall Bolger;Kevin N. Ochsner

  • The neuroscience of empathy: progress, pitfalls and promise

    Jamil Zaki;Kevin N Ochsner

  • Interpersonal emotion regulation.

    Jamil Zaki;W. Craig Williams

  • Empathy: a motivated account.

    Jamil Zaki

  • Building long-term empathy: A large-scale comparison of traditional and virtual reality perspective-taking.

    Fernanda Herrera;Jeremy Bailenson;Erika Weisz;Elise Ogle

  • It Takes Two The Interpersonal Nature of Empathic Accuracy

    Jamil Zaki;Niall Bolger;Kevin Ochsner

  • Overlapping activity in anterior insula during interoception and emotional experience

    Jamil Zaki;Joshua Ian Davis;Kevin N. Ochsner

  • Oxytocin Selectively Improves Empathic Accuracy

    Jennifer A. Bartz;Jamil Zaki;Niall Bolger;Eric Hollander

  • The neural bases of empathic accuracy.

    Jamil Zaki;Jochen Weber;Niall Bolger;Kevin Ochsner

  • The Emerging Study of Positive Empathy

    Sylvia A. Morelli;Matthew D. Lieberman;Jamil Zaki

  • Social Influence Modulates the Neural Computation of Value

    Jamil Zaki;Jessica Schirmer;Jason P. Mitchell

  • Mental health during the First Year of the COVID-19 pandemic: a review and recommendations for moving forward

    L Aknin;J-E De Neve;E Dunn;D Fancourt

  • Interpersonal emotion regulation: Implications for affiliation, perceived support, relationships, and well-being.

    W. Craig Williams;Sylvia A. Morelli;Desmond C. Ong;Jamil Zaki

  • Emotional and instrumental support provision interact to predict well-being.

    Sylvia A. Morelli;Ihno A. Lee;Molly E. Arnn;Jamil Zaki

  • Policy stringency and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal analysis of data from 15 countries

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  • Intuitive Prosociality

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  • Effects of oxytocin on recollections of maternal care and closeness

    Jennifer A. Bartz;Jamil Zaki;Kevin N. Ochsner;Niall Bolger

  • Addressing the empathy deficit: Beliefs about the malleability of empathy predict effortful responses when empathy is challenging.

    Karina Schumann;Jamil Zaki;Carol S. Dweck

  • The Need for a Cognitive Neuroscience of Naturalistic Social Cognition

    Jamil Zaki;Kevin Ochsner

  • The anatomy of suffering: Understanding the relationship between nociceptive and empathic pain

    Jamil Zaki;Tor D. Wager;Tania Singer;Christian Keysers;Christian Keysers

  • Different circuits for different pain: Patterns of functional connectivity reveal distinct networks for processing pain in self and others

    Jamil Zaki;Kevin N. Ochsner;Josh Hanelin;Tor D. Wager

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin N. Ochsner
Kevin N. Ochsner Columbia University
Noah D. Goodman
Noah D. Goodman Stanford University
Niall Bolger
Niall Bolger Columbia University
Jason P. Mitchell
Jason P. Mitchell Harvard University
Robb Willer
Robb Willer Stanford University
June Gruber
June Gruber University of Colorado Boulder
Jeremy N. Bailenson
Jeremy N. Bailenson Stanford University
Aleksandra Cichocka
Aleksandra Cichocka University of Kent
M. Mercedes Perez-Rodriguez
M. Mercedes Perez-Rodriguez Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Carol S. Dweck
Carol S. Dweck Stanford University

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