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87
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99646
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1056
National Ranking
650

Jonathan Haidt 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 Jonathan Haidt sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 140 publications — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jonathan Haidt 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 Jonathan Haidt sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 87 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% 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

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Jonathan Haidt is affiliated with New York University in the United States and focuses their research primarily within the Social Sciences and Psychology. Their work encompasses several subfields, including Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Education, and Applied Psychology. The main topics covered by Haidt include the Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Impact of Technology on Adolescents, Cultural Differences and Values, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Child Development and Digital Technology, Digital Mental Health Interventions, and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation.

Haidt's publication record features research in multiple venues, with frequent appearances in the SSRN Electronic Journal, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, and Revista de Humanidades de Valparaíso. Other notable publication venues include the Journal of Adolescence and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Some of the recent papers by Jonathan Haidt are:

  • Worldwide increases in adolescent loneliness, 2021, Journal of Adolescence
  • Morality beyond the WEIRD: How the nomological network of morality varies across cultures, 2023, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Underestimating digital media harm, 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Specification curve analysis shows that social media use is linked to poor mental health, especially among girls, 2022, Acta Psychologica
  • Scrutinizing the effects of digital technology on mental health, 2020, Nature

Jonathan Haidt frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable coauthors include Jean M. Twenge, Mohammad Atari, Jesse Graham, Morteza Dehghani, and Zachary Rausch.

In 2019, Haidt was recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Best Publications

  • The emotional dog and its rational tail: a social intuitionist approach to moral judgment.

    Jonathan Haidt

  • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

    Jonathan Haidt

  • Liberals and Conservatives Rely on Different Sets of Moral Foundations

    Jesse Graham;Jonathan Haidt;Brian A. Nosek

  • Moral Foundations Theory: The Pragmatic Validity of Moral Pluralism

    Jesse Graham;Jonathan Haidt;Sena Koleva;Matt Motyl

  • The new synthesis in moral psychology.

    Jonathan Haidt

  • Mapping the Moral Domain

    Jesse Graham;Brian A. Nosek;Jonathan Haidt;Ravi Iyer

  • When Morality Opposes Justice: Conservatives Have Moral Intuitions that Liberals may not Recognize

    Jonathan Haidt;Jesse Graham

  • The moral emotions.

    Jonathan Haidt

  • Intuitive ethics: how innately prepared intuitions generate culturally variable virtues

    Jonathan Haidt;Craig Joseph

  • Approaching awe, a moral, spiritual, and aesthetic emotion.

    Dacher Keltner;Jonathan Haidt

  • Social Functions of Emotions at Four Levels of Analysis

    Dacher Keltner;Jonathan Haidt

  • How (and where) does moral judgment work

    Joshua D. Greene;Jonathan Haidt

  • Affect, culture, and morality, or is it wrong to eat your dog?

    Jonathan Haidt;Silvia Helena Koller;Maria G. Dias

  • Individual differences in sensitivity to disgust: A scale sampling seven domains of disgust elicitors

    Jonathan Haidt;Clark McCauley;Paul Rozin

  • The happiness hypothesis: Finding modern truth in ancient wisdom.

    Jonathan Haidt

  • Disgust as Embodied Moral Judgment

    Simone Schnall;Jonathan Haidt;Gerald L. Clore;Alexander H. Jordan

  • The CAD triad hypothesis: a mapping between three moral emotions (contempt, anger, disgust) and three moral codes (community, autonomy, divinity).

    Paul Rozin;Laura Anne Lowery;Sumio Imada;Jonathan Haidt

  • What (and Why) Is Positive Psychology

    Shelly L. Gable;Jonathan Haidt

  • Witnessing excellence in action: the ‘other-praising’ emotions of elevation, gratitude, and admiration

    Sara B. Algoe;Jonathan Haidt

  • Hypnotic Disgust Makes Moral Judgments More Severe

    Thalia Wheatley;Jonathan Haidt

Frequent Co-Authors

Jesse Graham
Jesse Graham University of Utah
Brian A. Nosek
Brian A. Nosek Center for Open Science
Peter H. Ditto
Peter H. Ditto University of California, Irvine
Paul Rozin
Paul Rozin University of Pennsylvania
Dacher Keltner
Dacher Keltner University of California, Berkeley
Fredrik Björklund
Fredrik Björklund Lund University
Clark McCauley
Clark McCauley Bryn Mawr College
Philip E. Tetlock
Philip E. Tetlock University of Pennsylvania
Gerald L. Clore
Gerald L. Clore University of Virginia
Bunmi O. Olatunji
Bunmi O. Olatunji Vanderbilt University

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