2026 Klaus Fiedler: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	73	1956	1769	79	76	296	21059

Klaus Fiedler 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 Klaus Fiedler sits on this spectrum.

31 publications 705+

This scientist: 296 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Klaus Fiedler 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 Klaus Fiedler sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 73 D-Index — 83rd percentile

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

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

Overview

Klaus Fiedler is affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of Decision Sciences and Psychology, with a strong focus on General Decision Sciences and Cognitive Neuroscience among other subfields such as Applied Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The research topics covered by Fiedler include Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, Behavioral Health and Interventions, Mental Health Research Topics, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, and Religion, Society, and Development.

Fiedler's recent scholarly output includes papers published in reputable venues such as:

"Quo Vadis, Methodology? The Key Role of Manipulation Checks for Validity Control and Quality of Science," 2021, Perspectives on Psychological Science
"Speed-accuracy trade-offs in sample-based decisions," 2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology General
"Biased preferences through exploitation: How initial biases are consolidated in reward-rich environments," 2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology General
"Major Theories in Social Psychology," 2021, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology
"Forming impressions from self-truncated samples of traits−interplay of Thurstonian and Brunswikian sampling effects," 2021, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

In addition to journal articles, Fiedler has authored books published by notable houses, including:

"For the Sake of Christian Marriage, Abolish Church Weddings," 2024, Luviri Press eBooks
"Heuristics and Biases," 2021, The MIT Press

Collaborations are a significant aspect of Fiedler's work, with frequent co-authors including Johannes Prager, Linda McCaughey, Peter Juslin, Jerker Denrell, and Johannes Ziegler.

Fiedler has published frequently in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Perspectives on Psychological Science, Journal of Experimental Psychology General, and Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

Best Publications

The cognitive functions of linguistic categories in describing persons: Social cognition and language.

Giin R. Semin;Klaus Fiedler

1333
Citations
Recommendations for increasing replicability in psychology.

Jens B. Asendorpf;Mark Conner;Filip de Fruyt;Jan De Houwer

1003
Citations
The linguistic category model, its bases, applications and range

Gün R. Semin;Klaus Fiedler

627
Citations
What mediation analysis can (not) do

Klaus Fiedler;Malte Schott;Thorsten Meiser

627
Citations
Beware of samples! A cognitive-ecological sampling approach to judgment biases.

Klaus Fiedler

557
Citations
Unresolved problems with the “I”, the “A”, and the “T”: A logical and psychometric critique of the Implicit Association Test (IAT)

Klaus Fiedler;Claude Messner;Matthias Bluemke

465
Citations
Mood and the regulation of information processing and behavior

Herbert Bless;Klaus Fiedler

463
Citations
Unpacking the exploration–exploitation tradeoff: A synthesis of human and animal literatures.

Sabine Mehlhorn;Ben R Newell;Peter M Todd;Michael D Lee

449
Citations
Faking the IAT: Aided and Unaided Response Control on the Implicit Association Tests

Klaus Fiedler;Matthias Bluemke

439
Citations
The dependence of the conjunction fallacy on subtle linguistic factors

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436
Citations
Bimodal Interaction of Coatomer with the p24 Family of Putative Cargo Receptors

Klaus Fiedler;Michael Veit;Mark A. Stamnes;James E. Rothman

432
Citations
Language, interaction and social cognition

G. R. Semin;Klaus Fiedler

416
Citations
Unwarranted inferences from statistical mediation tests – An analysis of articles published in 2015

Klaus Fiedler;Chris Harris;Malte Schott

371
Citations
Why positive information is processed faster: the density hypothesis.

Christian Unkelbach;Klaus Fiedler;Myriam Bayer;Martin Stegmüller

361
Citations
The effects of routine strength on adaptation and information search in recurrent decision making.

Tilmann Betsch;Susanne Haberstroh;Andreas Glöckner;Thomas Haar

297
Citations
Voodoo Correlations Are Everywhere—Not Only in Neuroscience:

Klaus Fiedler

271
Citations
The Long Way From α-Error Control to Validity Proper Problems With a Short-Sighted False-Positive Debate

Klaus Fiedler;Florian Kutzner;Joachim I. Krueger

245
Citations
Construal Level Theory as an Integrative Framework for Behavioral Decision-Making Research and Consumer Psychology

Klaus Fiedler

245
Citations
Information Sampling and Adaptive Cognition

Klaus Fiedler;Peter Juslin

235
Citations
Social Cognition: How Individuals Construct Social Reality

Rainer Greifeneder;Herbert Bless;Klaus Fiedler

229
Citations
Explaining and simulating judgment biases as an aggregation phenomenon in probabilistic, multiple-cue environments.

Klaus Fiedler

227
Citations
Questionable research practices revisited.

Klaus Fiedler;Norbert Schwarz

226
Citations
Affect, Cognition and Social Behavior@@@Growth Points in Cognition

Dipankar Chakravarti;Klaus Fiedler;Joseph Forgas;Guy Claxton

74
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Kai Simons Lipotype

Gün R. Semin ISPA - University Institute of Psychological, Social and Life Sciences

Joseph P. Forgas University of New South Wales

Robert G. Parton University of Queensland

Christian Unkelbach University of Cologne

Peter Juslin Uppsala University

Reinhold Kliegl University of Potsdam

Martin Lotze University of Greifswald

Nick Chater University of Warwick

Guido Hertel University of Münster

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