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Leaf Van Boven 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 Leaf Van Boven sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 126 publications — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Leaf Van Boven 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 Leaf Van Boven sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Leaf Van Boven is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research primarily falls within social sciences, with a strong focus on sociology and political science, management, monitoring, policy and law, communication, applied psychology, and economics and econometrics.

The scientist's work covers several main topics including environmental education and sustainability, climate change communication and perception, social and intergroup psychology, social media and politics, misinformation and its impacts, behavioral health and interventions, and the psychology of moral and emotional judgment.

Leaf Van Boven has published in multiple venues, showing a concentration in several key journals and publication platforms. These include Climatic Change, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, Journal of Experimental Psychology General, Behavioural Public Policy, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Recent papers by Leaf Van Boven include:

  • Politicians polarize and experts depolarize public support for COVID-19 management policies across countries, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • False polarization: Cognitive mechanisms and potential solutions, 2021, Current Opinion in Psychology
  • Salience theory of mere exposure: Relative exposure increases liking, extremity, and emotional intensity, 2020, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Elite influence on public attitudes about climate policy, 2021, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • Behavioural frameworks to understand public perceptions of and risk response to carbon dioxide removal, 2020, Interface Focus

The scientist collaborates frequently with a number of coauthors, including:

  • David K. Sherman
  • Alexandra Flores
  • Gabriela M. Jiga-Boy
  • Jennifer C. Cole
  • Stephan Dickert

Best Publications

  • To Do or to Have? That Is the Question

    Leaf Van Boven;Thomas Gilovich

  • Perspective Taking as Egocentric Anchoring and Adjustment

    Nicholas Epley;Boaz Keysar;Leaf Van Boven;Thomas Gilovich

  • Social Projection of Transient Drive States

    Leaf Van Boven;George Loewenstein

  • The effort heuristic

    Justin Kruger;Derrick Wirtz;Leaf Van Boven;T.William Altermatt

  • Experientialism, Materialism, and the Pursuit of Happiness:

    Leaf Van Boven

  • Identifiable but Not Identical: Combining Social Identity and Uniqueness Motives in Choice

    Cindy Chan;Jonah Berger;Leaf Van Boven

  • Feeling close: emotional intensity reduces perceived psychological distance.

    Leaf Van Boven;Joanne Kane;A. Peter McGraw;Jeannette Dale

  • Learning Negotiation Skills: Four Models of Knowledge Creation and Transfer

    Janice Nadler;Leigh Thompson;Leaf Van Boven

  • Egocentric empathy gaps between owners and buyers: misperceptions of the endowment effect.

    Leaf Van Boven;David Dunning;George Loewenstein

  • Perceiving Political Polarization in the United States: Party Identity Strength and Attitude Extremity Exacerbate the Perceived Partisan Divide

    Jacob Westfall;Leaf Van Boven;John R. Chambers;Charles M. Judd

  • Looking forward, looking back: anticipation is more evocative than retrospection.

    Leaf Van Boven;Laurence Ashworth

  • Consumer Choice and Autonomy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data

    Quentin André;Ziv Carmon;Klaus Wertenbroch;Alia Crum

  • Stigmatizing Materialism: On Stereotypes and Impressions of Materialistic and Experiential Pursuits

    Leaf Van Boven;Margaret C. Campbell;Thomas Gilovich

  • What's next? Judging sequences of binary events.

    An T. Oskarsson;Leaf Van Boven;Gary H. McClelland;Reid Hastie

  • Values and preferences: defining preference construction

    Caleb Warren;A. Peter McGraw;Leaf Van Boven

  • Psychological Barriers to Bipartisan Public Support for Climate Policy

    Leaf Van Boven;Phillip J. Ehret;David K. Sherman

  • Perspective Taking as Egocentric Anchoring and Adjustment

    Nicholas Epley;Boaz Keysar;Thomas Gilovich;Leaf Van Boven

  • The illusion of courage in social predictions: Underestimating the impact of fear of embarrassment on other people !

    Leaf Van Boven;George Loewenstein;David Dunning

  • A Look into the Mind of the Negotiator: Mental Models in Negotiation

    Leaf Van Boven;Leigh Thompson

  • Mispredicting the endowment effect:: Underestimation of owners’ selling prices by buyer’s agents

    Leaf Van Boven;George Loewenstein;David Dunning

  • Egocentric Empathy Gaps between Owners and Buyers: Misperceptions of the Endowment Effect

    George Loewenstein;Leaf Van Boven

  • The Effort Heuristic

    Derrick Wirtz;Justin Kruger;Justin Kruger;William Altermatt;Leaf Van Boven

  • Looking Forward, Looking Back: Anticipation is More Evocative than Retrospection

    Laurence Ashworth;Leaf Van Boven

  • Learning Negotiation Skills: Four Models of Knowledge Creation and Transfer.: Four Models of Knowledge Creation and Transfer.

    Leigh Thompson;Leaf Van Boven;Janice Nadler

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Gilovich
Thomas Gilovich Cornell University
George Loewenstein
George Loewenstein Carnegie Mellon University
A. Peter McGraw
A. Peter McGraw University of Colorado Boulder
David K. Sherman
David K. Sherman University of California, Santa Barbara
David Dunning
David Dunning University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Nicholas Epley
Nicholas Epley University of Chicago
Charles M. Judd
Charles M. Judd University of Colorado Boulder
Leigh Thompson
Leigh Thompson Northwestern University
June Gruber
June Gruber University of Colorado Boulder
Jonah Berger
Jonah Berger University of Pennsylvania

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