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D-Index
73
Citations
30605
World Ranking
1920
National Ranking
104

Mark Schaller 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 Mark Schaller sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 176 publications — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Mark Schaller 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 Mark Schaller sits on this spectrum.

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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

Mark Schaller is a researcher affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their work spans multiple disciplines within psychology and social sciences, with a strong focus on social psychology and the psychological underpinnings of human behavior.

Schaller has contributed extensively to the study of cultural differences and values, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, and social and intergroup psychology. Other significant topics in their research include evolutionary psychology and human behavior, human-animal interaction studies, mental health research, and opinion dynamics and social influence.

Their publication record includes work in several notable venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Scientific Reports
  • Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • PLoS ONE

Schaller's recent papers demonstrate engagement with both methodological and applied psychological questions. Selected recent papers are:

  • "Psychological Science in the Wake of COVID-19: Social, Methodological, and Metascientific Considerations," 2021, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "Anatomy of a Psychological Theory: Integrating Construct-Validation and Computational-Modeling Methods to Advance Theorizing," 2021, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "The behavioural immune system and pandemic psychology: the evolved psychology of disease-avoidance and its implications for attitudes, behaviour, and public health during epidemic outbreaks," 2021, European Review of Social Psychology
  • "Multinational data show that conspiracy beliefs are associated with the perception (and reality) of poor national economic performance," 2022, European Journal of Social Psychology
  • "Ecospirituality: The psychology of moral concern for nature," 2023, Journal of Environmental Psychology

Schaller collaborates frequently with other scholars including Brandon Matthew Woo, Brock Bastian, Steve Loughnan, Paul A. M. Van Lange, and Catherine E. Amiot. These collaborations indicate a network of scientists working collectively on social psychological issues and related fields.

Their work spans several subfields such as social psychology, sociology and political science, cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, and genetics. This interdisciplinary approach supports a comprehensive understanding of behavior and social dynamics from multiple theoretical and empirical perspectives.

Best Publications

  • Does social exclusion motivate interpersonal reconnection? Resolving the "porcupine problem."

    Jon K. Maner;C. Nathan DeWall;Roy F. Baumeister;Mark Schaller

  • Renovating the Pyramid of Needs: Contemporary Extensions Built Upon Ancient Foundations

    Douglas T. Kenrick;Vladas Griskevicius;Steven L. Neuberg;Mark Schaller

  • The Behavioral Immune System (and Why It Matters)

    Mark Schaller;Justin H. Park

  • Pathogen prevalence predicts human cross-cultural variability in individualism/collectivism.

    Corey L Fincher;Randy Thornhill;Damian R Murray;Mark Schaller

  • Empathy-based helping: is it selflessly or selfishly motivated?

    Robert B. Cialdini;Mark Schaller;Donald Houlihan;Kevin Arps

  • Evolved Disease-Avoidance Mechanisms and Contemporary Xenophobic Attitudes

    Jason Faulkner;Mark Schaller;Justin H. Park;Lesley A. Duncan

  • Pathogens, Personality, and Culture: Disease Prevalence Predicts Worldwide Variability in Sociosexuality, Extraversion, and Openness to Experience

    Mark Schaller;Damian R. Murray

  • Perceived vulnerability to disease: Development and validation of a 15-item self-report instrument

    Lesley A. Duncan;Mark Schaller;Justin H. Park

  • Psychology and Culture

    Darrin R. Lehman;Chi-yue Chiu;Mark Schaller

  • Evolved disease-avoidance processes and contemporary anti-social behavior: Prejudicial attitudes and avoidance of people with physical disabilities

    Justin H. Park;Jason Faulkner;Mark Schaller

  • Functional projection: how fundamental social motives can bias interpersonal perception.

    Jon K. Maner;Douglas T. Kenrick;D. Vaughn Becker;Theresa E. Robertson

  • Human threat management systems: Self-protection and disease avoidance

    Steven L. Neuberg;Douglas T. Kenrick;Mark Schaller

  • Stereotypes as individual and collective representations.

    Charles Stangor;Mark Schaller

  • Historical Prevalence of Infectious Diseases Within 230 Geopolitical Regions: A Tool for Investigating Origins of Culture:

    Damian R. Murray;Mark Schaller

  • Pathogen-avoidance mechanisms and the stigmatization of obese people

    Justin H. Park;Mark Schaller;Christian S. Crandall

  • The Relations of Parental Characteristics and Practices to Children's Vicarious Emotional Responding

    Nancy Eisenberg;Richard A. Fabes;Mark Schaller;Gustavo Carlo

  • Memory and Mystery: The Cultural Selection of Minimally Counterintuitive Narratives.

    Ara Norenzayan;Scott Atran;Jason Faulkner;Mark Schaller

  • The behavioral immune system: Its evolution and social psychological implications.

    Mark Schaller;Lesley A. Duncan

  • They All Look the Same to Me (Unless They're Angry): From Out-Group Homogeneity to Out-Group Heterogeneity

    Joshua M. Ackerman;Jenessa R. Shapiro;Steven L. Neuberg;Douglas T. Kenrick

  • Evolution and Social Psychology

    Mark Schaller;Jeffry A. Simpson;Douglas T. Kenrick

  • Goal-Driven Cognition and Functional Behavior The Fundamental-Motives Framework

    Douglas T. Kenrick;Steven L. Neuberg;Vladas Griskevicius;D. Vaughn Becker

  • The psychological foundations of culture

    Mark Schaller;Christian S. Crandall

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas T. Kenrick
Douglas T. Kenrick Arizona State University
Steven L. Neuberg
Steven L. Neuberg Arizona State University
Ara Norenzayan
Ara Norenzayan University of British Columbia
Steven J. Heine
Steven J. Heine University of British Columbia
Jeffry A. Simpson
Jeffry A. Simpson University of Minnesota
Toshio Yamagishi
Toshio Yamagishi Hitotsubashi University
Tatsuya Kameda
Tatsuya Kameda Meiji Gakuin University
Christian S. Crandall
Christian S. Crandall University of Kansas
Jon K. Maner
Jon K. Maner Florida State University
Nancy Eisenberg
Nancy Eisenberg Arizona State University

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