2026 Michal Kosinski: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	51	5101	4732	2802	2536	118	20521

Overview

Michal Kosinski is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on computer science and psychology. Within these fields, they concentrate on key subfields such as artificial intelligence, clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, and sociology and political science.

The scientist has contributed notably to several main research topics, including:

Topic Modeling
Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
Personality Traits and Psychology
Face Recognition and Perception
Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Authorship Attribution and Profiling
Personality Disorders and Psychopathology

Michal Kosinski's recent publications include works across prominent venues:

Facial recognition technology can expose political orientation from naturalistic facial images, 2021, Scientific Reports
Workshop on Computational Personality Recognition: Shared Task, 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Human-like intuitive behavior and reasoning biases emerged in large language models but disappeared in ChatGPT, 2023, Nature Computational Science
Mining Facebook Data for Predictive Personality Modeling, 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Evaluating Large Language Models in Theory of Mind Tasks, 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, with significant contributions to:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Scientific Reports
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
PsycTESTS Dataset

Michal Kosinski collaborates frequently with a range of coauthors, including:

David Stillwell
Poruz Khambatta
Thilo Hagendorff
Sarah Fabi
Yilun Wang

Best Publications

Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior

Michal Kosinski;David Stillwell;Thore Graepel

3677
Citations
Personality, Gender, and Age in the Language of Social Media: The Open-Vocabulary Approach

H. Andrew Schwartz;Johannes C. Eichstaedt;Margaret L. Kern;Lukasz Dziurzynski

2156
Citations
Computer-based personality judgments are more accurate than those made by humans

Wu Youyou;Michal Kosinski;David Stillwell

1395
Citations
Facebook as a research tool for the social sciences: Opportunities, challenges, ethical considerations, and practical guidelines.

Michal Kosinski;Sandra C. Matz;Samuel D. Gosling;Vesselin Popov

1262
Citations
Psychological targeting as an effective approach to digital mass persuasion.

Sandra C. Matz;Michal Kosinski;Gideon Nave;David J. Stillwell

1007
Citations
Automatic personality assessment through social media language.

Gregory Park;H. Andrew Schwartz;Johannes C. Eichstaedt;Margaret L. Kern

882
Citations
Deep neural networks are more accurate than humans at detecting sexual orientation from facial images.

Yilun Wang;Michal Kosinski

812
Citations
Our Twitter Profiles, Our Selves: Predicting Personality with Twitter

Daniele Quercia;Michal Kosinski;David Stillwell;Jon Crowcroft

690
Citations
Characterizing a psychiatric symptom dimension related to deficits in goal-directed control

Claire M Gillan;Claire M Gillan;Michal Kosinski;Robert Whelan;Elizabeth A Phelps;Elizabeth A Phelps;Elizabeth A Phelps

620
Citations
Personality and patterns of Facebook usage

Yoram Bachrach;Michal Kosinski;Thore Graepel;Pushmeet Kohli

601
Citations
Manifestations of user personality in website choice and behaviour on online social networks

Michal Kosinski;Yoram Bachrach;Pushmeet Kohli;David Stillwell

408
Citations
Divided we stand: three psychological regions of the United States and their political, economic, social, and health correlates.

Peter J. Rentfrow;Samuel D. Gosling;Markus Jokela;David J. Stillwell

400
Citations
Mining big data to extract patterns and predict real-life outcomes.

Michal Kosinski;Yilun Wang;Himabindu Lakkaraju;Jure Leskovec

296
Citations
Towards Assessing Changes in Degree of Depression through Facebook

H. Andrew Schwartz;Johannes Eichstaedt;Margaret L. Kern;Gregory Park

286
Citations
Tracking the Digital Footprints of Personality

Renaud Lambiotte;Michal Kosinski

271
Citations
Computational personality recognition in social media

Golnoosh Farnadi;Geetha Sitaraman;Shanu Sushmita;Fabio Celli

270
Citations
The personality of popular facebook users

Daniele Quercia;Renaud Lambiotte;David Stillwell;Michal Kosinski

270
Citations
Developing Age and Gender Predictive Lexica over Social Media

Maarten Sap;Gregory Park;Johannes Eichstaedt;Margaret Kern

269
Citations
Mining Facebook Data for Predictive Personality Modeling

Dejan Markovikj;Sonja Gievska;Michal Kosinski;David J. Stillwell

218
Citations
PREDICTING INDIVIDUAL WELL-BEING THROUGH THE LANGUAGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA.

H. Andrew Schwartz;Maarten Sap;Margaret L. Kern;Johannes C. Eichstaedt

197
Citations
Musical Preferences Predict Personality: Evidence From Active Listening and Facebook Likes:

Gideon Nave;Juri Minxha;David M. Greenberg;Michal Kosinski

193
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

David Stillwell University of Cambridge

Margaret L. Kern University of Melbourne

Johannes C. Eichstaedt Stanford University

Martin E. P. Seligman University of Pennsylvania

John Rust University of Cambridge

Elizabeth A. Phelps Harvard University

Maarten Sap Carnegie Mellon University

Peter J. Rentfrow University of Cambridge

Claire M. Gillan Trinity College Dublin

Samuel D. Gosling The University of Texas at Austin

External Links

Personal website of Michal Kosinski

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