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D-Index
93
Citations
37758
World Ranking
833
National Ranking
526

Nalini Ambady 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 Nalini Ambady sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 219 publications — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Nalini Ambady 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 Nalini Ambady sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 93 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% 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

  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Nalini Ambady was a researcher affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Throughout their career, they contributed to the academic community with a focus on various areas within psychology and social cognition, though specific subfields or research topics are not detailed in the available data.

Nalini Ambady received recognition in the scientific community, including being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2007.

Details about published papers, frequent co-authors, main topics, subfields, or book publications are not available in the provided data, and therefore cannot be included in this profile.

Best Publications

  • On the universality and cultural specificity of emotion recognition: a meta-analysis.

    Hillary Anger Elfenbein;Nalini Ambady

  • Thin slices of expressive behavior as predictors of interpersonal consequences: A meta-analysis.

    Nalini Ambady;Robert Rosenthal

  • Stereotype Susceptibility: Identity Salience and Shifts in Quantitative Performance

    Margaret Shih;Todd L. Pittinsky;Nalini Ambady

  • Half a minute: Predicting teacher evaluations from thin slices of nonverbal behavior and physical attractiveness.

    Nalini Ambady;Robert Rosenthal

  • Toward a histology of social behavior: Judgmental accuracy from thin slices of the behavioral stream

    Nalini Ambady;Frank J. Bernieri;Jennifer A. Richeson

  • Stereotype Susceptibility in Children: Effects of Identity Activation on Quantitative Performance:

    Nalini Ambady;Margaret Shih;Amy Kim;Todd L. Pittinsky

  • MouseTracker: Software for studying real-time mental processing using a computer mouse-tracking method

    Jonathan B. Freeman;Nalini Ambady

  • The effects of fear and anger facial expressions on approach- and avoidance-related behaviors.

    Abigail A. Marsh;Nalini Ambady;Robert E. Kleck

  • A dynamic interactive theory of person construal

    Jonathan B. Freeman;Nalini Ambady

  • P300 as an index of attention to self-relevant stimuli

    Heather M. Gray;Nalini Ambady;William T. Lowenthal;Patricia Deldin

  • Effects of gaze on amygdala sensitivity to anger and fear faces

    Reginald B. Adams;Reginald B. Adams;Heather L. Gordon;Abigail A. Baird;Nalini Ambady

  • Surgeons' tone of voice: a clue to malpractice history

    Nalini Ambady;Debi LaPlante;Thai Nguyen;Robert Rosenthal

  • When familiarity breeds accuracy: cultural exposure and facial emotion recognition.

    Hillary Anger Elfenbein;Nalini Ambady

  • Cross-cultural reading the mind in the eyes: An fmri investigation

    Reginald B. Adams;Nicholas O. Rule;Robert G. Franklin;Elsie Wang

  • The Face of Success: Inferences From Chief Executive Officers' Appearance Predict Company Profits

    Nicholas O. Rule;Nalini Ambady

  • On judging and being judged accurately in zero-acquaintance situations.

    Nalini Ambady;Mark Hallahan;Robert Rosenthal

  • On being sad and mistaken: mood effects on the accuracy of thin-slice judgments.

    Nalini Ambady;Heather M. Gray

  • Is there an in-group advantage in emotion recognition?

    Hillary Anger Elfenbein;Nalini Ambady

  • Stereotype performance boosts: The impact of self-relevance and the manner of stereotype activation.

    Margaret Shih;Nalini Ambady;Jennifer A. Richeson;Kentaro Fujita

  • Accuracy of judgments of sexual orientation from thin slices of behavior

    Nalini Ambady;Mark Hallahan;Brett Conner

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas O. Rule
Nicholas O. Rule University of Toronto
Reginald B. Adams
Reginald B. Adams Pennsylvania State University
Hillary Anger Elfenbein
Hillary Anger Elfenbein Washington University in St. Louis
Samuel R. Sommers
Samuel R. Sommers Tufts University
Debi A. LaPlante
Debi A. LaPlante Harvard Medical School
Zorana Ivcevic
Zorana Ivcevic Yale University
Joan Y. Chiao
Joan Y. Chiao Northwestern University
Robert Rosenthal
Robert Rosenthal University of California, Riverside
Jennifer A. Richeson
Jennifer A. Richeson Yale University
Abigail A. Marsh
Abigail A. Marsh Georgetown University

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