2026 Norbert Schwarz: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	142	107	92	65	54	510	121326

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
2019 - Member of Academia Europaea
2014 - Donald T. Campbell Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
2009 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
2008 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)
2004 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Norbert Schwarz is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research work spans multiple areas within the social sciences and psychology, with a considerable focus on consumer judgment, decision-making, and social and cognitive psychology.

Their main fields of study include Social Sciences and Psychology, with specialized subfields in Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Literary Theory.

Research topics covered by Norbert Schwarz include:

Social and Intergroup Psychology
Media Influence and Health
Misinformation and Its Impacts
Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Cultural Differences and Values
Behavioral Health and Interventions
Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics

Norbert Schwarz has published frequently in the following venues:

Journal of Consumer Psychology
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
PLoS ONE
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Fintech Notes

Significant recent papers by Norbert Schwarz include:

Metacognitive experiences as information: Processing fluency in consumer judgment and decision making, 2020, Consumer Psychology Review

Additional notable papers from the same period, involving coauthors in related research areas, include:

Truthiness, the illusory truth effect, and the role of need for cognition, 2020, Consciousness and Cognition
Only half of what i'll tell you is true: Expecting to encounter falsehoods reduces illusory truth, 2020, Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
Global reports of well-being overestimate aggregated daily states of well-being, 2020, The Journal of Positive Psychology
Grounded procedures: A proximate mechanism for the psychology of cleansing and other physical actions, 2020, Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Frequent collaborators working alongside Norbert Schwarz include:

Eryn J. Newman
Madeline Jalbert
Lynn Zhang
Spike W. S. Lee
David Hauser

The scientist has been recognized through several awards, notably:

Member of Academia Europaea, 2019
Donald T. Campbell Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2014
German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2009, Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), 2008
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2004

Best Publications

Mood, misattribution, and judgments of well-being: Informative and directive functions of affective states.

Norbert Schwarz;Gerald L. Clore

7367
Citations
Well-being : the foundations of hedonic psychology

Daniel Kahneman;Edward Diener;Norbert Schwarz

5967
Citations
A Survey Method for Characterizing Daily Life Experience: The Day Reconstruction Method

Daniel Kahneman;Alan B. Krueger;David A. Schkade;Norbert Schwarz

4542
Citations
Self-reports: How the questions shape the answers.

Norbert Schwarz

4063
Citations
Feelings as information: informational and motivational functions of affective states

Norbert Schwarz

3819
Citations
Processing Fluency and Aesthetic Pleasure: Is Beauty in the Perceiver's Processing Experience?

Rolf Reber;Norbert Schwarz;Piotr Winkielman

3763
Citations
Misinformation and Its Correction: Continued Influence and Successful Debiasing

Stephan Lewandowsky;Ullrich K. H. Ecker;Colleen M. Seifert;Norbert Schwarz

3349
Citations
Feelings and phenomenal experiences

Norbert Schwarz;Gerald L. Clore

3070
Citations
Thinking About Answers: The Application of Cognitive Processes to Survey Methodology

Seymour Sudman;Norman M. Bradburn;Norbert Schwarz

2583
Citations
Ease of retrieval as information: Another look at the availability heuristic.

Norbert Schwarz;Herbert Bless;Fritz Strack;Gisela Klumpp

2172
Citations
Attentive Turkers: MTurk participants perform better on online attention checks than do subject pool participants

David J. Hauser;Norbert Schwarz

2133
Citations
Effects of Perceptual Fluency on Affective Judgments

Rolf Reber;Piotr Winkielman;Norbert Schwarz

1961
Citations
Metacognitive Experiences in Consumer Judgment and Decision Making

Norbert G Schwarz

1958
Citations
The Effect of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Activities on Companies With Bad Reputations

Yeosun Yoon;Zeynep Gürhan-Canli;Norbert Schwarz

1920
Citations
Would You Be Happier If You Were Richer? A Focusing Illusion

Daniel Kahneman;Alan B. Krueger;David Schkade;Norbert Schwarz

1821
Citations
Affective causes and consequences of social information processing.

Gerald L. Clore;Norbert Schwarz;Michael Conway

1787
Citations
Reports of Subjective Well-Being: Judgmental Processes and Their Methodological Implications

Norbert Schwarz;Fritz Strack

1648
Citations
Insult, Aggression, and the Southern Culture of Honor: An "Experimental Ethnography"

Dov Cohen;Richard E. Nisbett;Brian F. Bowdle;Norbert Schwarz

1472
Citations
Emotion, cognition, and decision making

Norbert Schwarz

1422
Citations
Thinking about Answers: The Application of Cognitive Process to Survey Methodology

Gerald Aalbaum;Seymour Sudman;Norman M. Bradburn;Norbert Schwarz

1272
Citations
Social Psychology: Handbook of Basic Principles

Norbert Schwarz;Gerald L. Clore

134
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Herbert Bless University of Mannheim

Fritz Strack University of Würzburg

Gerd Bohner Bielefeld University

Michaela Wänke University of Mannheim

Bärbel Knäuper McGill University

Arthur A. Stone University of Southern California

Piotr Winkielman University of California, San Diego

Denise C. Park The University of Texas at Dallas

Daniel Kahneman Princeton University

Daphna Oyserman University of Southern California

External Links

Personal website of Norbert Schwarz

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