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40
Citations
8009
World Ranking
5312
National Ranking
2511

Overview

Omar Lizardo is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily within the social sciences, psychology, and physics and astronomy. Within these broad domains, their work is focused on specific subfields such as sociology and political science, statistical and nonlinear physics, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, and artificial intelligence.

Their scholarly contributions include over 40 publications in social sciences and about 30 in psychology. Key topics addressed in their research cover social and cultural dynamics, complex network analysis techniques, opinion dynamics and social influence, mental health research topics, social representations and identity, contemporary sociological theory and practice, and cultural differences and values.

Recent papers authored by Lizardo include:

  • Culture, Cognition, and Internalization (2021), published in Sociological Forum
  • What is implicit culture? (2022), published in Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour
  • Habit and the explanation of action (2021), published in Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour
  • Creation, evolution, and dissolution of social groups (2021), published in Scientific Reports
  • Using Fitbit data to examine factors that affect daily activity levels of college students (2021), published in PLoS ONE

Lizardo frequently collaborates with several scholars, including David Hachen, Cheng Wang, Bolesław K. Szymański, Seth Abrutyn, and Michael Lee Wood. The number of joint works ranges from six to fourteen publications per collaborator.

The scholar's work has appeared in several prominent venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Social Networks (4 publications)
  • Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (3 publications)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (3 publications)
  • Harvard Dataverse (3 publications)
  • Sociological Forum (2 publications)

Among book contributions, Omar Lizardo has a publication with Springer Nature (Netherlands), specifically titled Handbook of Classical Sociological Theory, released in 2021.

Best Publications

  • The Cognitive Origins of Bourdieu's Habitus

    Omar Lizardo

  • How Cultural Tastes Shape Personal Networks

    Omar Lizardo

  • Improving Cultural Analysis: Considering Personal Culture in its Declarative and Nondeclarative Modes

    Omar Lizardo

  • Skills, toolkits, contexts and institutions: Clarifying the relationship between different approaches to cognition in cultural sociology

    Omar Lizardo;Michael Strand

  • Can Cultural Worldviews Influence Network Composition

    Stephen Vaisey;Omar Lizardo

  • International Terrorism and the World‐System

    Albert J. Bergesen;Omar Lizardo

  • A Power-Control Theory of Gender and Religiosity

    Jessica L. Collett;Omar Lizardo

  • Reconceptualizing and Theorizing “Omnivorousness” Genetic and Relational Mechanisms

    Omar Lizardo;Sara Skiles

  • What Are Dual Process Models? Implications for Cultural Analysis in Sociology

    Omar Lizardo;Robert Mowry;Brandon Sepulvado;Dustin S. Stoltz

  • The puzzle of women's “highbrow” culture consumption: Integrating gender and work into Bourdieu's class theory of taste

    Omar Lizardo

  • Editors’ Comment: A Few Guidelines for Quantitative Submissions:

    Sarah A. Mustillo;Omar A. Lizardo;Rory M. McVeigh

  • “Mirror Neurons,” Collective Objects and the Problem of Transmission: Reconsidering Stephen Turner's Critique of Practice Theory

    Omar Lizardo

  • How Macro-Historical Change Shapes Cultural Taste: Legacies of Democratization in Spain and Portugal

    Robert M. Fishman;Omar Lizardo

  • Beyond the antinomies of structure: Levi-Strauss, Giddens, Bourdieu, and Sewell

    Omar Lizardo

  • Cultural Consumption in the Fine and Popular Arts Realms

    Omar Lizardo;Sara Skiles

  • Highbrow omnivorousness on the small screen?: Cultural industry systems and patterns of cultural choice in Europe

    Omar Lizardo;Sara Skiles

  • The Hysteresis Effect: Theorizing Mismatch in Action

    Michael Strand;Omar Lizardo

  • The Question of Culture Consumption and Stratification Revisited

    Omar Lizardo

  • Musical taste and patterns of symbolic exclusion in the United States 1993–2012: Generational dynamics of differentiation and continuity

    Omar Lizardo;Sara Skiles

  • Is a “Special Psychology” of Practice Possible?: From Values and Attitudes to Embodied Dispositions

    Omar Lizardo

  • Cultural Fragmentation or Acquired Dispositions? A New Approach to Accounting for Patterns of Cultural Change

    Stephen Vaisey;Omar Lizardo

Frequent Co-Authors

Jessica D. Payne
Jessica D. Payne University of Notre Dame
Mary Ann Glynn
Mary Ann Glynn Boston College

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