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Peter J. Rentfrow 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 Peter J. Rentfrow sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 137 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Peter J. Rentfrow 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 Peter J. Rentfrow sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 66 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Peter J. Rentfrow is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of psychology and social sciences, with a particular emphasis on social psychology, sociology and political science, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, and applied psychology.

The main topics explored in their work include cultural differences and values, social and intergroup psychology, behavioral health and interventions, personality traits and psychology, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, and mental health research topics.

Peter J. Rentfrow's recent publications cover a range of psychological and social themes. Selected papers include:

  • Small Effects: The Indispensable Foundation for a Cumulative Psychological Science (2021), published in Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Religious people only live longer in religious cultural contexts: A gravestone analysis (2020), published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Sex and age differences in "theory of mind" across 57 countries using the English version of the "Reading the Mind in the Eyes" Test (2022), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Physical topography is associated with human personality (2020), published in Nature Human Behaviour
  • Universals and variations in musical preferences: A study of preferential reactions to Western music in 53 countries (2022), published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Personality
  • Perspectives on Psychological Science

Collaboration is a notable component of their work, with frequent co-authors including Samuel D. Gosling, Jeff Potter, Friedrich M. Götz, Tobias Ebert, and Jochen E. Gebauer. These collaborations reflect broad interdisciplinary engagements within psychological and social science research.

Best Publications

  • A very brief measure of the Big-Five personality domains

    Samuel D. Gosling;Peter J. Rentfrow;William B. Swann

  • The do re mi's of everyday life: The structure and personality correlates of music preferences.

    Peter J. Rentfrow;Samuel D. Gosling

  • Age and Gender Differences in Self-Esteem—A Cross-Cultural Window

    Wiebke Bleidorn;Ruben C. Arslan;Jaap J. A. Denissen;Peter J. Rentfrow

  • Self-verification: The search for coherence

    William B. Swann Jr.;Peter J. Rentfrow;Jennifer S. Guinn

  • EmotionSense: a mobile phones based adaptive platform for experimental social psychology research

    Kiran K. Rachuri;Mirco Musolesi;Cecilia Mascolo;Peter J. Rentfrow

  • A Theory of the Emergence, Persistence, and Expression of Geographic Variation in Psychological Characteristics.

    Peter J. Rentfrow;Samuel D. Gosling;Jeff Potter

  • Personality Judgments Based on Physical Appearance

    Laura P. Naumann;Simine Vazire;Peter J. Rentfrow;Samuel D. Gosling

  • Message in a Ballad The Role of Music Preferences in Interpersonal Perception

    Peter J. Rentfrow;Samuel D. Gosling

  • The Structure of Musical Preferences: A Five-Factor Model

    Peter J. Rentfrow;Lewis R. Goldberg;Daniel J. Levitin

  • Portrait of a narcissist: Manifestations of narcissism in physical appearance ☆

    Simine Vazire;Laura P. Naumann;Peter J. Rentfrow;Samuel D. Gosling

  • Small Effects: The Indispensable Foundation for a Cumulative Psychological Science.

    Friedrich M Götz;Friedrich M Götz;Samuel D Gosling;Samuel D Gosling;Peter J Rentfrow

  • Personality Maturation Around the World A Cross-Cultural Examination of Social-Investment Theory

    Wiebke Bleidorn;Theo A. Klimstra;Jaap J. A. Denissen;Peter J. Rentfrow

  • 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

  • Music through the ages: Trends in musical engagement and preferences from adolescence through middle adulthood.

    Arielle Bonneville-Roussy;Peter J. Rentfrow;Man K. Xu;Jeff Potter

  • The Happiness of Cities

    Richard Florida;Charlotta Mellander;Peter J. Rentfrow

  • SociableSense: exploring the trade-offs of adaptive sampling and computation offloading for social sensing

    Kiran K. Rachuri;Cecilia Mascolo;Mirco Musolesi;Peter J. Rentfrow

  • The Role of Music in Everyday Life: Current Directions in the Social Psychology of Music

    Peter J. Rentfrow

  • Smartphones for Large-Scale Behavior Change Interventions

    N. Lathia;V. Pejovic;K. K. Rachuri;C. Mascolo

  • Geographically varying associations between personality and life satisfaction in the London metropolitan area

    Markus Jokela;Markus Jokela;Wiebke Bleidorn;Wiebke Bleidorn;Michael E. Lamb;Samuel D. Gosling

  • The content and validity of music-genre stereotypes among college students:

    Peter J. Rentfrow;Samuel D. Gosling

Frequent Co-Authors

Samuel D. Gosling
Samuel D. Gosling The University of Texas at Austin
Jeff Potter
Jeff Potter Brown University
Martin Obschonka
Martin Obschonka Queensland University of Technology
Wiebke Bleidorn
Wiebke Bleidorn University of Zurich
Cecilia Mascolo
Cecilia Mascolo University of Cambridge
Michael E. Lamb
Michael E. Lamb University of Cambridge
David B. Audretsch
David B. Audretsch Indiana University
Jochen E. Gebauer
Jochen E. Gebauer University of Mannheim
William B. Swann
William B. Swann The University of Texas at Austin
Markus Jokela
Markus Jokela University of Helsinki

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