2026 Richard E. Nisbett: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	105	477	415	305	258	183	127647

Research.com Recognitions

2002 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2001 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1996 - William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA)
1992 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1991 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association

Overview

Richard E. Nisbett is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within the social sciences, particularly focusing on psychology and sociology.

The primary fields of study associated with Nisbett include Social Sciences and Psychology. Their work further delves into subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Gender Studies, and Communication.

The main topics addressed in their research encompass:

Gender Diversity and Inequality
Social and Intergroup Psychology
International Student and Expatriate Challenges
Critical Race Theory in Education
Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
Communication in Education and Healthcare
Psychology of Social Influence

Notable recent papers by Richard E. Nisbett include:

"Why East Asians but not South Asians are underrepresented in leadership positions in the United States," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"The surprising underperformance of East Asians in US law and business schools: The liability of low assertiveness and the ameliorative potential of online classrooms," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Lee D. Ross (1942-2021)," 2021, American Psychologist

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Nisbett are:

Jackson G. Lu
Michael W. Morris
Thomas Gilovich
Mark R. Lepper
Andrew Ward

The most common venues where their research is published include:

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
American Psychologist

Nisbett has received several awards throughout their career:

Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2002
Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2001
William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA), 1996
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1992
APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association, 1991

Best Publications

Telling more than we can know: Verbal reports on mental processes.

Richard E. Nisbett;Timothy DeCamp Wilson

17459
Citations
Human inference: Strategies and shortcomings of social judgment

Richard E. Nisbett;Lee Ross

14055
Citations
Culture and systems of thought: holistic versus analytic cognition.

Richard E. Nisbett;Kaiping Peng;Incheol Choi;Ara Norenzayan

6452
Citations
The geography of thought : how Asians and Westerners think differently--and why

Richard E. Nisbett

6295
Citations
The actor and the observer: Divergent perceptions of the causes of behavior.

Edward E. Jones;Richard E. Nisbett

5929
Citations
Undermining children's intrinsic interest with extrinsic reward: A test of the "overjustification" hypothesis.

Mark R. Lepper;David M. Greene;Richard E. Nisbett

4702
Citations
Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery

John H. Holland;Keith J. Holyoak;Richard E. Nisbett;Paul R. Thagard

4320
Citations
The Person and the Situation: Perspectives of Social Psychology

Lee Ross;Richard E. Nisbett

4289
Citations
Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery

John H. Holland;Keith J. Holyoak;Richard E. Nisbett;Paul R. Thagard

4273
Citations
The halo effect: Evidence for unconscious alteration of judgments.

Richard E. Nisbett;Timothy DeCamp Wilson

2777
Citations
Culture, dialectics, and reasoning about contradiction.

Kaiping Peng;Richard E. Nisbett

2634
Citations
Culture Of Honor: The Psychology Of Violence In The South

Richard E. Nisbett;Dov Cohen

2530
Citations
Attending holistically versus analytically: comparing the context sensitivity of Japanese and Americans.

Takahiko Masuda;Richard E. Nisbett

1828
Citations
Causal attribution across cultures: Variation and universality.

Incheol Choi;Richard E. Nisbett;Ara Norenzayan

1653
Citations
The influence of culture: holistic versus analytic perception.

Richard E. Nisbett;Yuri Miyamoto

1509
Citations
Insult, Aggression, and the Southern Culture of Honor: An "Experimental Ethnography"

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

1472
Citations
Intelligence: New findings and theoretical developments.

Richard E. Nisbett;Joshua Aronson;Clancy Blair;William Dickens

1330
Citations
The cultural matrix of social psychology

Alan Page Fiske;Shinobu Kitayama;Hazel Rose Markus;Richard E. Nisbett

1324
Citations
Induction: Processes Of Inference

John H. Holland;Keith J. Holyoak;Richard E. Nisbett;Paul Thagard

512
Citations
Culture and Cognition

Richard E. Nisbett;Ara Norenzayan

371
Citations
Human Inference: Strategies and Shortcomings of Social Judgment.

Howard J. Weiner;Richard Nisbett;Lee Ross

247
Citations
Human Inference: Strategies and Shortcomings of Social Judgment.

Terry Connolly;Richard Nisbett;Lee Ross

138
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Shinobu Kitayama University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Ara Norenzayan University of British Columbia

Kaiping Peng Tsinghua University

Dov Cohen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Incheol Choi Seoul National University

Lee Ross Stanford University

Paul Thagard University of Waterloo

Igor Grossmann University of Waterloo

Ziva Kunda University of Waterloo

Keith J. Holyoak University of California, Los Angeles

External Links

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