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105
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477
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305

Richard E. Nisbett 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 Richard E. Nisbett sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 183 publications — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Richard E. Nisbett 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 Richard E. Nisbett sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 105 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% 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

  • 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

  • Human inference: Strategies and shortcomings of social judgment

    Richard E. Nisbett;Lee Ross

  • Culture and systems of thought: holistic versus analytic cognition.

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

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

    Richard E. Nisbett

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

    Edward E. Jones;Richard E. Nisbett

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

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

  • Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery

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

  • The Person and the Situation: Perspectives of Social Psychology

    Lee Ross;Richard E. Nisbett

  • Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery

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

  • The halo effect: Evidence for unconscious alteration of judgments.

    Richard E. Nisbett;Timothy DeCamp Wilson

  • Culture, dialectics, and reasoning about contradiction.

    Kaiping Peng;Richard E. Nisbett

  • Culture Of Honor: The Psychology Of Violence In The South

    Richard E. Nisbett;Dov Cohen

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

    Takahiko Masuda;Richard E. Nisbett

  • Causal attribution across cultures: Variation and universality.

    Incheol Choi;Richard E. Nisbett;Ara Norenzayan

  • The influence of culture: holistic versus analytic perception.

    Richard E. Nisbett;Yuri Miyamoto

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

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

  • Intelligence: New findings and theoretical developments.

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

  • The cultural matrix of social psychology

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

  • Induction: Processes Of Inference

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

  • Culture and Cognition

    Richard E. Nisbett;Ara Norenzayan

  • Human Inference: Strategies and Shortcomings of Social Judgment.

    Howard J. Weiner;Richard Nisbett;Lee Ross

  • Human Inference: Strategies and Shortcomings of Social Judgment.

    Terry Connolly;Richard Nisbett;Lee Ross

Frequent Co-Authors

Shinobu Kitayama
Shinobu Kitayama University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ara Norenzayan
Ara Norenzayan University of British Columbia
Kaiping Peng
Kaiping Peng Tsinghua University
Dov Cohen
Dov Cohen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Incheol Choi
Incheol Choi Seoul National University
Lee Ross
Lee Ross Stanford University
Paul Thagard
Paul Thagard University of Waterloo
Igor Grossmann
Igor Grossmann University of Waterloo
Ziva Kunda
Ziva Kunda University of Waterloo
Keith J. Holyoak
Keith J. Holyoak University of California, Los Angeles

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