2026 Richard P. Larrick: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	41	7726	7209	4140	3762	87	12642

Overview

Richard P. Larrick is a researcher affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their work primarily falls within the field of Psychology, with a focus on several subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences, Sociology and Political Science, Applied Psychology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The main topics covered by their research encompass Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Behavioral Health and Interventions, Forecasting Techniques and Applications, Psychological and Educational Research Studies, as well as Optimism, Hope, and Well-being.

Larrick has published in several academic venues, frequently appearing in:

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
SSRN Electronic Journal
Academy of Management Proceedings
Judgment and Decision Making
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Some of their recent papers include:

"Comparing fast thinking and slow thinking: The relative benefits of interventions, individual differences, and inferential rules" (2020, Judgment and Decision Making)
"The power of rank information." (2021, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology)
"Blinding curiosity: Exploring preferences for "blinding" one's own judgment" (2022, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes)
"The morality of organization versus organized members: Organizations are attributed more control and responsibility for negative outcomes than are equivalent members." (2020, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology)
"Individual Differences in Overconfidence and their Psychological Bases" (2023, SSRN Electronic Journal)

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

Jack B. Soll
M. Asher Lawson
Sean Fath
Jessica Reif
Andrea E. Abele

Best Publications

Goals as Reference Points

Chip Heath;Richard P. Larrick;George Wu

1396
Citations
Beyond nudges: Tools of a choice architecture

Eric J. Johnson;Suzanne B. Shu;Benedict G. C. Dellaert;Craig Fox

1024
Citations
Conflict Management Style: Accounting for Cross-National Differences

Michael W. Morris;Katherine Y. Williams;Kwok Leung;Richard Larrick

651
Citations
Protecting the self from the negative consequences of risky decisions.

Robert A. Josephs;Richard P. Larrick;Claude M. Steele;Richard E. Nisbett

523
Citations
Strategies for revising judgment: How (and how well) people use others’ opinions.

Jack B. Soll;Richard P. Larrick

507
Citations
The MPG Illusion

Richard P. Larrick;Jack B. Soll

506
Citations
Political ideology affects energy-efficiency attitudes and choices

Dena M. Gromet;Howard Kunreuther;Richard P. Larrick

501
Citations
Skilled or Unskilled, but Still Unaware of It: How Perceptions of Difficulty Drive Miscalibration in Relative Comparisons

Katherine A. Burson;Richard P. Larrick;Joshua Klayman

496
Citations
Social comparison and confidence: When thinking you’re better than average predicts overconfidence (and when it does not)

Richard P. Larrick;Katherine A. Burson;Jack B. Soll

455
Citations
Motivational factors in decision theories : the role of self-protection

Richard P. Larrick

447
Citations
Power, competitiveness, and advice taking: Why the powerful don’t listen

Leigh Plunkett Tost;Francesca Gino;Richard P. Larrick

412
Citations
When Power Makes Others Speechless: The Negative Impact of Leader Power on Team Performance

Leigh Plunkett Tost;Francesca Gino;Richard P. Larrick

368
Citations
Avoiding Regret in Decisions with Feedback: A Negotiation Example

Richard P. Larrick;Terry L. Boles

345
Citations
When one cause casts doubt on another: A normative analysis of discounting in causal attribution.

Michael W. Morris;Richard P. Larrick

335
Citations
Teaching the Use of Cost-Benefit Reasoning in Everyday Life

Richard P. Larrick;James N. Morgan;Richard E. Nisbett

321
Citations
The wisdom of select crowds.

Albert E. Mannes;Jack B. Soll;Richard P. Larrick

308
Citations
Social network schemas and the learning of incomplete networks.

Gregory A. Janicik;Richard P. Larrick

274
Citations
The Claiming Effect: Why Players Are More Generous in Social Dilemmas Than in Ultimatum Games

Richard P. Larrick;Sally Blount

262
Citations
Misperceiving negotiation counterparts : When situationally determined bargaining behaviors are attributed to personality traits

Michael W. Morris;Richard P. Larrick;Steven K. Su

255
Citations
Consumer Misunderstanding of Credit Card Use, Payments, and Debt: Causes and Solutions

Jack B . Soll;Ralph L . Keeney;Richard P . Larrick

220
Citations
Who uses the cost-benefit rules of choice? implications for the normative status of microeconomic theory

Richard P. Larrick;Richard E. Nisbett;James N. Morgan

215
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Elke U. Weber Princeton University

Francesca Gino Harvard University

Richard E. Nisbett University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Michael W. Morris Columbia University

Ellen Peters University of Oregon

Craig R. Fox University of California, Los Angeles

Claude M. Steele Stanford University

David V. Budescu Fordham University

External Links

Personal website of Richard P. Larrick

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