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D-Index
46
Citations
8619
World Ranking
6422
National Ranking
647

Satoshi Kanazawa 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 Satoshi Kanazawa sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 144 publications — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Satoshi Kanazawa 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 Satoshi Kanazawa sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Satoshi Kanazawa is a researcher affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Their work is primarily situated in the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their main topics of research include Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior, Cultural Differences and Values, Cognitive Abilities and Testing, Personality Traits and Psychology, Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, and LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy.

Kanazawa has contributed research papers to a range of academic journals. Some of the recent publications include:

  • Not so much rational but rationalizing: Humans evolved as coherence-seeking, fiction-making animals, 2020, American Psychologist
  • What do we do with the WEIRD problem?, 2020, Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences
  • The general factor of personality as a female-typical trait, 2023, Personality and Individual Differences
  • Personality and early susceptibility to COVID-19 in the United Kingdom, 2021, Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology
  • Why All Evolutionary Psychological Theories Must be Tested in WEIRD Societies, 2024, Evolutionary Psychological Science

Kanazawa frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable co-authors include Jose C. Yong, Norman P. Li, Adrian Furnham, Michael A. Woodley of Menie, and Jonatan Pallesen.

Their studies have appeared most often in venues such as Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences and Personality and Individual Differences, with additional publications in American Psychologist, Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, and Evolutionary Psychological Science.

Best Publications

  • Sociological rational choice theory

    Michael Hechter;Satoshi Kanazawa

  • A theory of the value of children

    Debra Friedman;Michael Hechter;Satoshi Kanazawa

  • Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent

    Satoshi Kanazawa

  • General intelligence as a domain-specific adaptation.

    Satoshi Kanazawa

  • Bowling with our imaginary friends

    Satoshi Kanazawa

  • Why People Are in a Generally Good Mood

    Ed Diener;Ed Diener;Ed Diener;Satoshi Kanazawa;Eunkook M. Suh;Shigehiro Oishi

  • Why Beautiful People Are More Intelligent.

    Satoshi Kanazawa;Jody L. Kovar

  • Why Men Commit Crimes (and Why They Desist)

    Satoshi Kanazawa;Mary C. Still

  • You can judge a book by its cover: Evidence that cheaters may look different from cooperators

    Toshio Yamagishi;Toshio Yamagishi;Shigehito Tanida;Rie Mashima;Eri Shimoma

  • Intelligence and physical attractiveness

    Satoshi Kanazawa

  • Evolutionary psychology and intelligence research.

    Satoshi Kanazawa

  • Why productivity fades with age: The crime–genius connection

    Satoshi Kanazawa

  • Outcome or Expectancy? Antecedent of Spontaneous Causal Attribution

    Satoshi Kanazawa

  • Temperature and evolutionary novelty as forces behind the evolution of general intelligence

    Satoshi Kanazawa

  • Separating Trust from Cooperation in a Dynamic Relationship Prisoner’s Dilemma with Variable Dependence

    Toshio Yamagishi;Satoshi Kanazawa;Rie Mashima;Shigeru Terai

  • The Social Exchange Heuristic: Managing Errors in Social Exchange:

    Toshio Yamagishi;Shigeru Terai;Toko Kiyonari;Nobuhiro Mifune

  • The Savanna Principle

    Satoshi Kanazawa

  • A Possible Solution to the Paradox of Voter Turnout

    Satoshi Kanazawa

  • Group Solidarity and Social Order in Japan

    Michael Hechter;Satoshi Kanazawa

  • Why beautiful people have more daughters: from dating, shopping, and praying to going to war and becoming a billionaire: two evolutionary psychologists explain why we do what we do

    Satoshi Kanazawa;Alan Miller

  • The evolution of general intelligence

    Satoshi Kanazawa

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Hechter
Michael Hechter Arizona State University
Toshio Yamagishi
Toshio Yamagishi Hitotsubashi University
Norman P. Li
Norman P. Li Singapore Management University
Nancy L. Segal
Nancy L. Segal California State University, Fullerton
Ed Diener
Ed Diener University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Richard Lynn
Richard Lynn University of Ulster
Adrian Furnham
Adrian Furnham BI Norwegian Business School
Charlie L. Reeve
Charlie L. Reeve University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Shigehiro Oishi
Shigehiro Oishi University of Chicago
Eunkook M. Suh
Eunkook M. Suh Yonsei University

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