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Scott Atran 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 Scott Atran sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 134 publications — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Scott Atran 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 Scott Atran sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Scott Atran is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the fields of social sciences, particularly focusing on sociology and political science as well as social psychology. Their research covers a range of topics centered on political violence, intergroup relations, and psychological processes related to moral and emotional judgment.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
  • Religion and Society Interactions
  • Crime Patterns and Interventions

Scott Atran's research is frequently published in venues such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal de la Société des Américanistes, Annual Review of Psychology, Scientific Reports, and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. This diverse range of publication outlets reflects a multidisciplinary approach crossing social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and political science.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Scott Atran include:

  • Psychology of Transnational Terrorism and Extreme Political Conflict, 2020, Annual Review of Psychology
  • Willingness to sacrifice among convicted Islamist terrorists versus violent gang members and other criminals, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • Threat Enhances Aggressive Inclinations Among Devoted Actors Via Increase in Their Relative Physical Formidability, 2020, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Spiritual over physical formidability determines willingness to fight and sacrifice through loyalty in cross-cultural populations, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Transcultural pathways to the will to fight, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, notably Ángel Gómez, Alexandra Vázquez, Clara Pretus, Luis Marcos-Vidal, and Lucía López-Rodríguez. These co-authors have contributed alongside Scott Atran in multiple publications, indicating ongoing collaborative research partnerships.

Best Publications

  • In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion

    Scott Atran

  • Cognitive foundations of natural history: Towards an anthropology of science.

    Scott Atran

  • Cognitive Foundations of Natural History

    Scott Atran

  • Genesis of Suicide Terrorism

    Scott Atran

  • Religion's evolutionary landscape: Counterintuition, commitment, compassion, communion

    Scott Atran;Ara Norenzayan

  • Folk biology and the anthropology of science: Cognitive universals and cultural particulars

    Scott Atran

  • The native mind: biological categorization and reasoning in development and across cultures.

    Douglas L. Medin;Scott Atran

  • The native mind and the cultural construction of nature.

    Scott Atran;Douglas L. Medin

  • The Evolution of Religion: How Cognitive By-Products, Adaptive Learning Heuristics, Ritual Displays, and Group Competition Generate Deep Commitments to Prosocial Religions

    Scott Atran;Joseph Henrich

  • Categorization and Reasoning among Tree Experts: Do All Roads Lead to Rome?☆

    Douglas L. Medin;Elizabeth B. Lynch;John D. Coley;Scott Atran

  • The cultural mind: environmental decision making and cultural modeling within and across populations.

    Scott Atran;Douglas L. Medin;Norbert O. Ross

  • The tree of life: Universal and cultural features of folkbiological taxonomies and inductions

    Alejandro López;Scott Atran;John D. Coley;Douglas L. Medin

  • Sacred bounds on rational resolution of violent political conflict

    Jeremy Ginges;Scott Atran;Scott Atran;Douglas Medin;Khalil Shikaki

  • Religious and Sacred Imperatives in Human Conflict

    Scott Atran;Scott Atran;Scott Atran;Jeremy Ginges

  • Memory and Mystery: The Cultural Selection of Minimally Counterintuitive Narratives.

    Ara Norenzayan;Scott Atran;Jason Faulkner;Mark Schaller

  • Talking to the Enemy: Faith, Brotherhood, and the (Un)Making of Terrorists

    Scott Atran

  • Cultural mosaics and mental models of nature.

    Megan Bang;Douglas L. Medin;Scott Atran;Scott Atran;Scott Atran

  • The Moral Logic and Growth of Suicide Terrorism

    Scott Atran

  • Cultural and experiential differences in the development of folkbiological induction

    Norbert Ross;Douglas Medin;John D. Coley;Scott Atran

  • Sacred Barriers to Conflict Resolution

    Scott Atran;Robert Axelrod;Richard Davis

  • FOLKBIOLOGY DOESN'T COME FROM FOLKPSYCHOLOGY: EVIDENCE FROM YUKATEK MAYA IN CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE

    Scott Atran;Douglas Medin;Elizabeth Lynch;Valentina Vapnarsky

  • Reframing Sacred Values

    Scott Atran;Scott Atran;Scott Atran;Robert Axelrod

  • A bird's eye view: biological categorization and reasoning within and across cultures.

    Jeremy N Bailenson;Michael S Shum;Scott Atran;Scott Atran;Douglas L Medin

  • Folkecology and commons management in the Maya Lowlands

    Scott Atran;Douglas L Medin;Norbert Ross;Elizabeth Lynch

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas L. Medin
Douglas L. Medin Northwestern University
John D. Coley
John D. Coley Northeastern University
Ángel Gómez
Ángel Gómez National University of Distance Education
Robert Axelrod
Robert Axelrod University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ara Norenzayan
Ara Norenzayan University of British Columbia
Baruch Fischhoff
Baruch Fischhoff Carnegie Mellon University
Daniel T. Blumstein
Daniel T. Blumstein University of California, Los Angeles
Richard Sosis
Richard Sosis University of Connecticut
Gregory S. Berns
Gregory S. Berns Emory University
Michael E. Hochberg
Michael E. Hochberg University of Montpellier

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