2026 Stephen Stich: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	65	2809	2574	1624	1455	188	19552

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Psychology

2809

2574

1624

1455

188

19552

Research.com Recognitions

2009 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Stephen Stich is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their primary field of study is Psychology, with a focus on subfields including Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Philosophy.

The main topics of their research include:

Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
Emotions and Moral Behavior
Categorization, perception, and language
Cultural Differences and Values
Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

Among recent publications, Stephan Stich contributed to the following papers:

"Demographic Differences in Philosophical Intuition: a Reply to Joshua Knobe" (2022), published in Review of Philosophy and Psychology
"Editorial: Cultural Variation and Cognition" (2023), published in Review of Philosophy and Psychology

They frequently publish in the venue Review of Philosophy and Psychology.

Collaborations in research include frequent co-authors:

Édouard Machery
Joshua Knobe

Stephen Stich was recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.

Best Publications

Mindreading: An Integrated Account of Pretence, Self-Awareness, and Understanding Other Minds

Shaun Nichols;Stephen P. Stich

1415
Citations
Normativity and Epistemic Intuitions

Jonathan M. Weinberg;Shaun Nichols;Stephen Stich

1143
Citations
From folk psychology to cognitive science: The case against belief.

Stephen P. Stich

1106
Citations
From folk psychology to cognitive science

Stephen P. Stich

1016
Citations
Semantics, Cross-Cultural Style.

Edouard Machery;Ron Mallon;Shaun Nichols;Stephen P. Stich

915
Citations
The fragmentation of reason

Stephen Stich

731
Citations
Beliefs and Subdoxastic States

Stephen P. Stich

686
Citations
Folk Psychology: Simulation or Tacit Theory?

Stephen Stich;Shaun Nichols

630
Citations
A cognitive theory of pretense.

Shaun Nichols;Stephen Stich

576
Citations
A Framework for the Psychology of Norms

Chandra Sekhar Sripada;Stephen Stich

545
Citations
Deconstructing the mind

Stephen P. Stich

516
Citations
Connectionism, Eliminativism, and the Future of Folk Psychology

William Ramsey;Stephen Stich;Joseph Garon

501
Citations
Small-scale societies exhibit fundamental variation in the role of intentions in moral judgment.

H Clark Barrett;Alexander H Bolyanatz;Alyssa N Crittenden;Daniel M. T. Fessler

448
Citations
Harm, Affect, and the Moral/Conventional Distinction.

Daniel Kelly;Stephen Stich;Kevin J. Haley;Serena J. Eng

395
Citations
Autonomous psychology and the belief-desire thesis

Stephen P. Stich

354
Citations
As a Matter of Fact: Empirical Perspectives on Ethics

John M. Doris;Stephen P. Stich

351
Citations
The Innate Mind: Structure and Contents

Peter Carruthers;Stephen Laurence;Stephen P. Stich

330
Citations
The fragmentation of reason : preface to a pragmatic theory of cognitive evaluation

E. J. Lowe;Stephen P. Stich

315
Citations
Justification and the Psychology of Human Reasoning

Stephen P. Stich;Richard E. Nisbett

267
Citations
Philosophy and Connectionist Theory

William Ramsey;Stephen P. Stich;David E. Rumelhart

243
Citations
Moral intuitions: Are philosophers experts?

Kevin P. Tobia;Wesley Buckwalter;Stephen Stich

239
Citations
The Cognitive Basis of Science

Peter Carruthers;Stephen P. Stich;Michael Siegal

204
Citations
The Cognitive Basis of Science: Science and innateness

Peter Carruthers;Stephen Stich;Michael Siegal

75
Citations
Deconstructing the Mind

John Hawthorne;Stephen P. Stich

11
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Shaun Nichols Cornell University

Peter Carruthers University of Maryland, College Park

Daniel M. T. Fessler University of California, Los Angeles

Michael Siegal University of Sheffield

Alan M. Leslie Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Gretchen B. Chapman Carnegie Mellon University

Elizabeth S. Spelke Harvard University

Richard E. Nisbett University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

External Links

Personal website of Stephen Stich

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