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D-Index
64
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48132
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2883
National Ranking
171

Steven J. Heine 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 Steven J. Heine sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 125 publications — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Steven J. Heine 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 Steven J. Heine sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Steven J. Heine is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada and specializes in fields relating to psychology and social sciences. Their primary research areas include social psychology, sociology and political science, cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, and applied psychology.

Their work covers diverse topics, focusing predominantly on cultural differences and values, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, the psychology of moral and emotional judgment, death anxiety and social exclusion, social and intergroup psychology, optimism, hope and well-being, as well as sleep and related disorders.

Frequent publication venues for Heine's research include PLoS ONE, Social Psychological and Personality Science, The Journal of Positive Psychology, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, and Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.

Several recent papers authored or co-authored by Heine include the following:

  • The Construct of Subjective Economic Inequality (2021), Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • Considering cross-cultural differences in sleep duration between Japanese and Canadian university students (2021), PLoS ONE
  • Subjective Economic Inequality Decreases Emotional Intelligence, Especially for People of High Social Class (2021), Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • The Moderating Role of Culture in the Generalizability of Psychological Phenomena (2024), Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
  • Cultural Variation in Attitudes Toward Social Chatbots (2025), Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Heine frequently collaborates with a number of researchers, including Anita Schmalor, Dunigan Parker Folk, Benjamin Y. Cheung, Rachele Benjamin, and Christine Ou.

Best Publications

  • The WEIRDest People in the World

    Joseph Henrich;Steven J. Heine;Ara Norenzayan

  • Most people are not WEIRD

    Joseph Henrich;Steven J. Heine;Ara Norenzayan

  • Is there a universal need for positive self-regard?

    Steven J. Heine;Darrin R. Lehman;Hazel Rose Markus;Shinobu Kitayama

  • Self-concept clarity: Measurement, personality correlates, and cultural boundaries.

    Jennifer D. Campbell;Paul D. Trapnell;Steven J. Heine;Ilana M. Katz

  • The Meaning Maintenance Model: On the Coherence of Social Motivations

    Steven J. Heine;Travis Proulx;Kathleen D. Vohs

  • What's Wrong With Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Subjective Likert Scales?: The Reference-Group Effect

    Steven J. Heine;Darrin R. Lehman;Kaiping Peng;Joe Greenholtz

  • Divergent consequences of success and failure in japan and north america: an investigation of self-improving motivations and malleable selves.

    Steven J. Heine;Shinobu Kitayama;Darrin R. Lehman;Toshitake Takata

  • Genetic essentialism: on the deceptive determinism of DNA.

    Ilan Dar-Nimrod;Steven J. Heine

  • Psychological universals: what are they and how can we know?

    Ara Norenzayan;Steven J. Heine

  • In Search of East Asian Self-Enhancement

    Steven J. Heine;Takeshi Hamamura

  • Cultural variation in unrealistic optimism: Does the West feel more vulnerable than the East?

    Steven J. Heine;Darrin R. Lehman

  • Culture, Dissonance, and Self-Affirmation

    Steven J. Heine;Darrin R. Lehman

  • Self as cultural product: an examination of East Asian and North American selves.

    Steven J. Heine

  • The cultural shaping of depression: Somatic symptoms in China, psychological symptoms in North America?

    Andrew G. Ryder;Jian Yang;Xiongzhao Zhu;Shuqiao Yao

  • Beyond WEIRD: Towards a broad-based behavioral science

    Joseph Henrich;Steven J. Heine;Ara Norenzayan

  • The cultural construction of self-enhancement : An examination of group-serving biases

    Steven J. Heine;Darrin R. Lehman

  • Self-Concept Clarity : Measurement , Personality Correlates , and Cultural Boundaries

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  • Meat, morals, and masculinity

    Matthew B. Ruby;Steven J. Heine

  • Exposure to Scientific Theories Affects Women's Math Performance

    Ilan Dar-Nimrod;Steven J. Heine

  • Personality: The universal and the culturally specific.

    Steven J. Heine;Emma Ellen Kathrina Buchtel

  • Culture, Self-Discrepancies, and Self-Satisfaction

    Steven J. Heine;Darrin R. Lehman

Frequent Co-Authors

Ara Norenzayan
Ara Norenzayan University of British Columbia
Darrin R. Lehman
Darrin R. Lehman University of British Columbia
Tatsuya Kameda
Tatsuya Kameda Meiji Gakuin University
Mark Schaller
Mark Schaller University of British Columbia
Toshio Yamagishi
Toshio Yamagishi Hitotsubashi University
Shinobu Kitayama
Shinobu Kitayama University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Andrew G. Ryder
Andrew G. Ryder Concordia University
Paul D. Trapnell
Paul D. Trapnell University of Winnipeg
Kathleen D. Vohs
Kathleen D. Vohs University of Minnesota
Michael Inzlicht
Michael Inzlicht University of Toronto

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