Standout Papers

Fear, anger, and risk. 1999 2026 2008 2017 2.2k
  1. Fear, anger, and risk. (2001)
    Jennifer S. Lerner, Dacher Keltner Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  2. Beyond valence: Toward a model of emotion-specific influences on judgement and choice (2000)
    Jennifer S. Lerner, Dacher Keltner Cognition & Emotion
  3. Compassion: An evolutionary analysis and empirical review. (2010)
    Jennifer L. Goetz, Dacher Keltner et al. Psychological Bulletin
  4. Social Functions of Emotions at Four Levels of Analysis (1999)
    Dacher Keltner, Jonathan Haidt Cognition & Emotion
  5. Approaching awe, a moral, spiritual, and aesthetic emotion (2003)
    Dacher Keltner, Jonathan Haidt Cognition & Emotion
  6. Having less, giving more: The influence of social class on prosocial behavior. (2010)
    Paul K. Piff, Michael W. Kraus et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  7. Social class, solipsism, and contextualism: How the rich are different from the poor. (2012)
    Michael W. Kraus, Paul K. Piff et al. Psychological Review
  8. Social class, sense of control, and social explanation. (2009)
    Michael W. Kraus, Paul K. Piff et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  9. Awe, the small self, and prosocial behavior. (2015)
    Paul K. Piff, Paul Dietze et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  10. Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior (2012)
    Paul K. Piff, Daniel M. Stancato et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  11. The nature of awe: Elicitors, appraisals, and effects on self-concept (2007)
    Michelle N. Shiota, Dacher Keltner et al. Cognition & Emotion
  12. Oxytocin receptor genetic variation relates to empathy and stress reactivity in humans (2009)
    Sarina M. Rodrigues, Laura R. Saslow et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  13. Positive emotion dispositions differentially associated with Big Five personality and attachment style (2006)
    Michelle N. Shiota, Dacher Keltner et al. The Journal of Positive Psychology
  14. Who attains social status? Effects of personality and physical attractiveness in social groups. (2001)
    Cameron Anderson, Oliver P. John et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  15. The Personal Sense of Power (2011)
    Cameron Anderson, Oliver P. John et al. Journal of Personality
  16. Self-report captures 27 distinct categories of emotion bridged by continuous gradients (2017)
    Alan Cowen, Dacher Keltner Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  17. The Local-Ladder Effect (2012)
    Cameron Anderson, Michael W. Kraus et al. Psychological Science
  18. Self-Transcendent Emotions and Their Social Functions: Compassion, Gratitude, and Awe Bind Us to Others Through Prosociality (2017)
    Jennifer E. Stellar, Amie M. Gordon et al. Emotion Review
  19. Awe, the diminished self, and collective engagement: Universals and cultural variations in the small self. (2017)
    Yang Bai, Laura A. Maruskin et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  20. The dark side of the sublime: Distinguishing a threat-based variant of awe. (2016)
    Amie M. Gordon, Jennifer E. Stellar et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  21. Emotional Expression: Advances in Basic Emotion Theory (2019)
    Dacher Keltner, Disa Sauter et al. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
  22. The development of the Awe Experience Scale (AWE-S): A multifactorial measure for a complex emotion (2018)
    David B. Yaden, Scott Barry Kaufman et al. The Journal of Positive Psychology
  23. Emotional Well-Being: What It Is and Why It Matters (2022)
    Crystal L. Park, Laura D. Kubzansky et al. Affective Science

Immediate Impact

3 by Nobel laureates 5 from Science/Nature 143 standout
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Richard E. Nisbett 15751 12901 7889 156 40.6k
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James W. Pennebaker 18113 9561 3514 282 40.3k
Hazel Rose Markus 24703 18368 3963 190 45.7k
Kathleen D. Vohs 11658 10299 4959 207 31.0k
Mihály Csíkszentmihályi 15182 7526 4565 186 39.7k
E. Tory Higgins 13769 13814 4589 320 37.4k

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