Chip Heath

15.8k total citations · 8 hit papers
51 papers, 10.6k citations indexed

About

Chip Heath is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Safety Research and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Chip Heath has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 10.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 16 papers in Safety Research and 13 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Chip Heath's work include Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (16 papers), Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (12 papers) and Social and Intergroup Psychology (9 papers). Chip Heath is often cited by papers focused on Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (16 papers), Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (12 papers) and Social and Intergroup Psychology (9 papers). Chip Heath collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Latvia. Chip Heath's co-authors include James G. March, Amos Tversky, Jonah Berger, Scott S. Wiltermuth, David Dunning, Jerry Suls, George Wu, Richard P. Larrick, Jack B. Soll and Charles G. Prober and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Journal of Marketing.

In The Last Decade

Chip Heath

51 papers receiving 9.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A primer on decision making : how decisions happen

1994 1.5k citations Chip Heath, James G. March Medical Entomology and Zoology profile →
Flawed Self-Assessment

2004 1.3k citations David Dunning, Chip Heath et al. PubMed profile →
Preference and belief: Ambiguity and competence in choice under uncertainty

1991 1.1k citations Chip Heath et al. profile →
Synchrony and Cooperation

2008 1.0k citations Chip Heath et al. Psychological Science profile →
Where Consumers Diverge from Others: Identity Signaling and Product Domains

2007 912 citations Jonah Berger, Chip Heath profile →
Goals as Reference Points

1999 718 citations Chip Heath, Richard P. Larrick et al. Cognitive Psychology profile →
Mental Budgeting and Consumer Decisions

1996 529 citations Chip Heath et al. profile →
Lecture Halls without Lectures — A Proposal for Medical Education

2012 415 citations Charles G. Prober, Chip Heath New England Journal of Medicine profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Chip Heath	2.9k	2.1k	1.5k	1.4k	1.3k	51	10.6k
Terry Connolly	3.7k 1.3×	2.6k 1.2×	1.3k 0.8×	1.3k 1.0×	582 0.5×	110	11.3k
Sheena S. Iyengar	2.3k 0.8×	2.7k 1.3×	1.6k 1.1×	1.6k 1.1×	2.1k 1.7×	56	9.8k
Maurice E. Schweitzer	3.1k 1.1×	2.5k 1.2×	766 0.5×	750 0.6×	698 0.5×	138	8.8k
Gary H. McClelland	2.3k 0.8×	2.2k 1.0×	800 0.5×	1.8k 1.3×	729 0.6×	98	9.9k
Reid Hastie	3.8k 1.3×	2.9k 1.4×	2.3k 1.5×	1.4k 1.1×	602 0.5×	148	12.0k
Christopher K. Hsee	3.3k 1.1×	1.7k 0.8×	2.9k 1.9×	1.6k 1.2×	1.1k 0.9×	110	9.8k
Thomas Mussweiler	3.6k 1.2×	2.5k 1.2×	2.0k 1.3×	1.1k 0.8×	905 0.7×	109	8.6k
J. Keith Murnighan	4.1k 1.4×	2.6k 1.2×	760 0.5×	1.2k 0.9×	486 0.4×	131	10.2k
Richard P. Larrick	1.9k 0.7×	1.0k 0.5×	1.6k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	599 0.5×	84	6.1k
Irwin P. Levin	2.0k 0.7×	1.1k 0.5×	2.9k 1.9×	1.4k 1.0×	1.6k 1.2×	156	8.8k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Prober, Charles G. & Chip Heath. (2012). Lecture Halls without Lectures — A Proposal for Medical Education. New England Journal of Medicine. 366(18). 1657–1659. 415 indexed citations breakdown →

Heath, Chip & Dan Heath. (2011). Overcoming Resistance to Change.. The School Administrator. 68(3). 28–32. 3 indexed citations

Loewenstein, Jeffrey, Rajagopal Raghunathan, & Chip Heath. (2011). The Repetition-Break Plot Structure: A Tool for Persuasion. Cognitive Science. 33(33). 1 indexed citations

Loewenstein, Jeffrey & Chip Heath. (2009). The Repetition‐Break Plot Structure: A Cognitive Influence on Selection in the Marketplace of Ideas. Cognitive Science. 33(1). 1–19. 54 indexed citations

Fast, Nathanael J., Chip Heath, & George Wu. (2009). Common Ground and Cultural Prominence. Psychological Science. 20(7). 904–911. 42 indexed citations

Berger, Jonah & Chip Heath. (2008). Who drives divergence? Identity signaling, outgroup dissimilarity, and the abandonment of cultural tastes.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 95(3). 593–607. 22 indexed citations

Berger, Jonah & Chip Heath. (2007). Where Consumers Diverge from Others: Identity Signaling and Product Domains. ScholarlyCommons (University of Pennsylvania). 22 indexed citations

Berger, Jonah & Chip Heath. (2007). Don’T Confuse Me With Them: Identity-Signaling and Product Abandonment. ACR North American Advances. 1 indexed citations

Berger, Jonah & Chip Heath. (2005). Idea Habitats: How the Prevalence of Environmental Cues Influences the Success of Ideas. Cognitive Science. 29(2). 195–221. 76 indexed citations

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Barber, Brad M., Chip Heath, & Terrance Odean. (2004). Good Reasons Sell: Reason-Based Choice Among Group and Individual Investors in the Stock Market. SSRN Electronic Journal. 7 indexed citations

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Fragale, Alison R. & Chip Heath. (2004). Evolving Informational Credentials: The (Mis)Attribution of Believable Facts to Credible Sources. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 30(2). 225–236. 84 indexed citations

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Bangerter, Adrian & Chip Heath. (2004). The Mozart effect: Tracking the evolution of a scientific legend. British Journal of Social Psychology. 43(4). 605–623. 105 indexed citations

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Dunning, David, Chip Heath, & Jerry Suls. (2004). Flawed Self-Assessment. PubMed. 5(3). 69–106. 1312 indexed citations breakdown →

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Heath, Chip, et al.. (2001). Emotional selection in memes: The case of urban legends.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 81(6). 1028–1041. 299 indexed citations

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Heath, Chip, Richard P. Larrick, & George Wu. (1999). Goals as Reference Points. Cognitive Psychology. 38(1). 79–109. 718 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jourden, Forest J. & Chip Heath. (1996). The evaluation gap in performance perceptions: Illusory perceptions of groups and individuals.. Journal of Applied Psychology. 81(4). 369–379. 15 indexed citations

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Heath, Chip. (1996). Do People Prefer to Pass Along Good or Bad News? Valence and Relevance of News as Predictors of Transmission Propensity. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 68(2). 79–94. 106 indexed citations

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Heath, Chip. (1995). Escalation and De-escalation of Commitment in Response to Sunk Costs: The Role of Budgeting in Mental Accounting. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 62(1). 38–54. 240 indexed citations

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Heath, Chip, et al.. (1994). Mental Accounting and Consumer Spending. ACR North American Advances. 21(1). 119. 2 indexed citations

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Heath, Chip & James G. March. (1994). A primer on decision making : how decisions happen. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 1489 indexed citations breakdown →

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