Daniel M. T. Fessler

10.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
135 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

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Daniel M. T. Fessler is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel M. T. Fessler has authored 135 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 59 papers in Social Psychology and 57 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Daniel M. T. Fessler's work include Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (55 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (52 papers) and Social and Intergroup Psychology (28 papers). Daniel M. T. Fessler is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (55 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (52 papers) and Social and Intergroup Psychology (28 papers). Daniel M. T. Fessler collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Daniel M. T. Fessler's co-authors include Carlos Navarrete, Kevin J. Haley, Colin Holbrook, Simone Schnall, Diana S. Fleischman, Thomas J. Flamson, Elizabeth G. Pillsworth, Jeffrey K. Snyder, David A. Frederick and Ayelet Gneezy and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Trends in Ecology & Evolution and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Daniel M. T. Fessler

132 papers receiving 5.6k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Daniel M. T. Fessler United States	38	2.6k	2.5k	2.4k	1.7k	698	135	6.0k
Brock Bastian Australia	46	3.2k 1.2×	2.1k 0.8×	3.8k 1.6×	1.1k 0.7×	1.2k 1.7×	134	7.7k
Andrea E. Abele Germany	41	2.7k 1.0×	870 0.3×	2.6k 1.1×	1.0k 0.6×	695 1.0×	115	6.2k
David DeSteno United States	37	2.2k 0.9×	2.1k 0.8×	3.8k 1.6×	1.6k 1.0×	1.5k 2.1×	61	7.2k
Robert Kurzban United States	42	3.7k 1.5×	3.3k 1.3×	3.1k 1.3×	2.7k 1.6×	935 1.3×	86	8.6k
Agneta H. Fischer Netherlands	51	3.3k 1.3×	2.5k 1.0×	4.6k 1.9×	2.4k 1.4×	1.2k 1.8×	145	9.1k
Joshua M. Tybur Netherlands	39	2.8k 1.1×	2.8k 1.1×	2.6k 1.1×	2.4k 1.4×	930 1.3×	103	7.6k
Kerry Kawakami Canada	29	4.8k 1.9×	1.3k 0.5×	3.2k 1.3×	832 0.5×	596 0.9×	61	6.7k
David M. Amodio United States	44	3.7k 1.5×	4.9k 1.9×	3.9k 1.6×	1.9k 1.1×	903 1.3×	100	9.2k
Asifa Majid Netherlands	38	1.3k 0.5×	1.5k 0.6×	2.3k 1.0×	3.7k 2.2×	561 0.8×	174	7.9k
Daniel Balliet Netherlands	35	3.5k 1.4×	1.1k 0.4×	2.1k 0.8×	1.7k 1.0×	643 0.9×	84	6.2k

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Fessler, Daniel M. T., et al.. (2025). X under Musk’s leadership: Substantial hate and no reduction in inauthentic activity. PLoS ONE. 20(2). e0313293–e0313293. 7 indexed citations

Kwon, Dayoon, et al.. (2025). Of scents and cytokines: How olfactory and food aversions relate to nausea and immunomodulation in early pregnancy. Evolution Medicine and Public Health. 13(1). 269–280.

Fessler, Daniel M. T., et al.. (2023). Auditing Elon Musk’s Impact on Hate Speech and Bots. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 17. 1133–1137. 32 indexed citations

Fessler, Daniel M. T., et al.. (2023). Coalitionality shapes moral elevation: evidence from the U.S. Black Lives Matter protest and counter-protest movements. Royal Society Open Science. 10(3). 220990–220990. 2 indexed citations

Holbrook, Colin, et al.. (2022). Moral parochialism and causal appraisal of transgressive harm in Seoul and Los Angeles. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 14227–14227. 1 indexed citations

Kupfer, Tom R., et al.. (2021). The skin crawls, the stomach turns: ectoparasites and pathogens elicit distinct defensive responses in humans. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 288(1955). 20210376–20210376. 8 indexed citations

Scrivner, Coltan, Colin Holbrook, Daniel M. T. Fessler, & Dario Maestripieri. (2020). Gruesomeness conveys formidability: Perpetrators of gratuitously grisly acts are conceptualized as larger, stronger, and more likely to win. Aggressive Behavior. 46(5). 400–411. 3 indexed citations

Fessler, Daniel M. T., et al.. (2015). Supplemental Online Material to accompany Holbrook et al.'s "Looming large in others’ eyes: Racial stereotypes illuminate dual adaptations for representing threat versus prestige as physical size". Evolution and Human Behavior. 1 indexed citations

Fessler, Daniel M. T., H. Clark Barrett, Martin Kanovský, et al.. (2015). Moral parochialism and contextual contingency across seven societies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 282(1813). 20150907–20150907. 34 indexed citations

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Fessler, Daniel M. T.. (2015). El Delito Con Rostro: Los comienzos de la identificación de delincuentes en Uruguay. 7(1). 15–39.

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Holbrook, Colin, Jared Piazza, & Daniel M. T. Fessler. (2014). Further challenges to the “authentic”/“hubristic” model of pride: Conceptual clarifications and new evidence.. Emotion. 14(1). 38–42. 19 indexed citations

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Fleischman, Diana S., et al.. (2014). Testing the Affiliation Hypothesis of Homoerotic Motivation in Humans: The Effects of Progesterone and Priming. Archives of Sexual Behavior. 44(5). 1395–1404. 15 indexed citations

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Amir, Dorsa & Daniel M. T. Fessler. (2013). Boots for Achilles: Progesterone's Reduction of Cholesterol Is a Second-Order Adaptation. The Quarterly Review of Biology. 88(2). 97–116. 5 indexed citations

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Fessler, Daniel M. T., et al.. (2013). Bound to Lose: Physical Incapacitation Increases the Conceptualized Size of an Antagonist in Men. PLoS ONE. 8(8). e71306–e71306. 27 indexed citations

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Fessler, Daniel M. T., Colin Holbrook, & Jeffrey K. Snyder. (2012). Weapons Make the Man (Larger): Formidability Is Represented as Size and Strength in Humans. PLoS ONE. 7(4). e32751–e32751. 77 indexed citations

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Fessler, Daniel M. T. & Katinka Quintelier. (2011). Suicide bombers, weddings, and prison tattoos: an evolutionary perspective on subjective commitment and objective commitment. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 459–484. 5 indexed citations

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Fessler, Daniel M. T. & Kevin J. Haley. (2006). Guarding the perimeter: The outside-inside dichotomy in disgust and bodily experience. Cognition & Emotion. 20(1). 3–19. 33 indexed citations

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Fessler, Daniel M. T.. (2003). No Time To Eat: An Adaptationist Account Of Periovulatory Behavioral Changes. The Quarterly Review of Biology. 78(1). 3–21. 62 indexed citations

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Fessler, Daniel M. T.. (2002). Luteal phase immunosuppression and meat eating.. PubMed. 94(3). 403–26. 40 indexed citations

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Fessler, Daniel M. T., et al.. (2001). Toward an Understanding of the Universality of Second Order Emotions. 3. 137–9. 72 indexed citations

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