Daniel Nettle

23.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
241 papers, 13.0k citations indexed

About

Daniel Nettle is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel Nettle has authored 241 papers receiving a total of 13.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 58 papers in Social Psychology and 53 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Daniel Nettle's work include Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (64 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (29 papers) and Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (23 papers). Daniel Nettle is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (64 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (29 papers) and Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (23 papers). Daniel Nettle collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Daniel Nettle's co-authors include Melissa Bateson, Willem E. Frankenhuis, Suzanne Romaine, Gilbert Roberts, Thomas V. Pollet, Martie G. Haselton, Gillian Pepper, Jean Adams, Ian J. Rickard and Clare Andrews and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Daniel Nettle

236 papers receiving 12.2k 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.

Cues of being watched enhance cooperation in a real-world setting

2006 783 citations Melissa Bateson, Daniel Nettle et al. profile →
The evolution of personality variation in humans and other animals.

2006 549 citations Daniel Nettle profile →
The Paranoid Optimist: An Integrative Evolutionary Model of Cognitive Biases

2006 535 citations Daniel Nettle et al. profile →
Vanishing Voices

2000 321 citations Daniel Nettle et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Daniel Nettle United Kingdom	61	4.1k	3.6k	3.1k	1.8k	1.5k	241	13.0k
Michael Gurven United States	61	5.1k 1.2×	5.5k 1.5×	3.4k 1.1×	1.6k 0.9×	780 0.5×	224	14.1k
Frank W. Marlowe United States	50	3.9k 1.0×	4.1k 1.1×	2.6k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	624 0.4×	83	11.0k
Kim Hill United States	49	4.6k 1.1×	4.2k 1.2×	3.3k 1.1×	745 0.4×	387 0.3×	132	11.9k
Hillard Kaplan United States	70	5.2k 1.3×	4.0k 1.1×	3.3k 1.0×	746 0.4×	573 0.4×	289	17.1k
John Tooby United States	54	6.0k 1.5×	6.7k 1.9×	4.9k 1.6×	4.3k 2.4×	1.3k 0.8×	112	15.3k
Leda Cosmides United States	57	6.7k 1.6×	7.5k 2.1×	5.4k 1.7×	5.2k 2.8×	1.4k 1.0×	120	18.2k
David C. Geary United States	80	5.5k 1.3×	1.9k 0.5×	2.4k 0.8×	3.0k 1.6×	1.1k 0.8×	293	21.8k
Martin Daly Canada	47	3.7k 0.9×	5.3k 1.5×	2.0k 0.7×	625 0.3×	1.9k 1.3×	173	10.9k
Robert Trivers United States	34	3.8k 0.9×	5.9k 1.6×	3.3k 1.1×	1.5k 0.8×	656 0.4×	67	17.4k
Stephen C. Levinson Netherlands	59	10.4k 2.5×	3.0k 0.8×	4.4k 1.4×	2.9k 1.6×	906 0.6×	195	25.0k

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Frankenhuis, Willem E., et al.. (2025). Poverty is associated with both risk avoidance and risk taking: empirical evidence for the desperation threshold model from the UK and France. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2040). 20242071–20242071. 4 indexed citations

Nettle, Daniel, et al.. (2025). Harmless bodily pleasures are moralized because they are perceived as reducing self-control and cooperativeness. Cognition. 262. 106154–106154.

Nettle, Daniel, et al.. (2024). Short‐term changes in financial situation have immediate mental health consequences: Implications for social policy. Social Policy and Administration. 59(2). 293–308. 11 indexed citations

Bridger, Emma K., et al.. (2024). Why are socioeconomic health inequalities unacceptable? Studying the influence of explanatory framings on cognitive appraisals. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy. 24(3). 710–733. 1 indexed citations

Frankenhuis, Willem E., et al.. (2023). Why is violence high and persistent in deprived communities? A formal model. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 290(1993). 20222095–20222095. 9 indexed citations

Nettle, Daniel & Thomas E. Dickins. (2022). Why is greater income inequality associated with lower life satisfaction and poorer health? Evidence from the European Quality of Life Survey, 2012. The Social Science Journal. 63(1). 211–222. 5 indexed citations

Thomas, Ashley J, Brandon Matthew Woo, Daniel Nettle, Elizabeth S. Spelke, & Rebecca Saxe. (2022). Early concepts of intimacy: Young humans use saliva sharing to infer close relationships. Science. 375(6578). 311–315. 32 indexed citations

Johnson, Matthew, Elliott Johnson, & Daniel Nettle. (2022). Are ‘red wall’ constituencies really opposed to progressive policy? Examining the impact of materialist narratives for Universal Basic Income. British Politics. 18(1). 104–127. 16 indexed citations

Frankenhuis, Willem E. & Daniel Nettle. (2020). Integration of plasticity research across disciplines. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 36. 157–162. 9 indexed citations

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Allen, Caroline & Daniel Nettle. (2019). Hunger and socioeconomic background additively predict impulsivity in humans. Current Psychology. 40(5). 2275–2289. 13 indexed citations

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Nettle, Daniel & Rebecca Saxe. (2019). Data and R code for analysis, all final studies. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations

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Nettle, Daniel. (2015). Tyneside Neighbourhoods. Open Book Publishers. 31 indexed citations

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Nettle, Daniel & Melissa Bateson. (2012). The Evolutionary Origins of Mood and Its Disorders. Current Biology. 22(17). R712–R721. 155 indexed citations

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Clegg, Helen, Daniel Nettle, & Dorothy Miell. (2011). Status and Mating Success Amongst Visual Artists. Frontiers in Psychology. 2. 310–310. 21 indexed citations

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Nettle, Daniel. (2010). Why Are There Social Gradients in Preventative Health Behavior? A Perspective from Behavioral Ecology. PLoS ONE. 5(10). e13371–e13371. 72 indexed citations

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Nettle, Daniel. (2009). Social class through the evolutionary lens. Psychologist. 6 indexed citations

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Nettle, Daniel. (2008). Putting ethology (back) into human personality psychology. European Journal of Personality. 2 indexed citations

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Nettle, Daniel. (2002). Height and reproductive success in a cohort of british men. Human Nature. 13(4). 473–491. 139 indexed citations

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Nettle, Daniel. (1998). Explaining culture: A naturalistic approach. By Dan Sperber. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996. Pp. 175. Paper $18.95.. Language. 74(2). 460–460. 458 indexed citations

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Nettle, Daniel. (1998). Explaining culture: A naturalistic approach By Dan Sperber (review). Language. 74(2). 460–460. 1 indexed citations

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