David Stillwell

14.2k total citations · 6 hit papers
76 papers, 8.2k citations indexed

About

David Stillwell is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, David Stillwell has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 8.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 28 papers in Social Psychology and 28 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in David Stillwell's work include Personality Traits and Psychology (23 papers), Mental Health via Writing (14 papers) and Impact of Technology on Adolescents (12 papers). David Stillwell is often cited by papers focused on Personality Traits and Psychology (23 papers), Mental Health via Writing (14 papers) and Impact of Technology on Adolescents (12 papers). David Stillwell collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. David Stillwell's co-authors include Michał Kosiński, Thore Graepel, Sandra Matz, H. Andrew Schwartz, Lyle Ungar, Margaret L. Kern, Johannes C. Eichstaedt, Wu Youyou, Martin E. P. Seligman and Samuel D. Gosling and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

David Stillwell

74 papers receiving 7.7k citations

Hit Papers

Private traits and attributes are predictable from digita... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 2013 2015 2015 2017 500 1000 1.5k
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior
    2013 1.5k citations Michał Kosiński, David Stillwell et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  2. Personality, Gender, and Age in the Language of Social Media: The Open-Vocabulary Approach
    2013 1.1k citations H. Andrew Schwartz, Johannes C. Eichstaedt et al. PLoS ONE profile →
  3. Computer-based personality judgments are more accurate than those made by humans
    2015 623 citations Wu Youyou, Michał Kosiński et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  4. Facebook as a research tool for the social sciences: Opportunities, challenges, ethical considerations, and practical guidelines.
    2015 602 citations Michał Kosiński, Sandra Matz et al. American Psychologist profile →
  5. Psychological targeting as an effective approach to digital mass persuasion
    2017 469 citations Sandra Matz, Michał Kosiński et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  6. Automatic personality assessment through social media language.
    2014 466 citations Gregory Park, H. Andrew Schwartz et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Stillwell United Kingdom 35 3.0k 2.0k 1.9k 1.8k 1.2k 76 8.2k
Michał Kosiński United Kingdom 40 3.2k 1.1× 2.1k 1.0× 2.2k 1.1× 2.0k 1.1× 1.5k 1.3× 81 9.4k
Jeffrey T. Hancock United States 63 6.9k 2.3× 3.5k 1.8× 3.2k 1.7× 1.7k 1.0× 1.4k 1.2× 220 13.8k
Nicole C. Krämer Germany 44 3.1k 1.0× 2.0k 1.0× 1.5k 0.8× 590 0.3× 517 0.4× 219 6.8k
Adam Joinson United Kingdom 35 4.9k 1.7× 1.2k 0.6× 792 0.4× 1.0k 0.6× 405 0.3× 109 8.0k
Nick Yee United States 31 5.4k 1.8× 2.1k 1.0× 721 0.4× 1.0k 0.6× 865 0.7× 42 9.5k
Yla Tausczik United States 13 1.5k 0.5× 1.5k 0.8× 1.5k 0.8× 544 0.3× 464 0.4× 26 4.5k
S. Shyam Sundar United States 59 7.6k 2.5× 2.2k 1.1× 2.9k 1.5× 385 0.2× 602 0.5× 248 13.0k
Jesse Chandler United States 20 3.4k 1.1× 1.9k 1.0× 571 0.3× 1.8k 1.0× 1.3k 1.0× 37 9.1k
Jesse Fox United States 38 3.4k 1.1× 1.9k 1.0× 686 0.4× 1.1k 0.6× 548 0.4× 64 7.2k
Michael D. Buhrmester United Kingdom 23 5.1k 1.7× 3.5k 1.7× 511 0.3× 1.9k 1.1× 1.3k 1.1× 33 10.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Stillwell

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Watson, Joe C., Sander van der Linden, Michael A. Watson, & David Stillwell. (2024). Negative online news articles are shared more to social media. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 21592–21592. 13 indexed citations
2.
Sun, Luning, et al.. (2023). Public emotional responses to crisis: The COVID‐19 pandemic in Wuhan and London. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 17(8). 1 indexed citations
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Loe, Bao Sheng, et al.. (2022). Developing a sentence level fairness metric using word embeddings. PubMed. 5(2-3). 95–130. 2 indexed citations
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Youyou, Wu, David Stillwell, H. Andrew Schwartz, & Michał Kosiński. (2017). Birds of a Feather Do Flock Together. Psychological Science. 28(3). 276–284. 80 indexed citations
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Matz, Sandra, Michał Kosiński, David Stillwell, & Gideon Nave. (2017). Psychological Framing As an Effective Approach to Real-Life Persuasive Communication. ACR North American Advances. 4 indexed citations
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Rohrer, Julia M., Boris Egloff, Michał Kosiński, David Stillwell, & Stefan C. Schmukle. (2017). In your eyes only? Discrepancies and agreement between self- and other-reports of personality from age 14 to 29.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 115(2). 304–320. 17 indexed citations
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Loe, Bao Sheng, David Stillwell, & Chris Sidey‐Gibbons. (2017). Computerized Adaptive Testing Provides Reliable and Efficient Depression Measurement Using the CES-D Scale. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 19(9). e302–e302. 20 indexed citations
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Bonneville‐Roussy, Arielle, David Stillwell, Michał Kosiński, & John Rust. (2017). Age trends in musical preferences in adulthood: 1. Conceptualization and empirical investigation. Musicae Scientiae. 21(4). 369–389. 34 indexed citations
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Gong, Tao, et al.. (2017). Building a profile of subjective well-being for social media users. PLoS ONE. 12(11). e0187278–e0187278. 40 indexed citations
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Park, Gregory, David B. Yaden, H. Andrew Schwartz, et al.. (2016). Women are Warmer but No Less Assertive than Men: Gender and Language on Facebook. PLoS ONE. 11(5). e0155885–e0155885. 89 indexed citations
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Matz, Sandra, Joe J. Gladstone, & David Stillwell. (2016). Money Buys Happiness When Spending Fits Our Personality. Psychological Science. 27(5). 715–725. 96 indexed citations
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Schwartz, H. Andrew, Maarten Sap, Margaret L. Kern, et al.. (2015). PREDICTING INDIVIDUAL WELL-BEING THROUGH THE LANGUAGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA. PubMed. 21. 516–527. 95 indexed citations
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Greenberg, David M., Simon Baron‐Cohen, David Stillwell, Michał Kosiński, & Peter J. Rentfrow. (2015). Musical Preferences are Linked to Cognitive Styles. PLoS ONE. 10(7). e0131151–e0131151. 86 indexed citations
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Kosiński, Michał, et al.. (2015). Facebook as a research tool for the social sciences: Opportunities, challenges, ethical considerations, and practical guidelines.. American Psychologist. 70(6). 543–556. 602 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bachrach, Yoram, Thore Graepel, Pushmeet Kohli, Michał Kosiński, & David Stillwell. (2014). Your digital image: factors behind demographic and psychometric predictions from social network profiles. Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems. 1649–1650. 17 indexed citations
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Park, Gregory, H. Andrew Schwartz, Johannes C. Eichstaedt, et al.. (2014). Automatic personality assessment through social media language.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 108(6). 934–952. 466 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kosiński, Michał, David Stillwell, & Thore Graepel. (2013). Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(15). 5802–5805. 1548 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kern, Margaret L., Johannes C. Eichstaedt, H. Andrew Schwartz, et al.. (2013). From “Sooo excited!!!” to “So proud”: Using language to study development.. Developmental Psychology. 50(1). 178–188. 48 indexed citations
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Rentfrow, Peter J., Samuel D. Gosling, Markus Jokela, et al.. (2013). Divided we stand: Three psychological regions of the United States and their political, economic, social, and health correlates.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 105(6). 996–1012. 194 indexed citations
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Stillwell, David & Richard J. Tunney. (2012). Individuals’ insight into intrapersonal externalities. Judgment and Decision Making. 7(4). 390–401. 1 indexed citations

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