David Trafimow

10.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
244 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

David Trafimow is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, David Trafimow has authored 244 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 79 papers in Social Psychology and 63 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in David Trafimow's work include Social and Intergroup Psychology (72 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (43 papers) and Cultural Differences and Values (42 papers). David Trafimow is often cited by papers focused on Social and Intergroup Psychology (72 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (43 papers) and Cultural Differences and Values (42 papers). David Trafimow collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. David Trafimow's co-authors include Krystina A. Finlay, Harry C. Triandis, Sharon G. Goto, Paschal Sheeran, Brian D. Earp, Paschal Sheeran, Stephen Rice, Martin Fishbein, Oscar Ybarra and Sander Greenland and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

David Trafimow

229 papers receiving 6.4k citations

Hit Papers

Some tests of the distinction between the private self an... 1991 2026 2002 2014 1991 2015 2019 250 500 750
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. Some tests of the distinction between the private self and the collective self.
    1991 762 citations David Trafimow et al. profile →
  2. Replication, falsification, and the crisis of confidence in social psychology
    2015 310 citations David Trafimow et al. profile →
  3. Inferential Statistics as Descriptive Statistics: There Is No Replication Crisis if We Don’t Expect Replication
    2019 262 citations Valentin Amrhein, David Trafimow et al. The American Statistician 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 Trafimow United States 40 2.7k 2.5k 1.6k 950 815 244 6.8k
Christopher K. Hsee United States 35 3.3k 1.2× 1.7k 0.7× 1.8k 1.2× 1.5k 1.6× 1.1k 1.3× 110 9.8k
Zakary L. Tormala United States 42 4.2k 1.6× 2.6k 1.1× 1.5k 0.9× 866 0.9× 1.3k 1.7× 87 7.4k
Antonio Pierro Italy 43 3.0k 1.1× 2.9k 1.2× 1.6k 1.0× 810 0.9× 653 0.8× 193 6.8k
Gabriele Paolacci Netherlands 15 2.9k 1.1× 1.4k 0.6× 824 0.5× 961 1.0× 916 1.1× 34 7.2k
Justin Kruger United States 27 2.4k 0.9× 2.2k 0.9× 1.2k 0.8× 1.4k 1.5× 483 0.6× 65 10.4k
Chip Heath United States 31 2.9k 1.1× 2.1k 0.9× 874 0.6× 1.1k 1.2× 1.3k 1.6× 51 10.6k
Sheena S. Iyengar United States 29 2.3k 0.9× 2.7k 1.1× 1.3k 0.8× 847 0.9× 2.1k 2.6× 56 9.8k
Tracy Kwang United States 6 3.5k 1.3× 2.4k 1.0× 1.1k 0.7× 1.2k 1.2× 904 1.1× 6 8.6k
Thomas Mussweiler Germany 47 3.6k 1.3× 2.5k 1.0× 1.3k 0.8× 1.6k 1.7× 905 1.1× 109 8.6k
James Price Dillard United States 47 4.3k 1.6× 2.8k 1.1× 2.3k 1.5× 479 0.5× 855 1.0× 130 8.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Trafimow

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Trafimow

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Trafimow, David, et al.. (2025). Meaning in life research: the importance of considering auxiliary assumptions. The Journal of Positive Psychology. 21(1). 163–172. 1 indexed citations
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Trafimow, David & Klaus Fiedler. (2024). An exploration of physics envy with implications for desiderata of psychology theories.. American Psychologist. 81(1). 94–108.
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Fiedler, Klaus & David Trafimow. (2024). Using theoretical constraints and the TASI taxonomy to delineate predictably replicable findings. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 31(6). 2581–2598. 2 indexed citations
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Trafimow, David, et al.. (2023). Implications of the TASI taxonomy for understanding inconsistent effects pertaining to free will beliefs. Philosophical Psychology. 38(2). 480–502. 3 indexed citations
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Hu, Liqun, et al.. (2023). Extending the A Priori Procedure (APP) to Analysis of Variance Models under Normality. Axioms. 13(1). 22–22. 1 indexed citations
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Tong, Tingting, David Trafimow, Tonghui Wang, et al.. (2022). The A Priori Procedure (APP) for estimating regression coefficients in linear models. Methodology. 18(3). 203–220. 1 indexed citations
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Grootel, Leonie van, et al.. (2021). Why we habitually engage in null-hypothesis significance testing: A qualitative study. PLoS ONE. 16(10). e0258330–e0258330. 12 indexed citations
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Wei, Zheng, et al.. (2020). Extending the A Priori Procedure to Normal Bayes Models. 13(2). 169–183. 4 indexed citations
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An, Sieun, et al.. (2019). Bad people doing good things: Attributions about people with immoral traits. Current Psychology. 40(7). 3440–3449. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Cong, et al.. (2019). Necessary Sample Size for Estimating the Scale Parameter With Specified Closeness and Confidence. 12(1). 17–29. 5 indexed citations
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Amrhein, Valentin, David Trafimow, & Sander Greenland. (2019). Inferential Statistics as Descriptive Statistics: There Is No Replication Crisis if We Don’t Expect Replication. The American Statistician. 73(sup1). 262–270. 262 indexed citations breakdown →
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Trafimow, David, et al.. (2017). The Benefits of Applying Bayes’ Theorem in Medicine. 2 indexed citations
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Madson, Laura, et al.. (2017). Faculty Members' Attitudes Predict Adoption of Interactive Engagement Methods.. ˜The œjournal of faculty development. 31(3). 39–49. 5 indexed citations
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Walker, Mark, et al.. (2017). The Socratic Note Taking Technique. Teaching Philosophy. 40(3). 341–365. 1 indexed citations
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Trafimow, David, Justin A. MacDonald, & Stephen Rice. (2012). Using PPT to account for randomness in perception. Attention Perception & Psychophysics. 74(6). 1355–1365. 8 indexed citations
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Rice, Stephen, et al.. (2011). Visual vs. Auditory Memory in an Aviation Task: a Potential Performance Theory Analysis. Journal of Bioresource Management. 154. 2 indexed citations
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Rice, Stephen, et al.. (2010). Retention of a Time Pressure Heuristic in a Target Identification Task. The Journal of General Psychology. 137(3). 239–255. 12 indexed citations
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Hughes, Jamie S. & David Trafimow. (2010). Intentionality Attributions About Perfect and Imperfect Duty Violations. The Journal of Social Psychology. 150(2). 198–210. 6 indexed citations
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Rice, Stephen, et al.. (2009). Automation Dependency Under Time Pressure. Journal of Bioresource Management. 611. 1 indexed citations
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Verplanken, Bas, et al.. (2008). Different selves, different values: Effects of self‐construals on value activation and use. European Journal of Social Psychology. 39(6). 909–919. 44 indexed citations

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