George E. Newman

7.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

George E. Newman is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Sociology and Political Science and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, George E. Newman has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 26 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 25 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in George E. Newman's work include Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (30 papers), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (15 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (15 papers). George E. Newman is often cited by papers focused on Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (30 papers), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (15 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (15 papers). George E. Newman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. George E. Newman's co-authors include Joshua Knobe, Paul Bloom, Ravi Dhar, Daylian M. Cain, Brian J. Scholl, Rosanna Smith, David G. Rand, Joshua D. Greene, Alexander Peysakhovich and Gordon Kraft‐Todd and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

George E. Newman

71 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

Social heuristics shape intuitive cooperation 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 100 200 300 400 500
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. Social heuristics shape intuitive cooperation
    2014 530 citations David G. Rand, Alexander Peysakhovich et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
George E. Newman United States 36 1.8k 1.5k 1.3k 907 604 75 4.4k
Leaf Van Boven United States 36 2.2k 1.2× 835 0.6× 1.4k 1.1× 935 1.0× 528 0.9× 109 5.2k
Adam L. Alter United States 25 1.2k 0.7× 1.1k 0.7× 954 0.7× 673 0.7× 744 1.2× 40 3.7k
Donal E. Carlston United States 25 2.3k 1.3× 967 0.7× 1.4k 1.1× 642 0.7× 640 1.1× 55 3.7k
Edward B. Royzman United States 17 1.6k 0.9× 1.3k 0.9× 1.3k 1.0× 327 0.4× 527 0.9× 25 3.9k
Benoît Monin United States 35 2.7k 1.5× 1.7k 1.2× 1.7k 1.3× 540 0.6× 393 0.7× 69 5.4k
Alan Page Fiske United States 38 2.9k 1.7× 1.8k 1.2× 3.3k 2.5× 339 0.4× 1.1k 1.8× 70 7.2k
Joseph K. Goodman United States 16 1.4k 0.8× 491 0.3× 894 0.7× 1.3k 1.4× 391 0.6× 33 4.7k
Siegfried Dewitte Belgium 39 1.6k 0.9× 507 0.3× 1.2k 0.9× 1.2k 1.3× 1.2k 1.9× 145 5.0k
Michaela Wänke Germany 32 2.0k 1.1× 976 0.7× 1.3k 1.0× 918 1.0× 755 1.3× 130 4.6k
David DeSteno United States 37 2.2k 1.3× 2.1k 1.4× 3.8k 2.9× 459 0.5× 1.6k 2.7× 61 7.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by George E. Newman

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of George E. Newman

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Newman, George E., et al.. (2025). Sad Art Gives Voice to Our Own Sadness. Cognitive Science. 49(1). e70034–e70034.
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Dana, Jason, et al.. (2024). Efficiency neglect: Why people are pessimistic about the effects of increasing population.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 153(5). 1213–1225. 1 indexed citations
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Newman, George E., et al.. (2021). Seeking Stability: Consumer Motivations for Communal Nostalgia. Journal of Consumer Psychology. 32(1). 77–86. 17 indexed citations
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Bailey, April H., Joshua Knobe, & George E. Newman. (2021). Value-based essentialism: Essentialist beliefs about social groups with shared values.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 150(10). 1994–2014. 9 indexed citations
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Tobia, Kevin, George E. Newman, & Joshua Knobe. (2019). Water is and is not H2O. Mind & Language. 35(2). 183–208. 31 indexed citations
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Stavrova, Olga, et al.. (2016). Contamination without contact: An examination of intention-based contagion. Judgment and Decision Making. 11(6). 554–571. 32 indexed citations
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Freitas, Julian De, Kevin Tobia, George E. Newman, & Joshua Knobe. (2014). The good ship Theseus: The effect of valence on object identity judgments. Cognitive Science. 36(36). 2 indexed citations
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Rand, David G., Alexander Peysakhovich, Gordon Kraft‐Todd, et al.. (2014). Social heuristics shape intuitive cooperation. Nature Communications. 5(1). 3677–3677. 530 indexed citations breakdown →
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Poehlman, T. Andrew & George E. Newman. (2013). Potential: The valuation of imagined future achievement. Cognition. 130(1). 134–139. 8 indexed citations
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Brescoll, Victoria L., Eric Luis Uhlmann, & George E. Newman. (2013). The effects of system-justifying motives on endorsement of essentialist explanations for gender differences.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 105(6). 891–908. 99 indexed citations
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Knobe, Joshua, Sandeep Prasada, & George E. Newman. (2013). Dual character concepts and the normative dimension of conceptual representation. Cognition. 127(2). 242–257. 118 indexed citations
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Newman, George E. & Brian J. Scholl. (2012). Bar graphs depicting averages are perceptually misinterpreted: The within-the-bar bias. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 19(4). 601–607. 69 indexed citations
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Newman, George E. & Daniel Mochon. (2012). Why are lotteries valued less? Multiple tests of a direct risk-aversion mechanism. Judgment and Decision Making. 7(1). 19–24. 19 indexed citations
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Newman, George E. & Paul Bloom. (2011). Art and authenticity: The importance of originals in judgments of value.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 141(3). 558–569. 195 indexed citations
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Newman, George E., Kristi L. Lockhart, & Frank C. Keil. (2010). “End-of-life” biases in moral evaluations of others. Cognition. 115(2). 343–349. 11 indexed citations
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Hamlin, J. Kiley, George E. Newman, & Karen Wynn. (2009). Eight‐Month‐Old Infants Infer Unfulfilled Goals, Despite Ambiguous Physical Evidence. Infancy. 14(5). 579–590. 29 indexed citations
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Gao, Tao, George E. Newman, & Brian J. Scholl. (2009). The psychophysics of chasing: A case study in the perception of animacy. Cognitive Psychology. 59(2). 154–179. 165 indexed citations
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Newman, George E. & Frank C. Keil. (2008). Where Is the Essence? Developmental Shifts in Children’s Beliefs About Internal Features. Child Development. 79(5). 1344–1356. 52 indexed citations
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Rips, Lance J., Sergey V. Blok, & George E. Newman. (2006). Tracing the identity of objects.. Psychological Review. 113(1). 1–30. 73 indexed citations
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Blok, Sergey V., et al.. (2001). Inferences About Personal Identity. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 23(23). 16 indexed citations

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