Joshua Conrad Jackson

4.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
56 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Joshua Conrad Jackson is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Joshua Conrad Jackson has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 32 papers in Social Psychology and 14 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Joshua Conrad Jackson's work include Cultural Differences and Values (23 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (21 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (13 papers). Joshua Conrad Jackson is often cited by papers focused on Cultural Differences and Values (23 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (21 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (13 papers). Joshua Conrad Jackson collaborates with scholars based in United States, New Zealand and United Kingdom. Joshua Conrad Jackson's co-authors include Michele J. Gelfand, Kurt Gray, Kai Chi Yam, Jesse R. Harrington, Kristen A. Lindquist, Joseph Watts, Johann‐Mattis List, Dylan Pieper, Pok Man Tang and John M. Lopes and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Joshua Conrad Jackson

54 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

3 papers align trajectories

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.

The relationship between cultural tightness–looseness and COVID-19 cases and deaths: a global analysis

2021 328 citations Michele J. Gelfand, Joshua Conrad Jackson et al. profile →
Emotion semantics show both cultural variation and universal structure

2019 229 citations Joshua Conrad Jackson, Joseph Watts et al. Science profile →
The rise of robots increases job insecurity and maladaptive workplace behaviors: Multimethod evidence.

2022 152 citations Kai Chi Yam, Joshua Conrad Jackson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joshua Conrad Jackson United States	23	919	818	495	281	229	56	2.2k
Jennifer Whitson United States	16	1.1k 1.2×	1.5k 1.9×	647 1.3×	255 0.9×	240 1.0×	30	2.6k
Christian Schitter Austria	3	439 0.5×	715 0.9×	383 0.8×	266 0.9×	292 1.3×	4	2.2k
Sonam Samat United States	6	479 0.5×	828 1.0×	299 0.6×	175 0.6×	289 1.3×	6	2.0k
Rainer Greifeneder Switzerland	25	1.0k 1.1×	936 1.1×	456 0.9×	287 1.0×	378 1.7×	89	2.7k
Kai Sassenberg Germany	36	1.5k 1.6×	2.1k 2.6×	552 1.1×	441 1.6×	320 1.4×	176	3.9k
David Hauser United States	16	675 0.7×	950 1.2×	361 0.7×	513 1.8×	325 1.4×	43	2.5k
Constanze Beierlein Luxembourg	20	1.3k 1.4×	1.2k 1.5×	358 0.7×	288 1.0×	494 2.2×	51	2.9k
Stefan Pfattheicher Germany	27	722 0.8×	963 1.2×	632 1.3×	385 1.4×	741 3.2×	75	2.4k
Stefano Pagliaro Italy	26	788 0.9×	1.1k 1.4×	511 1.0×	140 0.5×	206 0.9×	98	2.1k
Matthew Feinberg United States	27	1.2k 1.3×	2.5k 3.1×	760 1.5×	453 1.6×	277 1.2×	51	4.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Miton, Helena & Joshua Conrad Jackson. (2025). Complex technology requires cultural innovations for distributing cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 30(2). 124–135.

Jackson, Joshua Conrad, et al.. (2025). Seeing Religious Faith as Essential to Morality Predicts Deconversion Guilt. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion. 36(1). 204–228.

Charlesworth, Tessa Elizabeth Sadie, et al.. (2025). The Content, Structure, and History of English Trait Words. 1 indexed citations

Jackson, Joshua Conrad, et al.. (2024). Religious people view both science and religion as less epistemically valuable than non-religious people view science. Religion Brain & Behavior. 15(4). 374–399. 1 indexed citations

Jackson, Joshua Conrad, et al.. (2023). Supernatural explanations across 114 societies are more common for natural than social phenomena. Nature Human Behaviour. 7(5). 707–717. 9 indexed citations

Yam, Kai Chi, Tiffany C. Y. Tan, Joshua Conrad Jackson, Azim Shariff, & Kurt Gray. (2023). Cultural Differences in People's Reactions and Applications of Robots, Algorithms, and Artificial Intelligence. Management and Organization Review. 19(5). 859–875. 40 indexed citations

Jackson, Joshua Conrad, Jamin Halberstadt, Masanori Takezawa, et al.. (2023). Generalized morality culturally evolves as an adaptive heuristic in large social networks.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 125(6). 1207–1238. 4 indexed citations

Brady, William J., Joshua Conrad Jackson, Björn Lindström, & Molly J. Crockett. (2023). Algorithm-mediated social learning in online social networks. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 27(10). 947–960. 44 indexed citations

Jackson, Joshua Conrad, et al.. (2022). Valence-dependent mutation in lexical evolution. Nature Human Behaviour. 7(2). 190–199. 8 indexed citations

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Zhu, Jiajia, et al.. (2022). Perception of strong social norms during the COVID-19 pandemic is linked to positive psychological outcomes. BMC Public Health. 22(1). 1403–1403. 14 indexed citations

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Jackson, Joshua Conrad, et al.. (2021). From Text to Thought: How Analyzing Language Can Advance Psychological Science. Perspectives on Psychological Science. 17(3). 805–826. 84 indexed citations

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Jackson, Joshua Conrad, et al.. (2021). Tight cultures and vengeful gods: How culture shapes religious belief.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 150(10). 2057–2077. 35 indexed citations

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Watts, Joseph, et al.. (2021). Building Quantitative Cross-Cultural Databases From Ethnographic Records: Promise, Problems and Principles. Cross-Cultural Research. 56(1). 62–94. 21 indexed citations

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Yam, Kai Chi, et al.. (2020). Association of high profile football matches in Europe with traffic accidents in Asia: archival study. BMJ. 371. m4465–m4465. 3 indexed citations

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Jackson, Joshua Conrad, Joseph Watts, Teague R. Henry, et al.. (2019). Emotion semantics show both cultural variation and universal structure. Science. 366(6472). 1517–1522. 229 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schein, Chelsea, et al.. (2019). Praise-many, blame-fewer: A common (and successful) strategy for attributing responsibility in groups.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 149(5). 855–869. 11 indexed citations

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Jackson, Joshua Conrad, Neil Hester, & Kurt Gray. (2018). The faces of God in America: Revealing religious diversity across people and politics. PLoS ONE. 13(6). e0198745–e0198745. 22 indexed citations

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Jackson, Joshua Conrad, et al.. (2017). Testing the causal relationship between religious belief and death anxiety. Religion Brain & Behavior. 8(1). 57–68. 34 indexed citations

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Jackson, Joshua Conrad, David G. Rand, Kevin Lewis, Michael I. Norton, & Kurt Gray. (2016). Agent Based Modeling: A Guide for Social Psychologists. Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University). 1 indexed citations

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Jackson, Joshua Conrad & John M. Lopes. (1996). The Yeast UME6 Gene Is Required for Both Negative and Positive Transcriptional Regulation of Phospholipid Biosynthetic Gene Expression. Nucleic Acids Research. 24(7). 1322–1329. 67 indexed citations

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