Joshua M. Tybur

13.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
103 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

About

Joshua M. Tybur is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Joshua M. Tybur has authored 103 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 49 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 44 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Joshua M. Tybur's work include Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (64 papers), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (46 papers) and Social and Intergroup Psychology (29 papers). Joshua M. Tybur is often cited by papers focused on Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (64 papers), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (46 papers) and Social and Intergroup Psychology (29 papers). Joshua M. Tybur collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and United Kingdom. Joshua M. Tybur's co-authors include Vladas Griskevicius, Bram Van den Bergh, Debra Lieberman, Theresa E. Robertson, Andrew W. Delton, Robert Kurzban, Peter DeScioli, Paul A. M. Van Lange, Joshua M. Ackerman and Daniel Balliet and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Joshua M. Tybur

100 papers receiving 7.2k 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.

Going green to be seen: Status, reputation, and conspicuous conservation.

2010 1.5k citations Vladas Griskevicius, Joshua M. Tybur et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
Microbes, mating, and morality: Individual differences in three functional domains of disgust.

2009 773 citations Joshua M. Tybur, Debra Lieberman et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
The influence of mortality and socioeconomic status on risk and delayed rewards: A life history theory approach.

2011 552 citations Vladas Griskevicius, Joshua M. Tybur et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
Disgust: Evolved function and structure.

2012 516 citations Joshua M. Tybur, Debra Lieberman et al. profile →
When the Economy Falters, Do People Spend or Save? Responses to Resource Scarcity Depend on Childhood Environments

2013 404 citations Vladas Griskevicius, Joshua M. Ackerman et al. Psychological Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joshua M. Tybur Netherlands	39	2.8k	2.8k	2.6k	2.4k	1.6k	103	7.6k
Mark van Vugt Netherlands	57	1.5k 0.5×	5.3k 1.9×	3.2k 1.2×	2.5k 1.0×	958 0.6×	168	10.4k
Steven L. Neuberg United States	42	2.5k 0.9×	4.9k 1.8×	4.2k 1.6×	2.8k 1.2×	787 0.5×	105	9.6k
Tanya L. Chartrand United States	38	4.1k 1.4×	4.2k 1.5×	6.7k 2.6×	3.5k 1.4×	1.5k 1.0×	80	13.2k
Rob W. Holland Netherlands	37	1.3k 0.5×	1.6k 0.6×	2.1k 0.8×	1.2k 0.5×	605 0.4×	91	5.5k
Elaine N. Aron United States	39	1.9k 0.7×	3.5k 1.3×	6.0k 2.3×	3.2k 1.3×	712 0.4×	75	11.8k
Antonio Pierro Italy	43	810 0.3×	3.0k 1.1×	2.9k 1.1×	960 0.4×	653 0.4×	193	6.8k
Jessica L. Tracy Canada	41	1.8k 0.6×	2.4k 0.9×	5.1k 2.0×	2.2k 0.9×	714 0.4×	86	8.6k
Brock Bastian Australia	46	2.1k 0.7×	3.2k 1.1×	3.8k 1.4×	1.1k 0.5×	264 0.2×	134	7.7k
Ying‐yi Hong Hong Kong	49	1.4k 0.5×	5.2k 1.9×	6.5k 2.5×	2.7k 1.1×	673 0.4×	197	11.5k
Pablo Briñol Spain	40	1.0k 0.4×	4.0k 1.5×	2.9k 1.1×	954 0.4×	1.2k 0.8×	178	6.9k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Tybur, Joshua M., et al.. (2025). Comfort with microbe-sharing contact across the COVID-19 pandemic: testing behavioral immune system predictions. Evolution and Human Behavior. 46(5). 106710–106710.

Kamiloglu, Roza Gizem, et al.. (2024). When to Laugh, When to Cry: Display Rules of Nonverbal Vocalisations Across Four Cultures. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. 49(1). 9–33. 1 indexed citations

Bratko, Denis, Patrick Jern, Christian Kandler, et al.. (2024). Nuanced HEXACO: A Meta-Analysis of HEXACO Cross-Rater Agreement, Heritability, and Rank-Order Stability. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 51(12). 2425–2444. 4 indexed citations

Tybur, Joshua M., et al.. (2024). Salience of infectious diseases did not increase xenophobia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 6. e34–e34. 1 indexed citations

Molho, Catherine, et al.. (2023). Beyond Outrage: Observers Anticipate Different Behaviors From Expressors of Anger Versus Disgust. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 15(4). 450–460. 4 indexed citations

Kupfer, Tom R. & Joshua M. Tybur. (2023). Third-party punishers who express emotions are trusted more. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 290(2005). 20230916–20230916. 2 indexed citations

Karinen, Annika K., Joshua M. Tybur, & Reinout E. de Vries. (2021). The disgust traits: Self–other agreement in pathogen, sexual, and moral disgust sensitivity and their independence from HEXACO personality.. Emotion. 23(1). 75–86. 5 indexed citations

Karinen, Annika K., Laura W. Wesseldijk, Patrick Jern, & Joshua M. Tybur. (2021). Sex, Drugs, and Genes: Illuminating the Moral Condemnation of Recreational Drugs. Psychological Science. 32(10). 1582–1591. 1 indexed citations

Tybur, Joshua M., Laura W. Wesseldijk, & Patrick Jern. (2020). Genetic and Environmental Influences on Disgust Proneness, Contamination Sensitivity, and Their Covariance. Clinical Psychological Science. 8(6). 1054–1061. 20 indexed citations

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Tybur, Joshua M., et al.. (2020). Behavioral Immune Trade-Offs: Interpersonal Value Relaxes Social Pathogen Avoidance. Psychological Science. 31(10). 1211–1221. 52 indexed citations

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Kandler, Christian, Denis Bratko, Ana Butković, et al.. (2020). How genetic and environmental variance in personality traits shift across the life span: Evidence from a cross-national twin study.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 121(5). 1079–1094. 19 indexed citations

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Tybur, Joshua M., Daniel Balliet, Paul A. M. Van Lange, & Catherine Molho. (2019). Data and syntax. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations

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Karinen, Annika K., Catherine Molho, Tom R. Kupfer, & Joshua M. Tybur. (2019). Disgust sensitivity and opposition to immigration: Does contact avoidance or resistance to foreign norms explain the relationship?. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 84. 103817–103817. 45 indexed citations

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Tybur, Joshua M., et al.. (2015). Is the relationship between pathogen avoidance and ideological conservatism explained by sexual strategies?. Evolution and Human Behavior. 36(6). 489–497. 60 indexed citations

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Pollet, Thomas V., Joshua M. Tybur, Willem E. Frankenhuis, & Ian J. Rickard. (2014). What Can Cross-Cultural Correlations Teach Us about Human Nature?. Human Nature. 25(3). 410–429. 97 indexed citations

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Tybur, Joshua M. & Reinout E. de Vries. (2013). Disgust sensitivity and the HEXACO model of personality. Personality and Individual Differences. 55(6). 660–665. 49 indexed citations

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Griskevicius, Vladas, Joshua M. Tybur, Joshua M. Ackerman, et al.. (2011). The financial consequences of too many men: Sex ratio effects on saving, borrowing, and spending.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 102(1). 69–80. 153 indexed citations

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Bergh, Bram Van den, Vladas Griskevicius, & Joshua M. Tybur. (2010). Consumer choices:Going green to be seen. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 4(3). 10–11. 4 indexed citations

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Griskevicius, Vladas, Joshua M. Tybur, & Bram Van den Bergh. (2010). Going green to be seen: Status, reputation, and conspicuous conservation.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 98(3). 392–404. 1473 indexed citations breakdown →

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Griskevicius, Vladas, Joshua M. Tybur, & Bram Van den Bergh. (2009). Conspicuous Conservation: Promoting Green Consumption Through Status Competition. ACR North American Advances. 1 indexed citations

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