Leaf Van Boven

8.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
109 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Leaf Van Boven is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and General Decision Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, Leaf Van Boven has authored 109 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 34 papers in Social Psychology and 31 papers in General Decision Sciences. Recurrent topics in Leaf Van Boven's work include Social and Intergroup Psychology (38 papers), Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (31 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (20 papers). Leaf Van Boven is often cited by papers focused on Social and Intergroup Psychology (38 papers), Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (31 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (20 papers). Leaf Van Boven collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Leaf Van Boven's co-authors include Thomas Gilovich, George Loewenstein, David K. Sherman, David Dunning, Leigh Thompson, Laurence Ashworth, Charles M. Judd, A. Peter McGraw, Phillip J. Ehret and Joanne Kane and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Leaf Van Boven

105 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

To Do or to Have? That Is the Question.

2003 677 citations Leaf Van Boven, Thomas Gilovich profile →
Perceiving Political Polarization in the United States

2015 240 citations Leaf Van Boven et al. profile →
Politicians polarize and experts depolarize public support for COVID-19 management policies across countries

2022 80 citations Stephan Dickert, Kimin Eom et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Leaf Van Boven United States	36	2.2k	1.4k	935	841	835	109	5.2k
Carey K. Morewedge United States	33	1.6k 0.7×	1.3k 0.9×	1.0k 1.1×	746 0.9×	1.3k 1.6×	83	5.5k
Gabriele Paolacci Netherlands	15	2.9k 1.3×	1.4k 1.0×	916 1.0×	824 1.0×	961 1.2×	34	7.2k
Deborah A. Small United States	32	3.5k 1.6×	1.7k 1.2×	945 1.0×	868 1.0×	1.4k 1.6×	68	6.7k
Siegfried Dewitte Belgium	39	1.6k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	1.2k 1.3×	1.2k 1.4×	507 0.6×	145	5.0k
David M. Sanbonmatsu United States	29	2.5k 1.1×	2.1k 1.4×	972 1.0×	1.2k 1.4×	1.5k 1.8×	88	5.8k
Katherine White Canada	22	1.1k 0.5×	996 0.7×	1.3k 1.4×	755 0.9×	383 0.5×	41	3.7k
Joseph K. Goodman United States	16	1.4k 0.6×	894 0.6×	1.3k 1.4×	582 0.7×	491 0.6×	33	4.7k
Michaela Wänke Germany	32	2.0k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	918 1.0×	957 1.1×	976 1.2×	130	4.6k
Michel Tuan Pham United States	35	2.1k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	2.7k 2.9×	1.1k 1.3×	656 0.8×	82	5.3k
Daniel M. Oppenheimer United States	28	1.6k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	663 0.7×	649 0.8×	1.9k 2.3×	80	6.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Leaf Van Boven

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Fields of papers citing papers by Leaf Van Boven

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leaf Van Boven

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Leaf Van Boven. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Leaf Van Boven based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Leaf Van Boven. Leaf Van Boven is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Boven, Leaf Van & Matthew G. Burgess. (2024). Introduction to topical collection: social science and sustainability technology. Climatic Change. 177(4). 2 indexed citations

Boven, Leaf Van, et al.. (2024). Party over product: People exaggerate the influence of political cues on others’ consumption preferences. International Journal of Research in Marketing. 42(1). 153–170. 2 indexed citations

Erlandsson, Arvid, et al.. (2024). Politically Contaminated Clothes, Chocolates, and Charities: Distancing From Neutral Products Liked by Out-Group or In-Group Partisans. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 52(4). 807–825. 2 indexed citations

Burgess, Matthew G., Leaf Van Boven, Gernot Wagner, et al.. (2024). Supply, demand and polarization challenges facing US climate policies. Nature Climate Change. 14(2). 134–142. 21 indexed citations

Dickert, Stephan, Kimin Eom, Gabriela M. Jiga‐Boy, et al.. (2022). Politicians polarize and experts depolarize public support for COVID-19 management policies across countries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(3). 80 indexed citations breakdown →

Dickert, Stephan, Kimin Eom, Alex F. C. Flores, et al.. (2022). Structured reflection increases intentions to reduce other people’s health risks during COVID-19. PNAS Nexus. 1(5). pgac218–pgac218. 3 indexed citations

Shrum, Trisha, Ezra M. Markowitz, Holly Jean Buck, et al.. (2020). Behavioural frameworks to understand public perceptions of and risk response to carbon dioxide removal. Interface Focus. 10(5). 20200002–20200002. 30 indexed citations

Sherman, David K., et al.. (2020). The exchange between citizens and elected officials: a social psychological framework for citizen climate activists. Behavioural Public Policy. 5(4). 576–605. 12 indexed citations

André, Quentin, Ziv Carmon, Klaus Wertenbroch, et al.. (2017). Consumer Choice and Autonomy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 5(1-2). 28–37. 180 indexed citations

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Chan, Cindy, Leaf Van Boven, Eduardo B. Andrade, & Dan Ariely. (2013). Moral violations reduce oral consumption. Journal of Consumer Psychology. 24(3). 381–386. 40 indexed citations

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Boven, Leaf Van, et al.. (2012). The Illusion of Courage in Self-Predictions: Mispredicting One's Own Behavior in Embarrassing Situations. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Boven, Leaf Van, et al.. (2009). Feeling Close: the Emotional Nature of Psychological Distance. ACR North American Advances. 2 indexed citations

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McGraw, A. Peter, et al.. (2009). Whom to Help? Immediacy Bias in Humanitarian Aid Allocation. ACR North American Advances.

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Ashworth, Laurence & Leaf Van Boven. (2007). Looking Forward, Looking Back: Anticipation is More Evocative than Retrospection. SSRN Electronic Journal. 17 indexed citations

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Boven, Leaf Van & George Loewenstein. (2005). Empathy Gaps in Emotional Perspective Taking.. SSRN Electronic Journal. 49 indexed citations

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Loewenstein, George & Leaf Van Boven. (2003). Social Projection of Transient Drive States. SSRN Electronic Journal. 13 indexed citations

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Epley, Nicholas & Leaf Van Boven. (2003). The Unpacking Effect in Evaluative Judgments: When the Whole is Less than the Sum of its Parts. SSRN Electronic Journal. 12 indexed citations

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Boven, Leaf Van. (2003). Learning Negotiation Skills: Four Models of Knowledge Creation and Transfer. SSRN Electronic Journal. 11 indexed citations

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Boven, Leaf Van. (2003). To Do or to Have? That is the Question. SSRN Electronic Journal. 44 indexed citations

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White, Katherine, et al.. (2003). Intuitions About Situational Correction in Self and Others. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations

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