Ravi Iyer

9.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
47 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Ravi Iyer is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Ravi Iyer has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Social Psychology, 24 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 23 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Ravi Iyer's work include Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (23 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (20 papers) and Cultural Differences and Values (13 papers). Ravi Iyer is often cited by papers focused on Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (23 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (20 papers) and Cultural Differences and Values (13 papers). Ravi Iyer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Netherlands. Ravi Iyer's co-authors include Jonathan Haidt, Jesse Graham, Spassena Koleva, Peter H. Ditto, Brian A. Nosek, Ryan T. Howell, Jia Wei Zhang, Andrea L. Glenn, Yoel Inbar and David A. Pizarro and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Ravi Iyer

46 papers receiving 4.6k 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.

Mapping the moral domain.

2011 1.7k citations Jesse Graham, Brian A. Nosek et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
Tracing the threads: How five moral concerns (especially Purity) help explain culture war attitudes

2012 438 citations Spassena Koleva, Jesse Graham et al. Journal of Research in Personality profile →
Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Dispositions of Self-Identified Libertarians

2012 405 citations Ravi Iyer, Spassena Koleva et al. PLoS ONE profile →

Peers

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Eric Luis Uhlmann United States

Kees van den Bos Netherlands

Spassena Koleva United States

Benoît Monin United States

Brian Lickel United States

Alain Van Hiel Belgium

Aaron C. Kay United States

Edward B. Royzman United States

Colin Wayne Leach United States

Joshua Knobe United States

Eric Luis Uhlmann United States

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Citations per year, relative to Ravi Iyer Ravi Iyer (= 1×) peers Eric Luis Uhlmann

Countries citing papers authored by Ravi Iyer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ravi Iyer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ravi Iyer

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ravi Iyer. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ravi Iyer 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 Ravi Iyer. Ravi Iyer is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Stray, Jonathan, Bonnie L. Barrilleaux, Ravi Iyer, et al.. (2025). Ranking by engagement and non‐engagement signals: Learnings from industry. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1551(1). 19–32.

Waytz, Adam, Ravi Iyer, Liane Young, Jonathan Haidt, & Jesse Graham. (2019). Ideological differences in the expanse of the moral circle. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4389–4389. 106 indexed citations

Read, Stephen J., et al.. (2017). Toward a comprehensive taxonomy of human motives. PLoS ONE. 12(2). e0172279–e0172279. 37 indexed citations

Graham, Jesse, Adam Waytz, Peter Meindl, Ravi Iyer, & Liane Young. (2016). Centripetal and centrifugal forces in the moral circle: Competing constraints on moral learning. Cognition. 167. 58–65. 46 indexed citations

Howell, Ryan T., et al.. (2016). Your personality on a good day: How trait and state personality predict daily well-being. Journal of Research in Personality. 69. 250–263. 40 indexed citations

Iyer, Ravi, et al.. (2015). The portrait of a hedonist: The personality and ethics behind the value and maladaptive pursuit of pleasure. Personality and Individual Differences. 79. 68–74. 20 indexed citations

Graham, Jesse, Peter Meindl, Spassena Koleva, Ravi Iyer, & KATE JOHNSON. (2015). When Values and Behavior Conflict: Moral Pluralism and Intrapersonal Moral Hypocrisy. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 9(3). 158–170. 50 indexed citations

Curtis, Mathew, et al.. (2015). The Relationship between School/Department Rankings, Student Achievements, and Student Experiences: The Case of Psychology. International journal of doctoral studies. 10. 19–37. 3 indexed citations

JOHNSON, KATE, Ravi Iyer, Sean P. Wojcik, et al.. (2014). Ideology‐Specific Patterns of Moral Indifference Predict Intentions Not to Vote. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy. 14(1). 61–77. 22 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jia Wei, Ryan T. Howell, & Ravi Iyer. (2014). Engagement with natural beauty moderates the positive relation between connectedness with nature and psychological well-being. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 38. 55–63. 178 indexed citations

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Sherman, Gary D., Jonathan Haidt, Ravi Iyer, & James A. Coan. (2012). Individual differences in the physical embodiment of care: Prosocially oriented women respond to cuteness by becoming more physically careful.. Emotion. 13(1). 151–158. 50 indexed citations

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Iyer, Ravi, et al.. (2012). The Big Five personality traits, material values, and financial well-being of self-described money managers. Journal of Economic Psychology. 33(6). 1129–1142. 171 indexed citations

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Graham, Jesse & Ravi Iyer. (2012). The Unbearable Vagueness of “Essence”: Forty-Four Clarification Questions for Gray, Young, and Waytz. Psychological Inquiry. 23(2). 162–165. 5 indexed citations

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Graham, Jesse, Brian A. Nosek, Jonathan Haidt, et al.. (2011). Mapping the moral domain.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 101(2). 366–385. 1734 indexed citations breakdown →

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Inbar, Yoel, David A. Pizarro, Ravi Iyer, & Jonathan Haidt. (2011). Disgust Sensitivity, Political Conservatism, and Voting. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 3(5). 537–544. 219 indexed citations

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Glenn, Andrea L., Spassena Koleva, Ravi Iyer, Jesse Graham, & Peter H. Ditto. (2010). Moral identity in psychopathy. Judgment and Decision Making. 5(7). 497–505. 110 indexed citations

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Purvis, Alison, Ryan T. Howell, & Ravi Iyer. (2010). Exploring the role of personality in the relationship between maximization and well-being. Personality and Individual Differences. 50(3). 370–375. 78 indexed citations

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Glenn, Andrea L., Ravi Iyer, Jesse Graham, Spassena Koleva, & Jonathan Haidt. (2009). Are All Types of Morality Compromised in Psychopathy?. Journal of Personality Disorders. 23(4). 384–398. 125 indexed citations

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Denson, Thomas F., Ravi Iyer, & Brian Lickel. (2009). Racist or racism? Taxometric support for a dimensional latent structure of explicit prejudice. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations. 13(1). 113–128. 8 indexed citations

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Iyer, Ravi, Govind Singh, Sam Rebello, et al.. (1995). Changes in the Concentration of Endothelin-1 during Development of Hypertensive Rats. Pharmacology. 51(2). 96–104. 14 indexed citations

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