Richard E. Nisbett

72.1k total citations · 25 hit papers
171 papers, 45.4k citations indexed

About

Richard E. Nisbett is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard E. Nisbett has authored 171 papers receiving a total of 45.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Social Psychology, 56 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 29 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Richard E. Nisbett's work include Cultural Differences and Values (50 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (39 papers) and Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (23 papers). Richard E. Nisbett is often cited by papers focused on Cultural Differences and Values (50 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (39 papers) and Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (23 papers). Richard E. Nisbett collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. Richard E. Nisbett's co-authors include Timothy D. Wilson, Kaiping Peng, L. Ronald Ross, Incheol Choi, Ara Norenzayan, Christopher Cherniak, Dov Cohen, Takahiko Masuda, Lee Ross and Terry Connolly 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

Richard E. Nisbett

168 papers receiving 40.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Telling more than we can know: Verbal reports on mental processes.

1977 7.4k citations Richard E. Nisbett et al. profile →
Human Inference: Strategies and Shortcomings of Social Judgment.

1983 3.2k citations Richard E. Nisbett et al. profile →
Culture and systems of thought: Holistic versus analytic cognition.

2001 2.6k citations Richard E. Nisbett, Kaiping Peng et al. profile →
Human Inference: Strategies and Shortcomings of Social Judgment.

1981 1.8k citations Richard E. Nisbett et al. profile →
Undermining children's intrinsic interest with extrinsic reward: A test of the "overjustification" hypothesis.

1973 1.6k citations Richard E. Nisbett et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
The halo effect: Evidence for unconscious alteration of judgments.

1977 1.3k citations Richard E. Nisbett et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
The geography of thought : how Asians and Westerners think differently--and why

2003 1.3k citations Richard E. Nisbett profile →
Culture, dialectics, and reasoning about contradiction.

1999 1.1k citations Kaiping Peng, Richard E. Nisbett American Psychologist profile →
Human Inference: Strategies and Shortcomings of Social Judgment.

1981 982 citations Richard E. Nisbett et al. profile →
Induction

1986 876 citations John H. Holland, Keith J. Holyoak et al. The MIT Press eBooks profile →
Culture of Honor: The Psychology of Violence in the South.

1997 743 citations Richard E. Nisbett, Dov Cohen et al. profile →
Attending holistically versus analytically: Comparing the context sensitivity of Japanese and Americans.

2001 737 citations Richard E. Nisbett et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
Causal attribution across cultures: Variation and universality.

1999 710 citations Incheol Choi, Richard E. Nisbett et al. profile →
The influence of culture: holistic versus analytic perception

2005 659 citations Richard E. Nisbett et al. profile →
Attending holistically versus analytically: Comparing the context sensitivity of Japanese and Americans.

2001 654 citations Richard E. Nisbett et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
The cultural matrix of social psychology

1998 643 citations Shinobu Kitayama, Richard E. Nisbett et al. profile →
Intelligence: New findings and theoretical developments.

2012 605 citations Richard E. Nisbett, Joshua Aronson et al. American Psychologist profile →
Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery

1987 578 citations John H. Holland, Keith J. Holyoak et al. profile →
Culture and point of view

2003 534 citations Richard E. Nisbett et al. profile →
Telling more than we can know: Verbal reports on mental processes.

1977 530 citations Richard E. Nisbett et al. profile →
Insult, aggression, and the southern culture of honor: An "experimental ethnography."

1996 528 citations Dov Cohen, Richard E. Nisbett et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
The use of statistical heuristics in everyday inductive reasoning.

1983 521 citations Richard E. Nisbett, David H. Krantz et al. profile →
Cultural variation in eye movements during scene perception

2005 518 citations Richard E. Nisbett et al. profile →
Attribution and the psychology of prediction.

1975 418 citations Richard E. Nisbett, Eugene Borgida Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
The Differential Impact of Abstract vs. Concrete Information on Decisions¹

1977 388 citations Eugene Borgida, Richard E. Nisbett profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Schooling Makes You Smarter: What Teachers Need to Know about IQ. 2013 ·The American Educator ·Richard E. Nisbett	10
2	Intelligence: New findings and theoretical developments. breakdown → 2012 ·American Psychologist ·Richard E. Nisbett, Joshua Aronson, Clancy Blair, William T. Dickens, James R. Flynn, Diane F. Halpern, Eric Turkheimer	605
3	Think Big, Bigger ... and Smaller. 2010 ·Educational leadership ·Richard E. Nisbett	5
4	Ecoculture, social interdependence, and holistic cognition 2008 ·Communicative & Integrative Biology ·Ayşe K. Üskül, Richard E. Nisbett, Shinobu Kitayama	8
5	Categorical Organization in Free Recall across Culture and Age 2006 ·Gerontology ·Angela Gutchess, Carolyn Yoon, Ting Luo, Fred M. Feinberg, Trey Hedden, Qicheng Jing, Richard E. Nisbett, Denise C. Park	41
6	The geography of thought : how Asians and Westerners think differently--and why breakdown → 2003 ·Richard E. Nisbett	1313
7	Conversing across cultures: East-West communication styles in work and nonwork contexts. 2003 ·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·Jeffrey Sanchez‐Burks, Fiona Lee, Incheol Choi, Richard E. Nisbett, Shuming Zhao, Koo Jasook	125
8	Cultural psychology of surprise: Holistic theories and recognition of contradiction. 2000 ·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·In-Gyu Choi, Richard E. Nisbett	23
9	Cultural styles, relationship schemas, and prejudice against out-groups. 2000 ·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·Jeffrey Sanchez‐Burks, Richard E. Nisbett, Oscar Ybarra	77
10	Validity problems of cross-cultural value comparison and possible solutions 1997 ·Deep Blue (University of Michigan) ·Kaiping Peng, Richard E. Nisbett, Nancy Wong	12
11	Culture, category salience, and inductive reasoning 1997 ·Cognition ·Incheol Choi, Richard E. Nisbett, Edward E. Smith	86
12	Insult, aggression, and the southern culture of honor: An "experimental ethnography." 1996 ·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·Dov Cohen, Richard E. Nisbett, Brian F. Bowdle, Norbert Schwarz	124
13	Anti-Black prejudice as a function of exposure to the negative behavior of a single Black person. 1996 ·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·Eaaron Henderson‐King, Richard E. Nisbett	5
14	Protecting the self from the negative consequences of risky decisions. 1992 ·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·Robert Josephs, Richard P. Larrick, (unknown), Richard E. Nisbett	38
15	Teaching Reasoning 1987 ·Science ·Richard E. Nisbett, Geoffrey T. Fong, Dan Lehman, (unknown)	199
16	Induction breakdown → 1986 ·The MIT Press eBooks ·John H. Holland, Keith J. Holyoak, Richard E. Nisbett, Paul Thagard	876
17	The use of statistical heuristics in everyday reasoning 1983 ·Deep Blue (University of Michigan) ·Richard E. Nisbett, David H. Krantz, Christopher Jepson, Ziva Kunda	0
18	Psychology; advanced test 1978 ·(unknown), Richard E. Nisbett	1
19	The Differential Impact of Abstract vs. Concrete Information on Decisions 1977 ·Deep Blue (University of Michigan) ·Eugene Borgida, Richard E. Nisbett	11
20	Telling more than we can know: Verbal reports on mental processes 1977 ·Deep Blue (University of Michigan) ·Richard E. Nisbett, (unknown)	2

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