Ryan Nichols

654 total citations
38 papers, 292 citations indexed

About

Ryan Nichols is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Ryan Nichols has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 292 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Social Psychology, 10 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 10 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Ryan Nichols's work include Cultural Differences and Values (11 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (9 papers) and Emotions and Moral Behavior (6 papers). Ryan Nichols is often cited by papers focused on Cultural Differences and Values (11 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (9 papers) and Emotions and Moral Behavior (6 papers). Ryan Nichols collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Denmark. Ryan Nichols's co-authors include V. James Sammarco, Paul Draper, Jennifer Cole Wright, Edward Slingerland, Benjamin Grant Purzycki, Kristoffer Laigaard Nielbo, Henrike Moll, Nicholaos Jones, S. J. Kleinman and Heather Battaly and has published in prestigious journals such as Computer, Evolution and Human Behavior and The Philosophical Quarterly.

In The Last Decade

Ryan Nichols

35 papers receiving 260 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ryan Nichols United States 8 84 61 52 51 48 38 292
Parmjit Singh Malaysia 13 20 0.2× 13 0.2× 62 1.2× 19 0.4× 5 0.1× 61 545
Doris Choy Singapore 14 48 0.6× 29 0.5× 96 1.8× 31 0.6× 6 0.1× 33 454
Heather B. Gonzalez 4 18 0.2× 43 0.7× 32 0.6× 22 0.4× 6 0.1× 8 331
Meral Aksu Türkiye 11 22 0.3× 86 1.4× 54 1.0× 39 0.8× 10 0.2× 35 520
Jeffrey Frykholm United States 12 65 0.8× 13 0.2× 22 0.4× 26 0.5× 6 0.1× 26 698
Michel Marcoccia France 9 75 0.9× 99 1.6× 13 0.3× 17 0.3× 7 0.1× 26 294
Myunghee Kang South Korea 9 50 0.6× 11 0.2× 100 1.9× 67 1.3× 10 0.2× 48 391
Olive Chapman Canada 15 62 0.7× 22 0.4× 42 0.8× 16 0.3× 5 0.1× 57 755
Mustafa Çevik Türkiye 11 33 0.4× 119 2.0× 56 1.1× 22 0.4× 5 0.1× 45 379
Jean Parkinson New Zealand 15 28 0.3× 27 0.4× 39 0.8× 10 0.2× 6 0.1× 45 703

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ryan Nichols

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ryan Nichols

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All Works

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Nichols, Ryan, Mathieu Charbonneau, Taylor Davis, et al.. (2024). Cultural evolution: A review of theoretical challenges. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 6. e12–e12. 4 indexed citations
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Nichols, Ryan & Nicholaos Jones. (2022). Holistic Cognitive Style, Chinese Culture, and the Sinification of Buddhism. Res Philosophica. 100(1). 93–120. 1 indexed citations
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Nichols, Ryan, et al.. (2020). Supernatural agents and prosociality in historical China: micro-modeling the cultural evolution of gods and morality in textual corpora. Religion Brain & Behavior. 11(1). 46–64. 5 indexed citations
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Nichols, Ryan, et al.. (2019). Rethinking Cultural Evolutionary Psychology. Journal of Cognition and Culture. 19(5). 477–492. 3 indexed citations
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Nichols, Ryan, et al.. (2018). Modeling the Contested Relationship betweenAnalects, Mencius, andXunzi: Preliminary Evidence from a Machine-Learning Approach. The Journal of Asian Studies. 77(1). 19–57. 6 indexed citations
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Nichols, Ryan. (2016). A sense of shame among the virtues. Journal of Moral Education. 45(2). 166–178. 6 indexed citations
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Nichols, Ryan, et al.. (2014). Toward a science of science fiction. 4(1). 25–45. 7 indexed citations
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Draper, Paul & Ryan Nichols. (2013). Diagnosing Bias in Philosophy of Religion. The Monist. 96(3). 420–446. 21 indexed citations
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Nichols, Ryan, et al.. (2011). Thomas Reid on Reidian Religious Belief Forming Faculties. The Modern Schoolman. 88(3). 317–335. 5 indexed citations
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Nichols, Ryan, et al.. (2011). State of Cloud Applications and Platforms: The Cloud Adopters' View. Computer. 44(3). 24–28. 58 indexed citations
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Nichols, Ryan. (2011). A Genealogy of Early Confucian Moral Psychology. Philosophy East and West. 61(4). 609–629. 5 indexed citations
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Nichols, Ryan. (2007). Natural Philosophy and its Limits in the Scottish Enlightenment. The Monist. 90(2). 233–250. 2 indexed citations
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Nichols, Ryan. (2007). Thomas Reid's Theory of Perception. Oxford University Press eBooks. 24 indexed citations
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Sammarco, V. James & Ryan Nichols. (2005). Orthotic Management for Disorders of the Hallux. Foot and Ankle Clinics. 10(1). 191–209. 23 indexed citations
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Nichols, Ryan, et al.. (2004). MORAL MOTIVATION AND CHRISTIAN THEISM. Faith and Philosophy. 21(2). 175–194. 1 indexed citations
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Nichols, Ryan. (2003). Reidis Inheritance from Locke, and How He Overcomes It. Journal of the history of philosophy. 41(4). 471–491. 4 indexed citations

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