Stefan Stieger

8.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
135 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Stefan Stieger is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Stefan Stieger has authored 135 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 48 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 42 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Stefan Stieger's work include Social and Intergroup Psychology (21 papers), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (20 papers) and Behavioral Health and Interventions (19 papers). Stefan Stieger is often cited by papers focused on Social and Intergroup Psychology (21 papers), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (20 papers) and Behavioral Health and Interventions (19 papers). Stefan Stieger collaborates with scholars based in Austria, United Kingdom and Germany. Stefan Stieger's co-authors include Martin Voracek, Viren Swami, Adrian Furnham, Ulrich S. Tran, Ulf‐Dietrich Reips, Jakob Pietschnig, Christoph Burger, David Lewetz, Ingo W. Nader and Rebecca Coles and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and Computers in Human Behavior.

In The Last Decade

Stefan Stieger

129 papers receiving 4.1k 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.

Analytic thinking reduces belief in conspiracy theories

2014 467 citations Viren Swami, Martin Voracek et al. profile →
Conspiracist ideation in Britain and Austria: Evidence of a monological belief system and associations between individual psychological differences and real‐world and fictitious conspiracy theories

2011 399 citations Viren Swami, Stefan Stieger et al. profile →
The Misinformation Susceptibility Test (MIST): A psychometrically validated measure of news veracity discernment

2023 52 citations Rakoen Maertens, Friedrich M. Götz et al. Behavior Research Methods profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stefan Stieger Austria	34	2.2k	1.3k	943	758	627	135	4.3k
Li Lei China	44	3.0k 1.4×	1.8k 1.4×	1.8k 1.9×	356 0.5×	598 1.0×	188	5.2k
Zongkui Zhou China	42	2.3k 1.1×	1.7k 1.4×	1.6k 1.7×	267 0.4×	821 1.3×	175	4.8k
Eva Jonas Austria	36	2.4k 1.1×	963 0.8×	2.6k 2.7×	840 1.1×	344 0.5×	168	5.1k
Mark Rubin Australia	32	3.7k 1.7×	759 0.6×	2.4k 2.6×	771 1.0×	451 0.7×	139	6.1k
Rebecca P. Ang Singapore	42	1.8k 0.8×	2.4k 1.9×	2.0k 2.2×	509 0.7×	626 1.0×	153	5.6k
Sheila T. Murphy United States	32	1.8k 0.8×	635 0.5×	1.2k 1.3×	1.1k 1.5×	795 1.3×	97	5.6k
Jonathan A. Fugelsang Canada	40	1.5k 0.7×	938 0.7×	1.1k 1.2×	2.2k 2.8×	1.2k 1.9×	121	5.6k
Mario Gollwitzer Germany	34	2.0k 0.9×	1.0k 0.8×	1.8k 1.9×	1.2k 1.5×	712 1.1×	179	4.4k
Lynn C. Miller United States	32	1.5k 0.7×	1.2k 1.0×	1.7k 1.8×	466 0.6×	1.1k 1.8×	113	4.7k
Sara Konrath United States	32	1.6k 0.8×	1.6k 1.2×	1.7k 1.8×	382 0.5×	532 0.8×	81	4.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Stefan Stieger

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stefan Stieger

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stefan Stieger

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All Works

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Richardson, Miles, Michael L. Lengieza, Mathew P. White, et al.. (2025). Macro-level determinants of nature connectedness: An exploratory analysis of 61 countries. AMBIO. 55(1). 80–100. 1 indexed citations

Lewetz, David, et al.. (2024). Development of an open-source solution to facilitate the use of one-button wearables in experience sampling designs. Behavior Research Methods. 56(6). 5876–5899. 1 indexed citations

Batinic, Bernad, et al.. (2024). Evaluating flourishing: a comparative analysis of four measures using item pool visualization. Frontiers in Psychology. 15. 1458946–1458946.

Stieger, Stefan & David Lewetz. (2024). Crowding and Preferred Interpersonal Distances Across Time: An Experience‐Sampling Method Study. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 18(12).

Willinger, David, Friedrich M. Götz, & Stefan Stieger. (2023). ecolo-zip: A global, rich and granular characterization of biogeophysical ecology for 1.5 million postal codes. Scientific Data. 10(1). 665–665. 1 indexed citations

Maertens, Rakoen, Friedrich M. Götz, Hudson Golino, et al.. (2023). The Misinformation Susceptibility Test (MIST): A psychometrically validated measure of news veracity discernment. Behavior Research Methods. 56(3). 1863–1899. 52 indexed citations breakdown →

Stieger, Stefan, et al.. (2022). Associations between social media use and cognitive abilities: Results from a large-scale study of adolescents. Computers in Human Behavior. 135. 107358–107358. 12 indexed citations

Götz, Friedrich M., Stefan Stieger, Samuel D. Gosling, Jeff Potter, & Peter J. Rentfrow. (2020). Physical topography is associated with human personality. Nature Human Behaviour. 4(11). 1135–1144. 58 indexed citations

Tran, Ulrich S., et al.. (2018). “I'll teach you differences”: Taxometric analysis of the Dark Triad, trait sadism, and the Dark Core of personality. Personality and Individual Differences. 126. 19–24. 25 indexed citations

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Götz, Friedrich M., Stefan Stieger, & Ulf‐Dietrich Reips. (2017). Users of the main smartphone operating systems (iOS, Android) differ only little in personality. PLoS ONE. 12(5). e0176921–e0176921. 85 indexed citations

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Stieger, Stefan & Ulf‐Dietrich Reips. (2016). A limitation of the Cognitive Reflection Test: familiarity. PeerJ. 4. e2395–e2395. 58 indexed citations

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Swami, Viren, Ulrich S. Tran, Stefan Stieger, et al.. (2016). Who Believes in the Giant Skeleton Myth? An Examination of Individual Difference Correlates. SAGE Open. 6(1). 14 indexed citations

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Voracek, Martin, et al.. (2015). What’s in a Surname? Physique, Aptitude, and Sports Type Comparisons between Tailors and Smiths. PLoS ONE. 10(7). e0131795–e0131795. 1 indexed citations

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Stieger, Stefan, et al.. (2013). Girl in the cellar: a repeated cross-sectional investigation of belief in conspiracy theories about the kidnapping of Natascha Kampusch. Frontiers in Psychology. 4. 297–297. 43 indexed citations

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Swami, Viren, Stefan Stieger, Ingo W. Nader, et al.. (2012). A dark side of positive illusions? Associations between the love-is-blind bias and the experience of jealousy. Personality and Individual Differences. 53(6). 796–800. 14 indexed citations

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Stieger, Stefan & Christoph Burger. (2010). Implicit and Explicit Self-Esteem in the Context of Internet Addiction. Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking. 13(6). 681–688. 61 indexed citations

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Stieger, Stefan, et al.. (2010). PREVALENCE AND ACCEPTANCE OF TATTOOS AND PIERCINGS: A SURVEY OF YOUNG ADULTS FROM THE SOUTHERN GERMAN-SPEAKING AREA OF CENTRAL EUROPE¹. Perceptual and Motor Skills. 110(3C). 1065–1074. 12 indexed citations

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Stieger, Stefan, et al.. (2009). Let's Go Formative: Continuous Student Ratings with Web 2.0 Application Twitter. CyberPsychology & Behavior. 148380233–148380233. 3 indexed citations

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Stieger, Stefan & Ulf‐Dietrich Reips. (2008). Dynamic Interviewing Program (DIP): Automatic Online Interviews via the Instant Messenger ICQ. CyberPsychology & Behavior. 11(2). 201–207. 13 indexed citations

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Stieger, Stefan & Anja S. Göritz. (2006). Using Instant Messaging for Internet-Based Interviews. CyberPsychology & Behavior. 9(5). 552–559. 55 indexed citations

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