Brent Simpson

Brent Simpson

University of South Carolina

H-index: 36

North America-United States

About Brent Simpson

Brent Simpson, With an exceptional h-index of 36 and a recent h-index of 24 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of South Carolina, specializes in the field of Social Psychology, Altruism, Morality, Cooperation, Prosocial Behavior.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

The Modern Justifications Theory of How Social Norms Vary Across Behaviors and Societies

Changes in social norms during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic across 43 countries

Everybody herds, sometimes: cumulative advantage as a product of rational learning

Anger and disgust shape judgments of social sanctions across cultures, especially in high individual autonomy societies

Movement tactics and climate support

Private Benefits, Public Harms, and Citizen Participation in Corruption: a Field Experiment in Nairobi, Kenya

Reputations for treatment of outgroup members can prevent the emergence of political segregation in cooperative networks

Discrimination reduces work effort of those who are disadvantaged and those who are advantaged by it

Brent Simpson Information

University

Position

Department of Sociology

Citations(all)

4798

Citations(since 2020)

2216

Cited By

3365

hIndex(all)

36

hIndex(since 2020)

24

i10Index(all)

63

i10Index(since 2020)

47

Email

University Profile Page

University of South Carolina

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Brent Simpson Skills & Research Interests

Social Psychology

Altruism

Morality

Cooperation

Prosocial Behavior

Top articles of Brent Simpson

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

The Modern Justifications Theory of How Social Norms Vary Across Behaviors and Societies

Available at SSRN 4796292

Kimmo Eriksson

Pontus Strimling

Irina Vartanova

Brent Simpson

2024/4/16

Changes in social norms during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic across 43 countries

Nature Communications

Giulia Andrighetto

Aron Szekely

Andrea Guido

Michele Gelfand

Jered Abernathy

...

2024/2/16

Everybody herds, sometimes: cumulative advantage as a product of rational learning

The Journal of Mathematical Sociology

Jacob Dijkstra

Brent Simpson

Dieko M Bakker

2024/4/2

Anger and disgust shape judgments of social sanctions across cultures, especially in high individual autonomy societies

Scientific Reports

PA Andersson

I Vartanova

D Västfjäll

G Tinghög

P Strimling

...

2024

Movement tactics and climate support

Romain Ferrali

Lucas Francou Damesin

Brent Simpson

Robb Willer

2023/7/31

Private Benefits, Public Harms, and Citizen Participation in Corruption: a Field Experiment in Nairobi, Kenya

Christopher Yenkey

Brent Simpson

Paul Bliese

2023/4/5

Reputations for treatment of outgroup members can prevent the emergence of political segregation in cooperative networks

Nature Communications

Brent Simpson

Bradley Montgomery

David Melamed

2023/11/24

Discrimination reduces work effort of those who are disadvantaged and those who are advantaged by it

Nature Human Behaviour

Nicholas Heiserman

Brent Simpson

2023/11

Radical flanks of social movements can increase support for moderate factions

PNAS nexus

Brent Simpson

Robb Willer

Matthew Feinberg

2022/7

Inequality and cooperation in social networks

Scientific Reports

David Melamed

Brent Simpson

Bradley Montgomery

Vedang Patel

2022/4/26

Ideology shapes how workers perceive and react to workplace discrimination: An experimental study on parenthood discrimination

Social Science Research

Nicholas Heiserman

Brent Simpson

2022/2/1

The power of tolerance vs. unselfishness as a cultural determinant of cooperation

Frontiers in Psychology

Kimmo Eriksson

Brent Simpson

Irina Vartanova

2021/9/7

Measuring perceptions of economic inequality and justice: An empirical assessment

Social Justice Research

Nicholas Heiserman

Brent Simpson

2021/6

Perceptions of the appropriate response to norm violation in 57 societies

Nature communications

Kimmo Eriksson

Pontus Strimling

Michele Gelfand

Junhui Wu

Jered Abernathy

...

2021/3/5

Radical Flank Environmental Study Fall 2020

Brent Simpson

Robb Willer

Matthew Feinberg

2020/8/19

The robustness of reciprocity: Experimental evidence that each form of reciprocity is robust to the presence of other forms of reciprocity

Science Advances

David Melamed

Brent Simpson

Jered Abernathy

2020/6/3

Generosity pays: Selfish people have fewer children and earn less money.

Journal of personality and social psychology

Kimmo Eriksson

Irina Vartanova

Pontus Strimling

Brent Simpson

2020/3

What do the upwardly mobile think they deserve, and why? A multi-method investigation

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

Brent Simpson

David Melamed

2020/2/1

Active vs Passive Consumption of Public Goods

JERED Z ABERNATHY

Brent Simpson

2020/10/9

Homophily and segregation in cooperative networks

American Journal of Sociology

David Melamed

Matthew Sweitzer

Brent Simpson

Jered Z Abernathy

Ashley Harrell

...

2020/1/1

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Co-Authors

H-index: 53
Michael Macy

Michael Macy

Cornell University

H-index: 52
Robb Willer

Robb Willer

Stanford University

H-index: 38
Kimmo Eriksson

Kimmo Eriksson

Mälardalens högskola

H-index: 30
Matthew Feinberg

Matthew Feinberg

University of Toronto

H-index: 30
Barry Markovsky

Barry Markovsky

University of South Carolina

H-index: 28
Michael J. Lovaglia

Michael J. Lovaglia

University of Iowa

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