Daniel Fessler

Daniel Fessler

University of California, Los Angeles

H-index: 55

North America-United States

About Daniel Fessler

Daniel Fessler, With an exceptional h-index of 55 and a recent h-index of 42 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of California, Los Angeles, specializes in the field of Evolutionary Anthropology, Evolutionary Psychology, Evolutionary Medicine, Emotions, Morality.

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

Laughing as a response to someone else’s laughter

Accordance and conflict between religious and scientific precautions against COVID-19 in 27 societies

Auditing Elon Musk’s impact on hate speech and bots

Beware the foe who feels no pain: Associations between relative formidability and pain sensitivity in three US online studies

Greater traditionalism predicts COVID-19 precautionary behaviors across 27 societies

Coalitionality shapes moral elevation: evidence from the US Black Lives Matter protest and counter-protest movements

No Love Among Haters: Negative Interactions Reduce Hate Community Engagement

Implications of instrumental and ritual stances for traditionalism–threat responsivity relationships.

Daniel Fessler Information

University

Position

Professor of Anthropology

Citations(all)

13967

Citations(since 2020)

5502

Cited By

10697

hIndex(all)

55

hIndex(since 2020)

42

i10Index(all)

113

i10Index(since 2020)

85

Email

University Profile Page

University of California, Los Angeles

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Daniel Fessler Skills & Research Interests

Evolutionary Anthropology

Evolutionary Psychology

Evolutionary Medicine

Emotions

Morality

Top articles of Daniel Fessler

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Laughing as a response to someone else’s laughter

Roza Kamiloglu

Joshua M Tybur

Disa Sauter

Gregory A Bryant

Daniel MT Fessler

2023/3/21

Accordance and conflict between religious and scientific precautions against COVID-19 in 27 societies

Theodore Samore

Daniel MT Fessler

Adam Maxwell Sparks

Colin Holbrook

Lene Aaroe

...

2023/7/3

Auditing Elon Musk’s impact on hate speech and bots

Proceedings of the international AAAI conference on web and social media

Daniel Hickey

Matheus Schmitz

Daniel Fessler

Paul E Smaldino

Goran Muric

...

2023/6/2

Beware the foe who feels no pain: Associations between relative formidability and pain sensitivity in three US online studies

Evolution and Human Behavior

Daniel MT Fessler

Wilson Merrell

Colin Holbrook

Joshua Ackerman

2023/1/1

Greater traditionalism predicts COVID-19 precautionary behaviors across 27 societies

Scientific reports

Theodore Samore

Daniel MT Fessler

Adam Maxwell Sparks

Colin Holbrook

Lene Aarøe

...

2023/4/11

Coalitionality shapes moral elevation: evidence from the US Black Lives Matter protest and counter-protest movements

Royal Society open science

Colin Holbrook

Daniel MT Fessler

Adam Maxwell Sparks

Devin L Johnson

Theodore Samore

...

2023/3/29

No Love Among Haters: Negative Interactions Reduce Hate Community Engagement

arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.13641

Daniel Hickey

Matheus Schmitz

Daniel Fessler

Paul Smaldino

Goran Muric

...

2023/3/23

Implications of instrumental and ritual stances for traditionalism–threat responsivity relationships.

Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Theodore Samore

Daniel MT Fessler

2022/1/1

Early adversity, adult lifestyle, and posttraumatic stress disorder in a military sample

Evolutionary Human Sciences

Edward K Clint

Daniel MT Fessler

2022/1

Moral parochialism and causal appraisal of transgressive harm in Seoul and Los Angeles

Scientific Reports

Colin Holbrook

Leehyun Yoon

Daniel MT Fessler

Cody Moser

Shairy Jimenez Delgado

...

2022/8/20

The Dead May Kill You: Do Ancestor Spirit Beliefs Promote Cooperation in Traditional Small-Scale Societies?

Journal of Cognition and Culture

Claire White

Maya Marin

Daniel MT Fessler

2022/7/25

Detecting affiliation in colaughter across 24 societies (vol 113, pg 4682, 2016)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Gregory A Bryant

Daniel MT Fessler

Riccardo Fusaroli

Edward Clint

Lene Aarøe

...

2016/4/26

Live fast, die young and sleep later: Life history strategy and human sleep behavior

Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health

Vahe Dishakjian

Daniel MT Fessler

Adam Maxwell Sparks

2021

The skin crawls, the stomach turns: Ectoparasites and pathogens elicit distinct defensive responses in humans

Proceedings of the Royal Society B

Tom R Kupfer

Daniel MT Fessler

Bozhi Wu

Tiffany Hwang

Adam Maxwell Sparks

...

2021/7/28

Of pathogens and party lines: Social conservatism positively associates with COVID-19 precautions among US Democrats but not Republicans

PloS one

Theodore Samore

Daniel MT Fessler

Adam Maxwell Sparks

Colin Holbrook

2021/6/29

Endocrinological effects of social exclusion and inclusion: Experimental evidence for adaptive regulation of female fecundity

Hormones and Behavior

Tran Dinh

Steven W Gangestad

Melissa Emery Thompson

A Janet Tomiyama

Daniel MT Fessler

...

2021/4/1

Kinship intensity and the use of mental states in moral judgment across societies

Evolution and Human Behavior

Cameron M Curtin

H Clark Barrett

Alexander Bolyanatz

Alyssa N Crittenden

Daniel MT Fessler

...

2020/9/1

Gruesomeness conveys formidability: Perpetrators of gratuitously grisly acts are conceptualized as larger, stronger, and more likely to win

Aggressive Behavior

Coltan Scrivner

Colin Holbrook

Daniel MT Fessler

Dario Maestripieri

2020/9

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Co-Authors

H-index: 101
Joseph Henrich

Joseph Henrich

Harvard University

H-index: 82
Michael Gurven

Michael Gurven

University of California, Santa Barbara

H-index: 67
Stephen Stich

Stephen Stich

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

H-index: 50
Martie Haselton

Martie Haselton

University of California, Los Angeles

H-index: 48
H. Clark Barrett

H. Clark Barrett

University of California, Los Angeles

H-index: 36
Carlos David Navarrete

Carlos David Navarrete

Michigan State University

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