| Vanishing voices: The extinction of the world’s languages D Nettle Oxford University Press, 2000 | 2921 | 2000 |
| The paranoid optimist: An integrative evolutionary model of cognitive biases MG Haselton, D Nettle Personality and social psychology Review 10 (1), 47-66, 2006 | 2635* | 2006 |
| Cues of being watched enhance cooperation in a real-world setting M Bateson, D Nettle, G Roberts Biology letters 2 (3), 412-414, 2006 | 1908 | 2006 |
| The evolution of personality variation in humans and other animals. D Nettle American Psychologist 61 (6), 622, 2006 | 1353 | 2006 |
| Linguistic diversity D Nettle Oxford University Press, 1999 | 850 | 1999 |
| Happiness: The science behind your smile D Nettle OUP Oxford, 2005 | 597 | 2005 |
| Effects of eye images on everyday cooperative behavior: a field experiment M Ernest-Jones, D Nettle, M Bateson Evolution and Human Behavior 32 (3), 172-178, 2011 | 539 | 2011 |
| Dying young and living fast: Variation in life history across English neighborhoods D Nettle Behavioral ecology 21 (2), 387-395, 2010 | 496 | 2010 |
| The behavioural constellation of deprivation: Causes and consequences GV Pepper, D Nettle Behavioral and Brain Sciences 40, e314, 2017 | 453 | 2017 |
| Time perspective, personality and smoking, body mass, and physical activity: An empirical study J Adams, D Nettle British journal of health psychology 14 (1), 83-105, 2009 | 453 | 2009 |
| Schizotypy, creativity and mating success in humans D Nettle, H Clegg Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 273 (1586), 611-615, 2006 | 437 | 2006 |
| Anxiety: an evolutionary approach M Bateson, B Brilot, D Nettle The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 56 (12), 707-715, 2011 | 427 | 2011 |
| Personality: What makes you the way you are D Nettle Oxford University Press, 2007 | 426 | 2007 |
| An evolutionary approach to the extraversion continuum D Nettle Evolution and Human Behavior 26 (4), 363-373, 2005 | 426 | 2005 |
| The evolution of predictive adaptive responses in human life history D Nettle, WE Frankenhuis, IJ Rickard Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280 (1766), 20131343, 2013 | 423 | 2013 |
| Strong imagination: Madness, creativity and human nature D Nettle Oxford University Press, 2001 | 418 | 2001 |
| Schizotypy and mental health amongst poets, visual artists, and mathematicians D Nettle Journal of research in personality 40 (6), 876-890, 2006 | 415 | 2006 |
| Social markers and the evolution of reciprocal exchange D Nettle, RIM Dunbar Current Anthropology 38 (1), 93-99, 1997 | 352 | 1997 |
| The evolutionary origins of mood and its disorders D Nettle, M Bateson Current Biology 22 (17), R712-R721, 2012 | 351 | 2012 |
| Cognition in harsh and unpredictable environments WE Frankenhuis, K Panchanathan, D Nettle Current Opinion in Psychology 7, 76-80, 2016 | 350 | 2016 |