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Avi Besser publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Avi Besser sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 706+

This scientist: 161 publications — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 706 publications or more.

Avi Besser D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Avi Besser sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Avi Besser is affiliated with Hadassah Academic College in Israel and has contributed extensively to the field of psychology, with a strong focus on social sciences and various psychology subfields. Their research primarily explores personality traits, evolutionary psychology, and the psychological impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Besser's work spans several main fields of study, including:

  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences

Their research delves into multiple subfields such as:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Applied Psychology

Key topics addressed in their publications include:

  • Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
  • Emotional Intelligence and Performance

Besser has published research in multiple academic venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • Evolutionary Psychological Science
  • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology

Among their notable recent papers are:

  • Adaptability to a sudden transition to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic: Understanding the challenges for students. (2020, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology)
  • Psychological Stress and Vocal Symptoms Among University Professors in Israel: Implications of the Shift to Online Synchronous Teaching During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020, Journal of Voice)
  • Personality, Cognition, and Adaptability to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Associations with Loneliness, Distress, and Positive and Negative Mood States (2020, International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Besser include:

  • Virgil Zeigler-Hill
  • Gordon L. Flett
  • Yitshak Alfasi
  • Sari Lotem
  • Taryn Nepon

Best Publications

  • Validation of a new scale for measuring problematic internet use: implications for pre-employment screening.

    Richard A. Davis;Gordon L. Flett;Avi Besser

  • grAndiose nArcissism versus vulnerAble nArcissism in threAtening situAtions: emotionAl reActions to Achievement FAilure And interPersonAl rejection

    Avi Besser;Beatriz Priel

  • DIMENSIONS OF PERFECTIONISM, UNCONDITIONAL SELF- ACCEPTANCE, AND DEPRESSION

    Gordon L. Flett;Avi Besser;Richard A. Davis;Paul L. Hewitt

  • Adaptability to a sudden transition to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic: Understanding the challenges for students

    Besser, Avi, Flett, Gordon L.;Virgil Zeigler-Hill

  • Perfectionism is multidimensional: a reply to Shafran, Cooper and Fairburn (2002)

    P.L. Hewitt;G.L. Flett;A. Besser;S.B. Sherry

  • Experiences of stigmatization play a role in mediating the impact of disease severity on quality of life in psoriasis patients

    D. Vardy;A. Besser;M. Amir;B. Gesthalter

  • Psychological Stress and Vocal Symptoms Among University Professors in Israel: Implications of the Shift to Online Synchronous Teaching During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

    Avi Besser;Sari Lotem;Virgil Zeigler-Hill

  • Perfectionism, cognition, and affect in response to performance failure vs. success

    Avi Besser;Gordon L. Flett;Paul L. Hewitt

  • Personality, martial satisfaction, and probability of marital infidelity.

    Todd K. Shackelford;Avi Besser;Aaron T. Goetz

  • The Child–Adolescent Perfectionism Scale: Development, Psychometric Properties, and Associations With Stress, Distress, and Psychiatric Symptoms

    Gordon L. Flett;Paul L. Hewitt;Avi Besser;Chang Su

  • A longitudinal study of posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and generalized anxiety disorder in Israeli civilians exposed to war trauma.

    Yuval Neria;Avi Besser;Dasha Kiper;Maren Westphal

  • The Role of Simple Emotion Recognition Skills among School Aged Boys at Risk of ADHD

    Inna Kats-Gold;Avi Besser;Beatriz Priel

  • Emotional responses to a romantic partner's imaginary rejection: the roles of attachment anxiety, covert narcissism, and self-evaluation.

    Avi Besser;Beatriz Priel

  • Self-oriented and socially prescribed perfectionism in the Eating Disorder Inventory Perfectionism subscale.

    Simon B. Sherry;Paul L. Hewitt;Avi Besser;Brandy J. McGee

  • Vulnerability to Postpartum Depressive Symptomatology: Dependency, Self-Criticism and the Moderating Role of Antenatal Attachment

    Beatriz Priel;Avi Besser

  • The Apple Does Not Fall Far From the Tree: Attachment Styles and Personality Vulnerabilities to Depression in Three Generations of Women

    Avi Besser;Beatriz Priel

  • Adult attachment, perceived stress, and PTSD among civilians exposed to ongoing terrorist attacks in Southern Israel

    Avi Besser;Yuval Neria;Maggie Haynes

  • Social support as a mediator of the relationship between perfectionism and depression: A preliminary test of the social disconnection model

    Simon B. Sherry;Ada Law;Paul L. Hewitt;Gordon L. Flett

  • POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH AMONG FEMALE SURVIVORS OF CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE IN RELATION TO THE PERPETRATOR IDENTITY

    Rachel Lev-Wiesel;Marianne Amir;Avi Besser

  • The influence of pathological narcissism on emotional and motivational responses to negative events: The roles of visibility and concern about humiliation

    Avi Besser;Virgil Zeigler-Hill

Frequent Co-Authors

Virgil Zeigler-Hill
Virgil Zeigler-Hill Oakland University
Gordon L. Flett
Gordon L. Flett York University
Paul L. Hewitt
Paul L. Hewitt University of British Columbia
Yuval Neria
Yuval Neria Columbia University
Sidney J. Blatt
Sidney J. Blatt Yale University
Patrick Luyten
Patrick Luyten University College London
Aaron L. Pincus
Aaron L. Pincus Pennsylvania State University
Todd K. Shackelford
Todd K. Shackelford Oakland University
Tracy Vaillancourt
Tracy Vaillancourt University of Ottawa
Rachel Lev-Wiesel
Rachel Lev-Wiesel University of Haifa

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