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D-Index
142
Citations
165681
World Ranking
105
National Ranking
63

Charles S. Carver 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 Charles S. Carver sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 453 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Charles S. Carver 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 Charles S. Carver sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 142 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
  • 2007 - Donald T. Campbell Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology

Overview

Charles S. Carver was affiliated with the University of Miami in the United States. Their contributions spanned multiple areas in psychology and medicine, with a focus on clinical and experimental psychology, applied psychology, sociology and political science, and public health.

Their research explored a variety of topics, including:

  • Family Support in Illness
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Health, psychology, and well-being
  • Cancer survivorship and care
  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life

Frequent coauthors in their work included:

  • Youngmee Kim
  • Amanda Ting
  • Thomas C. Tsai
  • Sheri L. Johnson
  • Rachel Cannady

They published extensively in various scientific venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Cancer
  • Psychosomatic Medicine
  • Psychology and Health
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • The Wiley Encyclopedia of Health Psychology

Their notable papers included:

  • "Development of a brief online intervention to address aggression in the context of emotion-related impulsivity: Evidence from a wait-list controlled trial" (2020, Behaviour Research and Therapy)
  • "Fear of cancer recurrence promotes cancer screening behaviors among family caregivers of cancer survivors" (2020, Cancer)
  • "Emotion-related impulsivity across transdiagnostic dimensions of psychopathology" (2023, Journal of Personality)
  • "Passages of cancer caregivers' unmet needs across 8 years" (2020, Cancer)
  • "Marital Status and Gender Associated with Sleep Health among Hispanics/Latinos in the US: Results from HCHS/SOL and Sueño Ancillary Studies" (2021, Behavioral Sleep Medicine)

Charles S. Carver's work primarily contributed to the fields of psychology and medicine, with a major focus on clinical psychology. Their investigations incorporated both experimental and cognitive psychology methods and addressed applied psychological questions as well as sociopolitical aspects and public health concerns.

Throughout their career, they received recognition from professional organizations, including:

  • APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association (2018)
  • Donald T. Campbell Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology (2007)

Best Publications

  • Assessing Coping Strategies: A Theoretically Based Approach

    Charles S. Carver;Michael F. Scheier;Jagdish Kumari Weintraub

  • Optimism, coping, and health: Assessment and implications of generalized outcome expectancies.

    Michael F. Scheier;Charles S. Carver

  • You want to measure coping but your protocol's too long: consider the brief COPE.

    Charles S. Carver

  • Behavioral inhibition, behavioral activation, and affective responses to impending reward and punishment: The BIS/BAS Scales

    Charles S. Carver;Teri L. White

  • Distinguishing optimism from neuroticism (and trait anxiety, self-mastery, and self-esteem): a reevaluation of the Life Orientation Test

    Michael F. Scheier;Charles S. Carver;Michael W. Bridges

  • On the Self-Regulation of Behavior

    Charles S. Carver;Michael F. Scheier

  • Attention and Self-Regulation : A Control-Theory Approach to Human Behavior

    Charles S. Carver;Michael Scheier

  • Origins and Functions of Positive and Negative Affect: A Control-Process View.

    Charles S. Carver;Michael F. Scheier

  • Effects of optimism on psychological and physical well-being: Theoretical overview and empirical update

    Michael F. Scheier;Charles S. Carver

  • Control theory: A useful conceptual framework for personality–social, clinical, and health psychology.

    Charles S. Carver;Michael F. Scheier

  • Personality and Coping

    Charles S. Carver;Jennifer Connor-Smith

  • How coping mediates the effect of optimism on distress : a study of women with early stage breast cancer

    Charles S. Carver;Christina Pozo;Suzanne D. Harris;Victoria Noriega

  • Coping with stress: divergent strategies of optimists and pessimists.

    Michael F. Scheier;Jagdish Kumari Weintraub;Charles S. Carver

  • Dispositional optimism and physical well-being: the influence of generalized outcome expectancies on health

    Michael E Scheier;Charles S. Carver

  • Anger Is an Approach-Related Affect: Evidence and Implications.

    Charles S. Carver;Eddie Harmon-Jones

  • Resilience and thriving: Issues, models, and linkages.

    Charles S. Carver

  • The role of optimism in social network development, coping, and psychological adjustment during a life transition.

    Ian Brissette;Michael F. Scheier;Charles S. Carver

  • Situational coping and coping dispositions in a stressful transaction.

    Charles S. Carver;Michael F. Scheier

  • Dispositional optimism and recovery from coronary artery bypass surgery: the beneficial effects on physical and psychological well-being.

    MF Scheier;KA Matthews;JF Owens;GJ Magovern

  • Attention and self-regulation

    Charles S. Carver;Michael F. Scheier

  • On the Self-Regulation of Behavior: References

    Charles S. Carver;Michael F. Scheier

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael F. Scheier
Michael F. Scheier Carnegie Mellon University
Michael H. Antoni
Michael H. Antoni University of Miami
Sheri L. Johnson
Sheri L. Johnson University of California, Berkeley
Youngmee Kim
Youngmee Kim University of Miami
Suzanne C. Lechner
Suzanne C. Lechner University of Miami
Bonnie B. Blomberg
Bonnie B. Blomberg University of Miami
Jutta Joormann
Jutta Joormann Yale University
Gail Ironson
Gail Ironson University of Miami
Jean-Philippe Laurenceau
Jean-Philippe Laurenceau University of Delaware
Neil Schneiderman
Neil Schneiderman University of Miami

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