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D-Index
37
Citations
10584
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9024
National Ranking
4787

Christian E. Waugh 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 Christian E. Waugh sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 68 publications — 4th percentile

4% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Christian E. Waugh 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 Christian E. Waugh sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 37 D-Index — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Christian E. Waugh is affiliated with Wake Forest University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of psychology. Their work spans various subfields including Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Applied Psychology, and Health.

The scientist's research covers several main topics, including:

  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics

Christian E. Waugh has contributed to multiple scholarly articles, some of the recent papers include:

  • Not all disengagement coping strategies are created equal: positive distraction, but not avoidance, can be an adaptive coping strategy for chronic life stressors (2020), published in Anxiety Stress & Coping
  • The roles of positive emotion in the regulation of emotional responses to negative events (2020), published in Emotion
  • Adaptive and maladaptive forms of disengagement coping in caregivers of children with chronic illnesses (2020), published in Stress and Health

The primary venues where their research is frequently published include:

  • Emotion
  • UNC Libraries
  • Cognition & Emotion
  • Affective Science
  • Anxiety Stress & Coping

Christian E. Waugh collaborates regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Joseph A. Mikels
  • Alyssa Minton
  • Susan T. Charles
  • Claudia M. Haase
  • Valeriia V. Vlasenko

The focus of Christian E. Waugh's scholarship reflects a consistent engagement with topics related to emotional regulation, coping mechanisms, and psychological resilience particularly in the context of chronic stress and health challenges. Their research on the adaptive roles of positive emotions and coping strategies contributes to a broader understanding of mental health dynamics.

Best Publications

  • What good are positive emotions in crises? A prospective study of resilience and emotions following the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11th, 2001.

    Barbara L. Fredrickson;Michele M. Tugade;Christian E. Waugh;Gregory R. Larkin

  • Nice to know you: Positive emotions, self–other overlap, and complex understanding in the formation of a new relationship

    Christian E. Waugh;Barbara L. Fredrickson

  • Brain mediators of cardiovascular responses to social threat: part I: Reciprocal dorsal and ventral sub-regions of the medial prefrontal cortex and heart-rate reactivity.

    Tor D. Wager;Christian E. Waugh;Martin A. Lindquist;Douglas C. Noll

  • The functional domain specificity of self-esteem and the differential prediction of aggression.

    Lee A. Kirkpatrick;Christian E. Waugh;Alelhie Valencia;Gregory D. Webster

  • Anticipatory pleasure predicts motivation for reward in major depression.

    Lindsey Sherdell;Christian E. Waugh;Ian H. Gotlib

  • Adapting to life's slings and arrows: Individual differences in resilience when recovering from an anticipated threat.

    Christian E. Waugh;Barbara L. Fredrickson;Stephan F. Taylor

  • Flexible Emotional Responsiveness in Trait Resilience

    Christian E. Waugh;Renee J. Thompson;Ian H. Gotlib

  • Smile to see the forest: Facially expressed positive emotions broaden cognition

    Kareem J. Johnson;Christian E. Waugh;Barbara L. Fredrickson

  • A resilience framework for promoting stable remission from depression.

    Christian E. Waugh;Ernst H.W. Koster

  • Oxytocin receptor gene polymorphism (rs2254298) interacts with familial risk for psychopathology to predict symptoms of depression and anxiety in adolescent girls

    Renee J. Thompson;Karen J. Parker;Joachim F. Hallmayer;Christian E. Waugh

  • The neural correlates of trait resilience when anticipating and recovering from threat

    Christian E. Waugh;Tor D. Wager;Barbara L. Fredrickson;Doug C. Noll

  • Interoceptive awareness, positive affect, and decision making in Major Depressive Disorder

    Daniella J. Furman;Christian E. Waugh;Kalpa Bhattacharjee;Renee J. Thompson

  • A Multisite Preregistered Paradigmatic Test of the Ego-Depletion Effect:

    Kathleen D. Vohs;Brandon J. Schmeichel;Sophie Lohmann;Sophie Lohmann;Quentin F. Gronau

  • Neural and behavioral effects of interference resolution in depression and rumination

    Marc G. Berman;Derek Evan Nee;Melynda Casement;Hyang Sook Kim

  • Endogenous testosterone levels are associated with amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex responses to anger faces in men but not women

    Steven J. Stanton;Michelle M. Wirth;Christian E. Waugh;Oliver C. Schultheiss

  • Modeling state-related fMRI activity using change-point theory.

    Martin A. Lindquist;Christian E. Waugh;Tor D. Wager

  • Cognitive Bias Modification for Interpretation in Major Depression Effects on Memory and Stress Reactivity

    Jutta Joormann;Christian E. Waugh;Ian H. Gotlib

  • Cardiovascular and affective recovery from anticipatory threat.

    Christian E. Waugh;Sommer Panage;Wendy Berry Mendes;Ian H. Gotlib

  • Contextual positive coping as a factor contributing to resilience after disasters

    Elaine Z. Shing;Eranda Jayawickreme;Christian E. Waugh

  • Not all disengagement coping strategies are created equal: positive distraction, but not avoidance, can be an adaptive coping strategy for chronic life stressors.

    Christian E Waugh;Elaine Z Shing;R Michael Furr

  • Acute exercise attenuates negative affect following repeated sad mood inductions in persons who have recovered from depression

    Jutta Mata;Candice L. Hogan;Jutta Joormann;Christian E. Waugh

  • Exploring the motivational brain: effects of implicit power motivation on brain activation in response to facial expressions of emotion

    Oliver C. Schultheiss;Michelle M. Wirth;Christian E. Waugh;Steven J. Stanton

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian H. Gotlib
Ian H. Gotlib Stanford University
Barbara L. Fredrickson
Barbara L. Fredrickson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jutta Joormann
Jutta Joormann Yale University
Renee J. Thompson
Renee J. Thompson Washington University in St. Louis
Tor D. Wager
Tor D. Wager Dartmouth College
Martin A. Lindquist
Martin A. Lindquist Johns Hopkins University
Douglas C. Noll
Douglas C. Noll University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Kateri McRae
Kateri McRae University of Denver
Joseph A. Mikels
Joseph A. Mikels DePaul University
Stephan F. Taylor
Stephan F. Taylor University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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