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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association
  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Daphna Oyserman is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their primary field of study is psychology, with a total of 33 publications. They also contribute extensively to the social sciences, with 21 publications in that area.

Their research spans multiple subfields, including social psychology, sociology and political science, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and developmental and educational psychology. The distribution of publications across these subfields reflects a multidisciplinary approach within the behavioral sciences.

Main topics of Oyserman's work include cultural differences and values, social and intergroup psychology, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, youth development and social support, psychological and temporal perspectives research, early childhood education and development, and identity, memory, and therapy.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Oyserman include:

  • "Process matters: Teachers benefit their classrooms and students when they deliver an identity-based motivation intervention with fidelity," 2021, Contemporary Educational Psychology
  • "Successful Learning Environments Support and Harness Students' Identity-based Motivation: A Primer," 2021, The Journal of Experimental Education
  • "Seeing meaning even when none may exist: Collectivism increases belief in empty claims," 2021, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • "Is Difficulty Mostly About Impossibility? What Difficulty Implies May Be Culturally Variant," 2021, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • "Difficulty-as-Improvement: The Courage to Keep Going in the Face of Life's Difficulties," 2023, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Frequent co-authors with whom Oyserman has collaborated include Veronica X. Yan, Gülnaz Kiper, Ying Lin, S. Casey O'Donnell, and Mohammad Atari. These collaborations reflect ongoing research relationships across related studies.

Oyserman's work has been published in a variety of academic venues, with repeated contributions to the following journals:

  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Self and Identity
  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • The Journal of Experimental Education
  • PLoS ONE

In recognition of their professional accomplishments and contributions to the field, Oyserman has been named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in 2002 and a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Rethinking individualism and collectivism: evaluation of theoretical assumptions and meta-analyses.

    Daphna Oyserman;Heather M. Coon;Markus Kemmelmeier

  • Does culture influence what and how we think? Effects of priming individualism and collectivism.

    Daphna Oyserman;Spike W. S. Lee

  • Self, self-concept, and identity.

    Daphna Oyserman;Kristen Elmore;George Smith

  • Possible selves and academic outcomes: How and when possible selves impel action.

    Daphna Oyserman;Deborah Bybee;Kathy Terry

  • Possible selves and delinquency.

    Daphna Oyserman;Hazel Rose Markus

  • Asking questions about behavior: cognition, communication, and questionnaire construction

    Norbert Schwarz;Daphna Oyserman

  • A Socially Contextualized Model of African American Identity: Possible Selves and School Persistence

    Daphna Oyserman;Larry Gant;Joel Ager

  • Possible selves as roadmaps

    Daphna Oyserman;Deborah I. Bybee;Kathy Terry;Tamera A. Hart-Johnson

  • Identity-Based Motivation: Implications for Intervention

    Daphna Oyserman;Mesmin P. Destin

  • A possible selves intervention to enhance school involvement.

    Daphna Oyserman;Kathy Terry;Deborah Bybee

  • Thinking about the self influences thinking in general: cognitive consequences of salient self-concept

    Ulrich Kühnen;Daphna Oyserman

  • The lens of personhood: Viewing the self and others in a multicultural society.

    Daphna Oyserman

  • Identity-based motivation and health.

    Daphna Oyserman;Stephanie A. Fryberg;Nicholas Yoder

  • Identity-based motivation: Implications for action-readiness, procedural-readiness, and consumer behavior

    Daphna Oyserman

  • Racial- ethnic identity in mid-adolescence : Content and change as predictors of academic achievement

    Inna Altschul;Daphna Oyserman;Deborah I. Bybee

  • Gender and Thought: The Role of the Self-Concept

    Hazel Markus;Daphna Oyserman

  • Parenting among mothers with a serious mental illness.

    Daphna Oyserman;Carol T. Mowbray;Paula Allen Meares;B B A Kirsten Firminger

  • The Possible Selves of Diverse Adolescents: Content and Function Across Gender, Race and National Origin

    Daphna Oyserman;Stephanie Fryberg

  • Of Warrior Chiefs and Indian Princesses: The Psychological Consequences of American Indian Mascots

    Stephanie A. Fryberg;Hazel Rose Markus;Daphna Oyserman;Joseph M. Stone

  • The Sociocultural Self

    Daphna Oyserman;Hazel Rose Markus

Frequent Co-Authors

Deborah Bybee
Deborah Bybee Michigan State University
Carol T. Mowbray
Carol T. Mowbray University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Norbert Schwarz
Norbert Schwarz University of Southern California
Ayse K. Uskul
Ayse K. Uskul University of Sussex
Rami Benbenishty
Rami Benbenishty Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hazel Rose Markus
Hazel Rose Markus Stanford University
Markus Kemmelmeier
Markus Kemmelmeier University of Nevada Reno
James S. Jackson
James S. Jackson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Marjorie Rhodes
Marjorie Rhodes New York University
Michael Bond
Michael Bond Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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