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David C. Zuroff

David C. Zuroff

McGill University
Canada

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
82
Citations
20252
World Ranking
1349
National Ranking
72

David C. Zuroff publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 201 publications — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

David C. Zuroff 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 David C. Zuroff sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 82 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% 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

  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

David C. Zuroff is a researcher affiliated with McGill University in Canada, specializing primarily in Psychology with a focus on Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Social Psychology. Their research portfolio spans 40 publications within the broader field of Psychology, covering a range of subfields including Clinical Psychology (15 publications), Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (12), Social Psychology (8), Applied Psychology (4), and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (2).

The scientist's work encompasses diverse topics such as Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, and Cognitive Processes, represented in 14 publications. Other main themes include Perfectionism, Procrastination, and Anxiety Studies (10 publications), Mental Health Research Topics (8), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (8), Behavioral Health and Interventions (6), Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports (6), and Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (4).

David C. Zuroff has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • "An affect in its own right: Investigating the relationship of social safeness with positive and negative affect," 2020, Personality and Individual Differences
  • "The role of goal-related autonomy: A self-determination theory analysis of perfectionism, poor goal progress, and depressive symptoms," 2020, Journal of Counseling Psychology
  • "Beyond trait models of self-criticism and self-compassion: Variability over domains and the search for signatures," 2020, Personality and Individual Differences
  • "CD38 is associated with communal behavior, partner perceptions, affect and relationship adjustment in romantic relationships," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Contributions of trait, domain, and signature components of self-criticism to stress generation," 2020, Personality and Individual Differences

Their frequent co-authors include Shelby L. Levine, Kayleigh-Ann Clegg, David M. Dunkley, D. S. Moskowitz, and Richard Koestner. Collaboration with these colleagues appears across multiple published works, illustrating a network of ongoing research partnerships.

Publications by David C. Zuroff are prominently featured in several journals, with frequent appearance in:

  • Personality and Individual Differences (5 publications)
  • Journal of Counseling Psychology (2 publications)
  • Motivation and Emotion
  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Personality

David C. Zuroff was recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2007, which indicates professional acknowledgment within the psychological research community.

Best Publications

  • Interpersonal relatedness and self-definition: Two prototypes for depression

    Sidney J. Blatt;David C. Zuroff

  • Self-critical perfectionism and daily affect: Dispositional and situational influences on stress and coping.

    David M. Dunkley;David C. Zuroff;Kirk R. Blankstein

  • Dependency and self-criticism: psychological dimensions of depression.

    Sidney J. Blatt;Donald M. Quinlan;Eve S. Chevron;Cathy McDonald

  • Examining scale discriminability in the BDI and CES-D as a function of depressive severity.

    Darcy A. Santor;David C. Zuroff;J. O. Ramsay;Pablo Cervantes

  • Characteristics of effective therapists: further analyses of data from the National Institute of Mental Health Treatment of Depression Collaborative Research Program.

    Sidney J. Blatt;Charles A. Sanislow;David C. Zuroff;Paul A. Pilkonis

  • Stability and variability of affective experience and interpersonal behavior in borderline personality disorder.

    Jennifer J. Russell;D. S. Moskowitz;David C. Zuroff;Debbie Sookman

  • Conceptualizing and measuring personality vulnerability to depression: comment on Coyne and Whiffen (1995).

    David C. Zuroff;Myriam Mongrain;Darcy A. Santor

  • RELATION OF THERAPEUTIC ALLIANCE AND PERFECTIONISM TO OUTCOME IN BRIEF OUTPATIENT TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION

    David C. Zuroff;Sidney J. Blatt;Stuart M. Sotsky;Janice L. Krupnick

  • Dependency and self-criticism: vulnerability factors for depressive affective states.

    David C. Zuroff;Myriam Mongrain

  • Who benefits from training in self-compassionate self-regulation? A study of smoking reduction.

    Allison C. Kelly;David C. Zuroff;Clare L. Foa;Paul Gilbert

  • Autonomous motivation for therapy: A new common factor in brief treatments for depression

    David C. Zuroff;Richard Koestner;D. S. Moskowitz;Carolina McBride

  • Subscales within the dependency factor of the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire

    Sidney J. Blatt;Ada H. Zohar;Donald M. Quinlan;David C. Zuroff

  • Depressive personality styles: Implications for adult attachment

    David C. Zuroff;Deborah K. Fitzpatrick

  • Construct validation of the dependency and self-criticism scales of the depressive experiences questionnaire

    David C Zuroff;D.S Moskowitz;Mark S Wielgus;Theodore A Powers

  • Soothing Oneself and Resisting Self-Attacks: The Treatment of Two Intrapersonal Deficits in Depression Vulnerability

    Allison C. Kelly;David C. Zuroff;Leah B. Shapira

  • The therapeutic relationship in the brief treatment of depression: contributions to clinical improvement and enhanced adaptive capacities

    David C. Zuroff;Sidney J. Blatt

  • When and How Perfectionism Impedes the Brief Treatment of Depression: Further Analyses of the National Institute of Mental Health Treatment of Depression Collaborative Research Program

    Sidney J. Blatt;David C. Zuroff;Colin M. Bondi;Charles A. Sanislow

  • Empirical evaluation of the assumptions in identifying evidence based treatments in mental health.

    Sidney J. Blatt;David C. Zuroff

  • Flux, pulse, and spin: dynamic additions to the personality lexicon.

    D. S. Moskowitz;David C. Zuroff

  • Self-compassion and fear of self-compassion interact to predict response to eating disorders treatment: A preliminary investigation

    Allison C. Kelly;Jacqueline C. Carter;David C. Zuroff;Sahar Borairi

Frequent Co-Authors

Debbie S. Moskowitz
Debbie S. Moskowitz McGill University
Sidney J. Blatt
Sidney J. Blatt Yale University
Richard Koestner
Richard Koestner McGill University
Golan Shahar
Golan Shahar Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Paul Gilbert
Paul Gilbert University of Derby
Paul A. Pilkonis
Paul A. Pilkonis University of Pittsburgh
R. Michael Bagby
R. Michael Bagby University of Toronto
Charles A. Sanislow
Charles A. Sanislow Wesleyan University
Simon N. Young
Simon N. Young McGill University
Donald M. Quinlan
Donald M. Quinlan Yale University

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