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57
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13044
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4023
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432

Ed Cairns 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 Ed Cairns sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 199 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.

Ed Cairns 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 Ed Cairns sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Ed Cairns was affiliated with the University of Ulster in the United Kingdom during their academic career.

The available data does not list specific papers, research topics, or co-authors associated with Ed Cairns. However, information about institutions and affiliations provides context for the academic environment in which they conducted their work.

Details regarding awards or honors received by Ed Cairns are not present. No publications in journals or book publishers have been documented in the source data.

The absence of recorded main fields of study, subfields, or main research topics limits available insight into the specific academic contributions made by Ed Cairns.

Ed Cairns is deceased, and the profile thus reflects a retrospective account of their academic identity.

Best Publications

  • Effects of Direct and Indirect Cross-Group Friendships on Judgments of Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland: The Mediating Role of an Anxiety-Reduction Mechanism

    Stefania Paolini;Miles Hewstone;Ed Cairns;Alberto Voci

  • Intergroup Contact, Forgiveness, and Experience of “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland

    Miles Hewstone;Ed Cairns;Alberto Voci;Juergen Hamberger

  • Children and political violence

    Ed Cairns

  • Intergroup trust in Northern Ireland.

    Tania Tam;Miles Hewstone;Jared Kenworthy;Ed Cairns

  • An application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour to blood donation: the importance of self-efficacy

    M. Giles;C. McClenahan;E. Cairns;J. Mallet

  • The Impact of Intergroup Emotions on Forgiveness in Northern Ireland

    Tania Tam;Miles Hewstone;Ed Cairns;Nicole Tausch

  • Secondary transfer effects of intergroup contact: Alternative accounts and underlying processes.

    Nicole Tausch;Miles Hewstone;Jared B. Kenworthy;Charis Psaltis

  • Development of a More Reliable Version of the Matching Familiar Figures Test.

    Ed Cairns;Tommy Cammock

  • THE CONFLICT IN NORTHERN IRELAND : CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES, AND CONTROLS

    Ed Cairns;John Darby

  • Caught in crossfire: Children and the Northern Ireland conflict

    Ed Cairns

  • Nations' income inequality predicts ambivalence in stereotype content: How societies mind the gap

    Federica Durante;Susan T Fiske;Nicolas Kervyn;Amy J C Cuddy

  • Blood donation and Ajzen's theory of planned behaviour: An examination of perceived behavioural control

    Melanie Giles;Ed Cairns

  • Direct Contact as a Moderator of Extended Contact Effects: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Impact on Outgroup Attitudes, Behavioral Intentions, and Attitude Certainty:

    Oliver Christ;Miles Hewstone;Nicole Tausch;Ulrich Wagner

  • The Role of Memory in Ethnic Conflict

    Ed Cairns;Micheal D. Roe

  • SOCIAL CATEGORIZATION AND STIMULUS EQUIVALENCE

    Andrew Watt;Michael Keenan;Dermot Barnes;Ed Cairns

  • Antecedents and Consequences of Social Identity Complexity: Intergroup Contact, Distinctiveness Threat, and Outgroup Attitudes

    Katharina Schmid;Miles Hewstone;Nicole Tausch;Ed Cairns

  • Intergroup Forgiveness and Guilt in Northern Ireland: Social Psychological Dimensions of “The Troubles”

    Miles Hewstone;Ed Cairns;Alberto Voci;Frances McLernon

  • The stability of self-concept in late adolescence: Gender and situational effects

    Ed Cairns;Liz McWhirter;Ursulla Duffy;Robert Barry

  • Postconflict Reconciliation: Intergroup Forgiveness and Implicit Biases in Northern Ireland

    Tania Tam;Miles Hewstone;Jared B. Kenworthy;Ed Cairns

  • Individual-level and group-level mediators of contact effects in Northern Ireland: the moderating role of social identification.

    Nicole Tausch;Tania Tam;Miles Hewstone;Jared Kenworthy

  • Handbook on Peace Education

    Gavriel Salomon;Edward Cairns

Frequent Co-Authors

Miles Hewstone
Miles Hewstone University of Oxford
Marcie C. Goeke-Morey
Marcie C. Goeke-Morey Catholic University of America
E. Mark Cummings
E. Mark Cummings University of Notre Dame
Peter Shirlow
Peter Shirlow University of Liverpool
Nicole Tausch
Nicole Tausch University of St Andrews
Alberto Voci
Alberto Voci University of Padua
Neil M. Ferguson
Neil M. Ferguson Imperial College London
Jacques-Philippe Leyens
Jacques-Philippe Leyens Université Catholique de Louvain
Christopher Alan Lewis
Christopher Alan Lewis University of Warwick
Susan T. Fiske
Susan T. Fiske Princeton University

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