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Elizabeth T. Gershoff 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 Elizabeth T. Gershoff sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 141 publications — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Elizabeth T. Gershoff 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 Elizabeth T. Gershoff sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 45th percentile

45% 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

  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Elizabeth T. Gershoff is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of psychology, social sciences, and medicine, with particular attention to clinical psychology, education, safety research, sociology and political science, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Child Welfare and Adoption
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Family Dynamics and Relationships
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Children's Physical and Motor Development

Elizabeth T. Gershoff has published extensively, with a total of 36 publications in psychology and social sciences, and 14 in medicine. Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Child Development
  • Developmental Science
  • The Lancet
  • Social policy report

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Elizabeth T. Gershoff include:

  • Physical punishment and child outcomes: a narrative review of prospective studies, 2021, The Lancet
  • Foster Care: How We Can, and Should, Do More for Maltreated Children, 2020, Social policy report
  • It matters how you start: Early numeracy mastery predicts high school math course-taking and college attendance, 2021, Infant and Child Development
  • Twin Differences in Harsh Parenting Predict Youth's Antisocial Behavior, 2021, Psychological Science
  • Physical punishment as a predictor of early cognitive development: Evidence from econometric approaches, 2020, Developmental Psychology

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Andrew E. Koepp
  • Sarah A. Font
  • Jorge Cuartas
  • Amy E. Bryan
  • Megan Kuhfeld

Elizabeth T. Gershoff has contributed to book publications as well, including a book published by Springer International Publishing titled Foster Care and Best Interests of the Child in 2020.

Among professional recognitions, Elizabeth T. Gershoff was named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Corporal punishment by parents and associated child behaviors and experiences: A meta-analytic and theoretical review.

    Elizabeth Thompson Gershoff

  • Income is not enough: incorporating material hardship into models of income associations with parenting and child development.

    Elizabeth Thompson Gershoff;J. Lawrence Aber;C. Cybele Raver;Mary Clare Lennon

  • Spanking and child outcomes: Old controversies and new meta-analyses.

    Elizabeth T. Gershoff;Andrew Grogan-Kaylor

  • Unpacking the impact of adverse childhood experiences on adult mental health

    Melissa T. Merrick;Katie A. Ports;Derek C. Ford;Tracie O. Afifi

  • Mothers' emotional expressivity and children's behavior problems and social competence: mediation through children's regulation.

    Nancy Eisenberg;Elizabeth Thompson Gershoff;Richard A. Fabes;Stephanie A. Shepard

  • Parent discipline practices in an international sample: associations with child behaviors and moderation by perceived normativeness

    Elizabeth Thompson Gershoff;Andrew Grogan-Kaylor;Jennifer E. Lansford;Lei Chang

  • Longitudinal relations among parental emotional expressivity, children's regulation, and quality of socioemotional functioning.

    Nancy Eisenberg;Carlos Valiente;Amanda Sheffield Morris;Amanda Sheffield Morris;Richard A.P Fabes

  • Longitudinal links between spanking and children's externalizing behaviors in a national sample of White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian American families.

    Elizabeth T. Gershoff;Jennifer E. Lansford;Holly R. Sexton;Pamela Davis-Kean

  • Spanking and Child Development: We Know Enough Now to Stop Hitting Our Children

    Elizabeth Thompson Gershoff

  • More harm than good: A summary of scientific research on the intended and unintended effects of corporal punishment on children

    Elizabeth Thompson Gershoff

  • Testing equivalence of mediating models of income, parenting, and school readiness for white, black, and Hispanic children in a national sample.

    C. Cybele Raver;Elizabeth Thompson Gershoff;J. Lawrence Aber

  • The Affective Structure of Supportive Parenting: Depressive Symptoms, Immediate Emotions, and Child-Oriented Motivation.

    Theodore Dix;Elizabeth T. Gershoff;Leah N. Meunier;Pamela C. Miller

  • Spanking and adult mental health impairment: The case for the designation of spanking as an adverse childhood experience

    Tracie O. Afifi;Derek Ford;Elizabeth Thompson Gershoff;Melissa Merrick

  • Falling through the cracks: Gaps and barriers in the mental health system for America's disadvantaged children.

    Elizabeth H. Bringewatt;Elizabeth Thompson Gershoff

  • Parenting influences from the pulpit: Religious affiliation as a determinant of parental corporal punishment

    Elizabeth Thompson Gershoff;Pamela C. Miller;George W. Holden

  • The relation of parental emotionality and related dispositional traits to parental expression of emotion and children's social functioning

    Amanda Cumberland-Li;Nancy Eisenberg;Claire Champion;Elizabeth Thompson Gershoff

  • Physical punishment and child outcomes: a narrative review of prospective studies

    Anja Heilmann;Anita Mehay;Richard G Watt;Yvonne Kelly

  • Corporal Punishment in U.S. Public Schools: Prevalence, Disparities in Use, and Status in State and Federal Policy.

    Elizabeth T. Gershoff;Sarah A. Font

  • School corporal punishment in global perspective: prevalence, outcomes, and efforts at intervention

    Elizabeth T Gershoff

  • Report on Physical Punishment in the United States: What Research Tells Us About Its Effects on Children

    E. T. Gershoff

  • Understanding mother-adolescent conflict discussions : concurrent and across-time prediction from youths' dispositions and parenting

    Nancy Eisenberg;Claire Hofer;Tracy L Spinrad;Elizabeth T Gershoff

Frequent Co-Authors

J. Lawrence Aber
J. Lawrence Aber New York University
Sarah Anne Font
Sarah Anne Font Washington University in St. Louis
Nancy Eisenberg
Nancy Eisenberg Arizona State University
Jeffrey Liew
Jeffrey Liew Texas A&M University
Qing Zhou
Qing Zhou University of California, Berkeley
Andrew Grogan-Kaylor
Andrew Grogan-Kaylor University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Shawna J. Lee
Shawna J. Lee University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Arya Ansari
Arya Ansari The Ohio State University
George W. Holden
George W. Holden Southern Methodist University
C. Cybele Raver
C. Cybele Raver New York University

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