2026 Ernest R. Hilgard: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	64	2922	1678	285	21230

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Research.com Recognitions

1989 - William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA)
1967 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
1948 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1933 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Ernest R. Hilgard was affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their academic career included contributions that led to recognition by several prestigious organizations.

The awards granted to Ernest R. Hilgard during their career included:

William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science (APA) in 1989
APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology from the American Psychological Association in 1967
Membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 1948
Fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1933

No specific details on publications, fields of study, co-authors, or topics of research were provided, nor were recent papers or book publications listed. The information available emphasizes their recognition within the psychological and scientific communities through these awards and affiliations.

Best Publications

Theories of Learning

Ernest Ropiequet Hilgard

2067
Citations
Hilgard and Marquis' Conditioning and learning

Ernest Ropiequet Hilgard;Donald G. Marquis;Gregory A. Kimble

1517
Citations
Divided Consciousness: Multiple Controls In Human Thought And Action

Ernest Ropiequet Hilgard

1478
Citations
Conditioning and learning

Ernest Ropiequet Hilgard;Donald G. Marquis

1081
Citations
Hypnosis In The Relief Of Pain

Ernest Ropiequet Hilgard;Josephine Rohrs Hilgard

1013
Citations
The trilogy of mind: cognition, affection, and conation.

Ernest R. Hilgard

854
Citations
Theories of Learning

Gordon H. Bower;Ernest R. Hilgard

741
Citations
STANFORD HYPNOTIC SUSCEPTIBILITY SCALE, FORM C

Andre M. Weitzenhoffer;Ernest R. Hilgard;John F. Kihlstrom

633
Citations
The Neuromuscular Maturation of the Human Infant

Ernest R. Hilgard;Myrtle B. McGraw

478
Citations
On the degree of stability of measured hypnotizability over a 25-year period.

Carlo Piccione;Ernest R. Hilgard;Philip G. Zimbardo

339
Citations
Educational psychology (2nd ed.).

Lee J. Cronbach;Ernest R. Hilgard;Willard B. Spalding

327
Citations
The Analysis of Behavior

J. G. Holland;B. F. Skinner;T. L. Harris;W. E. Schwahn

326
Citations
Psychology in America: A Historical Survey

Ernest Ropiequet Hilgard

314
Citations
Pain as a puzzle for psychology and physiology.

Ernest R. Hilgard

248
Citations
Responsiveness to suggestions following waking and imagination instructions and following induction of hypnosis.

Ernest R. Hilgard;Charles T. Tart

238
Citations
Consciousness in Contemporary Psychology

Ernest R. Hilgard

230
Citations
A neodissociation interpretation of pain reduction in hypnosis.

Ernest R. Hilgard

229
Citations
Pain and dissociation in the cold pressor test: a study of hypnotic analgesia with "hidden reports" through automatic key pressing and automatic talking.

Ernest R. Hilgard;Arlene H. Morgan;Hugh Macdonald

206
Citations
A comparison of active-alert hypnotic induction with traditional relaxation induction.

Eva I. Banyai;Ernest R. Hilgard

198
Citations
The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field

Ernest R. Hilgard;Jaques Hadamard

49
Citations
A Behavior System: An Introduction to Behavior Theory Concerning the Individual Organism.

Ernest R. Hilgard

42
Citations
Learning theory and personality dynamics.

Ernest R. Hilgard;Edward L. Walker

14
Citations
The question of animal awareness: Evolutionary continuity of mental experience

Ernest R. Hilgard

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Gordon H. Bower Stanford University

Edwin G. Boring Harvard University

John F. Kihlstrom University of California, Berkeley

Lee J. Cronbach Stanford University

Elizabeth F. Loftus University of California, Irvine

Louis Leon Thurstone University of Chicago

B. F. Skinner Harvard University

Martin T. Orne University of Pennsylvania

Carl R. Rogers Henry Ford Health System

Eleanor E. Maccoby Stanford University

External Links

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