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Esther K. Papies publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Esther K. Papies sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 127 publications — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Esther K. Papies D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Esther K. Papies sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 39 D-Index — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Esther K. Papies is a researcher affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily spans the field of Psychology, with a focus on applied and social psychology as well as ecology and clinical psychology. This multidisciplinary approach reflects in the variety of topics covered in their research contributions.

The main topics of their work include behavioral health and interventions, agriculture sustainability and environmental impact, olfactory and sensory function studies, environmental education and sustainability, eating disorders and behaviors, animal and plant science education, and neural and behavioral psychology studies.

Esther K. Papies has contributed to multiple recent papers, among which are:

  • Using consumption and reward simulations to increase the appeal of plant-based foods (2020, Appetite)
  • Understanding Desire for Food and Drink: A Grounded-Cognition Approach (2020, Current Directions in Psychological Science)
  • Situating desire: Situational cues affect desire for food through eating simulations (2021, Appetite)

They have frequently collaborated with several co-authors, including Tess Davis, Amy Rodger, Maria Almudena Claassen, Lawrence W. Barsalou, and Lara Wehbe.

Among the publication venues where Esther K. Papies' work appears most often are:

  • Appetite
  • Food Quality and Preference
  • Proceedings of The Nutrition Society
  • Energy Research & Social Science
  • Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

Their research contributions include a substantial number of studies related to behavioral health interventions as well as sustainability and environmental impact in agricultural contexts. In particular, their published work often examines the interplay between psychological factors and eating behaviors, including desire for food and drink and the influence of environmental and situational cues on consumption.

Best Publications

  • Why most dieters fail but some succeed: A goal conflict model of eating behavior

    Wolfgang Stroebe;Guido M. van Koningsbruggen;Esther K. Papies;Henk Aarts

  • Mindful Attention Prevents Mindless Impulses

    Esther K. Papies;Lawrence W. Barsalou;Ruud Custers

  • Goal priming and eating behavior: enhancing self-regulation by environmental cues.

    Esther K. Papies;Petra Hamstra

  • The benefits of simply observing: mindful attention modulates the link between motivation and behavior.

    Esther K. Papies;Tila M. Pronk;Mike Keesman;Lawrence W. Barsalou

  • Pleasure in the mind: Restrained eating and spontaneous hedonic thoughts about food.

    Esther K. Papies;Wolfgang Stroebe;Henk Aarts

  • Healthy Cognition: Processes of Self-Regulatory Success in Restrained Eating

    Esther K. Papies;Wolfgang Stroebe;Henk Aarts

  • The allure of forbidden food: On the role of attention in self-regulation

    Esther K. Papies;Wolfgang Stroebe;Henk Aarts

  • Turning a blind eye to temptation: How cognitive load can facilitate self-regulation.

    Lotte F. Van Dillen;Esther K. Papies;Wilhelm Hofmann

  • Using stop signals to inhibit chronic dieters' responses toward palatable foods.

    Harm Veling;Henk Aarts;Esther K. Papies

  • Health goal priming as a situated intervention tool : how to benefit from nonconscious motivational routes to health behaviour

    Esther K. Papies

  • Using health primes to reduce unhealthy snack purchases among overweight consumers in a grocery store

    E K Papies;I Potjes;M Keesman;S Schwinghammer

  • From Homeostatic to Hedonic Theories of Eating: Self-Regulatory Failure in Food-Rich Environments

    Wolfgang Stroebe;Esther K. Papies;Henk Aarts

  • A core eating network and its modulations underlie diverse eating phenomena.

    Jing Chen;Esther K. Papies;Lawrence W. Barsalou

  • A shift in perspective: Decentering through mindful attention to imagined stressful events.

    Lauren A. M. Lebois;Lauren A. M. Lebois;Esther K. Papies;Kaundinya Gopinath;Romeo Cabanban

  • Differentiating between successful and unsuccessful dieters. Validity and reliability of the Perceived Self-Regulatory Success in Dieting Scale.

    Adrian Meule;Esther K. Papies;Andrea Kübler;Andrea Kübler

  • A brief mindfulness intervention reduces unhealthy eating when hungry, but not the portion size effect.

    David Marchiori;Esther K. Papies

  • Implementation intentions as goal primes: Boosting self-control in tempting environments

    Guido M. van Koningsbruggen;Wolfgang Stroebe;Esther K. Papies;Henk Aarts

  • Tempting food words activate eating simulations.

    Esther Katharina Papies

  • Grounding desire and motivated behavior: A theoretical framework and review of empirical evidence

    Esther K. Papies;Lawrence W. Barsalou

  • Healthy dining. Subtle diet reminders at the point of purchase increase low-calorie food choices among both chronic and current dieters.

    Esther K. Papies;Harm Veling

Frequent Co-Authors

Henk Aarts
Henk Aarts Utrecht University
Lawrence W. Barsalou
Lawrence W. Barsalou University of Glasgow
Wolfgang Stroebe
Wolfgang Stroebe University of Groningen
Johan C. Karremans
Johan C. Karremans Radboud University
Paul A.M. Smeets
Paul A.M. Smeets Wageningen University & Research
Harm Veling
Harm Veling Radboud University
Andrea Kübler
Andrea Kübler University of Würzburg
Nanne K. de Vries
Nanne K. de Vries Maastricht University
Ignace T. C. Hooge
Ignace T. C. Hooge Utrecht University
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Lisa Feldman Barrett Northeastern University

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