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Geoffrey M. Maruyama

Geoffrey M. Maruyama

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Psychology

D-Index
33
Citations
11721
World Ranking
10335
National Ranking
5421

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association
  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Geoffrey M. Maruyama is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States and conducts research primarily in the social sciences, with a focus on education. Their scholarly work spans topics including higher education research studies, youth development and social support, service-learning and community engagement, and innovations in educational methods. Additional areas of interest include grit, self-efficacy, motivation, smoking behavior and cessation, and behavioral health and interventions.

Maruyama's research is published predominantly in the journal Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, where they have contributed to multiple articles. Other publication venues include the International Journal of Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement, Prevention Science, and the Journal of Adolescent Health.

Recent research papers include:

  • How are first-generation students doing throughout their college years? An examination of academic success, retention, and completion rates, 2024, Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy
  • How much do we need college admission tests?, 2024, Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy
  • Community engagement, service learning, and underrepresented college student success: An examination of multiple cohorts, 2024, Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy
  • Improving Outcomes of Underrepresented College Students Through Community-Engaged Employment, 2020, International Journal of Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement
  • School Connectedness and Adolescent E-cigarette Susceptibility in an Urban Sample of Middle and High School Students, 2024, Prevention Science

Coauthors frequently collaborating with Maruyama include Tai Do, Shelby Weisen, Marisa C. Peczuh, Ashley S. Hufnagle, and April K. Wilhelm.

Their main fields of study are within social sciences, specifically in subfields such as education, safety research, gender studies, social psychology, and physiology.

Maruyama has received recognition through awards including Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2008 and Fellow of the American Psychological Association in 2002.

Best Publications

  • Effects of cooperative, competitive, and individualistic goal structures on achievement: A meta-analysis.

    David W. Johnson;Geoffrey Maruyama;Roger Johnson;Deborah Nelson

  • Basics of structural equation modeling

    Geoffrey M Maruyama

  • Interdependence and Interpersonal Attraction Among Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Individuals: A Theoretical Formulation and a Meta-analysis of the Research:

    David W. Johnson;Roger T. Johnson;Geoffrey M. Maruyama

  • Time Spent Reading and Reading Growth

    Barbara M. Taylor;Barbara J. Frye;Geoffrey M. Maruyama

  • Joan McKay versus John McKay: Do gender stereotypes bias evaluations?

    Janet Swim;Eugene Borgida;Geoffrey M Maruyama;David G. Myers

  • Speed of speech and persuasion.

    Norman Miller;Geoffrey Maruyama;Rex Julian Beaber;Keith Valone

  • Attribution, Affect, and College Exam Performance.

    Robert M. Arkin;Geoffrey M. Maruyama

  • Self-esteem and educational achievement: Independent constructs with a common cause?

    Geoffrey M. Maruyama;Rosalyn A. Rubin;G. Gage Kingsbury

  • Ordinal Position and Peer Popularity

    Norman Miller;Geoffrey Maruyama

  • Editor's Forward to the Article “Psychologists and the Use of Torture in Interrogations” and Invited Comments about That Article

    Geoffrey M Maruyama;Jamie J. Peterson

  • Assessing College Readiness Should We Be Satisfied With ACT or Other Threshold Scores

    Geoffrey M Maruyama

  • Educating students with mild disabilities in general education classrooms: Minnesota alternatives.

    S. Deno;Geoffrey M Maruyama;C. Espin;C. Cohen

  • Impact of different types of cooperative learning on cross-ethnic and cross-sex relationships.

    Douglas Warring;David W. Johnson;Geoffrey Maruyama;Roger T. Johnson

  • The "likeableness" of 555 personality trait words: Ten years later

    E. S. Conolley;Geoffrey M. Maruyama

  • Research in educational settings

    Geoffrey Maruyama;Stanley L. Deno

  • Cross-cultural contact and attitudes of qatari students in the United States

    Abdulaziz A. Kamal;Geoffrey M Maruyama

  • Roles of attribution, affect, and cognitive interference in test anxiety.

    Robert M. Arkin;Candace S. Detchon;Geoffrey M. Maruyama

  • Pathways to Adolescent Alcohol Use: Potential Mechanisms of Parent Influence

    Renee E Sieving;Geoffrey M Maruyama;Carolyn L. Williams;Cheryl L. Perry

  • Replication and extension of a model predicting response to psilocybin.

    Suzanne L. Russ;R. L. Carhart-Harris;Geoffrey M Maruyama;M. S. Elliott

  • The equity context

    Karl E. Weick;Michel G. Bougon;Geoffrey Maruyama

  • Inequities in Higher Education: Issues and Promising Practices in a World Ambivalent about Affirmative Action

    Yolanda Flores Niemann;Geoffrey M Maruyama

  • 9 – Goal Interdependence and Interpersonal Attraction in Heterogeneous Classrooms: A Metanalysis*

    David W. Johnson;Roger Johnson;Geoffrey Maruyama

  • Work experience and job satisfaction: Variation by age and gender

    Jeylan T. Mortimer;Michael D Finch;Geoffrey Maruyama

Frequent Co-Authors

Norman Miller
Norman Miller University of Southern California
Roger T. Johnson
Roger T. Johnson University of Minnesota
Stanley L. Deno
Stanley L. Deno University of Minnesota
Janet K. Swim
Janet K. Swim Pennsylvania State University
Herbert J. Walberg
Herbert J. Walberg University of Illinois at Chicago
Robin L. Carhart-Harris
Robin L. Carhart-Harris University of California, San Francisco
Christine A. Espin
Christine A. Espin Leiden University
Jeylan T. Mortimer
Jeylan T. Mortimer University of Minnesota
Carolyn L. Williams
Carolyn L. Williams University of Minnesota
Cheryl L. Perry
Cheryl L. Perry The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

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