2026 Gregory R. Maio: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	55	4354	4025	469	444	188	14526

Research.com Recognitions

2001 - Spearman Medal, British Psychological Society

Overview

Gregory R. Maio is affiliated with the University of Bath in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and social sciences, with a significant focus on social psychology and sociology and political science. Additional subfields in Maio's work include cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, and applied psychology.

The scientific topics Maio studies cover a range of areas related to human values, social behavior, and well-being. These include:

Cultural Differences and Values
Social and Intergroup Psychology
Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
Behavioral Health and Interventions
Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Gregory R. Maio has published extensively, with important contributions appearing in several recurring venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

Journal of Personality
Social Psychological and Personality Science
British Journal of Social Psychology
Royal Society Open Science
Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience

Some of Maio's recent papers are:

The importance of (shared) human values for containing the COVID-19 pandemic (2020), published in British Journal of Social Psychology
Sense or sensibility? The neuro-functional basis of the structural matching effect in persuasion (2020), published in Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience
Well-being as a function of person-country fit in human values (2020), published in Nature Communications
Measured and manipulated effects of value similarity on prejudice and well-being (2020), published in European Review of Social Psychology
Using self-affirmation to increase intellectual humility in debate (2023), published in Royal Society Open Science

Maio often collaborates with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

Paul H. P. Hanel
Lukas J. Wolf
Geoffrey Haddock
Colin Foad
Johan C. Karremans

Gregory R. Maio received the Spearman Medal from the British Psychological Society in 2001.

Best Publications

Stereotype content model across cultures: towards universal similarities and some differences.

Amy J. C. Cuddy;Susan T. Fiske;Virginia S. Y. Kwan;Peter Glick

1360
Citations
The Psychology of Attitudes and Attitude Change

Gregory Richard Maio;Geoffrey Haddock

1086
Citations
The need for affect: individual differences in the motivation to approach or avoid emotions.

Gregory Richard Maio;Victoria M. Esses

697
Citations
Changing, priming, and acting on values: Effects via motivational relations in a circular model

Gregory Richard Maio;Ali Pakizeh;Wing-Yee Cheung;Kerry John Rees

521
Citations
Self-interest and pro-environmental behaviour

Laurel Evans;Laurel Evans;Gregory Richard Maio;Adam J. Corner;Carl J. Hodgetts

481
Citations
Ambivalence and Persuasion: The Processing of Messages about Immigrant Groups

Gregory R. Maio;David W. Bell;Victoria M. Esses

456
Citations
Values as truisms:evidence and implications

Gregory Richard Maio;J. M. Olson

452
Citations
Relations between Values, Attitudes, and Behavioral Intentions: The Moderating Role of Attitude Function

Gregory Richard Maio;J. M. Olson

438
Citations
Mental representations of social values

Gregory Richard Maio

398
Citations
The Impact of Intergroup Emotions on Forgiveness in Northern Ireland

Tania Tam;Miles Hewstone;Ed Cairns;Nicole Tausch

395
Citations
Ideologies, Values, Attitudes, and Behavior

Gregory R. Maio;James M. Olson;Mark M. Bernard;Michelle A. Luke

368
Citations
Communal narcissism.

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341
Citations
Should Persuasion Be Affective or Cognitive? The Moderating Effects of Need for Affect and Need for Cognition

Geoffrey Haddock;Gregory Richard Maio;Karin Arnold;Thomas Huskinson

283
Citations
Addressing discrepancies between values and behavior:the motivating effect of reasons

Gregory R. Maio;James M. Olson;Lindsay Allen;Mark M. Bernard

274
Citations
Why we evaluate: Functions of attitudes.

Gregory Richard Maio;James M. Olson

258
Citations
Pleasure and pressure based prosocial motivation: Divergent relations to subjective well-being.

Jochen E. Gebauer;Michael Riketta;Philip Broemer;Gregory R. Maio

239
Citations
Value—attitude‐behaviour relations: The moderating role of attitude functions

Gregory R. Maio;James M. Olson

230
Citations
Unraveling the role of forgiveness in family relationships.

Gregory Richard Maio;Geoff Thomas;Frank D. Fincham;Katherine B. Carnelley

218
Citations
Responses to interpersonal transgressions in families : Forgivingness, forgivability, and relationship-specific effects

William T. Hoyt;Frank D. Fincham;Michael E. McCullough;Gregory Richard Maio

215
Citations
Communication and attitude change: causes, processes, and effects

Blair T. Johnson;Gregory R. Maio;Aaron Smith-McLallen

210
Citations
A Short Measure of the Need for Affect

Markus Appel;Timo Gnambs;Gregory Richard Maio

199
Citations
Contemporary perspectives on the psychology of attitudes

Geoffrey Haddock;Gregory Richard Maio

169
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Geoffrey Haddock Cardiff University

James M. Olson University of Western Ontario

Victoria M. Esses University of Western Ontario

Antony Stephen Reid Manstead Cardiff University

Jochen E. Gebauer University of Mannheim

David Edmund Johannes Linden Maastricht University

Katy Tapper City, University of London

Ulrike Hahn Birkbeck, University of London

Shanmukh V. Kamble Karnatak University

Valdiney Veloso Gouveia Federal University of Paraíba

External Links

Personal website of Gregory R. Maio

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