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55
Citations
20026
World Ranking
4306
National Ranking
2400

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2001 - APA Award for Lifetime Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association.
  • 1975 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Janet T. Spence is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Over the course of their career, they have been recognized with significant awards acknowledging their contributions to psychology and science.

Spence received the APA Award for Lifetime Contributions to Psychology from the American Psychological Association in 2001. Earlier, in 1975, they were named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Their research has been conducted within various fields and subfields of study, focusing on core topics in psychology. Although specific papers, coauthors, and publication venues are not listed, their affiliation and awards suggest a longstanding engagement in psychological research.

Spence's academic work appears to emphasize key thematic areas in psychology, supported by participation in major research communities. Their role at a prominent university further highlights a connection with both teaching and scholarly activities in this scientific discipline.

Best Publications

  • Masculinity & femininity: Their psychological dimensions, correlates, and antecedents

    Janet Taylor Spence;Robert L. Helmreich

  • Ratings of self and peers on sex role attributes and their relation to self-esteem and conceptions of masculinity and femininity.

    Janet T. Spence;Robert Helmreich;Joy Stapp

  • A short version of the Attitudes toward Women Scale (AWS)

    Janet T. Spence;Robert Helmreich;Joy Stapp

  • Workaholism: Definition, Measurement, and Preliminary Results

    Janet T. Spence;Ann S. Robbins

  • Negative and positive components of psychological masculinity and femininity and their relationships to self-reports of neurotic and acting out behaviors.

    Janet T. Spence;Robert L. Helmreich;Carole K. Holahan

  • Gender-related traits and gender ideology: Evidence for a multifactorial theory.

    Janet T. Spence

  • INSTRUMENTAL AND EXPRESSIVE TRAITS, TRAIT STEREOTYPES, AND SEXIST ATTITUDES What Do They Signify?

    Janet T. Spence;Camille E. Buckner

  • Achievement American style: The rewards and costs of individualism.

    Janet T. Spence

  • Masculine Instrumentality and Feminine Expressiveness: Their Relationships with Sex Role Attitudes and Behaviors.

    Janet T. Spence;Robert L. Helmreich

  • CHAPTER 12 – The Motivational Components of Manifest Anxiety: Drive and Drive Stimuli1

    Janet Taylor Spence;Kenneth W. Spence

  • Achievement and achievement motives : psychological and sociological approaches

    Eva Dreikurus Ferguson;Janet T. Spence

  • THE ATTITUDES TOWARD WOMEN SCALE AND ATTITUDE CHANGE IN COLLEGE STUDENTS

    Janet T. Spence;Eugene D. Hahn

  • Masculinity, femininity, and gender-related traits: a conceptual analysis and critique of current research.

    Janet T. Spence

  • Impatience versus achievement strivings in the type A pattern: differential effects on students' health and academic achievement.

    Janet T. Spence;Robert L. Helmreich;Robert S. Pred

  • Making it in academic psychology: Demographic and personality correlates of attainment.

    R. L. Helmreich;J. T. Spence;W. E. Beane;G. W. Lucker

  • A PSYCHOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES QUESTIONNAIRE

    Robert L. Helmreich;Janet T. Spence;John A. Wilhelm

  • Contemporary topics in social psychology

    John W. Thibaut;Janet Taylor Spence;Robert C. Carson;Jack Williams Brehm

  • Motivation, emotion, and personality

    Janet Taylor Spence;Carroll E. Izard

  • Psychological androgyny and sex role flexibility: A test of two hypotheses

    Robert L. Helmreich;Janet T. Spence;Carole K. Holahan

  • Gender identity and its implications for the concepts of masculinity and femininity

    Janet T. Spence

  • Psychological determinants of health and performance: the tangled web of desirable and undesirable characteristics.

    Ann S. Robbins;Janet T. Spence;Heather Clark

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert L. Helmreich
Robert L. Helmreich The University of Texas at Austin
Kenneth W. Spence
Kenneth W. Spence University of Iowa
Carole K. Holahan
Carole K. Holahan The University of Texas at Austin
Karen A. Matthews
Karen A. Matthews University of Pittsburgh
Dieter Frey
Dieter Frey Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jack W. Brehm
Jack W. Brehm University of Kansas
Peter M. Gollwitzer
Peter M. Gollwitzer New York University
Kay Deaux
Kay Deaux New York University
Carroll E. Izard
Carroll E. Izard University of Delaware

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