2026 Jennifer J. Freyd: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	69	2373	2166	1381	1233	227	17767

Research.com Recognitions

1996 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)
1992 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1989 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Jennifer J. Freyd is affiliated with the University of Oregon in the United States. Their research spans various domains within the social sciences and psychology, with a primary focus on topics related to victimization, institutional dynamics, and trauma.

Freyd's areas of study include:

Social Sciences
Psychology

Their subfields of study are:

Gender Studies
Sociology and Political Science
Clinical Psychology
Health
Social Psychology

Core topics addressed in their work include:

Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
Intimate Partner and Family Violence
Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
Gender, Feminism, and Media
Workplace Violence and Bullying
Social and Intergroup Psychology
Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology

Freyd has contributed to research published in a range of venues, notably:

Journal of Trauma & Dissociation (5 publications)
PLoS ONE (4 publications)
Journal of Aggression Maltreatment & Trauma (3 publications)
Dignity A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence (2 publications)
Computers in Human Behavior (1 publication)

Some recent selected papers by Jennifer J. Freyd include:

"Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender (DARVO): What Is the Influence on Perceived Perpetrator and Victim Credibility?", 2020, Journal of Aggression Maltreatment & Trauma
"Assessment of attitudes toward Internet pornography in emerging adults using the Internet Pornography Questionnaire", 2022, Computers in Human Behavior
"Institutional courage buffers against institutional betrayal, protects employee health, and fosters organizational commitment following workplace sexual harassment", 2023, PLoS ONE
"COVID-19-related institutional betrayal associated with trauma symptoms among undergraduate students", 2021, PLoS ONE
"Isn't high school bad enough already? Rates of gender harassment and institutional betrayal in high school and their association with trauma-related symptoms", 2020, PLoS ONE

Frequent co-authors include:

Alexis A. Adams-Clark
Sarah J. Harsey
Laura K. Noll
Alec M. Smidt
Monika N Lind

Professional recognitions include:

Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), 1996
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1992
Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1989

Best Publications

Betrayal Trauma: The Logic of Forgetting Childhood Abuse

Jennifer J. Freyd

1806
Citations
Dynamic mental representations.

Jennifer J. Freyd

887
Citations
Institutional betrayal.

Unknown

656
Citations
Betrayal Trauma: Traumatic Amnesia as an Adaptive Response to Childhood Abuse

Jennifer J. Freyd

616
Citations
Dangerous safe havens: Institutional betrayal exacerbates sexual trauma.

Carly Parnitzke Smith;Jennifer J. Freyd

590
Citations
Apparent Motion of the Human Body

Maggie Shiffrar;Jennifer J. Freyd

557
Citations
Self-reports of potentially traumatic experiences in an adult community sample: gender differences and test-retest stabilities of the items in a brief betrayal-trauma survey.

Lewis R. Goldberg;Jennifer J. Freyd

446
Citations
The mental representation of movement when static stimuli are viewed.

Jennifer J. Freyd

414
Citations
Research participants telling the truth about their lives: The ethics of asking and not asking about abuse.

Kathryn A. Becker-Blease;Jennifer J. Freyd

401
Citations
Betrayal Trauma: Relationship to Physical Health, Psychological Distress, and a Written Disclosure Intervention

Jennifer J. Freyd;Bridget Klest;Carolyn B. Allard

361
Citations
Self-reported memory for abuse depends upon victim-perpetrator relationship

Jennifer J. Freyd;Anne P. DePrince;Eileen L. Zurbriggen

313
Citations
The role of cumulative trauma, betrayal, and appraisals in understanding trauma symptomatology.

Christina Gamache Martin;Lisa DeMarni Cromer;Anne P. DePrince;Jennifer J. Freyd

311
Citations
The state of betrayal trauma theory: Reply to McNally—Conceptual issues, and future directions

Jennifer J. Freyd;Anne P. DePrince;David H. Gleaves

304
Citations
Shareability: The Social Psychology of Epistemology*

Jennifer J. Freyd

290
Citations
Dissociative tendencies, attention, and memory.

Anne P. DePrince;Jennifer J. Freyd

285
Citations
Forgetting Trauma Stimuli

Anne P. DePrince;Jennifer J. Freyd

274
Citations
A velocity effect for representational momentum

Jennifer J. Freyd;Ronald A. Finke

258
Citations
Timing and Apparent Motion Path Choice With Human Body Photographs

Maggie Shiffrar;Jennifer J. Freyd

254
Citations
Betrayal Trauma: Associations With Psychological and Physical Symptoms in Young Adults

Rachel E. Goldsmith;Jennifer J. Freyd;Anne P. DePrince

245
Citations
Probing the time course of representational momentum.

Jennifer J. Freyd;J. Q. Johnson

239
Citations
Betrayal Trauma: Relational Models of Harm and Healing

Pamela J. Birrell;Jennifer J. Freyd

108
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne P. DePrince University of Denver

Maggie Shiffrar Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Philip A. Fisher Stanford University

Kathy Pezdek Claremont Graduate University

Hyoun K. Kim Yonsei University

David H. Gleaves University of South Australia

Frank W. Putnam University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Lewis R. Goldberg Oregon Research Institute

Valerie J. Edwards Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Lilia M. Cortina University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

External Links

Personal website of Jennifer J. Freyd

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