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D-Index
56
Citations
20956
World Ranking
4108
National Ranking
184

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Social psychology
  • Statistics
  • Social science

Manfred Schmitt spends much of his time researching Social psychology, Injustice, Personality, Big Five personality traits and Anger. His Social psychology research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Empirical evidence and Cognition. His Injustice research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Punishment, Mental health, Social environment and Perception.

His Personality study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Affect, Social perception, Regression and Normative. While the research belongs to areas of Anger, Manfred Schmitt spends his time largely on the problem of Intrusiveness, intersecting his research to questions surrounding Construct validity, Disappointment and Life satisfaction. His study explores the link between Moderation and topics such as Implicit attitude that cross with problems in Self-report study, Association, Implicit-association test and Situational ethics.

His most cited work include:

  • A Meta-Analysis on the Correlation Between the Implicit Association Test and Explicit Self-Report Measures (1167 citations)
  • Differences Between Tight and Loose Cultures: A 33-Nation Study (1148 citations)
  • Recommendations for Increasing Replicability in Psychology (479 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Social psychology, Injustice, Personality, Humanities and Justice are his primary areas of study. His study brings together the fields of Cognition and Social psychology. His studies in Injustice integrate themes in fields like Construct validity, Just-world hypothesis and Intrusiveness.

His Personality study combines topics in areas such as Developmental psychology, Test validity and Cognitive psychology. His Justice study typically links adjacent topics like Well-being. In most of his Implicit-association test studies, his work intersects topics such as Implicit attitude.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Social psychology (52.15%)
  • Injustice (14.83%)
  • Personality (12.44%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2014-2021)?

  • Social psychology (52.15%)
  • Cognitive psychology (9.09%)
  • Justice (9.57%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His primary areas of study are Social psychology, Cognitive psychology, Justice, Injustice and Process. He performs multidisciplinary study in Social psychology and Trait in his work. His work carried out in the field of Cognitive psychology brings together such families of science as Task, Jealousy, Aggression and Personality.

His work on Personality development, Big Five personality traits and Agreeableness is typically connected to Research questions as part of general Personality study, connecting several disciplines of science. In his research, Longitudinal study and Pedagogy is intimately related to Well-being, which falls under the overarching field of Justice. His biological study deals with issues like Dictator game, which deal with fields such as Mindset, Schema and Expectancy theory.

Between 2014 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Integrating Personality Structure, Personality Process, and Personality Development: (144 citations)
  • Self-esteem development across the life span: a longitudinal study with a large sample from Germany. (68 citations)
  • Handbook of Social Justice Theory and Research (52 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Social psychology
  • Social science
  • Statistics

The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Social psychology, Cognitive psychology, Anger, Longitudinal study and Current. He has researched Social psychology in several fields, including Psychological intervention and Causality. Manfred Schmitt interconnects Empirical evidence, Jealousy and Aggression in the investigation of issues within Cognitive psychology.

His work deals with themes such as Privilege, Justice, Feeling and Injustice, which intersect with Anger. His study in Longitudinal study is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Cohort effect, Young adult, Well-being and Self-esteem. He connects Current with Scale construction in his study.

Best Publications

  • Differences Between Tight and Loose Cultures: A 33-Nation Study

    Michele J . Gelfand;Jana L. Raver;Lisa Nishii;Lisa Art. Leslie

  • A Meta-Analysis on the Correlation Between the Implicit Association Test and Explicit Self-Report Measures

    Wilhelm Hofmann;Bertram Gawronski;Tobias Gschwendner;Huy Le

  • Statistik und Forschungsmethoden

    Michael Eid;Mario Gollwitzer;Manfred Schmitt

  • Recommendations for increasing replicability in psychology.

    Jens B. Asendorpf;Mark Conner;Filip de Fruyt;Jan De Houwer

  • Working memory capacity and self-regulatory behavior: Toward an individual differences perspective on behavior determination by automatic versus controlled processes

    Wilhelm Hofmann;Tobias Gschwendner;Malte Friese;Reinout W. Wiers

  • Latent state–trait theory and research in personality and individual differences

    Rolf Steyer;Manfred Schmitt;Michael Eid

  • Glaube an eine gerechte Welt als Motiv: Validierungskorrelate zweier Skalen

    Claudia Dalbert;Leo Montada;Manfred Schmitt

  • Justice sensitivity : assessment and location in the personality space

    Manfred Schmitt;Mario Gollwitzer;Dima Arbach

  • Integrating Personality Structure, Personality Process, and Personality Development:

    Anna Baumert;Anna Baumert;Manfred Schmitt;Marco Perugini;Wendy Johnson

  • States and traits in psychological assessment.

    Rolf Steyer;Dieter Ferring;Manfred J. Schmitt

  • Low self-esteem is a risk factor for depressive symptoms from young adulthood to old age

    Ulrich Orth;Richard W. Robins;Kali H. Trzesniewski;Jürgen Maes

  • The Justice Sensitivity Inventory: Factorial Validity, Location in the Personality Facet Space, Demographic Pattern, and Normative Data

    Manfred Schmitt;Anna Baumert;Mario Gollwitzer;Jürgen Maes

  • When and why do implicit measures predict behaviour? Empirical evidence for the moderating role of opportunity, motivation, and process reliance

    Malte Friese;Wilhelm Hofmann;Manfred Schmitt

  • Dispositional Sensitivity to Befallen Injustice

    Manfred J. Schmitt;Roland Neumann;Leo Montada

  • Procedural injustice at work, justice sensitivity, job satisfaction and psychosomatic well‐being

    Manfred Schmitt;Martin Dörfel

  • What moderates implicit—explicit consistency?

    Wilhelm Hofmann;Tobias Gschwendner;Brian A. Nosek;Manfred Schmitt

  • Thinking about Justice and Dealing with One's Own Privileges

    Leo Montada;Manfred Schmitt;Claudia Dalbert

  • Asymmetrical Effects of Justice Sensitivity Perspectives on Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior

    Mario Gollwitzer;Manfred Schmitt;Rebecca Schalke;Jürgen Maes

  • Effects of objective and subjective account components on forgiving.

    Manfred Schmitt;Mario Gollwitzer;Nikolai Förster;Leo Montada

  • Handbook of Social Justice Theory and Research

    Clara Sabbagh;Manfred Schmitt

  • What gives victims satisfaction when they seek revenge

    Mario Gollwitzer;Milena Meder;Manfred Schmitt

Frequent Co-Authors

Mario Gollwitzer
Mario Gollwitzer Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Wilhelm Hofmann
Wilhelm Hofmann Ruhr University Bochum
Claudia Dalbert
Claudia Dalbert Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Beatrice Rammstedt
Beatrice Rammstedt Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Marco Perugini
Marco Perugini University of Milano-Bicocca
Brent W. Roberts
Brent W. Roberts University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Michael Eid
Michael Eid Freie Universität Berlin
Roland Imhoff
Roland Imhoff Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Jaap J. A. Denissen
Jaap J. A. Denissen Utrecht University
Colin MacLeod
Colin MacLeod University of Western Australia

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