2026 Marjorie Rhodes: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	42	7619	7108	4091	3717	120	6520

Overview

Marjorie Rhodes is affiliated with New York University in the United States and has made contributions primarily in the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with specializations in subfields such as Developmental and Educational Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Education, and Gender Studies.

Their research topics cover a broad range of themes including Child and Animal Learning Development, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Cultural Differences and Values, Early Childhood Education and Development, Gender Roles and Identity Studies, Educational Strategies and Epistemologies, and Gender Studies in Language.

Marjorie Rhodes has authored multiple papers published in recognized academic venues. Selected recent publications include:

"Online Developmental Science to Foster Innovation, Access, and Impact" (2020) in Trends in Cognitive Sciences
"Children's use of race and gender as cues to social status" (2020) in PLoS ONE
"Advancing Developmental Science via Unmoderated Remote Research with Children" (2020) in Journal of Cognition and Development
"Does It Matter How We Speak About Social Kinds? A Large, Preregistered, Online Experimental Study of How Language Shapes the Development of Essentialist Beliefs" (2021) in Child Development
"The Development of Intersectional Social Prototypes" (2020) in Psychological Science

The venues in which Rhodes frequently publishes include:

Journal of Cognition and Development
Developmental Science
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Journal of Experimental Psychology General
Psychological Science

Collaboration plays a notable role in Rhodes' work, with frequent coauthors including Rachel Leshin, Emily Foster-Hanson, Sarah-Jane Leslie, Kelsey Moty, and Josie Benitez.

Best Publications

Cultural transmission of social essentialism

Marjorie Rhodes;Sarah Jane Leslie;Christina M. Tworek

510
Citations
A developmental examination of the conceptual structure of animal, artifact, and human social categories across two cultural contexts.

Marjorie Rhodes;Susan A. Gelman

414
Citations
Boys will be boys; Cows will be cows: Children's essentialist reasoning about gender categories and animal species

Marianne G. Taylor;Marjorie Rhodes;Susan A. Gelman

333
Citations
School Success, Possible Selves, and Parent School Involvement*

Daphna Oyserman;Daniel Brickman;Marjorie Rhodes

280
Citations
Social Categories as Markers of Intrinsic Interpersonal Obligations

Marjorie Rhodes;Lisa Chalik

279
Citations
The development and developmental consequences of social essentialism.

Marjorie Rhodes;Tara M. Mandalaywala

252
Citations
Naïve theories of social groups.

Marjorie Rhodes

217
Citations
Cross-Cultural Differences in Children's Beliefs about the Objectivity of Social Categories.

Gil Diesendruck;Rebecca Goldfein-Elbaz;Marjorie Rhodes;Susan A. Gelman

163
Citations
How Two Intuitive Theories Shape the Development of Social Categorization

Marjorie Rhodes

149
Citations
How does social essentialism affect the development of inter-group relations?

Marjorie Rhodes;Sarah Jane Leslie;Katya Saunders;Yarrow Dunham

134
Citations
Essentialism Promotes Racial Prejudice by Increasing Endorsement of Social Hierarchies

Tara M. Mandalaywala;David M. Amodio;Marjorie Rhodes

131
Citations
The Role of Generic Language in the Early Development of Social Categorization.

Marjorie Rhodes;Sarah Jane Leslie;Lydia Bianchi;Lisa Chalik

131
Citations
The Development of Social Categorization

Marjorie Rhodes;Andrew Baron

128
Citations
"Two-Thousand Years of Stasis": How Psychological Essentialism Impedes Evolutionary Understa

Susan A. Gelman;Marjorie Rhodes

123
Citations
Making Boundaries Great Again: Essentialism and Support for Boundary-Enhancing Initiatives

Steven O. Roberts;Arnold K. Ho;Marjorie Rhodes;Susan A. Gelman

108
Citations
Moral learning as intuitive theory revision

Marjorie Rhodes;Henry Wellman

106
Citations
The Nature and Consequences of Essentialist Beliefs About Race in Early Childhood

Tara M. Mandalaywala;Gabrielle Ranger-Murdock;David M. Amodio;David M. Amodio;Marjorie Rhodes

100
Citations
Children's use of race and gender as cues to social status.

Tara M. Mandalaywala;Christine Tai;Marjorie Rhodes

99
Citations
Racial-ethnic identity: Content and consequences for African American, Latino, and Latina Youths

Daphna Oyserman;Daniel Brickman;Marjorie Rhodes

97
Citations
Online Developmental Science to Foster Innovation, Access, and Impact.

Mark Sheskin;Kimberly Scott;Candice M. Mills;Elika Bergelson

94
Citations
Advancing Developmental Science via Unmoderated Remote Research with Children

Marjorie Rhodes;Michael T. Rizzo;Emily Foster-Hanson;Kelsey Moty

92
Citations
Preschoolers Use Social Allegiances to Predict Behavior.

Lisa Chalik;Marjorie Rhodes

91
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan A. Gelman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

David M. Amodio University of Amsterdam

Henry M. Wellman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Andrei Cimpian New York University

Yarrow Dunham Yale University

Daphna Oyserman University of Southern California

Jay J. Van Bavel New York University

June Gruber University of Colorado Boulder

Elizabeth S. Spelke Harvard University

Li Fei-Fei Stanford University

External Links

Personal website of Marjorie Rhodes Google Scholar page

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