2026 Mark D. Alicke: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	41	7718	4138	86	12962

Mark D. Alicke publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mark D. Alicke sits on this spectrum.

31 publications 705+

This scientist: 86 publications — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Mark D. Alicke D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mark D. Alicke sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Mark D. Alicke is affiliated with Ohio University in the United States. Their research intersects multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on psychology, neuroscience, and social sciences, with particular attention to cognitive neuroscience and social psychology subfields.

The researcher has contributed notably to the study of social and intergroup psychology, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, and cultural differences and values. Additional topics in their work include free will and agency, deception detection and forensic psychology, personality traits, and crime patterns and interventions.

Mark D. Alicke has recent publications that demonstrate engagement with these themes. These include:

"My True Self is Better Than Yours: Comparative Bias in True Self Judgments" (2020), published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
"The Reasonable Person Standard: Psychological and Legal Perspectives" (2021), published in Annual Review of Law and Social Science
"Self-Awareness and Self-Knowledge" (2020), published in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology
"The reasonably prudent person, or me?" (2020), published in Journal of Applied Social Psychology
"Explaining the better-than-average effect among prisoners" (2020), published in Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Mark D. Alicke include Yiyue Zhang, Constantine Sedikides, Nicole Stephenson, Stephanie H. Weigel, and John J. Skowronski.

Their work is often published in venues such as the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology, and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Best Publications

Global self-evaluation as determined by the desirability and controllability of trait adjectives.

Mark D. Alicke

1653
Citations
Culpable control and the psychology of blame.

Mark D. Alicke

1388
Citations
Personal contact, individuation, and the better-than-average effect.

Mark D. Alicke;M. L. Klotz;David L. Breitenbecher;Tricia J. Yurak

1347
Citations
Self-enhancement and self-protection: what they are and what they do

Mark D. Alicke;Constantine Sedikides

1063
Citations
Effectiveness of psychotherapy with children and adolescents: a meta-analysis for clinicians

John R. Weisz;Bahr Weiss;Mark D. Alicke;M. L. Klotz

958
Citations
The Better-Than-Average Effect.

Mark D. Alicke;Olesya Govorun

875
Citations
The better-than-average effect in comparative self-evaluation: A comprehensive review and meta-analysis.

Ethan Zell;Jason E Strickhouser;Constantine Sedikides;Mark D Alicke

342
Citations
Handbook of self-enhancement and self-protection

Mark D. Alicke;Constantine Sedikides

335
Citations
The Local Dominance Effect in Self-Evaluation: Evidence and Explanations

Ethan Zell;Mark D. Alicke

264
Citations
Complaining Behavior in Social Interaction

Mark D. Alicke;James C. Braun;Jeffrey E. Glor;M. L. Klotz

260
Citations
Causation, Norm violation, and culpable control

Mark D. Alicke;David Rose;Dori Bloom

237
Citations
Culpable Control and Counterfactual Reasoning in the Psychology of Blame

Mark D. Alicke;Justin Buckingham;Ethan Zell;Teresa Davis

236
Citations
Self-Enhancement and Self-Protection Motives

Constantine Sedikides;Mark D. Alicke

228
Citations
The person who outperforms me is a genius : Maintaining perceived competence in upward social comparison

Mark D. Alicke;Frank M. LoSchiavo;Jennifer Zerbst;Shaobo Zhang

200
Citations
Deconstructing the better-than-average effect.

Corey L. Guenther;Mark D. Alicke

176
Citations
The Self in Social Judgment

Mark D. Alicke;David A. Dunning;Joachim I. Krueger

172
Citations
Conformity and Group Size: The Concern with Being Right and the Concern with Being Liked

Chester A. Insko;Richard H. Smith;Mark D. Alicke;Joel Wade

160
Citations
Judgments of Physical Attractiveness: The Role of Faces and Bodies

Mark D. Alicke;Richard H. Smith;M. L. Klotz

160
Citations
The influence of individual versus aggregate social comparison and the presence of others on self-evaluations.

Justin T. Buckingham;Mark D. Alicke

141
Citations
Self-Evaluative Effects of Temporal and Social Comparison

Ethan Zell;Mark D. Alicke

138
Citations
Contextual neglect, self-evaluation, and the frog-pond effect.

Ethan Zell;Mark D. Alicke

134
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Constantine Sedikides University of Southampton

Chester A. Insko University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Bahr Weiss Vanderbilt University

Joachim I. Krueger Brown University

John J. Skowronski Northern Illinois University

David Dunning University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

David A. Lagnado University College London

John R. Weisz Harvard University

Denis J. Hilton Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées

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