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Maya Tamir 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 Maya Tamir sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 134 publications — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Maya Tamir 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 Maya Tamir sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Maya Tamir is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel and has contributed extensively to the field of psychology, with a primary focus on experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, clinical psychology, applied psychology, and elements of sociology and political science. Their scholarly output includes 74 publications primarily situated within these domains.

Their research encompasses core topics such as child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, mental health research topics, cultural differences and values, behavioral health and interventions, social and intergroup psychology, and areas related to anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Early childhood education and development also feature among their studied themes.

Frequent collaborations have been established with several researchers. Notable coauthors include Tony Gutentag and Danfei Hu, each collaborating on nine publications. Other common collaborators are Allon Vishkin and Eran Halperin, each with seven joint publications, alongside Yael Millgram with six coauthored works.

Maya Tamir publishes regularly in a few key venues, demonstrating a focus on specific journals in psychology. Their most frequent publication venue is Emotion, with fourteen articles. Other venues include Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin with four publications, Affective Science with three, Current Directions in Psychological Science with two, and Motivation and Emotion also with two papers.

Significant recent papers include:

  • "Emotion regulation is motivated." (2020, Emotion)
  • "Effortful Emotion Regulation as a Unique Form of Cybernetic Control" (2020, Perspectives on Psychological Science)
  • "Emotion regulation strategies and psychological health across cultures." (2023, American Psychologist)
  • "On the relationship between valence and arousal in samples across the globe." (2022, Emotion)
  • "Emotion Goals in Psychopathology: A New Perspective on Dysfunctional Emotion Regulation" (2020, Current Directions in Psychological Science)

Best Publications

  • Why Do People Regulate Their Emotions? A Taxonomy of Motives in Emotion Regulation

    Maya Tamir

  • Implicit theories of emotion: affective and social outcomes across a major life transition.

    Maya Tamir;Oliver P. John;Sanjay Srivastava;James J. Gross

  • What Do People Want to Feel and Why? Pleasure and Utility in Emotion Regulation

    Maya Tamir

  • A Dark Side of Happiness? How, When, and Why Happiness Is Not Always Good

    June Gruber;Iris B. Mauss;Maya Tamir

  • The social costs of emotional suppression: a prospective study of the transition to college

    Sanjay Srivastava;Maya Tamir;Kelly M. McGonigal;Oliver P. John

  • Integrating The Diverse Definitions of Happiness: A Time-Sequential Framework of Subjective Well-Being

    Chu Kim-Prieto;Ed Diener;Maya Tamir;Christie N. Scollon

  • Hedonic and Instrumental Motives in Anger Regulation

    Maya Tamir;Christopher Mitchell;James J. Gross

  • Can seeking happiness make people unhappy? Paradoxical effects of valuing happiness.

    Iris B. Mauss;Maya Tamir;Craig L. Anderson;Nicole S. Savino

  • Don't worry, be happy? Neuroticism, trait-consistent affect regulation, and performance.

    Maya Tamir

  • Can Emotion Regulation Change Political Attitudes in Intractable Conflicts? From the Laboratory to the Field

    Eran Halperin;Roni Porat;Roni Porat;Maya Tamir;James J. Gross

  • The Happy Spotlight: Positive Mood and Selective Attention to Rewarding Information:

    Maya Tamir;Michael D. Robinson

  • When feeling bad is expected to be good: Emotion regulation and outcome expectancies in social conflicts.

    Maya Tamir;Brett Q. Ford

  • The psychology of subjective well-being

    Robert Biswas-Diener;Ed Diener;Maya Tamir

  • Culture shapes whether the pursuit of happiness predicts higher or lower well-being.

    Brett Q. Ford;Julia Dmitrieva;Daniel Heller;Yulia E. Chentsova-Dutton

  • Neuroticism as mental noise: a relation between neuroticism and reaction time standard deviations.

    Michael D. Robinson;Maya Tamir

  • Business or pleasure? Utilitarian versus hedonic considerations in emotion regulation.

    Maya Tamir;Chi-Yue Chiu;James J. Gross

  • Desired emotions across cultures: A value-based account

    Maya Tamir;Shalom H. Schwartz;Jan Cieciuch;Michaela Riediger

  • The pursuit of happiness can be lonely.

    Iris B. Mauss;Nicole S. Savino;Craig L. Anderson;Max Weisbuch

  • An expectancy-value model of emotion regulation: implications for motivation, emotional experience, and decision making

    Maya Tamir;Yochanan E. Bigman;Emily Rhodes;James Salerno

  • The Maturing Field of Emotion Regulation

    Maya Tamir

Frequent Co-Authors

Brett Q. Ford
Brett Q. Ford University of Toronto
Iris B. Mauss
Iris B. Mauss University of California, Berkeley
Michael D. Robinson
Michael D. Robinson North Dakota State University
James J. Gross
James J. Gross Stanford University
Jonathan D. Huppert
Jonathan D. Huppert Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Oliver P. John
Oliver P. John University of California, Berkeley
Shalom H. Schwartz
Shalom H. Schwartz Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Tad T. Brunyé
Tad T. Brunyé Tufts University
Jutta Joormann
Jutta Joormann Yale University
Ed Diener
Ed Diener University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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