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Melissa A. Cyders 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 Melissa A. Cyders sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 148 publications — 48th percentile

48% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Melissa A. Cyders 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 Melissa A. Cyders sits on this spectrum.

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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

Melissa A. Cyders is affiliated with Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within psychology and medicine, with a focus on areas related to clinical and social psychology as well as epidemiology.

Their work covers a range of topics including substance abuse treatment and outcomes, behavioral health and interventions, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, alcohol consumption and health effects, mental health research topics, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, and personality disorders and psychopathology.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Network functional connectivity underlying dissociable cognitive and affective components of empathy in adolescence, 2021, Neuropsychologia
  • Electronic nicotine delivery system use is related to higher odds of alcohol and marijuana use in adolescents: Meta-analytic evidence, 2020, Addictive Behaviors
  • To Infuse or Ingest in Human Laboratory Alcohol Research, 2020, Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research
  • Developmental Considerations for Assessment and Treatment of Impulsivity in Older Adults, 2020, Current topics in behavioral neurosciences
  • Early Impact of the U.S. COVID-19 Pandemic on Drinking Motives and Alcohol Use, 2021, Substance Use & Misuse

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Melissa A. Cyders include:

  • Melissa Liu
  • Christiana J. Prestigiacomo
  • Tamika C. B. Zapolski
  • Martin H. Plawecki
  • Jesse C. Stewart

Their publications have appeared in venues such as:

  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • PLoS ONE
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research
  • Substance Use & Misuse

Melissa A. Cyders has contributed to book literature with a publication by Humana Press titled Translational Research Methods for Alcohol Use Disorders (2023).

Their primary fields of study include:

  • Psychology
  • Medicine

Within these fields, key subfields of focus are:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Epidemiology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Applied Psychology
  • Social Psychology

Best Publications

  • Integration of impulsivity and positive mood to predict risky behavior: Development and validation of a measure of positive urgency.

    Melissa A. Cyders;Gregory T. Smith;Nichea S. Spillane;Sarah Fischer

  • Emotion-based dispositions to rash action: positive and negative urgency.

    Melissa A. Cyders;Gregory T. Smith

  • Examination of a short English version of the UPPS-P Impulsive Behavior Scale ☆

    Melissa A. Cyders;Andrew K. Littlefield;Scott Coffey;Kenny A. Karyadi

  • On the validity and utility of discriminating among impulsivity-like traits.

    Gregory T. Smith;Sarah Fischer;Melissa A. Cyders;Agnes M. Annus

  • Mood-based rash action and its components: Positive and negative urgency

    Melissa A. Cyders;Gregory T. Smith

  • Measurement of constructs using self-report and behavioral lab tasks: Is there overlap in nomothetic span and construct representation for impulsivity?

    Melissa A. Cyders;Ayca Coskunpinar

  • Multidimensionality in impulsivity and alcohol use: a meta-analysis using the UPPS model of impulsivity

    Ayca Coskunpinar;Allyson L. Dir;Melissa A. Cyders

  • The role of personality dispositions to risky behavior in predicting first-year college drinking.

    Melissa A. Cyders;Kate Flory;Sarah Rainer;Gregory T. Smith

  • Another look at impulsivity: a meta-analytic review comparing specific dispositions to rash action in their relationship to bulimic symptoms.

    Solomon Fischer;Gregory T. Smith;Gregory T. Smith;Melissa A. Cyders;Melissa A. Cyders

  • Positive Urgency Predicts Illegal Drug Use and Risky Sexual Behavior

    Tamika C. B. Zapolski;Melissa A. Cyders;Gregory T. Smith

  • Integrating affect and impulsivity: The role of positive and negative urgency in substance use risk.

    Gregory T. Smith;Melissa A. Cyders

  • Negative urgency: A personality predictor of externalizing behavior characterized by neuroticism, low conscientiousness, and disagreeableness.

    Regan E. Settles;Solomon Fischer;Melissa A. Cyders;Jessica L. Combs

  • Measurement invariance of the patient health questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) depression screener in U.S. adults across sex, race/ethnicity, and education level: NHANES 2005-2016.

    Jay S. Patel;Youngha Oh;Kevin L. Rand;Wei Wu

  • Understanding Differences in Sexting Behaviors Across Gender, Relationship Status, and Sexual Identity, and the Role of Expectancies in Sexting

    Allyson L. Dir;Ayca Coskunpinar;Jennifer L. Steiner;Melissa A. Cyders

  • Clarifying the role of personality dispositions in risk for increased gambling behavior.

    Melissa A. Cyders;Gregory T. Smith

  • From the bar to the bed via mobile phone: A first test of the role of problematic alcohol use, sexting, and impulsivity-related traits in sexual hookups

    Allyson L. Dir;Melissa A. Cyders;Ayca Coskunpinar

  • Longitudinal validation of the acquired preparedness model of drinking risk.

    Regan Fried Settles;Melissa A. Cyders;Gregory T. Smith

  • Impulsivity and the sexes: measurement and structural invariance of the UPPS-P Impulsive Behavior Scale.

    Melissa A. Cyders

  • A meta-analytic review of the relationship between adolescent risky sexual behavior and impulsivity across gender, age, and race.

    Allyson L. Dir;Ayca Coskunpinar;Melissa A. Cyders

  • The relationship between self-report and lab task conceptualizations of impulsivity

    Melissa A. Cyders;Ayca Coskunpinar

  • The uniqueness of negative urgency as a common risk factor for self-harm behaviors, alcohol consumption, and eating problems.

    Allyson L. Dir;Kenny Karyadi;Melissa A. Cyders

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregory T. Smith
Gregory T. Smith University of Kentucky
Mario Dzemidzic
Mario Dzemidzic Indiana University
Sean O'Connor
Sean O'Connor Indiana University
Kurt Kroenke
Kurt Kroenke Indiana University
Andrea Fossati
Andrea Fossati Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Peter R. Finn
Peter R. Finn Indiana University
Charles R. Carlson
Charles R. Carlson University of Kentucky
Scott F. Coffey
Scott F. Coffey University of Mississippi Medical Center
Rajita Sinha
Rajita Sinha Yale University
Ellen Leibenluft
Ellen Leibenluft National Institutes of Health

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