2026 Michael A. Sayette: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	66	2741	2513	1574	1409	149	13344

Research.com Recognitions

2008 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Michael A. Sayette is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of psychology, with a focus on several subfields including social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, applied psychology, epidemiology, and clinical psychology.

The researcher's main topics of work include behavioral health and interventions, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, death anxiety and social exclusion, counseling practices and supervision, consumer behavior in brand consumption and identification, and eating disorders and behaviors.

Recent publications by Michael A. Sayette include:

"Alcohol narrows physical distance between strangers" (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"A social contextual review of the effects of alcohol on emotion" (2022), published in Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior
"Doctoral training in counseling psychology: Analyses of 20-year trends, differences across the practice-research continuum, and comparisons with clinical psychology." (2020), published in Training and Education in Professional Psychology
"In the Eye of the Beholder: A Comprehensive Analysis of Stimulus Type, Perceiver, and Target in Physical Attractiveness Perceptions" (2021), published in Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
"The effect of alcohol on mood among males drinking with a platonic friend" (2021), published in Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research

Their frequent coauthors include Madeline E. Goodwin, Kasey G. Creswell, Molly A. Bowdring, John C. Norcross, and Catharine E. Fairbairn.

Michael A. Sayette has frequently published in venues such as Clinical Psychological Science, Eye on Psi Chi Magazine, Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research, Training and Education in Professional Psychology, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In recognition of professional contributions, they were awarded the status of Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2008.

Best Publications

Meta-awareness, perceptual decoupling and the wandering mind

Jonathan W. Schooler;Jonathan Smallwood;Kalina Christoff;Todd C. Handy

1152
Citations
The measurement of drug craving.

Michael A. Sayette;Saul Shiffman;Stephen T. Tiffany;Raymond S. Niaura

727
Citations
Prefrontal responses to drug cues: a neurocognitive analysis.

Stephen J Wilson;Michael A Sayette;Julie A Fiez

514
Citations
An appraisal-disruption model of alcohol's effects on stress responses in social drinkers.

Michael A. Sayette

462
Citations
Attentional bias predicts outcome in smoking cessation.

Andrew J. Waters;Saul Shiffman;Michael A. Sayette;Jean A. Paty

434
Citations
The promotion of social competence: longitudinal study of a preventive school-based program.

Maurice J. Elias;Michael A. Gara;Thomas F. Schuyler;Leslie R. Branden-Muller

405
Citations
A Psychometric Evaluation of the Facial Action Coding System for Assessing Spontaneous Expression

Michael A. Sayette;Jeffrey F. Cohn;Joan M. Wertz;Michael A. Perrott

351
Citations
Alcohol and Group Formation A Multimodal Investigation of the Effects of Alcohol on Emotion and Social Bonding

Michael A. Sayette;Kasey G. Creswell;John D. Dimoff;Catharine Edith Ann Fairbairn

321
Citations
Does Drinking Reduce Stress

Michael A. Sayette

302
Citations
Effects of cue exposure and deprivation on cognitive resources in smokers.

Michael A. Sayette;Michael R. Hufford

284
Citations
The Role of Craving in Substance Use Disorders: Theoretical and Methodological Issues.

Michael A. Sayette

283
Citations
Cue-provoked craving and nicotine replacement therapy in smoking cessation.

Andrew J. Waters;Saul Shiffman;Michael A. Sayette;Jean A. Paty

237
Citations
A multi-dimensional analysis of cue-elicited craving in heavy smokers and tobacco chippers.

Michael A. Sayette;Christopher S. Martin;Joan M. Wertz;Saul Shiffman

227
Citations
A review of the effects of perceived drug use opportunity on self-reported urge.

Joan M. Wertz;Michael A. Sayette

219
Citations
Experimental design in alcohol administration research: limitations and alternatives in the manipulation of dosage-set.

Christopher S. Martin;Michael A. Sayette

218
Citations
Self-regulatory failure and addiction.

Michael A. Sayette;Kasey M. Griffin

193
Citations
Lost in the Sauce The Effects of Alcohol on Mind Wandering

Michael A. Sayette;Erik D. Reichle;Jonathan W. Schooler

189
Citations
Instructed smoking expectancy modulates cue-elicited neural activity: A preliminary study

Stephen J. Wilson;Michael A. Sayette;Mauricio R. Delgado;Julie A. Fiez

185
Citations
Exploring the Cold-to-Hot Empathy Gap in Smokers

Michael A. Sayette;George Loewenstein;Kasey M. Griffin;Jessica J. Black

183
Citations
A social-attributional analysis of alcohol response.

Catharine E. Fairbairn;Michael A. Sayette

163
Citations
The Effects of Alcohol on Cigarette Craving in Heavy Smokers and Tobacco Chippers

Michael A. Sayette;Christopher S. Martin;Joan M. Wertz;Michael A. Perrott

156
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

John C. Norcross University of Scranton

Jeffrey F. Cohn University of Pittsburgh

Christopher S. Martin University of Pittsburgh

Julie A. Fiez University of Pittsburgh

Saul Shiffman University of Pittsburgh

John M. Levine University of Pittsburgh

Jonathan W. Schooler University of California, Santa Barbara

Richard L. Moreland University of Pittsburgh

Andrew J. Waters Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

G. Terence Wilson Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

External Links

Personal website of Michael A. Sayette

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