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106
Citations
50985
World Ranking
464
National Ranking
300

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1976 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1970 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Michael Lewis is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within psychology and medicine, focusing on both core and interdisciplinary topics.

Their published research covers diverse themes, including developmental psychology, psychosocial emotional development in children and adolescents, autism spectrum disorder, and prenatal substance exposure effects. The range of their work also touches on emotions and moral behavior, child and animal learning development, attachment and relationship dynamics, as well as obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders.

Recent scholarly publications by Michael Lewis include:

  • Self-recognition and emotional knowledge (2021), European Journal of Developmental Psychology
  • Face Memory Deficits in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (2021), Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
  • Does prenatal cocaine exposure predict adolescent substance use? (2020), Neurotoxicology and Teratology
  • Prenatal drug exposure and executive function in early adolescence (2021), Neurotoxicology and Teratology
  • On the Measurement of Self-Conscious Emotions (2020), Child Psychiatry & Human Development

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Michael Lewis include:

  • Nicholas J. Minar
  • Kirin Suri
  • Emily Willson
  • Jessica Ace
  • David S. Bennett

Michael Lewis's work appears regularly in certain publication venues, with multiple articles published in:

  • Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
  • Neurotoxicology and Teratology
  • Child Psychiatry & Human Development
  • European Journal of Developmental Psychology
  • Journal of Forensic Practice

The scientist's primary fields of study are psychology and medicine, with particular focus on subfields such as social psychology, clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, and oncology.

Recognition of their academic standing includes fellowships with major professional organizations, having been named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in 1970 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1976.

Best Publications

  • Handbook of Emotions

    Michael Lewis;Jeannette M. Haviland

  • Implementing the Lexical Approach: Putting Theory into Practice

    Michael Lewis

  • Shame: The Exposed Self

    Michael Lewis

  • Handbook of emotions, 2nd ed.

    Michael Lewis;Jeannette M. Haviland-Jones;Lisa Feldman Barrett

  • Social cognition and the acquisition of self

    Michael Lewis;Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

  • Handbook of developmental psychopathology

    Michael Lewis;Karen D. Rudolph

  • Self-conscious emotions: Embarrassment, pride, shame, and guilt.

    Michael Lewis

  • The effect of the infant on its caregiver

    Michael Lewis;Leonard A. Rosenblum

  • Self development and self-conscious emotions.

    Michael Lewis;Margaret Wolan Sullivan;Catherine Stanger;Maya Weiss

  • The emergence of human emotions.

    Michael Lewis

  • The Effect of the Infant on Its Caregiver. Volume 1 in the Origins of Behavior Series.

    Michael Lewis;Leonard A. Rosenblum

  • Predicting Psychopathology in Six-Year-Olds from Early Social Relations.

    Michael Lewis;Candice Feiring;Carolyn McGuffog;John Jaskir

  • Children's Emotions and Moods: Developmental Theory And Measurement

    Michael Lewis;Linda Michalson

  • Play behavior in the year-old infant: early sex differences.

    Susan Goldberg;Michael Lewis

  • Agreement Among Parents, Teachers, and Children on Internalizing and Externalizing Behavior Problems

    Catherine Stanger;Michael Lewis

  • Attachment over Time

    Michael Lewis;Candice Feiring;Saul Rosenthal

  • The Lexical Approach: The State of ELT and a Way Forward

    Michael Lewis

  • Deception in 3-Year-Olds

    Michael Lewis;Catherine Stanger;Margaret W. Sullivan

  • Perspectives in Interactional Psychology

    Lawrence A. Pervin;Michael Lewis

  • The Development of affect

    Michael Lewis;Leonard A. Rosenblum

Frequent Co-Authors

Margaret Wolan Sullivan
Margaret Wolan Sullivan Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Candice Feiring
Candice Feiring College of New Jersey
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn Columbia University
David S. Bennett
David S. Bennett Drexel University
Leonard A. Rosenblum
Leonard A. Rosenblum SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Susan Goldberg
Susan Goldberg University of Toronto
Catherine Stanger
Catherine Stanger Dartmouth College
Marsha Weinraub
Marsha Weinraub Temple University
Jerome Kagan
Jerome Kagan Harvard University
Linda C. Mayes
Linda C. Mayes Yale University

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