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58
Citations
15826
World Ranking
3835
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2153

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1992 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Miron Zuckerman is affiliated with the University of Rochester in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of social sciences and psychology, with a specific focus on sociology and political science, social psychology, health, experimental and cognitive psychology, and developmental and educational psychology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics including religion, spirituality, and psychology; social and intergroup psychology; cultural differences and values; death anxiety and social exclusion; psychological well-being and life satisfaction; language, metaphor, and cognition; and categorization, perception, and language.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Miron Zuckerman include:

  • Religious Americans Have Less Positive Attitudes Toward Science, but This Does Not Extend to Other Cultures, 2020, Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • Culture Moderates the Relation Between Gender Inequality and Well-Being, 2021, Psychological Science
  • Does Religious Priming Induce Greater Prejudice? A Meta-Analytic Review, 2022, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Coherence and the Conjunction Fallacy, 2025, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • The rod or the staff? Dispositional autonomy or control and perceptions of an autonomy-supportive or controlling God, 2025, Self and Identity

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Zuckerman include Annetta Snell, Jonathon McPhetres, Jonathan Jong, Chen Li, and Ed Diener.

The scientist often publishes in venues such as Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Social Psychological and Personality Science, Psychological Science, and Self and Identity.

Miron Zuckerman was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1992.

Best Publications

  • Verbal and Nonverbal Communication of Deception

    Miron Zuckerman;Bella M. DePaulo;Robert Rosenthal

  • Attribution of success and failure revisited, or: The motivational bias is alive and well in attribution theory

    Miron Zuckerman

  • On the Importance of Self-Determination for Intrinsically-Motivated Behavior:

    Miron Zuckerman;Joseph Porac;Drew Lathin;Edward L. Deci

  • Facilitating Acceptance of Organizational Change: The Importance of Self-Determination'

    Marylène Gagné;Richard Koestner;Miron Zuckerman

  • What sounds beautiful is good: The vocal attractiveness stereotype

    Miron Zuckerman;Robert E. Driver

  • The Relation Between Intelligence and Religiosity: A Meta-Analysis and Some Proposed Explanations

    Miron Zuckerman;Jordan Silberman;Judith A. Hall

  • Consequences of Self-Handicapping: Effects on Coping, Academic Performance, and Adjustment

    Miron Zuckerman;Suzanne C. Kieffer;C. Raymond Knee

  • Praise, involvement, and intrinsic motivation.

    Richard Koestner;Miron Zuckerman;Julia Koestner

  • Self-Regulation and Consistency between Attitudes, Traits, and Behaviors

    Richard Koestner;Frank Bernieri;Miron Zuckerman

  • Comparison of Three Models for Predicting Altruistic Behavior.

    Miron Zuckerman;Harry T. Reis

  • Encoding and decoding nonverbal cues of emotion.

    Miron Zuckerman;Marsha S. Lipets;Judith H. Koivumaki;Robert Rosenthal

  • Encoding and decoding of spontaneous and posed facial expressions.

    Miron Zuckerman;Judith A. Hall;Richard S. DeFrank;Robert Rosenthal

  • Justice needs a new blindfold: A review of mock jury research.

    Kathleen Carrese Gerbasi;Miron Zuckerman;Harry T. Reis

  • To dispel fantasies about the fantasy-based measure of fear of success.

    Miron Zuckerman;Ladd Wheeler

  • Costs of self-handicapping.

    Miron Zuckerman;Fen-Fang Tsai

  • Beliefs about cues associated with deception

    Miron Zuckerman;Richard Koestner;Robert Driver

  • Learning to detect deception.

    Miron Zuckerman;Richard Koestner;Audrey O. Alton

  • Causality Orientations, Failure, and Achievement

    Richard Koestner;Miron Zuckerman

  • Facial and vocal cues of deception and honesty

    Miron Zuckerman;Richard S. DeFrank;Judith A. Hall;Deborah T. Larrance

  • A Nondefensive Personality: Autonomy and Control as Moderators of Defensive Coping and Self-Handicapping

    C.Raymond Knee;Miron Zuckerman

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Koestner
Richard Koestner McGill University
Robert Rosenthal
Robert Rosenthal University of California, Riverside
Frank J. Bernieri
Frank J. Bernieri Oregon State University
Marylène Gagné
Marylène Gagné Curtin University
Judith A. Hall
Judith A. Hall Northeastern University
C. Raymond Knee
C. Raymond Knee University of Houston
Bella M. DePaulo
Bella M. DePaulo University of California, Santa Barbara
Paul R. Duberstein
Paul R. Duberstein Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Harry T. Reis
Harry T. Reis University of Rochester
Youngmee Kim
Youngmee Kim University of Miami

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