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Nancy Eisenberg 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 Nancy Eisenberg sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 706+

This scientist: 570 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 706 publications or more.

Nancy Eisenberg 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 Nancy Eisenberg sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 157 D-Index — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
  • 2011 - William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA)
  • 1996 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Nancy Eisenberg is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with a notable focus on Clinical Psychology, Education, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their work extensively covers topics including Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Early Childhood Education and Development, Parental Involvement in Education, Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Attachment and Relationship Dynamics, and Racial and Ethnic Identity Research.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Nancy Eisenberg include:

  • Findings, issues, and new directions for research on emotion socialization. (2020, Developmental Psychology)
  • Longitudinal associations between mothers' and fathers' anger/irritability expressiveness, harsh parenting, and adolescents' socioemotional functioning in nine countries. (2020, Developmental Psychology)
  • Measuring Prosocial Behaviors: Psychometric Properties and Cross-National Validation of the Prosociality Scale in Five Countries. (2021, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • Negative Parenting, Adolescents' Emotion Regulation, Self-Efficacy in Emotion Regulation, and Psychological Adjustment. (2022, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health)
  • Longitudinal relations among household chaos, SES, and effortful control in the prediction of language skills in early childhood. (2020, Developmental Psychology)

Collaborators frequently working with Nancy Eisenberg include:

  • Tracy L. Spinrad
  • Rebecca H. Berger
  • Diana E. Gal-Szabo
  • Concetta Pastorelli
  • Carlos Valiente

Their research has appeared regularly in several scientific publication venues, with notable contributions to:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Journal of Research in Personality
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Early Childhood Research Quarterly
  • Child Development

Nancy Eisenberg has received the William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science in 2011 and was recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in 1996.

Best Publications

  • The Relation of Empathy to Prosocial and Related Behaviors

    Nancy Eisenberg;Paul A. Miller

  • Emotion, regulation, and moral development.

    Nancy Eisenberg

  • Parental socialization of emotion.

    Nancy Eisenberg;Amanda Cumberland;Tracy L. Spinrad

  • Social, emotional, and personality development

    Nancy Eisenberg;William Damon

  • The Relations of Regulation and Emotionality to Children's Externalizing and Internalizing Problem Behavior

    Nancy Eisenberg;Amanda Cumberland;Tracy L. Spinrad;Richard A. Fabes

  • Sex Differences in Empathy and Related Capacities

    Nancy Eisenberg;Randy Lennon

  • The relation of empathy to aggressive and externalizing/antisocial behavior.

    Paul A. Miller;Nancy Eisenberg

  • Dispositional emotionality and regulation: their role in predicting quality of social functioning.

    Nancy Eisenberg;Richard A. Fabes;Ivanna K. Guthrie;Mark Reiser

  • The roots of prosocial behavior in children

    Nancy Eisenberg;Paul Henry Mussen

  • Altruistic Emotion, Cognition, and Behavior (PLE: Emotion)

    Nancy Eisenberg

  • Emotion-Related Self-Regulation and Its Relation to Children's Maladjustment

    Nancy Eisenberg;Tracy L. Spinrad;Natalie D. Eggum

  • Emotion-related regulation: Sharpening the definition

    Nancy Eisenberg;Tracy L. Spinrad

  • Empathy and its development

    Nancy Eisenberg;Janet Strayer

  • Empathy: Conceptualization, measurement, and relation to prosocial behavior

    Nancy Eisenberg;Richard A. Fabes

  • Relations Among Positive Parenting, Children's Effortful Control, and Externalizing Problems: A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study.

    Nancy Eisenberg;Qing Zhou;Tracy L. Spinrad;Carlos Valiente

  • Agreeableness: A Dimension of Personality

    William G. Graziano;Nancy Eisenberg

  • Parents' reactions to children's negative emotions: Relations to children's social competence and comforting behavior.

    Nancy Eisenberg;Richard A. Fabes;Bridget C. Murphy

  • Emotion, regulation, and the development of social competence.

    Nancy Eisenberg;Richard A. Fabes

  • The role of emotionality and regulation in children's social functioning: a longitudinal study

    Nancy Eisenberg;Richard A. Fabes;Bridget Murphy;Pat Maszk

  • The relations of emotionality and regulation to preschoolers' social skills and sociometric status

    Nancy Eisenberg;Richard A. Fabes;Jane Bernzweig;Mariss Karbon

Frequent Co-Authors

Tracy L. Spinrad
Tracy L. Spinrad Arizona State University
Richard A. Fabes
Richard A. Fabes Arizona State University
Carlos Valiente
Carlos Valiente Arizona State University
Bridget C. Murphy
Bridget C. Murphy Arizona State University
Mark Reiser
Mark Reiser Arizona State University
Jeffrey Liew
Jeffrey Liew Texas A&M University
Ivanna K. Guthrie
Ivanna K. Guthrie Arizona State University
Stephanie A. Shepard
Stephanie A. Shepard Brown University
Sandra H. Losoya
Sandra H. Losoya Arizona State University
Concetta Pastorelli
Concetta Pastorelli Sapienza University of Rome

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