2026 Nancy Eisenberg: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Best Female Scientists	155	123	113	72	67	586	107317
Psychology	157	57	49	31	25	570	110067

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

4278
Citations
Emotion, regulation, and moral development.

Nancy Eisenberg

3943
Citations
Parental socialization of emotion.

Nancy Eisenberg;Amanda Cumberland;Tracy L. Spinrad

3629
Citations
Social, emotional, and personality development

Nancy Eisenberg;William Damon

2496
Citations
The Relations of Regulation and Emotionality to Children's Externalizing and Internalizing Problem Behavior

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

2472
Citations
Sex Differences in Empathy and Related Capacities

Nancy Eisenberg;Randy Lennon

2234
Citations
The relation of empathy to aggressive and externalizing/antisocial behavior.

Paul A. Miller;Nancy Eisenberg

2013
Citations
Dispositional emotionality and regulation: their role in predicting quality of social functioning.

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

1983
Citations
The roots of prosocial behavior in children

Nancy Eisenberg;Paul Henry Mussen

1861
Citations
Altruistic Emotion, Cognition, and Behavior (PLE: Emotion)

Nancy Eisenberg

1694
Citations
Emotion-Related Self-Regulation and Its Relation to Children's Maladjustment

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

1595
Citations
Emotion-related regulation: Sharpening the definition

Nancy Eisenberg;Tracy L. Spinrad

1520
Citations
Empathy and its development

Nancy Eisenberg;Janet Strayer

1498
Citations
Empathy: Conceptualization, measurement, and relation to prosocial behavior

Nancy Eisenberg;Richard A. Fabes

1459
Citations
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

1372
Citations
Agreeableness: A Dimension of Personality

William G. Graziano;Nancy Eisenberg

1355
Citations
Parents' reactions to children's negative emotions: Relations to children's social competence and comforting behavior.

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

1184
Citations
Emotion, regulation, and the development of social competence.

Nancy Eisenberg;Richard A. Fabes

1172
Citations
The role of emotionality and regulation in children's social functioning: a longitudinal study

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

1101
Citations
The relations of emotionality and regulation to preschoolers' social skills and sociometric status

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

1068
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Tracy L. Spinrad Arizona State University

Richard A. Fabes Arizona State University

Carlos Valiente Arizona State University

Bridget C. Murphy Arizona State University

Mark Reiser Arizona State University

Jeffrey Liew Texas A&M University

Ivanna K. Guthrie Arizona State University

Stephanie A. Shepard Brown University

Sandra H. Losoya Arizona State University

Concetta Pastorelli Sapienza University of Rome

External Links

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