2026 Nicholas Christenfeld: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	40	8156	7615	4374	3982	83	8076

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Psychology

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Overview

Nicholas Christenfeld is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research intersects the areas of health professions and social sciences, focusing particularly on issues related to health disparities and outcomes, public health policies and education, and food security and health in diverse populations.

Their main fields of study include:

Health Professions
Social Sciences

Within these fields, they have contributed to specific subfields such as:

General Health Professions
Health

Christenfeld's recent scholarly work includes a publication titled The Geography of Health, released in 2020. This paper appeared in The Wiley Encyclopedia of Health Psychology, a venue where they have published at least one paper.

Frequent collaborators in their research are:

Arseny A. Ryazanov
Kirstie K. Russell

Their research addresses and contributes to understanding several main topics, including:

Health disparities and outcomes
Public Health Policies and Education
Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations

Best Publications

Increase in US medication-error deaths between 1983 and 1993

David P Phillips;Nicholas Christenfeld;Laura M Glynn

654
Citations
PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS REACTIVITY AND RECOVERY: CONCEPTUAL SIBLINGS SEPARATED AT BIRTH?

Wolfgang Linden;Wolfgang Linden;Wolfgang Linden;T. L. Earle;T. L. Earle;T. L. Earle;W. Gerin;W. Gerin;W. Gerin;N. Christenfeld;N. Christenfeld;N. Christenfeld

603
Citations
Toward a causal model of cardiovascular responses to stress and the development of cardiovascular disease.

Amy R. Schwartz;William Gerin;Karina W. Davidson;Thomas G. Pickering

580
Citations
The role of rumination in recovery from reactivity: cardiovascular consequences of emotional states.

Laura M. Glynn;Nicholas Christenfeld;William Gerin

443
Citations
The role of angry rumination and distraction in blood pressure recovery from emotional arousal.

William Gerin;Karina W. Davidson;Nicholas J. S. Christenfeld;Tanya Goyal

394
Citations
Speech Disfluency and the Structure of Knowledge

Stanley Schachter;Nicholas Christenfeld;Bernard Ravina;Frances Bilous

357
Citations
Gender, social support, and cardiovascular responses to stress.

Laura M. Glynn;Nicholas Christenfeld;William Gerin

329
Citations
Risk Factors, Confounding, and the Illusion of Statistical Control

Nicholas J. S. Christenfeld;Richard P. Sloan;Douglas Carroll;Sander Greenland

320
Citations
Gender, Jealousy, and Reason

Christine R. Harris;Nicholas Christenfeld

312
Citations
Music can facilitate blood pressure recovery from stress.

Sky Chafin;Michael Roy;William Gerin;Nicholas Christenfeld

289
Citations
Choices from Identical Options

Nicholas Christenfeld

278
Citations
Social support effects on cardiovascular reactivity: is a stranger as effective as a friend?

Nicholas Christenfeld;William Gerin;Wolfgang Linden;Mara Sanders

255
Citations
Underestimating the Duration of Future Events: Memory Incorrectly Used or Memory Bias?

Michael M. Roy;Nicholas J. S. Christenfeld;Craig R. M. McKenzie

207
Citations
An increase in the number of deaths in the United States in the first week of the month--an association with substance abuse and other causes of death.

David P. Phillips;Nicholas Christenfeld;Natalie M. Ryan

169
Citations
An historical context for behavioral models of hypertension

William Gerin;Thomas G Pickering;Laura Glynn;Nicholas Christenfeld

162
Citations
Story Spoilers Don’t Spoil Stories

Jonathan D. Leavitt;Nicholas J. S. Christenfeld

157
Citations
Social support and cardiovascular reactivity

N. Christenfeld;W. Gerin

125
Citations
Increase in US medication-error deaths

DP Phillips;N Christenfeld;LM Glynn

121
Citations
On the reliable assessment of cardiovascular recovery: an application of curve-fitting techniques.

Nicholas Christenfeld;Laura M. Glynn;William Gerin;William Gerin

112
Citations
Jealousy and Rational Responses to Infidelity Across Gender and Culture

Christine R. Harris;Nicholas Christenfeld

101
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

William Gerin Pennsylvania State University

Laura M. Glynn Chapman University

Christine R. Harris University of California, San Diego

John T. Wixted University of California, San Diego

Wolfgang Linden University of British Columbia

James A. Kulik University of California, San Diego

Karina W. Davidson Feinstein Institute for Medical Research

Julian F. Thayer University of California, Irvine

Stanley Schachter Columbia University

Laura Mickes University of Bristol

External Links

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