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Oliver C. Schultheiss 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 Oliver C. Schultheiss sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 107 publications — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Oliver C. Schultheiss 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 Oliver C. Schultheiss sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Oliver C. Schultheiss is affiliated with the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. Their research primarily spans the field of psychology, with a focus on applied psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and physiology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including psychological testing and assessment, salivary gland disorders and functions, stress responses and cortisol, cognitive abilities and testing, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, behavioral health and interventions, and hormonal and reproductive studies.

Notable recent publications by Oliver C. Schultheiss include:

  • Evidence for a robust, estradiol-associated sex difference in narrative-writing fluency, 2020, Neuropsychology
  • Vulnerabilities in social anxiety: Integrating intra- and interpersonal perspectives, 2024, Clinical Psychology Review
  • Meta-analytic evidence shows no relationship between task-based and self-report measures of thought control, 2022, Applied Cognitive Psychology
  • Motive-modulated attentional orienting: Implicit power motive predicts attentional avoidance of signals of interpersonal dominance, 2021, Motivation Science
  • Measuring Implicit Motives with the Picture Story Exercise (PSE): Databases of Expert-Coded German Stories, Pictures, and Updated Picture Norms, 2020, Journal of Personality Assessment

Frequent coauthors include Martin G. Köllner, Kevin T. Janson, Birk Hagemeyer, Markus Quirin, and Ksenia Khalaidovski. These collaborations are reflected in multiple joint publications.

The scientist's work has appeared often in journals such as Motivation Science, Neuropsychology, Psychoneuroendocrinology, Frontiers in Psychology, and Journal of Personality Assessment. Motivation Science is a particularly frequent publication venue, hosting five of their works.

Best Publications

  • Personal goals and emotional well-being: the moderating role of motive dispositions.

    Joachim Clemens Brunstein;Oliver Schultheiss;Ruth Grässmann

  • Personal goals and emotional well-being: The moderating role of motive dispositions.

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  • Personal goals and social support in close relationships: Effects on relationship mood and marital satisfaction

    Joachim C. Brunstein;Gabriele Dangelmayer;Oliver C. Schultheiss

  • Assessment of Implicit Motives With a Research Version of the TAT: Picture Profiles, Gender Differences, and Relations to Other Personality Measures

    Oliver Schultheiss;Joachim Clemens Brunstein

  • Goal imagery: Bridging the gap between implicit motives and explicit goals.

    Oliver Schultheiss;Joachim Clemens Brunstein

  • Measuring implicit motives.

    O. C. Schultheiss;Joyce Shu Min Pang

  • Effects of implicit power motivation on men's and women's implicit learning and testosterone changes after social victory or defeat.

    Oliver C. Schultheiss;Michelle M. Wirth;Cynthia M. Torges;Joyce S. Pang

  • Testosterone is positively associated with risk taking in the Iowa Gambling Task.

    Steven J. Stanton;Scott H. Liening;Oliver C. Schultheiss

  • Assessing implicit motives in U.S. college students: effects of picture type and position, gender and ethnicity, and cross-cultural comparisons.

    Joyce S. Pang;Oliver C. Schultheiss

  • Assessment of salivary hormones.

    Oliver C. Schultheiss;Steven J. Stanton

  • Implicit Power Motivation Moderates Men's Testosterone Responses to Imagined and Real Dominance Success

    Oliver C. Schultheiss;Kenneth L. Campbell;David C. McClelland

  • Effects of affiliation and power motivation arousal on salivary progesterone and testosterone.

    Oliver C. Schultheiss;Michelle M. Wirth;Steven J. Stanton

  • Implicit power motivation predicts men's testosterone changes and implicit learning in a contest situation.

    Oliver C. Schultheiss;Wolfgang Rohde

  • Implicit motives and gonadal steroid hormones: effects of menstrual cycle phase, oral contraceptive use, and relationship status.

    Oliver C Schultheiss;Anja Dargel;Wolfgang Rohde

  • Salivary testosterone, cortisol, and progesterone: Two-week stability, interhormone correlations, and effects of time of day, menstrual cycle, and oral contraceptive use on steroid hormone levels ☆

    Scott H. Liening;Steven J. Stanton;Ekjyot K. Saini;Oliver C. Schultheiss

  • The hormonal correlates of implicit power motivation.

    Steven J. Stanton;Oliver C. Schultheiss

  • Social closeness increases salivary progesterone in humans.

    Stephanie L. Brown;Barbara L. Fredrickson;Michelle M. Wirth;Michael J. Poulin

  • Effects of affiliation arousal (hope of closeness) and affiliation stress (fear of rejection) on progesterone and cortisol.

    Michelle M. Wirth;Oliver C. Schultheiss

  • Basal testosterone moderates responses to anger faces in humans

    Michelle M. Wirth;Oliver C. Schultheiss

  • Salivary cortisol changes in humans after winning or losing a dominance contest depend on implicit power motivation.

    Michelle M. Wirth;Kathryn M. Welsh;Oliver C. Schultheiss

  • An implicit motive perspective on competence

    Oliver C. Schultheiss;Joachim C. Brunstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Joachim C. Brunstein
Joachim C. Brunstein University of Giessen
Stephanie L. Brown
Stephanie L. Brown University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Oliver T. Wolf
Oliver T. Wolf Ruhr University Bochum
Barbara L. Fredrickson
Barbara L. Fredrickson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Brenda L. Volling
Brenda L. Volling University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Christian E. Waugh
Christian E. Waugh Wake Forest University
David C. McClelland
David C. McClelland Boston University
Andreas Mojzisch
Andreas Mojzisch University of Hildesheim
Stefan Schulz-Hardt
Stefan Schulz-Hardt University of Göttingen
Michael X Cohen
Michael X Cohen Radboud University

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