2026 Pablo Briñol: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	52	4904	4545	53	52	186	17041

Overview

Pablo Briñol is affiliated with the Autonomous University of Madrid in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and social sciences, with extensive work in subfields such as sociology and political science, social psychology, applied psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and literature and literary theory.

Their research covers various key topics, including:

Social and Intergroup Psychology
Behavioral Health and Interventions
Cultural Differences and Values
Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Media Influence and Health
Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
Communication in Education and Healthcare

Recent notable papers by Pablo Briñol include:

Self-validation theory: An integrative framework for understanding when thoughts become consequential, 2021, Psychological Review
A Review and Conceptual Framework for Understanding Personalized Matching Effects in Persuasion, 2020, Journal of Consumer Psychology
The influence of emotions on information processing and persuasion: A differential appraisals perspective, 2020, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Paralinguistic Features Communicated through Voice can Affect Appraisals of Confidence and Evaluative Judgments, 2021, Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
Documenting individual differences in the propensity to hold attitudes with certainty, 2020, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

They frequently publish in several academic venues, including:

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
European Journal of Social Psychology
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Psicothema
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Pablo Briñol collaborates regularly with several co-authors, among whom are:

Richard E. Petty
Lorena Moreno
Borja Paredes
David Santos
Blanca Requero

Their body of work reflects broad engagement with topics related to persuasion, information processing, attitude certainty, and the psychological mechanisms underpinning social influence.

Best Publications

The elaboration likelihood model

Jacob Teeny;Pablo Briñol;Richard E. Petty

2135
Citations
Mass Media Attitude Change: Implications of the Elaboration Likelihood Model of Persuasion

Richard E. Petty;Joseph R. Priester;Pablo Briñol

955
Citations
Identity fusion: the interplay of personal and social identities in extreme group behavior.

William B. Swann Jr.;Ángel Gómez;D. Conor Seyle;J. Francisco Morales

919
Citations
Thought confidence as a determinant of persuasion: the self-validation hypothesis.

Richard E. Petty;Pablo Briñol;Zakary L. Tormala

838
Citations
The Meta–Cognitive Model (MCM) of Attitudes: Implications for Attitude Measurement, Change, and Strength

Richard E. Petty;Pablo Briñol;Kenneth G. DeMarree

617
Citations
Implicit Ambivalence From Attitude Change: An Exploration of the PAST Model

Richard E Petty;Zakary L Tormala;Pablo Briñol;W Blair G Jarvis

600
Citations
Overt head movements and persuasion: a self-validation analysis.

Pablo Briñol;Richard E. Petty

532
Citations
The effects of message recipients' power before and after persuasion: a self-validation analysis.

Pablo Briñol;Richard E. Petty;Carmen Valle;Derek D. Rucker

528
Citations
Self‐Validation of Cognitive Responses to Advertisements

Pablo Briñol;Richard E. Petty;Zakary L. Tormala

462
Citations
When credibility attacks: The reverse impact of source credibility on persuasion

Zakary L. Tormala;Pablo Briñol;Richard E. Petty

438
Citations
Attitudes: Insights from the new implicit measures.

Richard E. Petty;Russell H. Fazio;Pablo Briñol

432
Citations
Discrepancies between explicit and implicit self-concepts: Consequences for information processing.

Pablo Briñol;Richard E. Petty;S. Christian Wheeler

371
Citations
Happiness versus sadness as a determinant of thought confidence in persuasion: a self-validation analysis.

Pablo Briñol;Richard E. Petty;Jamie Barden

355
Citations
Emotion and persuasion: Cognitive and meta-cognitive processes impact attitudes

Richard E. Petty;Pablo Briñol

354
Citations
Source factors in persuasion: A self-validation approach

Pablo Briñol;Richard E. Petty

316
Citations
Ease of Retrieval Effects in Persuasion: A Self-Validation Analysis

Zakary L. Tormala;Richard E. Petty;Pablo Briñol

315
Citations
Persuasion: From Single to Multiple to Metacognitive Processes:

Richard E. Petty;Pablo Briñol

310
Citations
Body posture effects on self‐evaluation: A self‐validation approach

Pablo Briñol;Richard E. Petty;Benjamin Wagner

304
Citations
Consumer conviction and commitment: An appraisal-based framework for attitude certainty

Derek D. Rucker;Zakary L. Tormala;Richard E. Petty;Pablo Briñol

289
Citations
The Malleable Meaning of Subjective Ease

Pablo Briñol;Richard E. Petty;Zakary L. Tormala

288
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard E. Petty The Ohio State University

Derek D. Rucker Northwestern University

Zakary L. Tormala Stanford University

S. Christian Wheeler Stanford University

Ángel Gómez National University of Distance Education

Duane T. Wegener The Ohio State University

Andrew L. Geers University of Toledo

William A. Cunningham University of Toronto

B. Keith Payne University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Gifford Weary The Ohio State University

External Links

Personal website of Pablo Briñol

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