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Citations
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World Ranking
2360
National Ranking
1144

Overview

Rachel Kaplan is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields within social sciences, psychology, and medicine, with a notable focus on education, developmental and educational psychology, social psychology, and infectious diseases.

Their work covers a diverse range of topics, including behavioral and psychological studies, HIV/AIDS research and interventions, autism spectrum disorder research, LGBTQ health, identity and policy, early childhood education and development, family and disability support research, and adolescent sexual and reproductive health.

Recent publications by Rachel Kaplan illustrate the breadth of their research interests and expertise:

  • Pilot Results from the First HIV/AIDS Intervention Among Transgender Women in the Middle East: Gender Affirmation and Social Support from Within Trans Communities in Beirut, Lebanon, 2020, AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses
  • Providers' Attitudes and Experiences with Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Implementation in a Population-Based Study in Kenya and Uganda, 2022, AIDS Patient Care and STDs
  • Programming for generalization: Confronting known challenges in the design of virtual reality interventions for autistic users, 2023, Computers & Education X Reality
  • Using Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports to Reduce School Suspensions, 2020, Beyond Behavior
  • Couples-based approach to HIV prevention for transgender women and their partners: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial testing the efficacy of the 'It Takes Two' intervention, 2020, BMJ Open

Kaplan frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Nicholas A. Gage, Brittany Batton, Kaci Ellis, Carla Schmidt, and Ashley S. MacSuga-Gage. These collaborations contribute to the advancement of research in their fields of study, particularly in education, psychology, and public health.

Their research has appeared in specialized publication venues such as Computers & Education X Reality, Education and Treatment of Children, AIDS Patient Care and STDs, AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, and Beyond Behavior, indicating an interdisciplinary approach that intersects education, health sciences, and social behavior.

Best Publications

  • The Experience of Nature: A Psychological Perspective

    Rachel Kaplan;Stephen Kaplan

  • The Nature of the View from Home: Psychological Benefits

    Rachel Kaplan

  • Cognition and environment : functioning in an uncertain world

    Stephen Kaplan;Rachel Kaplan

  • With people in mind : design and management of everyday nature

    Rachel Kaplan;Stephen Kaplan;Robert L. Ryan

  • The experience of nature

    Rachel Kaplan

  • Physical and Psychological Factors in Sense of Community: New Urbanist Kentlands and Nearby Orchard Village

    Joongsub Kim;Rachel Kaplan

  • People needs in the urban landscape : Analysis of Landscape And Urban Planning contributions

    Rodney Hideo Matsuoka;Rachel Kaplan

  • The role of nature in the context of the workplace

    Rachel Kaplan

  • Rated preference and complexity for natural and urban visual material

    Stephen Kaplan;Rachel Kaplan;John S. Wendt

  • Predicting Volunteer Commitment in Environmental Stewardship Programmes

    Robert L. Ryan;Rachel Kaplan;Robert E. Grese

  • Some Psychological Benefits of Gardening.

    Rachel Kaplan

  • Environmental Preference: A Comparison of Four Domains of Predictors

    Rachel Kaplan;Stephen Kaplan;Terry Brown

  • The analysis of perception via preference: A strategy for studying how the environment is experienced

    Rachel Kaplan

  • Humanscape: Environments for People

    Stephen Kaplan;Rachel Kaplan

  • Health, Supportive Environments, and the Reasonable Person Model

    Stephen Kaplan;Rachel Kaplan

  • The role of nature in the urban context.

    Rachel Kaplan

  • The monastery as a restorative environment

    Pierre Ouellette;Rachel Kaplan;Stephen Kaplan

  • Cultural and Developmental Comparisons of Landscape Perceptions and Preferences

    Thomas R. Herzog;Eugene J. Herbert;Rachel Kaplan;C. L. Crooks

  • Creating a larger role for environmental psychology: The Reasonable Person Model as an integrative framework

    Stephen Kaplan;Rachel Kaplan

  • Out in the country: sprawl and the quest for nature nearby

    Rachel Kaplan;Maureen E. Austin

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Kaplan
Stephen Kaplan University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
William C. Sullivan
William C. Sullivan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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