2026 Robert B. Zajonc: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	59	3609	2022	124	51659

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Psychology

3609

2022

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51659

Research.com Recognitions

1989 - William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA)
1978 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1978 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association

Overview

Robert B. Zajonc was affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their academic career included research and contributions primarily within psychology, although specific main fields of study, subfields, and topics of work are not detailed in the available data.

Their published work does not have recent papers listed, and there is no data on frequent co-authors or regular publication venues associated with their research. Additionally, there is no record of book publications or publishers linked to their name in the provided information.

Zajonc received several notable awards over the course of their career, including the following:

William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science (APA) in 1989
Fellowship at the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1978
APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology awarded by the American Psychological Association in 1978

Robert B. Zajonc is deceased. The information presented here is based on the available data without additional analysis or interpretation beyond the documented facts of their affiliation and awards.

Best Publications

Feeling and thinking : Preferences need no inferences

R. B. Zajonc

11919
Citations
Attitudinal effects of mere exposure.

Robert B. Zajonc

10232
Citations
Social Facilitation: A solution is suggested for an old unresolved social psychological problem.

Robert B. Zajonc

3581
Citations
Affect, cognition, and awareness: affective priming with optimal and suboptimal stimulus exposures.

Sheila T. Murphy;R. B. Zajonc

2617
Citations
On the primacy of affect.

R. B. Zajonc

2516
Citations
Affective and cognitive factors in preferences.

Robert B. Zajonc;Hazel Markus

1890
Citations
Mere Exposure: A Gateway to the Subliminal:

R. B. Zajonc

1790
Citations
Affective discrimination of stimuli that cannot be recognized

William Raft Kunst-Wilson;R. B Zajonc

1623
Citations
Birth Order and Intellectual Development

Robert B. Zajonc;Gregory B. Markus

1197
Citations
Emotions, cognition, and behavior

Carroll E. Izard;Jerome Kagan;Robert B. Zajonc

1038
Citations
Mere Exposure: A Gateway to the Subliminal

Unknown

945
Citations
Family configuration and intelligence.

R. B. Zajonc

854
Citations
Facial efference and the experience of emotion.

Pamela K. Adelmann;R. B. Zajonc

838
Citations
Feeling and facial efference: implications of the vascular theory of emotion.

R. B. Zajonc;Sheila T. Murphy;Marita Inglehart

663
Citations
Subliminal Mere Exposure: Specific, General, and Diffuse Effects

Jennifer L. Monahan;Sheila T. Murphy;R.B. Zajonc

656
Citations
The process of cognitive tuning in communication.

Robert B. Zajonc

581
Citations
Feeling and thinking: Closing the debate over the independence of affect.

Robert B. Zajonc

425
Citations
Additivity of nonconscious affect: combined effects of priming and exposure.

Sheila T. Murphy;Jennifer L. Monahan;R. B. Zajonc

413
Citations
Exposure effects in person perception: Familiarity, similarity, and attraction

Richard L. Moreland;Robert B. Zajonc

408
Citations
Social facilitation of dominant and subordinate responses

Robert B. Zajonc;Stephen M. Sales

375
Citations
Convergence in the physical appearance of spouses

R. B. Zajonc;Pamela K. Adelmann;Sheila T. Murphy;Paula M. Niedenthal

360
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Hazel Rose Markus Stanford University

Richard L. Moreland University of Pittsburgh

Daniel N. McIntosh University of Denver

Carroll E. Izard University of Delaware

John A. Bargh Yale University

Felicia Pratto University of Connecticut

Richard J. Shaw Stanford University

Paula M. Niedenthal University of Wisconsin–Madison

Robert Kail Purdue University West Lafayette

Steven J. Sherman Indiana University

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