2026 Robert E. Kleck: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	45	6582	6127	3572	3242	71	11741

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

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Psychology

6582

6127

3572

3242

11741

Overview

Robert E. Kleck is affiliated with Dartmouth College in the United States. Their research spans several areas within psychology, with a focus on the social and cognitive dimensions of the field.

The main fields of study for Kleck include:

Psychology

Within these fields, Kleck has concentrated on specific subfields such as:

Social Psychology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

The scientific topics addressed in their work include:

Emotions and Moral Behavior
Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
Action Observation and Synchronization

One recent paper authored by Kleck is titled "Index," published in 2023 in the venue Cambridge University Press eBooks.

Frequent co-authors of Kleck comprise:

Ursula Heß
Reginald B. Adams
Shlomo Hareli

Kleck's publications have appeared primarily in the following venue:

Cambridge University Press eBooks

Best Publications

Effects of direct and averted gaze on the perception of facially communicated emotion.

Reginald B. Adams;Robert E. Kleck

784
Citations
The effects of fear and anger facial expressions on approach- and avoidance-related behaviors.

Abigail A. Marsh;Nalini Ambady;Robert E. Kleck

781
Citations
Perceived Gaze Direction and the Processing of Facial Displays of Emotion

Reginald B. Adams;Robert E. Kleck

761
Citations
Effects of gaze on amygdala sensitivity to anger and fear faces

Reginald B. Adams;Reginald B. Adams;Heather L. Gordon;Abigail A. Baird;Nalini Ambady

624
Citations
The Intensity of Emotional Facial Expressions and Decoding Accuracy

Ursula Hess;Sylvie Blairy;Robert E. Kleck

525
Citations
The Efects of Physical Deviance upon Face-to-Face Interaction

Robert Kleck;Hiroshi Ono;Albert H. Hastorf

509
Citations
Avoidance of the handicapped: an attributional ambiguity analysis.

Melvin L. Snyder;Robert E. Kleck;Angelo Strenta;Steven J. Mentzer

504
Citations
The Influence of Facial Emotion Displays, Gender, and Ethnicity on Judgments of Dominance and Affiliation

Ursula Hess;Sylvie Blairy;Robert E. Kleck

467
Citations
Emotional expressivity in men and women: Stereotypes and self-perceptions

Ursula Hess;Sacha Senécal;Gilles Kirouac;Pedro Herrera

424
Citations
Who may frown and who should smile? Dominance, affiliation, and the display of happiness and anger

Ursula Hess;Reginald B. Adams;Robert E. Kleck

337
Citations
Emotional expressions forecast approach-avoidance behavior.

Reginald B. Adams;Nalini Ambady;C. Neil Macrae;Robert E. Kleck

320
Citations
Perceptions of the impact of negatively valued physical characteristics on social interaction.

Robert E. Kleck;Angelo Strenta

317
Citations
Effects of being observed on expressive, subjective, and physiological responses to painful stimuli.

Robert E. Kleck;Robert C. Vaughan;Jeffrey Cartwright-Smith;Katherine Burns Vaughan

308
Citations
Facial Appearance, Gender, and Emotion Expression.

Ursula Hess;Reginald B. Adams;Robert E. Kleck

302
Citations
Differentiating emotion elicited and deliberate emotional facial expressions

Ursula Hess;Robert E. Kleck

300
Citations
Why Do Fear and Anger Look the Way They Do? Form and Social Function in Facial Expressions

Abigail A. Marsh;Reginald B. Adams;Robert E. Kleck

283
Citations
Face gender and emotion expression: are angry women more like men?

Ursula Hess;Reginald B. Adams;Karl Grammer;Robert E. Kleck

281
Citations
Physical Stigma and Nonverbal Cues Emitted in Face-to-face Interaction

Robert Kleck

275
Citations
Encoding and decoding of nonverbal affect in humans.

John T. Lanzetta;Robert E. Kleck

257
Citations
Physical Appearance Cues and Interpersonal Attraction in Children.

Robert E. Kleck;Stephen A. Richardson;Linda Ronald

255
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ursula Hess Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Reginald B. Adams Pennsylvania State University

Nalini Ambady Stanford University

Michelle R. Hebl Rice University

Gregory J. McHugo Dartmouth College

Abigail A. Marsh Georgetown University

Leslie A. Zebrowitz Brandeis University

C. Neil Macrae University of Aberdeen

Karl Grammer University of Vienna

Pierre Philippot Université Catholique de Louvain

External Links

Personal website of Robert E. Kleck

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