2026 Robert F. Bornstein: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	59	3685	3399	2066	1863	280	14365

Overview

Robert F. Bornstein is affiliated with Adelphi University in the United States, specializing in the field of Psychology. Their work spans 63 publications primarily focused on Clinical Psychology, Applied Psychology, Social Psychology, Philosophy, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The scientist's research concentrates on several main topics, including:

Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
Psychological Testing and Assessment
Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
Mental Health and Psychiatry
Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Mental Health Research Topics

Robert F. Bornstein has contributed to various academic journals, with frequent publications appearing in:

Journal of Personality Assessment
Rorschachiana Journal of the International Society for the Rorschach
Journal of Personality Disorders
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy

Some of the recent papers associated with or including Robert F. Bornstein are:

Toward an Integrative Perspective on the Person, 2022, Rorschachiana Journal of the International Society for the Rorschach
The smartphone as a "significant other": interpersonal dependency and attachment in maladaptive smartphone and social networks use, 2023, BMC Psychology
Do PID-5 Trait Scores Predict Symptom Disorders? A Meta-analytic Review, 2024, Journal of Personality Disorders
Narcissism and Reactions to a Self-Esteem Insult: An Experiment Using Predictions from Self-Report and the Rorschach Task, 2020, Journal of Personality Assessment
Italian Version of the Relationship Profile Test (RPT-I): Temporal Stability, Construct Validity, and Cross-Cultural Comparison, 2021, Journal of Personality Assessment

The scientist has worked collaboratively with several frequent coauthors, including:

Emanuela S. Gritti
Bianca H. Cersosimo
Mark J. Hilsenroth
Jerold R. Gold
Baptiste Barbot

In addition to journal publications, Robert F. Bornstein authored a book titled : 7, published in 2020 by eBooks.

Best Publications

Exposure and affect: Overview and meta-analysis of research 1968-1987

Robert F. Bornstein

2620
Citations
Stimulus recognition and the mere exposure effect.

Robert F. Bornstein;Paul R. DAgostino

660
Citations
The Attribution and Discounting of Perceptual Fluency: Preliminary Tests of a Perceptual Fluency/Attributional Model of the Mere Exposure Effect

Robert F. Bornstein;Paul R. D'Agostino

573
Citations
The dependent personality: developmental, social, and clinical perspectives.

Robert F. Bornstein

364
Citations
The Generalizability of Subliminal Mere Exposure Effects: Influence of Stimuli Perceived Without Awareness on Social Behavior

Robert F. Bornstein;Dean R. Leone;Donna J. Galley

325
Citations
A comparative meta-analysis of Rorschach and MMPI validity.

Jordan B. Hiller;Robert Rosenthal;Robert F. Bornstein;David T. R. Berry

325
Citations
The complex relationship between dependency and domestic violence: converging psychological factors and social forces.

Robert F. Bornstein

259
Citations
Perception without awareness: Cognitive, clinical, and social perspectives.

Robert F. Bornstein;Thane S. Pittman

250
Citations
Perception Without Awareness

R. F. Bornstein;T. S. Pittman

247
Citations
The Dependent Personality

Robert F. Bornstein

244
Citations
A process dissociation approach to objective-projective test score interrelationships.

Robert F. Bornstein

218
Citations
A meta-analysis of antidepressant outcome under "blinder" conditions.

Roger P. Greenberg;Robert F. Bornstein;Michael D. Greenberg;Seymour Fisher

206
Citations
Boredom as a limiting condition on the mere exposure effect

Robert F. Bornstein;Amy R. Kale;Karen R. Cornell

182
Citations
Criterion validity of objective and projective dependency tests: A meta-analytic assessment of behavioral prediction.

Robert F. Bornstein

173
Citations
Toward a Process-Focused Model of Test Score Validity: Improving Psychological Assessment in Science and Practice.

Robert F. Bornstein

166
Citations
Face Validity and Fakability of Objective and Projective Measures of Dependency

Robert F. Bornstein;Stephanie C. Rossner;Erica L. Hill;Marianne L. Stepanian

146
Citations
The impending death of psychoanalysis.

Robert F. Bornstein

146
Citations
A Meta-Analysis of Fluoxetine Outcome in the Treatment of Depression

Roger P. Greenberg;Robert F. Bornstein;Michael J. Zborowski;Seymour Fisher

144
Citations
Utility of the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire—Revised in A Nonclinical Population

Jeffrey G. Johnson;Robert F. Bornstein

135
Citations
The Dependent Patient: A Practitioner's Guide

Robert F. Bornstein

108
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey G. Johnson Columbia University

Mark J. Hilsenroth Adelphi University

Holly G. Prigerson Cornell University

Christopher J. Hopwood University of Zurich

Anthony D. Mancini Pace University

George A. Bonanno Columbia University

David T. R. Berry University of Kentucky

Robert Rosenthal University of California, Riverside

Martin F. Sherman Loyola University Maryland

Mark A. Blais Harvard University

External Links

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