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Robert L. Selman

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
44
Citations
14621
World Ranking
6810
National Ranking
3692

Robert L. Selman publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Robert L. Selman sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 107 publications — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Robert L. Selman D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Robert L. Selman sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

Robert L. Selman is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Education, Social Psychology, Literature and Literary Theory, Artificial Intelligence, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's work concentrates on several key topics including Child Development and Digital Technology, Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression, Literacy, Media, and Education, Media Influence and Health, Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection, Impact of Technology on Adolescents, and Gender and Technology in Education.

Selected recent papers illustrate the breadth and focus of their research:

  • Rights and Responsibilities With Tech: Students' Take on Classroom Policies, 2021, The Reading Teacher
  • Chinese and English Reviews of a Story about Teenagers' Struggles, 2020, Beijing international review of education
  • Romantic Transfer from Thermodynamic Theories to Personal Theories of Social Control: A Randomised Controlled Experiment, 2023, Education Sciences
  • When Students Misuse iPads in the Classroom, 2020, Beijing international review of education
  • A Multi-Level Model of Moral Functioning: Integrating Socio-Bio-evolutionary Science, Socio-Constructionism, and Constructivist-Developmental Theory, 2021, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education

Frequently publishing in venues such as Beijing international review of education, The Reading Teacher, Education Sciences, and Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education, Robert L. Selman has contributed to diverse educational and social science journals.

The scientist has collaborated with various colleagues, frequently coauthoring with Lisa Hsin, Nan Mu, Shenglan Tan, Hai-Qing He, and Jiang Liu.

Robert L. Selman was awarded the Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2009, a distinction that marks recognition within their professional community.

Best Publications

  • The growth of interpersonal understanding : developmental and clinical analyses

    Robert L. Selman

  • growth of interpersonal understanding

    Robert L. Selman

  • The relation of role taking to the development of moral judgment in children.

    Robert L. Selman

  • A structural-developmental analysis of levels of role taking in middle childhood.

    Robert L. Selman;Diane F. Byrne

  • Making a Friend in Youth: Developmental Theory and Pair Therapy

    Robert L. Selman;Lynn Hickey Schultz

  • Taking Another's Perspective: Role-taking Development in Early Childhood.

    Robert L. Selman

  • Assessing adolescent interpersonal negotiation strategies: Toward the integration of structural and functional models.

    Robert L. Selman;William Beardslee;Lynn Hickey Schultz;Michael Krupa

  • Teachers as Builders of Respectful School Climates: Implications for Adolescent Drug Use Norms and Depressive Symptoms in High School

    Maria D. LaRusso;Daniel Romer;Robert L. Selman

  • A tobit regression analysis of the covariation between middle school students' perceived school climate and behavioral problems.

    Ming Te Wang;Robert L. Selman;Thomas J. Dishion;Elizabeth A. Stormshak

  • Social competence in the schools: Toward an integrative developmental model for intervention

    Keith Owen Yeates;Robert L Selman

  • The development of interpersonal competence: The role of understanding in conduct

    Robert L. Selman

  • Observing troubled children's interpersonal negotiation strategies: implications of and for a developmental model.

    Robert L. Selman;Amy P. Demorest

  • Academic stress in Chinese schools and a proposed preventive intervention program

    Xu Zhao;Robert L. Selman;Helen Haste

  • The Value of a Developmental Approach to Evaluating Character Development Programmes: An Outcome Study of "Facing History and Ourselves.".

    Lynn Hickey Schultz;Dennis J. Barr;Robert L. Selman

  • The Psychosocial Foundations of Early Adolescents' High-Risk Behavior: Implications for Research and Practice

    Mira Zamansky Levitt;Robert L. Selman;Julius B. Richmond

  • Level of Social-Cognitive Development, Adaptive Functioning, and DSM-III Diagnoses in Adolescent Offspring of Parents With Affective Disorders: Implications of the Development of the Capacity for Mutuality

    William R. Beardslee;Lynn Hickcy Schultz;Robert L. Selman

  • A naturalistic study of children's social understanding.

    Robert L. Selman;Mira Zamansky Schorin;Carolyn R. Stone;Erin Phelps

  • Contributions of Academic Language, Perspective Taking, and Complex Reasoning to Deep Reading Comprehension

    Maria LaRusso;Ha Yeon Kim;Robert Selman;Paola Uccelli

  • The Promotion of Social Awareness: Powerful Lessons from the Partnership of Developmental Theory and Classroom Practice.

    Robert L. Selman

  • Digital stress: Adolescents’ personal accounts

    Emily Weinstein;Robert Louis Selman

  • A Randomized Controlled Trial of Professional Development for Interdisciplinary Civic Education: Impacts on Humanities Teachers and Their Students.

    Dennis J. Barr;Beth Boulay;Robert L. Selman;Rachel McCormick

Frequent Co-Authors

Catherine E. Snow
Catherine E. Snow Harvard University
Keith Owen Yeates
Keith Owen Yeates University of Calgary
William R. Beardslee
William R. Beardslee Boston Children's Hospital
Stephanie M. Jones
Stephanie M. Jones Harvard University
Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
Jeffrey Jensen Arnett Clark University
Ming-Te Wang
Ming-Te Wang University of Pittsburgh
Elizabeth A. Stormshak
Elizabeth A. Stormshak University of Oregon
Thomas J. Dishion
Thomas J. Dishion Arizona State University
Daniel Romer
Daniel Romer University of Pennsylvania
Michael J. Chandler
Michael J. Chandler University of British Columbia

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