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72
Citations
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World Ranking
2025
National Ranking
11

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in New Zealand Leader Award

Overview

Ronald Fischer is affiliated with Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Their research focuses primarily on psychology and social sciences, with a significant emphasis on social psychology, sociology and political science, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

The main topics addressed in Fischer's work include cultural differences and values, social and intergroup psychology, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, religion, spirituality, and psychology, mindfulness and compassion interventions, evolutionary game theory and cooperation, and psychological well-being and life satisfaction.

Fischer's recent papers demonstrate a focus on mental health and behavioral studies, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Notable publications include:

  • Rapid Review and Meta-Meta-Analysis of Self-Guided Interventions to Address Anxiety, Depression, and Stress During COVID-19 Social Distancing (2020) published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • Predicting Behavioral Intentions to Prevent or Mitigate COVID-19: A Cross-Cultural Meta-Analysis of Attitudes, Norms, and Perceived Behavioral Control Effects (2021) published in Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • Changes in Personal Values in Pandemic Times (2021) published in Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • Storytelling increases oxytocin and positive emotions and decreases cortisol and pain in hospitalized children (2021) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being (2022) published in Religion Brain & Behavior

Frequent co-authors contributing to Fischer's research include Johannes Alfons Karl, Tiago Bortolini, Jorge Moll, Peter Haľama, and Markus Luczak-Roesch, indicating collaborative efforts across diverse psychological topics.

Fischer's work has been published extensively in several venues, with multiple publications in Religion Brain & Behavior, Mindfulness, Cross-Cultural Research, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Frontiers in Psychology.

In addition to journal articles, Fischer has contributed to book publications, including a title released by CAF eBooks in 2021: "IDEAL 2021: El impacto de la digitalización para reducir brechas y mejorar los servicios de infraestructura."

Best Publications

  • Differences Between Tight and Loose Cultures: A 33-Nation Study

    Michele J . Gelfand;Jana L. Raver;Lisa Nishii;Lisa Art. Leslie

  • Refining the theory of basic individual values.

    Shalom H. Schwartz;Jan Cieciuch;Michele Vecchione;Eldad Davidov

  • Testing measurement invariance across groups: applications in cross-cultural research.

    Taciano L. Milfont;Ronald Fischer

  • Reliability and Validity of the Revised Experiences in Close Relationships (ECR-R) Self-Report Measure of Adult Romantic Attachment

    Chris G. Sibley;Ronald Fischer;James H. Liu

  • Understanding social psychology across cultures : engaging with others in a changing world

    Peter Bevington Smith;Ronald Fischer;Vivian L. Vignoles;Michael Harris Bond

  • National character does not reflect mean personality trait levels in 49 cultures

    A. Terracciano;A. M. Abdel-Khalek;N. Ádám;L. Adamovová

  • Whence Differences in Value Priorities? Individual, Cultural, or Artifactual Sources

    Ronald Fischer;Shalom Schwartz;Shalom Schwartz

  • Beyond the 'east-west' dichotomy: Global variation in cultural models of selfhood.

    Vivian L. Vignoles;Ellinor Owe;Maja Becker;Peter B. Smith

  • Standardization to Account for Cross-Cultural Response Bias A Classification of Score Adjustment Procedures and Review of Research in JCCP

    Ronald Fischer

  • Let's dance together: synchrony, shared intentionality and cooperation.

    Paul Reddish;Paul Reddish;Ronald Fischer;Joseph Bulbulia;Joseph Bulbulia

  • Extreme Rituals Promote Prosociality

    Dimitrios Xygalatas;Dimitrios Xygalatas;Panagiotis Mitkidis;Panagiotis Mitkidis;Ronald Fischer;Paul Reddish;Paul Reddish

  • To be in synchrony or not? A meta-analysis of synchrony's effects on behavior, perception, cognition and affect

    Reneeta Mogan;Ronald Fischer;Joseph A. Bulbulia

  • What is more important for national well-being: money or autonomy? A meta-analysis of well-being, burnout, and anxiety across 63 societies.

    Ronald Fischer;Diana Boer

  • Commitment across cultures: A meta-analytical approach

    Ronald Fischer;Angela Mansell

  • How and when do personal values guide our attitudes and sociality? Explaining cross-cultural variability in attitude–value linkages.

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  • A primer to (cross-cultural) multi-group invariance testing possibilities in R.

    Ronald Fischer;Johannes A. Karl

  • Congruence and Functions of Personal and Cultural Values: Do My Values Reflect My Culture’s Values?

    Ronald Fischer

  • The Convergent, Discriminant, and Incremental Validity of Scores on a Self-Report Measure of Cultural Intelligence:

    Colleen Ward;Ronald Fischer;Fara Sheyna Zaid Lam;Leonie Hall

  • Are Individual-Level and Country-Level Value Structures Different? Testing Hofstede’s Legacy With the Schwartz Value Survey

    Ronald Fischer;Johnny R. J. Fontaine;Shalom H. Schwartz

  • Teoria funcionalista dos valores humanos

    Valdiney V. Gouveia;Taciano L. Milfont;Ronald David Fischer;Walberto S. Santos

  • Individualism-collectivism as Descriptive Norms Development of a Subjective Norm Approach to Culture Measurement

    Ronald Fischer;Maria Cristina Ferreira;Eveline Assmar;Paul Redford

Frequent Co-Authors

Taciano L. Milfont
Taciano L. Milfont University of Waikato
Peter B. Smith
Peter B. Smith University of Sussex
Michael Bond
Michael Bond Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Fons J. R. van de Vijver
Fons J. R. van de Vijver Tilburg University
Colleen Ward
Colleen Ward Victoria University of Wellington
Vivian L. Vignoles
Vivian L. Vignoles University of Sussex
Masaki Yuki
Masaki Yuki Hokkaido University
Rupert Brown
Rupert Brown University of Sussex
Seth J. Schwartz
Seth J. Schwartz The University of Texas at Austin
Tom Pyszczynski
Tom Pyszczynski University of Colorado Colorado Springs

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