D-Index & Metrics Best Publications

Samuel R. Sommers

Tufts University
United States

D-Index & Metrics D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines.

Discipline name Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking

Psychology D-index 31 Citations 7,444 70 World Ranking 8333 National Ranking 4560

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

Social psychology
Law
Social science

The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Social psychology, Race, White, Prejudice and Racism. The study incorporates disciplines such as Affirmative action, Diversity and Social issues in addition to Social psychology. His research in Affirmative action intersects with topics in Social relation and Politics.

His Prejudice research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Cultural diversity and Diversity. The Diversity study combines topics in areas such as Jury, Jury selection, Deliberation and Social group. His work carried out in the field of Racism brings together such families of science as Outgroup, Ingroups and outgroups and Attribution.

His most cited work include:

Whites See Racism as a Zero-Sum Game That They Are Now Losing (367 citations)
Seeing race and seeming racist? Evaluating strategic colorblindness in social interaction. (267 citations)
On Racial Diversity and Group Decision Making: Identifying Multiple Effects of Racial Composition on Jury Deliberations (264 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Samuel R. Sommers spends much of his time researching Social psychology, Race, White, Developmental psychology and Prejudice. His research in Social psychology intersects with topics in Racism, Racial bias, Diversity and Jury. His study in Diversity is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Racial diversity, Deliberation, Cultural diversity and Social group.

The Race study combines topics in areas such as Diversity, Criminology, Social issues and Jury selection. Samuel R. Sommers has included themes like Social relation, Cognitive psychology and Social preferences in his Developmental psychology study. His studies in Prejudice integrate themes in fields like Feeling, Suspect and Interpersonal relationship.

He most often published in these fields:

Social psychology (79.73%)
Race (36.49%)
White (29.73%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2018-2021)?

Social psychology (79.73%)
Race (36.49%)
Racial bias (10.81%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Samuel R. Sommers mostly deals with Social psychology, Race, Racial bias, Essentialism and Categorization. His Social psychology study is mostly concerned with Novelty and Set. His Race research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Legal psychology, Criminology and Officer.

His Racial bias study combines topics in areas such as Feeling, Journalism, Enthusiasm and Prejudice. His work on Essentialism is being expanded to include thematically relevant topics such as Cognitive psychology.

Between 2018 and 2021, his most popular works were:

At face value: Psychological outcomes differ for real vs. computer-generated multiracial faces. (6 citations)
Exposure to Biracial Faces Reduces Colorblindness. (5 citations)
Racial Biases in Officers’ Decisions to Frisk Are Amplified for Black People Stopped Among Groups Leading to Similar Biases in Searches, Arrests, and Use of Force: (1 citations)

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Best Publications

Whites See Racism as a Zero-Sum Game That They Are Now Losing

Michael I. Norton;Samuel R. Sommers.
Perspectives on Psychological Science (2011)

767 Citations

On Racial Diversity and Group Decision Making: Identifying Multiple Effects of Racial Composition on Jury Deliberations

Samuel R. Sommers.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2006)

725 Citations

Seeing race and seeming racist? Evaluating strategic colorblindness in social interaction.

Evan P. Apfelbaum;Samuel R. Sommers;Michael I. Norton.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2008)

613 Citations

White Juror Bias: An Investigation of Prejudice Against Black Defendants in the American Courtroom

Samuel R. Sommers;Phoebe C. Ellsworth.
Psychology, Public Policy and Law (2001)

476 Citations

Race in the Courtroom: Perceptions of Guilt and Dispositional Attributions

Samuel R. Sommers;Phoebe C. Ellsworth.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (2000)

444 Citations

Hopes Dashed and Dreams Fulfilled: Contingencies of Self-Worth and Graduate School Admissions

Jennifer Crocker;Samuel R. Sommers;Riia K. Luhtanen.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (2002)

374 Citations

Racial Color Blindness: Emergence, Practice, and Implications

Evan P. Apfelbaum;Michael I. Norton;Samuel R. Sommers.
Current Directions in Psychological Science (2012)

351 Citations

Color Blindness and Interracial Interaction Playing the Political Correctness Game

Michael I. Norton;Samuel R. Sommers;Evan P. Apfelbaum;Natassia Pura.
Psychological Science (2006)

337 Citations

Learning (Not) to Talk About Race: When Older Children Underperform in Social Categorization

Evan P. Apfelbaum;Kristin Pauker;Nalini Ambady;Samuel R. Sommers.
Developmental Psychology (2008)

225 Citations

Toward a Social Psychology of Race and Race Relations for the Twenty-First Century

Jennifer A. Richeson;Samuel R. Sommers.
Annual Review of Psychology (2016)

224 Citations

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External Links

Personal Website for Samuel R. Sommers