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Sandra L. Murray 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 Sandra L. Murray sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 105 publications — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sandra L. Murray 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 Sandra L. Murray sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Sandra L. Murray is affiliated with the University at Buffalo, State University of New York in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Psychology, with a significant focus on Social Psychology. Other subfields of interest include Sociology and Political Science, Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The core topics addressed in their work involve themes such as Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion, Attachment and Relationship Dynamics, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Behavioral Health and Interventions, Cultural Differences and Values, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, and Misinformation and Its Impacts.

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology
  • Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • Annual Review of Psychology
  • Current Opinion in Psychology

Recent papers by Sandra L. Murray include:

  • The social-safety system: Fortifying relationships in the face of the unforeseeable. (2020, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology)
  • Pursuing safety in social connection regulates the risk-regulation, social-safety, and behavioral-immune systems. (2023, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology)
  • Pursuing Safety in Social Connection: A Flexibly Fluid Perspective on Risk Regulation in Relationships. (2023, Annual Review of Psychology)
  • Looking for Safety in All the Right Places: When Threatening Political Reality Strengthens Family Relationship Bonds. (2021, Social Psychological and Personality Science)
  • Sensitizing the Behavioral-Immune System: The Power of Social Pain. (2022, Social Psychological and Personality Science)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sandra L. Murray are:

  • Veronica M. Lamarche
  • Mark D. Seery
  • Dale W. Griffin
  • James K. McNulty
  • Ji Xia

Best Publications

  • The benefits of positive illusions: Idealization and the construction of satisfaction in close relationships.

    Sandra L. Murray;John G. Holmes;Dale W. Griffin

  • Optimizing Assurance: The Risk Regulation System in Relationships.

    Sandra L. Murray;John G. Holmes;Nancy L. Collins

  • The self-fulfilling nature of positive illusions in romantic relationships: love is not blind, but prescient.

    Sandra L. Murray;John G. Holmes;Dale W. Griffin

  • Self-esteem and the quest for felt security: how perceived regard regulates attachment processes.

    Sandra L. Murray;John G. Holmes;Dale W. Griffin

  • A Leap of Faith? Positive Illusions in Romantic Relationships

    Sandra L. Murray;John G. Holmes

  • When rejection stings: How self-esteem constrains relationship-enhancement processes.

    Sandra L. Murray;Paul Rose;Gina M. Bellavia;John G. Holmes

  • Kindred spirits? The benefits of egocentrism in close relationships.

    Sandra L. Murray;John G. Holmes;Gina Bellavia;Dale W. Griffin

  • Seeing virtues in faults: Negativity and the transformation of interpersonal narratives in close relationships.

    Sandra L. Murray;John G. Holmes

  • Through the looking glass darkly? When self-doubts turn into relationship insecurities.

    Sandra L. Murray;John G. Holmes;Geoff MacDonald;Phoebe C. Ellsworth

  • Once Hurt, Twice Hurtful: How Perceived Regard Regulates Daily Marital Interactions

    Sandra L. Murray;Gina M. Bellavia;Paul Rose;Dale W. Griffin

  • Balancing connectedness and self-protection goals in close relationships: a levels-of-processing perspective on risk regulation.

    Sandra L. Murray;Jaye L. Derrick;Sadie Leder;John G. Holmes

  • The Mismeasure of Love: How Self-Doubt Contaminates Relationship Beliefs

    Sandra L. Murray;John G. Holmes;Dale W. Griffin;Gina Bellavia

  • Calibrating the sociometer: the relational contingencies of self-esteem.

    Sandra L. Murray;Dale W. Griffin;Paul Rose;Gina M. Bellavia

  • Difference score correlations in relationship research: A conceptual primer

    Dale Griffin;Sandra Murray;Richard Gonzalez

  • The Quest for Conviction: Motivated Cognition in Romantic Relationships

    Sandra L. Murray

  • The architecture of interdependent minds: A Motivation-management theory of mutual responsiveness.

    Sandra L. Murray;John G. Holmes

  • The (mental) ties that bind: Cognitive structures that predict relationship resilience.

    Sandra L. Murray;John G. Holmes

  • What the Motivated Mind Sees: Comparing Friends' Perspectives to Married Partners' Views of Each Other

    Sandra L. Murray;John G. Holmes;Dan Dolderman;Dale W. Griffin

  • Storytelling in Close Relationships: The Construction of Confidence:

    Sandra L. Murray;John G. Holmes

  • Conflict in close relationships.

    John G. Holmes;Sandra L. Murray

Frequent Co-Authors

John G. Holmes
John G. Holmes University of Waterloo
Dale Griffin
Dale Griffin University of British Columbia
Brett W. Pelham
Brett W. Pelham University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Phoebe C. Ellsworth
Phoebe C. Ellsworth University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Geoff MacDonald
Geoff MacDonald University of Toronto
Ziva Kunda
Ziva Kunda University of Waterloo
David Dunning
David Dunning University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Richard Gonzalez
Richard Gonzalez University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Peter R. Harris
Peter R. Harris University of Sussex
Joanne V. Wood
Joanne V. Wood University of Waterloo

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