2026 Sara D. Hodges: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	33	10409	9744	5460	4985	63	6687

Overview

Sara D. Hodges is affiliated with the University of Oregon in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of psychology, with a strong focus on social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and intersections with sociology and political science. The work also touches on clinical psychology and psychiatry and mental health.

The scientist's main topics of study include:

Social and Intergroup Psychology
Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Cultural Differences and Values
Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Emotions and Moral Behavior

Sara D. Hodges has published extensively in several academic venues, with multiple papers in the Journal of Environmental Psychology and the Journal of Intelligence. Other venues include Communications Psychology, Current Opinion in Psychology, and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Recent scholarly publications by this researcher include:

"Defining key concepts for mental state attribution" (2024), published in Communications Psychology
"The role of gratitude in motivating intergenerational environmental stewardship" (2020), published in Journal of Environmental Psychology
"The link between perspective-taking and prosociality - Not as universal as you might think" (2021), published in Current Opinion in Psychology
"When Polarization Triggers Out-Group "Counter-Projection" Across the Political Divide" (2021), published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
"It Is Hard to Read Minds without Words: Cues to Use to Achieve Empathic Accuracy" (2021), published in Journal of Intelligence

Collaboration is a component of their work, with frequent coauthors including Jacquie D. Vorauer, Murat Kezer, Yujing Liang, Vera Hoorens, and Stylianos Syropoulos.

Best Publications

Introspecting about Reasons can Reduce Post-Choice Satisfaction

Timothy D. Wilson;Douglas J. Lisle;Jonathan W. Schooler;Sara D. Hodges

827
Citations
Gender Differences, Motivation, and Empathic Accuracy: When it Pays to Understand

Kristi J. K. Klein;Sara D. Hodges

680
Citations
Attitudes as temporary constructions

Timothy D. Wilson;Sara D. Hodges

659
Citations
When Trying Hard Isn’t Natural Women’s Belonging With and Motivation for Male-Dominated STEM Fields As a Function of Effort Expenditure Concerns

Jessi L. Smith;Karyn L. Lewis;Lauren Hawthorne;Sara D. Hodges

344
Citations
Automatic and controlled empathy

S. Hodges;D. M. Wegner;W. J. Ickes

309
Citations
Giving Birth to Empathy: The Effects of Similar Experience on Empathic Accuracy, Empathic Concern, and Perceived Empathy

Sara D. Hodges;Kristi J. Kiel;Adam D. I. Kramer;Darya Veach

278
Citations
THE ROLE OF AFFECTIVE EXPECTATIONS IN SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE AND DECISION-MAKING

Kristen J. Klaaren;Sara D. Hodges;Timothy D. Wilson

259
Citations
Effects of introspecting about reasons: inferring attitudes from accessible thoughts.

Timothy D. Wilson;Sara D. Hodges;Suzanne J. LaFleur

250
Citations
Sex Differences in Self-reported Infidelity and its Correlates

Rebecca J. Brand;Charlotte M. Markey;Ana Mills;Sara D. Hodges

242
Citations
Other minds: How humans bridge the divide between self and others.

Bertram F. Malle;Sara D. Hodges

237
Citations
Regulating the costs of empathy: the price of being human

Sara D. Hodges;Kristi J.K. Klein

214
Citations
Attitude strength, attitude stability, and the effects of analyzing reasons.

Maureen Wang Erber;Sara D. Hodges;Timothy D. Wilson

207
Citations
The illusion of independent agency: Do adult fiction writers experience their characters as having minds of their own?

Marjorie Taylor;Sara D. Hodges;Adèle Kohányi

183
Citations
Perspective taking instructions and self-other overlap: Different motives for helping

Michael W. Myers;Sean M. Laurent;Sara D. Hodges

157
Citations
Compassion fade and the challenge of environmental conservation

Ezra M. Markowitz;Paul Slovic;Daniel Västfjäll;Sara D. Hodges

146
Citations
Superfluous neuroscience information makes explanations of psychological phenomena more appealing

Diego Fernandez-Duque;Jessica Evans;Colton Christian;Sara D. Hodges

145
Citations
Gender Roles and Empathic Accuracy: The Role of Communion in Reading Minds

Sean M. Laurent;Sara D. Hodges

105
Citations
Effects of analyzing reasons on attitude change: the moderating role of attitude accessibility

Sara D. Hodges;Timothy D. Wilson

103
Citations
Empathy in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

Diego Fernandez-Duque;Sara D Hodges;Jodie A Baird;Sandra E Black

97
Citations
It’s All About the Self When Perspective Taking Backfires

Claudia Sassenrath;Claudia Sassenrath;Sara D. Hodges;Stefan Pfattheicher

90
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy D. Wilson University of Virginia

William Ickes The University of Texas at Arlington

Jessi L. Smith University of Colorado Colorado Springs

Judith A. Hall Northeastern University

Jonathan W. Schooler University of California, Santa Barbara

Marjorie Taylor University of Oregon

Tom Hollenstein Queen's University

Daniel M. Wegner Harvard University

Thalia Wheatley Dartmouth College

Sandra E. Black University of Toronto

External Links

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