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Shigehiro Oishi 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 Shigehiro Oishi sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 235 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Shigehiro Oishi 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 Shigehiro Oishi sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 91 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% 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

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Shigehiro Oishi is affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States and has an extensive research profile primarily within the fields of psychology and social sciences. Their work spans various subfields including social psychology, sociology and political science, applied psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and clinical psychology.

Their research covers several core topics, such as psychological well-being and life satisfaction, social and intergroup psychology, cultural differences and values, optimism, hope, and well-being, social and cultural dynamics, behavioral health and interventions, and psychological and temporal perspectives research.

Oishi has published a significant number of papers, with notable recent works including:

  • A psychologically rich life: Beyond happiness and meaning. (2021) in Psychological Review
  • Happiness, Meaning, and Psychological Richness. (2020) in Affective Science
  • The social psychology of economic inequality, redistribution, and subjective well-being. (2021) in European Review of Social Psychology
  • The socio-ecological psychology of residential mobility. (2022) in Journal of Consumer Psychology
  • The psychologically rich life. (2020) in Philosophical Psychology

Frequent coauthors in Oishi's research include Youngjae Cha, Hyewon Choi, Nicholas R. Buttrick, Erin Corwin Westgate, and Asuka Komiya.

The scientist's work has been published repeatedly in several key venues, particularly:

  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • The Journal of Positive Psychology
  • Journal of Research in Personality
  • Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • Psychological Review

Among awards, Oishi was recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Personality, Culture, and Subjective Well-Being: Emotional and Cognitive Evaluations of Life

    Ed Diener;Shigehiro Oishi;Richard E. Lucas

  • The Meaning in Life Questionnaire: Assessing the Presence of and Search for Meaning in Life

    Michael F. Steger;Patricia Frazier;Shigehiro Oishi;Matthew Kaler

  • New Well-Being Measures: Short Scales to Assess Flourishing and Positive and Negative Feelings.

    Ed Diener;Ed Diener;Derrick Wirtz;William Tov;Chu Kim-Prieto

  • Subjective Well-Being: The Science of Happiness and Life Satisfaction

    Ed Diener;Shigehiro Oishi;Richard E. Lucas

  • The shifting basis of life satisfaction judgments across cultures: Emotions versus norms.

    Eunkook Suh;Ed Diener;Shigehiro Oishi;Harry C. Triandis

  • New Measures of Well-Being

    Ed Diener;Derrick Wirtz;Robert Biswas-Diener;William Tov

  • Advances in subjective well-being research

    Ed Diener;Shigehiro Oishi;Louis Tay

  • Large-Scale Psychological Differences Within China Explained by Rice Versus Wheat Agriculture

    T. Talhelm;X. Zhang;S. Oishi;C. Shimin

  • Similarity of the Relations between Marital Status and Subjective Well-Being Across Cultures

    Ed Diener;Carol L. Gohm;Eunkook Suh;Shigehiro Oishi

  • Meaning in life across the life span: Levels and correlates of meaning in life from emerging adulthood to older adulthood

    Michael F. Steger;Shigehiro Oishi;Todd B. Kashdan

  • Culture, personality, and subjective well-being: integrating process models of life satisfaction.

    Ulrich Schimmack;Phanikiran Radhakrishnan;Shigehiro Oishi;Vivian Dzokoto

  • Income Inequality and Happiness

    Shigehiro Oishi;Selin Kesebir;Ed Diener

  • Advances and Open Questions in the Science of Subjective Well-Being

    Ed Diener;Richard E. Lucas;Shigehiro Oishi

  • Life-satisfaction is a momentary judgment and a stable personality characteristic: the use of chronically accessible and stable sources

    Ulrich Schimmack;Ed Diener;Shigehiro Oishi

  • The Relationship Between Social Support and Subjective Well-Being Across Age.

    Karen L. Siedlecki;Timothy A. Salthouse;Shigehiro Oishi;Sheena Jeswani

  • Value as a Moderator in Subjective Well‐Being

    Shigehiro Oishi;Ed Diener;Eunkook Suh;Richard E. Lucas

  • Being good by doing good: Daily eudaimonic activity and well-being

    Michael F. Steger;Todd B. Kashdan;Shigehiro Oishi

  • Findings all psychologists should know from the new science on subjective well-being

    Ed Diener;Samantha J. Heintzelman;Kostadin Kushlev;Louis Tay

  • Cross-Cultural Variations in Predictors of Life Satisfaction: Perspectives from Needs and Values

    Shigehiro Oishi;Edward F. Diener;Richard E. Lucas;Eunkook M. Suh

  • Rising income and the subjective well-being of nations

    Ed Diener;Louis Tay;Shigehiro Oishi

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Ed Diener
Ed Diener University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ulrich Schimmack
Ulrich Schimmack University of Toronto
Eunkook M. Suh
Eunkook M. Suh Yonsei University
Richard E. Lucas
Richard E. Lucas Michigan State University
Louis Tay
Louis Tay Purdue University West Lafayette
Michael F. Steger
Michael F. Steger Colorado State University
Masaki Yuki
Masaki Yuki Hokkaido University
Ayse K. Uskul
Ayse K. Uskul University of Sussex
Shalom H. Schwartz
Shalom H. Schwartz Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Timothy A. Salthouse
Timothy A. Salthouse University of Virginia

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