2026 Stéphane Côté: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	38	8690	8118	581	547	70	18217

Overview

Stéphane Côté is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research spans various topics within psychology and the social sciences, with a particular focus on social psychology, emotions, privilege, and inequalities.

The main topics covered in Stéphane Côté's work include:

Mental Health Research Topics
Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
Emotions and Moral Behavior
Social and Intergroup Psychology
Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies
Maternal and fetal healthcare

The fields of study that appear most frequently in their publications are:

Sociology and Political Science
Social Psychology
Clinical Psychology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Obstetrics and Gynecology

Stéphane Côté has published in a variety of scientific journals and proceedings, with some venues appearing more frequently, including:

Harvard Dataverse
Academy of Management Proceedings
Psychological Science
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Annual Review of Psychology

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, their main coauthors have been:

Jennifer J. Kish-Gephart
Jennifer E. Stellar
Robb Willer
Paul Guerby
Ema Ferreira

Among recent publications, the following papers are notable for their topics and venues:

The Social Effects of Emotions, 2021, Annual Review of Psychology
The Psychology of Entrenched Privilege: High Socioeconomic Status Individuals From Affluent Backgrounds Are Uniquely High in Entitlement, 2020, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
A Multidimensional Framework for Examining the Effects of Social Class on Organizational Behavior, 2022, Journal of Management
The Distinct Effects of Empathic Accuracy for a Romantic Partner's Appeasement and Dominance Emotions, 2020, Psychological Science
A Pilot Randomized Trial Comparing the Effects of 80 versus 160 mg of Aspirin on Midtrimester Uterine Artery Pulsatility Index in Women with a History of Preeclampsia, 2020, Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada

Best Publications

Having Less, Giving More: The Influence of Social Class on Prosocial Behavior

Paul K. Piff;Michael W. Kraus;Stéphane Côté;Bonnie Hayden Cheng

1966
Citations
The Contagious Leader: Impact of the Leader's Mood on the Mood of Group Members, Group Affective Tone, and Group Processes.

Thomas Sy;Stéphane Côté;Richard Saavedra

1652
Citations
Emotion Regulation Abilities and the Quality of Social Interaction.

Paulo N Lopes;Peter Salovey;Stéphane Coté;Michael Beers

1603
Citations
Emotional Intelligence, Cognitive Intelligence, and Job Performance:

Stéphane Côté;Christopher T. H. Miners

1500
Citations
Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior

Paul K. Piff;Daniel M. Stancato;Stéphane Côté;Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton

1452
Citations
A Social Interaction Model Of The Effects Of Emotion Regulation On Work Strain

Stéphane Côté

948
Citations
Social Class, Contextualism, and Empathic Accuracy

Michael W. Kraus;Stéphane Côté;Dacher Keltner

877
Citations
A longitudinal analysis of the association between emotion regulation, job satisfaction, and intentions to quit.

Stéphane Côté;Laura M. Morgan

809
Citations
A Warm Heart and a Clear Head The Contingent Effects of Weather on Mood and Cognition

Matthew C. Keller;Barbara L. Fredrickson;Oscar Ybarra;Stéphane Côté

607
Citations
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND LEADERSHIP EMERGENCE IN SMALL GROUPS

Stéphane Côté;Paulo N. Lopes;Peter Salovey;Christopher T.H. Miners

462
Citations
Expressing anger in conflict: When it helps and when it hurts.

Gerben A. Van Kleef;Stéphane Côté

433
Citations
Emotional Intelligence in Organizations

Stéphane Côté

393
Citations
On the dynamic covariation between interpersonal behavior and affect: prediction from neuroticism, extraversion, and agreeableness.

Stéphane Côté;D. S. Moskowitz

385
Citations
High economic inequality leads higher-income individuals to be less generous

Stéphane Côté;Julian House;Robb Willer

338
Citations
Social power facilitates the effect of prosocial orientation on empathic accuracy.

Stéphane Côté;Michael W. Kraus;Bonnie Hayden Cheng;Christopher Oveis

329
Citations
The Social Effects of Emotions.

Gerben A van Kleef;Stéphane Côté

325
Citations
The ability to regulate emotion is associated with greater well-being, income, and socioeconomic status.

Stéphane Côté;Anett Gyurak;Robert W. Levenson

304
Citations
The Jekyll and Hyde of Emotional Intelligence Emotion-Regulation Knowledge Facilitates Both Prosocial and Interpersonally Deviant Behavior

Stéphane Côté;Katherine A. DeCelles;Julie M. McCarthy;Gerben A. Van Kleef

281
Citations
Emotional intelligence: A key ability to succeed in the matrix organization

Thomas Sy;Stéphane Côté

280
Citations
Do interpersonal traits predict affect? A comparison of three models.

D. S. Moskowitz;Stephane Coté

277
Citations
Trait affect and job search outcomes

Stéphane Côté;Alan M. Saks;Jelena Zikic

240
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Dacher Keltner University of California, Berkeley

Paul K. Piff University of California, Irvine

Gerben A. van Kleef University of Amsterdam

Michael W. Kraus University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Debbie S. Moskowitz McGill University

Peter Salovey Yale University

Robb Willer Stanford University

Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton University of California, Berkeley

Robert W. Levenson University of California, Berkeley

Oscar Ybarra University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

External Links

Personal website of Stéphane Côté

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