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59
Citations
27976
World Ranking
3622
National Ranking
2032

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Steven L. Neuberg is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States and specializes in research primarily within the social sciences and psychology.

Their work spans multiple subfields including sociology and political science, experimental and cognitive psychology, gender studies, cognitive neuroscience, and clinical psychology.

Neuberg's research focuses on a variety of topics, prominently covering:

  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Obesity and Health Practices
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions

Frequent publication venues for Neuberg include:

  • Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology
  • American Psychologist
  • Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
  • Conflict Management and Peace Science

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Neuberg demonstrate a broad interdisciplinary reach and include:

  • "Updating Long-Held Assumptions About Fat Stigma: For Women, Body Shape Plays a Critical Role" (2021), published in Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • "Integrating institutional approaches and decision science to address climate change: a multi-level collective action research agenda" (2021), published in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
  • "Grievances and rebellion: Comparing relative deprivation and horizontal inequality" (2020), published in Conflict Management and Peace Science
  • "Effects of economic uncertainty and socioeconomic status on reproductive timing: A life history approach" (2022), published in Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology
  • "Desire for social status affects marital and reproductive attitudes: A life history mismatch perspective" (2023), published in Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology

Steven L. Neuberg has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Ahra Ko
  • Jaimie Arona Krems
  • Cari M. Pick
  • Michael Barlev
  • Keelah E. G. Williams

Neuberg has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2020 and as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) since 2004.

Best Publications

  • A Continuum of Impression Formation, from Category-Based to Individuating Processes: Influences of Information and Motivation on Attention and Interpretation

    Susan T. Fiske;Steven L. Neuberg

  • Reinterpreting the Empathy-Altruism Relationship: When One Into One Equals Oneness

    Robert B. Cialdini;Stephanie L. Brown;Brian P. Lewis;Carol Luce

  • Different emotional reactions to different groups: a sociofunctional threat-based approach to "prejudice".

    Catherine A. Cottrell;Steven L. Neuberg

  • Renovating the Pyramid of Needs: Contemporary Extensions Built Upon Ancient Foundations

    Douglas T. Kenrick;Vladas Griskevicius;Steven L. Neuberg;Mark Schaller

  • Personal Need for Structure: Individual Differences in the Desire for Simple Structure

    Steven L. Neuberg;Jason T. Newsom

  • Motivational Influences on Impression Formation: Outcome Dependency, Accuracy-Driven Attention, and Individuating Processes

    Steven L. Neuberg;Susan Tufts Fiske

  • Functional projection: how fundamental social motives can bias interpersonal perception.

    Jon K. Maner;Douglas T. Kenrick;D. Vaughn Becker;Theresa E. Robertson

  • Human threat management systems: Self-protection and disease avoidance

    Steven L. Neuberg;Douglas T. Kenrick;Mark Schaller

  • The confounded nature of angry men and happy women.

    D. Vaughn Becker;Douglas T. Kenrick;Steven L. Neuberg;K. C. Blackwell

  • From Stereotype Threat to Stereotype Threats: Implications of a Multi-Threat Framework for Causes, Moderators, Mediators, Consequences, and Interventions

    Jenessa R. Shapiro;Steven L. Neuberg

  • Sexually Selective Cognition: Beauty Captures the Mind of the Beholder

    Jon K. Maner;Douglas T. Kenrick;D. Vaughn Becker;Andrew W. Delton

  • What do people desire in others? A sociofunctional perspective on the importance of different valued characteristics

    Catherine A. Cottrell;Steven L. Neuberg;Norman P. Li

  • Infection Breeds Reticence: The Effects of Disease Salience on Self-Perceptions of Personality and Behavioral Avoidance Tendencies

    Chad R. Mortensen;D. Vaughn Becker;Joshua M. Ackerman;Steven L. Neuberg

  • Category-based and attribute-based reactions to others: Some informational conditions of stereotyping and individuating processes

    Susan T Fiske;Steven L Neuberg;Ann E Beattie;Sandra J Milberg

  • The effects of perspective taking on motivations for helping: Still no evidence for altruism.

    Jon K. Maner;Carol L. Luce;Steven L. Neuberg;Robert B. Cialdini

  • They All Look the Same to Me (Unless They're Angry): From Out-Group Homogeneity to Out-Group Heterogeneity

    Joshua M. Ackerman;Jenessa R. Shapiro;Steven L. Neuberg;Douglas T. Kenrick

  • What the Need for Closure Scale Measures and What It Does Not: Toward Differentiating Among Related Epistemic Motives

    Steven L. Neuberg;T. Nicole Judice;Stephen G. West

  • Goal-Driven Cognition and Functional Behavior The Fundamental-Motives Framework

    Douglas T. Kenrick;Steven L. Neuberg;Vladas Griskevicius;D. Vaughn Becker

  • The goal of forming accurate impressions during social interactions: attenuating the impact of negative expectancies.

    Steven L. Neuberg

  • Why people stigmatize: Toward a biocultural framework.

    Steven L. Neuberg;Dylan M. Smith;Terrilee Asher

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas T. Kenrick
Douglas T. Kenrick Arizona State University
Mark Schaller
Mark Schaller University of British Columbia
Jon K. Maner
Jon K. Maner Florida State University
Joshua M. Ackerman
Joshua M. Ackerman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Robert B. Cialdini
Robert B. Cialdini Arizona State University
Vladas Griskevicius
Vladas Griskevicius University of Minnesota
Susan T. Fiske
Susan T. Fiske Princeton University
Norman P. Li
Norman P. Li Singapore Management University
Stephen G. West
Stephen G. West Arizona State University
Jeremy C. Biesanz
Jeremy C. Biesanz University of British Columbia

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