2026 Teresa M. Amabile: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	67	2530	2316	1463	1309	176	72440

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

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Current National Ranking

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Psychology

2530

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176

72440

Research.com Recognitions

1989 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Teresa M. Amabile is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans several intersecting fields including demography, organizational behavior and human resource management, experimental and cognitive psychology, neuropsychology and physiological psychology, and management information systems.

Amabile's recent scholarly contributions cover topics such as retirement, disability, and employment, creativity in education and neuroscience, aging and gerontology research, management and organizational studies, accounting and organizational management, job satisfaction and organizational behavior, and labor market dynamics and wage inequality.

Notable recent papers include:

The Turn toward Creative Work, 2022, Academy of Management collections.
What do I make of the rest of my life? Global and quotidian life construal across the retirement transition, 2022, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
Transitioning into retirement: the interplay of self and life structure, 2024, Work Aging and Retirement.
Broadening Our Insight: Bridging and Blurring Boundaries Between Creativity and Innovation, 2020, Academy of Management Proceedings.
Motivation is Social: Interpersonal and Relational Perspectives on Work Motivation, 2020, Academy of Management Proceedings.

Amabile frequently publishes in venues such as:

Academy of Management Proceedings
Academy of Management collections.
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
Work Aging and Retirement
The Journal of Creative Behavior

Collaborative work often involves coauthors including Spencer Harrison, Colin M. Fisher, Douglas T. Hall, Kathy E. Kram, and Lotte Bailyn.

Amabile has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association since 1989.

Best Publications

Assessing the Work Environment for Creativity

Teresa M. Amabile;Regina Conti;Heather Coon;Jeffrey Lazenby

8099
Citations
A MODEL OF CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION IN ORGANIZATIONS

T. M. Amabile

6158
Citations
Creativity In Context: Update To The Social Psychology Of Creativity

Teresa M. Amabile

4892
Citations
The social psychology of creativity: A componential conceptualization.

Teresa M. Amabile

4707
Citations
The social psychology of creativity

Teresa M. Amabile

3862
Citations
Affect and Creativity at Work

Teresa M. Amabile;Sigal G. Barsade;Jennifer S. Mueller;Barry M. Staw

3212
Citations
The Work Preference Inventory: Assessing Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivational Orientations

Teresa M. Amabile;Karl G. Hill;Beth A. Hennessey;Elizabeth M. Tighe

3168
Citations
Motivating Creativity in Organizations: On Doing What You Love and Loving What You Do

Teresa M. Amabile

2750
Citations
How to kill creativity.

Teresa M. Amabile

2683
Citations
Social psychology of creativity: A consensual assessment technique.

Teresa M. Amabile

2594
Citations
Leader Behaviors and the Work Environment for Creativity: Perceived Leader Support

Teresa M Amabile;Elizabeth A Schatzel;Giovanni B Moneta;Steven J Kramer

2343
Citations
The Dynamic Componential Model of Creativity and Innovation in Organizations: Making Progress, Making Meaning

Teresa M. Amabile;Michael G. Pratt

1834
Citations
Motivational synergy: Toward new conceptualizations of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in the workplace

Teresa M. Amabile

1445
Citations
Social influences on creativity: the effects of contracted-for reward.

Teresa M. Amabile;Beth A. Hennessey;Barbara S. Grossman

1002
Citations
Motivation and Creativity: Effects of Motivational Orientation on Creative Writers

Teresa M. Amabile

922
Citations
The creative environment scales: Work environment inventory

Teresa M. Amabile;Nur D. Gryskiewicz

919
Citations
Social Roles, Social Control, and Biases in Social-Perception Processes

Lee D. Ross;Teresa M. Amabile;Julia L. Steinmetz

913
Citations
Perspectives on the Social Psychology of Creativity

Teresa M. Amabile;Julianna Pillemer

906
Citations
Academic-Practitioner Collaboration in Management Research: A Case of Cross-Profession Collaboration

Teresa M. Amabile;Chelley Patterson;Jennifer Mueller;Tom Wojcik

775
Citations
The conditions of creativity.

Beth A. Hennessey;Teresa M. Amabile

766
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

John Ruscio College of New Jersey

Lee Ross Stanford University

Karl G. Hill University of Colorado Boulder

Mark R. Lepper Stanford University

Susan T. Fiske Princeton University

Ayelet Meron Ruscio University of Pennsylvania

Marylène Gagné Curtin University

Robert J. Sternberg Cornell University

Wendy Berry Mendes University of California, San Francisco

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