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Tessa V. West 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 Tessa V. West sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 88 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Tessa V. West 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 Tessa V. West sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 34 D-Index — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Tessa V. West is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with notable contributions in the subfields of Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Clinical Psychology.

Their work addresses several main topics including Social and Intergroup Psychology, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Action Observation and Synchronization, Attachment and Relationship Dynamics, Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes, Mental Health Research Topics, and Cultural Differences and Values.

Tessa V. West has published several papers in leading journals. Some recent publications include:

  • The Temporal Dynamics of Brain-to-Brain Synchrony Between Students and Teachers Predict Learning Outcomes, 2023, Psychological Science
  • Keep it to yourself? Parent emotion suppression influences physiological linkage and interaction behavior., 2020, Journal of Family Psychology
  • The imperative of interpretable machines, 2020, Nature Machine Intelligence
  • Emotional Empathy in the Social Regulation of Distress: A Dyadic Approach, 2020, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Morning brain: real-world neural evidence that high school class times matter, 2020, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Wendy Berry Mendes
  • Katherine R. Thorson
  • Suzanne Dikker
  • Gavin J. Kilduff
  • Kareena del Rosario

Tessa V. West has contributed regularly to several academic venues. Frequently published journals are:

  • Psychological Science
  • Nature Machine Intelligence
  • Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • Journal of Family Psychology
  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Best Publications

  • Aversive racism and medical interactions with Black patients: A field study

    Louis A. Penner;John F. Dovidio;Tessa V. West;Samuel L. Gaertner

  • The Truth and Bias Model of Judgment

    Tessa V. West;David A. Kenny

  • Predictors of dyadic friendship quality in adolescence.

    Antonius H. N. Cillessen;X. Lu Jiang;Tessa V. West;Dagmara K. Laszkowski

  • Stress Contagion Physiological Covariation Between Mothers and Infants

    Sara F. Waters;Tessa V. West;Wendy Berry Mendes

  • Racial attitudes, physician–patient talk time ratio, and adherence in racially discordant medical interactions

    Nao Hagiwara;Louis A. Penner;Richard Gonzalez;Susan Eggly

  • Similarity and Agreement in Self- and Other Perception: A Meta-Analysis

    David A. Kenny;Tessa V. West

  • From strangers to friends: The interpersonal process model of intimacy in developing interracial friendships

    J. Nicole Shelton;Thomas E. Trail;Tessa V. West;Hilary B. Bergsieker

  • A Guide for the Estimation of Gender and Sexual Orientation Effects in Dyadic Data: An Actor-Partner Interdependence Model Approach

    Tessa V. West;Danielle Popp;David A. Kenny

  • The Fragility of Intergroup Relations Divergent Effects of Delayed Audiovisual Feedback in Intergroup and Intragroup Interaction

    Adam R. Pearson;Tessa V. West;John F. Dovidio;Stacie Renfro Powers

  • Measuring physiological influence in dyads: A guide to designing, implementing, and analyzing dyadic physiological studies.

    Katherine R. Thorson;Tessa V. West;Wendy Berry Mendes

  • Affect contagion between Mothers and Infants: Examining valence and touch

    Sara F. Waters;Tessa V. West;Helena R. Karnilowicz;Wendy Berry Mendes

  • “Ditto Heads” Do Conservatives Perceive Greater Consensus Within Their Ranks Than Liberals?

    Chadly Stern;Tessa V. West;John T. Jost;Nicholas O. Rule

  • The politics of gaydar: ideological differences in the use of gendered cues in categorizing sexual orientation.

    Chadly Stern;Tessa V. West;John T. Jost;Nicholas O. Rule

  • Superordinate identity and intergroup roommate friendship development

    Tessa V. West;Adam R. Pearson;John F. Dovidio;J. Nicole Shelton

  • Lost in the categorical shuffle: evidence for the social non-prototypicality of black women.

    Erin L. Thomas;John F. Dovidio;Tessa V. West

  • Behavioral observation and coding

    Richard E. Heyman;Michael F. Lorber;J. Mark Eddy;Tessa V. West

  • HIV transmission risk among HIV seroconcordant and serodiscordant couples: dyadic processes of partner selection.

    Lisa A. Eaton;Tessa V. West;David A. Kenny;Seth C. Kalichman

  • Concerns about appearing prejudiced: Implications for anxiety during daily interracial interactions

    J. Nicole Shelton;Tessa V. West;Thomas E. Trail

  • Relational Anxiety in Interracial Interactions

    Tessa V. West;J. Nicole Shelton;Thomas E. Trail

  • Interracial Roommate Relationships: Negotiating Daily Interactions

    Thomas E. Trail;J. Nicole Shelton;Tessa V. West

  • The Liberal Illusion of Uniqueness

    Chadly Daniel Stern;Tessa V. West;Peter G. Schmitt

  • Componential Analysis of Interpersonal Perception Data

    David A. Kenny;Tessa V. West;Thomas E. Malloy;Linda Albright

Frequent Co-Authors

John F. Dovidio
John F. Dovidio Yale University
Wendy Berry Mendes
Wendy Berry Mendes University of California, San Francisco
David A. Kenny
David A. Kenny Teagasc - The Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority
J. Nicole Shelton
J. Nicole Shelton Princeton University
David Poeppel
David Poeppel New York University
John T. Jost
John T. Jost New York University
Judith A. Hall
Judith A. Hall Northeastern University
Marianne Schmid Mast
Marianne Schmid Mast University of Lausanne
Samuel L. Gaertner
Samuel L. Gaertner University of Delaware
Nicholas O. Rule
Nicholas O. Rule University of Toronto

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