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William Fleeson 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 William Fleeson sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 106 publications — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

William Fleeson 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 William Fleeson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 54th percentile

54% 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

  • 1966 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

William Fleeson is affiliated with Wake Forest University in the United States. Their primary field of study is Psychology, with a focus on Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, and Information Systems and Management.

The scientist's research encompasses key topics such as Personality Traits and Psychology, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Mental Health Research Topics, Ethics in Business and Education, Personality Disorders and Psychopathology, Mental Health and Psychiatry, and Identity, Memory, and Therapy.

Frequent coauthors include Eranda Jayawickreme, R. Michael Furr, Mike Prentice, Laura E. R. Blackie, and Maike Luhmann.

Publications by William Fleeson have appeared repeatedly in several venues, notably:

  • Journal of Personality
  • Personality Science
  • Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment
  • Character Lab Tips
  • European Journal of Personality

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Post-traumatic growth as positive personality change: Challenges, opportunities, and recommendations" (2020, Journal of Personality)
  • "Personality dynamics" (2021, Personality Science)
  • "Honest Behavior: Truth-Seeking, Belief-Speaking, and Fostering Understanding of the Truth in Others" (2023, Academy of Management Annals)
  • "An experience sampling study of the momentary dynamics of moral, autonomous, competent, and related need satisfactions, moral enactments, and psychological thriving" (2020, Motivation and Emotion)
  • "Honesty as a trait" (2022, Current Opinion in Psychology)

William Fleeson was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1966.

Best Publications

  • Toward a structure- and process-integrated view of personality: Traits as density distributions of states.

    William Fleeson

  • Considering the role of personality in the work–family experience: Relationships of the big five to work–family conflict and facilitation

    Julie Holliday Wayne;Nicholas Musisca;William Fleeson

  • Whole Trait Theory

    William Fleeson;Eranda Jayawickreme

  • Moving Personality Beyond the Person-Situation Debate The Challenge and the Opportunity of Within-Person Variability

    William Fleeson

  • The implications of Big Five standing for the distribution of trait manifestation in behavior: fifteen experience-sampling studies and a meta-analysis.

    William Fleeson;M. Patrick Gallagher

  • Situation‐Based Contingencies Underlying Trait‐Content Manifestation in Behavior

    William Fleeson

  • An intraindividual process approach to the relationship between extraversion and positive affect: is acting extraverted as "good" as being extraverted?

    William Fleeson;Adriane B. Malanos;Noelle M. Achille

  • Integrating Personality Structure, Personality Process, and Personality Development:

    Anna Baumert;Anna Baumert;Manfred Schmitt;Marco Perugini;Wendy Johnson

  • Experience Sampling Methods: A Modern Idiographic Approach to Personality Research

    Tamlin S. Conner;Howard Tennen;William Fleeson;Lisa Feldman Barrett

  • Developmental regulation before and after a developmental deadline: the sample case of "biological clock" for childbearing.

    Jutta Heckhausen;Carsten Wrosch;William Fleeson

  • Life Tasks and Daily Life Experience

    Nancy Cantor;Julie Norem;Christopher Langston;Sabrina Zirkel

  • The relevance of big five trait content in behavior to subjective authenticity: do high levels of within-person behavioral variability undermine or enable authenticity achievement?

    William Fleeson;Joshua Wilt

  • The causal effects of extraversion on positive affect and neuroticism on negative affect: Manipulating state extraversion and state neuroticism in an experimental approach

    J. Murray McNiel;William Fleeson

  • What Is Extraversion For? Integrating Trait and Motivational Perspectives and Identifying the Purpose of Extraversion

    Kira O. McCabe;William Fleeson

  • The End of the Person–Situation Debate: An Emerging Synthesis in the Answer to the Consistency Question

    William Fleeson;Erik Noftle

  • Post-traumatic growth as positive personality change: Challenges, opportunities, and recommendations.

    Eranda Jayawickreme;Frank J. Infurna;Kinan Alajak;Laura E.R. Blackie

  • Sources of well-being in very old age

    Jacqui Smith;William Fleeson;Bernhard Geiselmann;Richard A. Settersten

  • Are traits useful? Explaining trait manifestations as tools in the pursuit of goals.

    Kira O. McCabe;William Fleeson

  • Predictors of subjective physical health and global well-being similarities and differences between the United States and Germany

    Ursula M. Staudinger;William Fleeson;Paul B. Baltes

  • Whole Trait Theory: An integrative approach to examining personality structure and process

    Eranda Jayawickreme;Corinne E. Zachry;William Fleeson

Frequent Co-Authors

R. Michael Furr
R. Michael Furr Wake Forest University
Eranda Jayawickreme
Eranda Jayawickreme Wake Forest University
Brent W. Roberts
Brent W. Roberts University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jacqui Smith
Jacqui Smith University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
M. Brent Donnellan
M. Brent Donnellan Michigan State University
Wendy Johnson
Wendy Johnson University of Edinburgh
Manfred Schmitt
Manfred Schmitt University of Koblenz and Landau
Howard Tennen
Howard Tennen University of Connecticut
Stephen J. Read
Stephen J. Read University of Southern California
Michael D. Robinson
Michael D. Robinson North Dakota State University

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