2026 William J. McGuire: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	45	6602	3583	78	10647

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World Ranking

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Psychology

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10647

Overview

William J. McGuire was affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their academic contributions have been primarily recognized through their association with this institution.

No detailed information about recent papers, frequent co-authors, publication venues, book publications, fields and subfields of study, or main topics of work were provided.

McGuire was deceased at the time of this profile's creation.

Best Publications

Salience of ethnicity in the spontaneous self-concept as a function of one's ethnic distinctiveness in the social environment.

William J. McGuire;Claire V. McGuire;Pamela Child;Terry Fujioka

817
Citations
Some Contemporary Approaches

William J. McGuire

707
Citations
The Yin and Yang of Progress in Social Psychology: Seven Koan.

William J. McGuire

676
Citations
The relative efficacy of various types of prior belief-defense in producing immunity against persuasion.

W. J. McGuire;D. Papageorgis

558
Citations
Trait salience in the spontaneous self-concept.

William J. McGuire;Alice Padawer-Singer

551
Citations
Some Internal Psychological Factors Influencing Consumer Choice

William J. McGuire

486
Citations
Resistance to persuasion conferred by active and passive prior refutation of the same and alternative counterarguments.

W. J. McGuire

429
Citations
Explorations in Political Psychology

Stephen G. Walker;Shanto Iyengar;William J. McGuire

399
Citations
Public communication as a strategy for inducing health-promoting behavioral change☆

William J. McGuire

364
Citations
A Contextualist Theory of Knowledge: Its Implications for Innovation and Reform in Psychological Research*

William J. McGuire

307
Citations
Content and Process in the Experience of Self

William J. McGuire;Claire V. McGuire

304
Citations
Cognitive consistency and attitude change.

W. J. McGuire

277
Citations
The Myth of Massive Media Impact: Savagings and Salvagings

William J. Mcguire

271
Citations
The vicissitudes of attitudes and similar representational constructs in twentieth century psychology

William J. McGuire

260
Citations
Effectiveness of Forewarning in Developing Resistance to Persuasion

Unknown

257
Citations
Effects of household sex composition on the salience of one's gender in the spontaneous self-concept.

William J McGuire;Claire V McGuire;Ward Winton

244
Citations
Creative hypothesis generating in psychology : Some useful heuristics

William J. McGuire

185
Citations
The generality of immunity to persuasion produced by pre-exposure to weakened counterarguments.

Unknown

159
Citations
The Current Status of Cognitive Consistency Theories1

William J. Mcguire

152
Citations
Some impending reorientations in social psychology: Some thoughts provoked by Kenneth Ring

William J. McGuire

148
Citations
Standing on the Shoulders of Ancients: Consumer Research, Persuasion, and Figurative Language

William J. McGuire

139
Citations
The content, structure, and operation of thought systems

W. J. Mcguire;C. V. Mcguire

137
Citations
Explorations in political psychology

Shanto Iyengar;William J. McGuire

57
Citations

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