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Social Representations and Identity

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Enno Freiherr von Fircks
Sigmund Freud Privatuniversität Wien
2
Andrei Boutyline
University of California, Berkeley
3
Matthew J. Phillips
Curtin University
4
Marc Antoine Campill
University of Salerno
5
Canglong Wang
University of Hull
6
Amaya Querejazu
Universidad de Antioquia
7
Jacob L. Schatz
New York University
8
Edmund Aspbury-Miyanishi
University of Manchester
9
Regina E. Fabry
Macquarie University
10
Adam Mastroianni
Harvard University Press

Rising Stars Papers

1
The Affective Scaffolding of Grief in the Digital Age: The Case of Deathbots
Topoi|2024
41 cit.
2
Self-Narration in the Oppressive Niche
Topoi|2024
21 cit.
3
Empowering Undergraduate Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine: Exploring Experiences, Fostering Motivation, and Advancing Gender Equity
Social Sciences|2024
14 cit.
4
Narrative gaslighting
Philosophical Psychology|2024
12 cit.
5
Meaning in Hyperspace: Word Embeddings as Tools for Cultural Measurement
Annual Review of Sociology|2025
11 cit.
6
Animacy and the Agency of Spiritual Beings in Pluriversal Societies
International Political Sociology|2024
9 cit.
7
The perception of affordances; towards an ecological-enactive model of teacher noticing, expertise and development
Professional Development in Education|2024
9 cit.
8
The rules of the academic game: reviewing the history of Australian higher education
Frontiers in Education|2024
7 cit.
9
Are the International Tribunals of Rights of Nature pluriversal?
International Relations|2024
7 cit.
10
The disruption of grief in the technological niche: The case of deathbots
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences|2025
7 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Bertus F. Jeronimus
University of Groningen
2
Michael J. Perez
Wesleyan University
3
Mario Villalobos
University of Tarapacá
4
Michael Lee Wood
Brigham Young University
5
Micah Allen
Aarhus University
6
Laura K. Soter
York University
7
Ana Gómez-Carrillo
McGill University Health Centre
8
Meg Escudé
University of California, Berkeley
9
Luis H. Gómez Ordoñez
Universidad Nacional
10
Yahya Bouhafa
Binghamton University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
In the Body’s Eye: The computational anatomy of interoceptive inference
PLoS Computational Biology|2022
139 cit.
2
Respiratory rhythms of the predictive mind.
Psychological Review|2022
109 cit.
3
A cultural-ecosocial systems view for psychiatry
Frontiers in Psychiatry|2023
67 cit.
4
The respiratory resistance sensitivity task: An automated method for quantifying respiratory interoception and metacognition
Biological Psychology|2022
64 cit.
5
Restoring the missing person to personalized medicine and precision psychiatry
Frontiers in Neuroscience|2023
52 cit.
6
Childhood Trauma and Adult Somatic Symptoms
Psychosomatic Medicine|2023
32 cit.
7
Systole: A python package for cardiac signal synchrony and analysis
The Journal of Open Source Software|2022
29 cit.
8
Childhood abuse and neglect and profiles of adult emotion dynamics
Development and Psychopathology|2024
16 cit.
9
Testing the mood brightening hypothesis: Hedonic benefits of physical, outdoor, and social activities in people with anxiety, depression or both
Journal of Affective Disorders|2023
15 cit.
10
Domain generality in metacognitive ability: A confirmatory study across visual perception, episodic memory, and semantic memory.
Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition|2025
11 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Jacob Cohen
University of Alaska Fairbanks
2
Richard E. Petty
The Ohio State University
3
Wolfgang Bilsky
University of Münster
4
Wendi L. Gardner
The Ohio State University
5
Henry M. Wellman
University of Michigan
6
Michael Tomasello
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
7
Hilary Horn Ratner
Wayne State University
8
Ezequiel A. Di Paolo
Ikerbasque
9
Jaan Valsiner
Aalborg University
10
Peter B. Smith
University of Sussex

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences
Technometrics|1989
83.9k cit.
2
Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences (2nd ed.).
Journal of the American Statistical Association|1989
37.6k cit.
3
A power primer.
Psychological Bulletin|1992
8.8k cit.
4
The need for cognition.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology|1982
5.1k cit.
5
Central and Peripheral Routes to Advertising Effectiveness: The Moderating Role of Involvement
Journal of Consumer Research|1983
4.6k cit.
6
Toward a universal psychological structure of human values.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology|1987
3.6k cit.
7
Who is this "We"? Levels of collective identity and self representations.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology|1996
3.4k cit.
8
Mediation Analysis in Social Psychology: Current Practices and New Recommendations
Social and Personality Psychology Compass|2011
2.4k cit.
9
Toward a theory of the universal content and structure of values: Extensions and cross-cultural replications.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology|1990
2.2k cit.
10
Personal involvement as a determinant of argument-based persuasion.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology|1981
1.8k cit.

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