Donna M. Webster

8.9k citations

18 papers · 6.2k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 17

Impact in

General Decision Sciences top 0.5%
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
Applied Psychology top 0.5%
- Behavioral Health and Interventions

Papers in

Applied Psychology 3
- Behavioral Health and Interventions 2
General Decision Sciences 1

Co-authors: Arie W. Kruglanski Linda Richter Lucia Mannetti Antonio Pierro Cynthia T. F. Klein
Journals: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (12 papers)Basic and Applied Social Psychology (2 papers)Psychological Review (2 papers)Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (1 paper)European Review of Social Psychology (1 paper)
Partner nations: United States

In The Last Decade

Donna M. Webster

18 papers receiving 5.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Motivated closing of the mind: "Seizing" and "freezing." 1996 · 1.4k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

1996 Psychological Review
1994 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
1994 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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18 of 18 papers shown

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1	Individual Differences in Argument Scrutiny as Motivated by Need for Cognitive Closure Basic and Applied Social Psychology ·Cynthia T. F. Klein, Donna M. Webster	2000	2
2	Individual Differences in Argument Scrutiny as Motivated by Need for Cognitive Closure Basic and Applied Social Psychology ·Cynthia T. F. Klein, Donna M. Webster	2000	49
3	Psychological theory testing versus psychometric nay-saying: Comment on Neuberg et al.'s (1997) critique of the Need for Closure Scale. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·Arie W. Kruglanski, M. Nadir Atash, Ben Everson, Lucia Mannetti, Antonio Pierro, Donna M. Webster	1997	102
4	Motivated language use in intergroup contexts: Need-for-closure effects on the linguistic intergroup bias. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·Donna M. Webster, Arie W. Kruglanski, Sven Kötter	1997	39
5	Psychological theory testing versus psychometric nay-saying: Comment on Neuberg et al.'s (1997) critique of the Need for Closure Scale. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·Arie W. Kruglanski, M. Nadir Atash, Ben Everson, Lucia Mannetti, Antonio Pierro, Donna M. Webster	1997	90
6	Cognitive and Social Consequences of the Need for Cognitive Closure European Review of Social Psychology ·Donna M. Webster, Arie W. Kruglanski	1997	151
7	Motivated language use in intergroup contexts: Need-for-closure effects on the linguistic intergroup bias. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·Donna M. Webster, Arie W. Kruglanski, Sven Kötter	1997	29
8	Motivated closing of the mind: "Seizing" and "freezing." Psychological Review ·Arie W. Kruglanski, Donna M. Webster Hit paper breakdown →	1996	1437
9	Motivated closing of the mind: "Seizing" and "freezing." Psychological Review ·Arie W. Kruglanski, Donna M. Webster	1996	108
10	On Leaping to Conclusions When Feeling Tired: Mental Fatigue Effects on Impressional Primacy Journal of Experimental Social Psychology ·Donna M. Webster, Linda Richter, Arie W. Kruglanski	1996	194
11	Individual differences in need for cognitive closure. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·Donna M. Webster, Arie W. Kruglanski Hit paper breakdown →	1994	1259
12	Individual differences in need for cognitive closure. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·Donna M. Webster, Arie W. Kruglanski Hit paper breakdown →	1994	1332
13	Motivated resistance and openness to persuasion in the presence or absence of prior information. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·Arie W. Kruglanski, Donna M. Webster, N. L. Langston	1993	419
14	Motivated resistance and openness to persuasion in the presence or absence of prior information. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·Arie W. Kruglanski, Donna M. Webster, N. L. Langston	1993	391
15	Motivated augmentation and reduction of the overattribution bias. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·Donna M. Webster	1993	91
16	Motivated augmentation and reduction of the overattribution bias. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·Donna M. Webster	1993	113
17	Group members' reactions to opinion deviates and conformists at varying degrees of proximity to decision deadline and of environmental noise. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·Arie W. Kruglanski, Donna M. Webster	1991	193
18	Group members' reactions to opinion deviates and conformists at varying degrees of proximity to decision deadline and of environmental noise. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·Arie W. Kruglanski, Donna M. Webster	1991	174

About Donna M. Webster

Donna M. Webster is a scholar working on Applied Psychology, General Decision Sciences, Social Psychology, Literature and Literary Theory and Sociology and Political Science, having authored 18 papers that have together received 6.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Social and Intergroup Psychology (9 papers), Media Influence and Health (3 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (3 papers), Behavioral Health and Interventions (2 papers), Team Dynamics and Performance (2 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (2 papers), Public Relations and Crisis Communication (1 paper) and Psychology of Social Influence (1 paper). The work is most often cited by research in General Decision Sciences (550 citations), Applied Psychology (946 citations), Social Psychology (2.6k citations), Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (944 citations) and Sociology and Political Science (3.1k citations). Donna M. Webster has collaborated with scholars based in United States. Frequent co-authors include Arie W. Kruglanski, Linda Richter, Lucia Mannetti, Antonio Pierro and Cynthia T. F. Klein. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Basic and Applied Social Psychology, Psychological Review, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and European Review of Social Psychology.

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