Emiliana Simon-Thomas

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Emiliana Simon-Thomas is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Emiliana Simon-Thomas has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Social Psychology, 9 papers in Clinical Psychology and 5 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Emiliana Simon-Thomas's work include Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions (6 papers), Emotions and Moral Behavior (3 papers) and Cultural Differences and Values (3 papers). Emiliana Simon-Thomas is often cited by papers focused on Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions (6 papers), Emotions and Moral Behavior (3 papers) and Cultural Differences and Values (3 papers). Emiliana Simon-Thomas collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Emiliana Simon-Thomas's co-authors include Dacher Keltner, Jennifer L. Goetz, Belinda Campos, Michelle N. Shiota, Christopher Oveis, Matthew J. Hertenstein, Philippe R. Goldin, James J. Gross, Joel Finkelstein and James R. Doty and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Bulletin, American Psychologist and Developmental Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Emiliana Simon-Thomas

15 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

Compassion: An evolutionary analysis and empirical review. 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 400 800 1.2k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Compassion: An evolutionary analysis and empirical review.
    2010 1.4k citations Jennifer L. Goetz, Dacher Keltner et al. Psychological Bulletin profile →

Peers

Emiliana Simon-Thomas
Jennifer Lodi‐Smith United States
Neil Dagnall United Kingdom
Lucy Foulkes United Kingdom
Andrew Denovan United Kingdom
Robert A. Ackerman United States
Dorthe Kirkegaard Thomsen Denmark
Annemaree Carroll Australia
Ilan Dar‐Nimrod Australia
Aleksandr Kogan United Kingdom
Daniel Grühn United States
Jennifer Lodi‐Smith United States
Emiliana Simon-Thomas
Citations per year, relative to Emiliana Simon-Thomas Emiliana Simon-Thomas (= 1×) peers Jennifer Lodi‐Smith

Countries citing papers authored by Emiliana Simon-Thomas

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Fields of papers citing papers by Emiliana Simon-Thomas

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Emiliana Simon-Thomas

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Emiliana Simon-Thomas. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Emiliana Simon-Thomas based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Emiliana Simon-Thomas. Emiliana Simon-Thomas is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Park, Yoobin, Darwin A. Guevarra, Peggy Callahan, et al.. (2025). Promoting Prosociality via Micro-acts of Joy: A Large-Scale Well-Being Intervention Study. 1–28.
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Guevarra, Darwin A., Yoobin Park, Xuhai Xu, et al.. (2025). Scaling a Brief Digital Well-Being Intervention (the Big Joy Project) and Sociodemographic Moderators: Single-Group Pre-Post Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 27. e72053–e72053.
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Park, Yoobin, Darwin A. Guevarra, Emiliana Simon-Thomas, & Elissa S. Epel. (2024). Who engages in well-being interventions? An analysis of a global digital intervention study. The Journal of Positive Psychology. 20(4). 699–712. 1 indexed citations
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Ekman, Eve & Emiliana Simon-Thomas. (2021). Teaching the Science of Human Flourishing, Unlocking Connection, Positivity, and Resilience for the Greater Good. Global Advances in Health and Medicine. 10. 1166454521–1166454521. 6 indexed citations
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Kirby, James N., Emma Seppälä, Matti Wilks, et al.. (2019). Positive and negative attitudes towards compassion predict compassionate outcomes. Current Psychology. 40(10). 4884–4894. 8 indexed citations
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Vuillier, Laura, Alison Wood Brooks, June Gruber, et al.. (2018). Amount and Diversity of Digital Emotional Expression Predicts Happiness. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 5 indexed citations
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Shiota, Michelle N., Belinda Campos, Christopher Oveis, et al.. (2017). Beyond happiness: Building a science of discrete positive emotions.. American Psychologist. 72(7). 617–643. 195 indexed citations
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Goetz, Jennifer L. & Emiliana Simon-Thomas. (2017). The Landscape of Compassion. Oxford University Press eBooks. 10 indexed citations
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Simon-Thomas, Emiliana, et al.. (2016). Unresolved loss, a risk factor for offspring, predicts event-related potential responses to death-related imagery.. Developmental Psychology. 53(1). 191–199. 9 indexed citations
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Cuddy, Amy J. C., Nishtha Lamba, Wu Youyou, et al.. (2015). On wealth and the diversity of friendships: High social class people around the world have fewer international friends. Personality and Individual Differences. 87. 224–229. 6 indexed citations
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Jazaieri, Hooria, Kelly McGonigal, Erika L. Rosenberg, et al.. (2012). Enhancing Compassion: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Compassion Cultivation Training Program. Journal of Happiness Studies. 14(4). 1113–1126. 295 indexed citations
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Simon-Thomas, Emiliana, et al.. (2011). An fMRI study of caringvsself-focus during induced compassion and pride. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 7(6). 635–648. 62 indexed citations
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Goetz, Jennifer L., Dacher Keltner, & Emiliana Simon-Thomas. (2010). Compassion: An evolutionary analysis and empirical review.. Psychological Bulletin. 136(3). 351–374. 1401 indexed citations breakdown →
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Simon-Thomas, Emiliana, et al.. (2009). The voice conveys specific emotions: Evidence from vocal burst displays.. Emotion. 9(6). 838–846. 132 indexed citations
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Simon-Thomas, Emiliana & Robert T. Knight. (2005). Affective and cognitive modulation of performance monitoring: Behavioral and ERP evidence. Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. 5(3). 362–372. 17 indexed citations
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Simon-Thomas, Emiliana, et al.. (2005). Behavioral and Electrophysiological Evidence of a Right Hemisphere Bias for the Influence of Negative Emotion on Higher Cognition. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 17(3). 518–529. 41 indexed citations
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Simon-Thomas, Emiliana, et al.. (2003). Distributed neural activity during object, spatial and integrated processing in humans. Cognitive Brain Research. 16(3). 457–467. 16 indexed citations

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