Eric Hehman

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
58 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Eric Hehman is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Eric Hehman has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 29 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 18 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Eric Hehman's work include Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (27 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (25 papers) and Cultural Differences and Values (12 papers). Eric Hehman is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (27 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (25 papers) and Cultural Differences and Values (12 papers). Eric Hehman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Eric Hehman's co-authors include Jessica Kay Flake, Jonathan B. Freeman, Jolynn Pek, Ryan M. Stolier, Jordan B. Leitner, Samuel L. Gaertner, Jimmy Calanchini, Sally Y Xie, Jordan B. Leitner and Eric W. Mania and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Eric Hehman

56 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Construct Validation in Social and Personality Research 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 100 200 300 400
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. Construct Validation in Social and Personality Research
    2017 423 citations Jessica Kay Flake, Jolynn Pek et al. Social Psychological and Personality Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Eric Hehman United States 28 1.1k 959 917 765 325 58 2.5k
Donald F. Sacco United States 26 994 0.9× 1.2k 1.2× 1.3k 1.4× 1.2k 1.6× 541 1.7× 113 2.8k
Michael L. Slepian United States 29 708 0.7× 788 0.8× 634 0.7× 863 1.1× 277 0.9× 73 2.0k
Joshua M. Ackerman United States 27 1.0k 1.0× 1.1k 1.1× 1.1k 1.2× 1.2k 1.5× 410 1.3× 65 3.0k
Kai Epstude Netherlands 21 699 0.7× 632 0.7× 674 0.7× 822 1.1× 300 0.9× 50 2.3k
Julian A. Oldmeadow Australia 20 1.0k 1.0× 602 0.6× 558 0.6× 574 0.8× 263 0.8× 43 2.0k
Jessica Kay Flake Canada 23 629 0.6× 1.1k 1.1× 514 0.6× 835 1.1× 438 1.3× 36 2.8k
Fredrik Björklund Sweden 25 990 0.9× 391 0.4× 668 0.7× 942 1.2× 464 1.4× 87 2.3k
Roger Giner‐Sorolla United Kingdom 34 1.7k 1.6× 493 0.5× 1.4k 1.5× 1.7k 2.3× 369 1.1× 72 3.7k
Heather M. Claypool United States 22 802 0.7× 492 0.5× 588 0.6× 1.0k 1.3× 321 1.0× 47 1.9k
Thomas Holtgraves United States 35 993 0.9× 884 0.9× 467 0.5× 1.1k 1.4× 783 2.4× 91 3.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Eric Hehman

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Fields of papers citing papers by Eric Hehman

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Eric Hehman

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Eric Hehman. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Eric Hehman 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 Eric Hehman. Eric Hehman is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Norman, Jasmine, et al.. (2024). Race in the eye of the beholder: Decomposing perceiver- and target-level variation in perceived racial prototypicality. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 115. 104667–104667.
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Neel, Rebecca, et al.. (2024). Intergroup Contact Is Consistently Associated With Lower Prejudice Across Group Properties. Collabra Psychology. 10(1). 1 indexed citations
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Hehman, Eric, et al.. (2024). Prejudice and stereotypes at regional and individual levels: Related but distinct.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 128(4). 807–820. 1 indexed citations
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Hester, Neil & Eric Hehman. (2023). Dress is a Fundamental Component of Person Perception. Personality and Social Psychology Review. 27(4). 414–433. 25 indexed citations
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Hester, Neil, et al.. (2022). Evaluating validity properties of 25 race-related scales. Behavior Research Methods. 55(4). 1758–1777. 8 indexed citations
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Hester, Neil, et al.. (2022). Stereotypes shape response competition when forming impressions. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations. 26(8). 1706–1725. 3 indexed citations
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Xie, Sally Y, Jessica Kay Flake, Ryan M. Stolier, Jonathan B. Freeman, & Eric Hehman. (2021). Facial Impressions Are Predicted by the Structure of Group Stereotypes. Psychological Science. 32(12). 1979–1993. 29 indexed citations
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Hester, Neil, Sally Y Xie, & Eric Hehman. (2021). Little Between-Region and Between-Country Variance When People Form Impressions of Others. Psychological Science. 32(12). 1907–1917. 17 indexed citations
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Lassetter, Bethany, Eric Hehman, & Rebecca Neel. (2021). The relevance appraisal matrix: Evaluating others’ relevance.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 121(4). 842–864. 20 indexed citations
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Hester, Neil, Benedict C. Jones, & Eric Hehman. (2020). Perceived femininity and masculinity contribute independently to facial impressions.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 150(6). 1147–1164. 18 indexed citations
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Stolier, Ryan M., Eric Hehman, & Jonathan B. Freeman. (2020). Trait knowledge forms a common structure across social cognition. Nature Human Behaviour. 4(4). 361–371. 53 indexed citations
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Hehman, Eric, Jimmy Calanchini, Jessica Kay Flake, & Jordan B. Leitner. (2019). Establishing construct validity evidence for regional measures of explicit and implicit racial bias.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 148(6). 1022–1040. 80 indexed citations
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Leitner, Jordan B., Eric Hehman, & Lonnie R. Snowden. (2018). States higher in racial bias spend less on disabled medicaid enrollees. Social Science & Medicine. 208. 150–157. 35 indexed citations
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Stolier, Ryan M., Eric Hehman, & Jonathan B. Freeman. (2018). A Dynamic Structure of Social Trait Space. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 22(3). 197–200. 39 indexed citations
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Xie, Sally Y, Jessica Kay Flake, & Eric Hehman. (2018). Perceiver and target characteristics contribute to impression formation differently across race and gender.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 117(2). 364–385. 64 indexed citations
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Hehman, Eric, Clare Sutherland, Jessica Kay Flake, & Michael L. Slepian. (2017). The unique contributions of perceiver and target characteristics in person perception.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 113(4). 513–529. 131 indexed citations
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Flake, Jessica Kay, Jolynn Pek, & Eric Hehman. (2017). Construct Validation in Social and Personality Research. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 8(4). 370–378. 423 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hehman, Eric, et al.. (2014). The neural basis of stereotypic impact on multiple social categorization. NeuroImage. 101. 704–711. 45 indexed citations
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Hehman, Eric, Ryan M. Stolier, & Jonathan B. Freeman. (2014). Advanced mouse-tracking analytic techniques for enhancing psychological science. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations. 18(3). 384–401. 139 indexed citations
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Stolier, Ryan M., et al.. (2014). Amygdala Responsivity to High-Level Social Information from Unseen Faces. Journal of Neuroscience. 34(32). 10573–10581. 78 indexed citations

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