Geraldine Downey

18.5k total citations · 5 hit papers
87 papers, 13.4k citations indexed

About

Geraldine Downey is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Geraldine Downey has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 13.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Clinical Psychology, 41 papers in Social Psychology and 21 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Geraldine Downey's work include Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (27 papers), Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion (17 papers) and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (16 papers). Geraldine Downey is often cited by papers focused on Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (27 papers), Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion (17 papers) and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (16 papers). Geraldine Downey collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Australia. Geraldine Downey's co-authors include Scott I. Feldman, James C. Coyne, Özlem Ayduk, Antonio L. Freitas, Rodolfo Mendoza‐Denton, J. C. Coyne, Valerie J. Purdie, Janina Pietrzak, Kathy R. Berenson and Walter Mischel and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Bulletin and American Journal of Psychiatry.

In The Last Decade

Geraldine Downey

87 papers receiving 12.3k citations

Hit Papers

Children of depressed parents: An integrative review. 1990 2026 2002 2014 1990 1996 1996 1991 2002 500 1000 1.5k
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. Children of depressed parents: An integrative review.
    1990 1.8k citations Geraldine Downey et al. profile →
  2. Implications of rejection sensitivity for intimate relationships.
    1996 1.2k citations Geraldine Downey, Scott I. Feldman Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
  3. Implications of rejection sensitivity for intimate relationships.
    1996 1.1k citations Geraldine Downey, Scott I. Feldman Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
  4. Social Factors and Psychopathology: Stress, Social Support, and Coping Processes
    1991 572 citations Geraldine Downey et al. profile →
  5. Sensitivity to status-based rejection: Implications for African American students' college experience.
    2002 509 citations Rodolfo Mendoza‐Denton, Geraldine Downey et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Geraldine Downey United States 49 7.6k 6.8k 3.4k 2.5k 1.4k 87 13.4k
Nancy L. Collins United States 41 6.0k 0.8× 9.3k 1.4× 3.8k 1.1× 2.5k 1.0× 1.4k 1.0× 65 13.5k
R. Chris Fraley United States 56 10.4k 1.4× 12.0k 1.8× 3.7k 1.1× 4.5k 1.8× 1.1k 0.8× 142 17.7k
Luc Goossens Belgium 67 6.5k 0.9× 6.1k 0.9× 3.6k 1.1× 3.2k 1.3× 2.3k 1.6× 238 15.2k
Wyndol Furman United States 50 8.2k 1.1× 7.2k 1.1× 3.0k 0.9× 2.1k 0.8× 1.3k 0.9× 112 13.8k
Ulrich Orth Switzerland 51 5.7k 0.8× 4.8k 0.7× 2.5k 0.7× 2.8k 1.1× 1.0k 0.7× 101 10.9k
Magda Stouthamer‐Loeber United States 71 13.4k 1.8× 4.8k 0.7× 5.2k 1.5× 1.9k 0.8× 1.2k 0.8× 127 18.1k
Koen Luyckx Belgium 61 5.6k 0.7× 4.3k 0.6× 4.4k 1.3× 2.4k 1.0× 1.0k 0.7× 341 14.3k
Mitchell J. Prinstein United States 69 13.4k 1.8× 5.6k 0.8× 3.8k 1.1× 2.0k 0.8× 1.4k 1.0× 255 19.1k
Kim Bartholomew Canada 32 9.2k 1.2× 12.0k 1.8× 4.0k 1.2× 2.8k 1.1× 2.2k 1.6× 48 15.8k
Michael D. Newcomb United States 63 9.8k 1.3× 3.6k 0.5× 2.9k 0.9× 1.6k 0.6× 1.4k 1.0× 237 18.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Snir, Avigal, Eran Bar‐Kalifa, Kathy R. Berenson, Geraldine Downey, & Eshkol Rafaeli. (2016). Affective instability as a clinical feature of avoidant personality disorder.. Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment. 8(4). 389–395. 19 indexed citations
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Berenson, Kathy R., et al.. (2016). Identification of mental states and interpersonal functioning in borderline personality disorder.. Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment. 9(2). 172–181. 27 indexed citations
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Berenson, Kathy R., et al.. (2016). Impulsivity, Rejection Sensitivity, and Reactions to Stressors in Borderline Personality Disorder. Cognitive Therapy and Research. 40(4). 510–521. 40 indexed citations
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Zimmer‐Gembeck, Melanie J., et al.. (2013). Relational Victimization, Loneliness and Depressive Symptoms: Indirect Associations Via Self and Peer Reports of Rejection Sensitivity. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. 43(4). 568–582. 98 indexed citations
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Coifman, Karin G., et al.. (2013). Emotion Differentiation as a Protective Factor Against Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Borderline Personality Disorder. Behavior Therapy. 44(3). 529–540. 118 indexed citations
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Romero‐Canyas, Rainer & Geraldine Downey. (2012). What I see when I think it's about me: People low in rejection-sensitivity downplay cues of rejection in self-relevant interpersonal situations.. Emotion. 13(1). 104–117. 21 indexed citations
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Coifman, Karin G., Kathy R. Berenson, Eshkol Rafaeli, & Geraldine Downey. (2012). From negative to positive and back again: Polarized affective and relational experience in borderline personality disorder.. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 121(3). 668–679. 77 indexed citations
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London, Bonita, Geraldine Downey, Rainer Romero‐Canyas, Aneeta Rattan, & Diana F. Tyson. (2011). Gender-based rejection sensitivity and academic self-silencing in women.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 102(5). 961–979. 111 indexed citations
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Mendoza‐Denton, Rodolfo, Janina Pietrzak, & Geraldine Downey. (2008). Distinguishing institutional identification from academic goal pursuit: Interactive effects of ethnic identification and race-based rejection sensitivity.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 95(2). 338–351. 47 indexed citations
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London, Bonita, et al.. (2007). Psychological Theories of Educational Engagement: A Multi-Method Approach to Studying Individual Engagement and Institutional Change. Vanderbilt law review. 60(2). 455. 37 indexed citations
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Ayduk, Özlem, et al.. (2007). Rejection sensitivity and executive control: Joint predictors of borderline personality features. Journal of Research in Personality. 42(1). 151–168. 135 indexed citations
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Mendoza‐Denton, Rodolfo, et al.. (2002). Sensitivity to status-based rejection: Implications for African American students' college experience.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 83(4). 896–918. 509 indexed citations breakdown →
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Downey, Geraldine. (2001). Minima Ethnographica: Intersubjectivity and the Anthropological Project. By Michael Jackson. The European Legacy. 6(3). 1 indexed citations
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Furman, Wyndol, Willard W. Hartup, B. Bradford Brown, et al.. (1999). The Development of Romantic Relationships in Adolescence. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 495 indexed citations
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Feldman, Scott I., et al.. (1999). Pain, negative mood, and perceived support in chronic pain patients: A daily diary study of people with reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome.. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 67(5). 776–785. 157 indexed citations
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Downey, Geraldine & Scott I. Feldman. (1996). Implications of rejection sensitivity for intimate relationships.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 70(6). 1327–1343. 1092 indexed citations breakdown →
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Walker, Elaine F., Geraldine Downey, & Avshalom Caspi. (1991). Twin studies of psychopathology: Why do the concordance rates vary?. Schizophrenia Research. 5(3). 211–221. 14 indexed citations
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Walker, Elaine F. & Geraldine Downey. (1990). The effects of familial risk factors on social-cognitive abilities in children. Child Psychiatry & Human Development. 20(4). 253–267. 10 indexed citations
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Kessler, Ronald C., et al.. (1989). Network Television News Stories about Suicide and Short-Term Changes in Total U.S. Suicides. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 177(9). 551–555. 29 indexed citations
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Walker, Elaine F., Geraldine Downey, & Andrea Bergman. (1989). The Effects of Parental Psychopathology and Maltreatment on Child Behavior: A Test of the Diathesis-Stress Model. Child Development. 60(1). 15–15. 40 indexed citations

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