Guillermo B. Willis

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
82 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Guillermo B. Willis is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Guillermo B. Willis has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 51 papers in Social Psychology and 13 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Guillermo B. Willis's work include Social and Intergroup Psychology (45 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (33 papers) and Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (17 papers). Guillermo B. Willis is often cited by papers focused on Social and Intergroup Psychology (45 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (33 papers) and Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (17 papers). Guillermo B. Willis collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Costa Rica and Mexico. Guillermo B. Willis's co-authors include Rosa Rodríguez‐Bailón, Ángel Sánchez‐Rodríguez, Efraín García‐Sánchez, Juan Diego García‐Castro, Ana Guinote, Miguel Moya, Jolanda Jetten, Lucía López‐Rodríguez, Eva Moreno‐Bella and Danny Osborne and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

In The Last Decade

Guillermo B. Willis

77 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

The psychosocial effects of economic inequality depend on... 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 25 50 75
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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. The psychosocial effects of economic inequality depend on its perception
    2022 84 citations Guillermo B. Willis, Efraín García‐Sánchez et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Guillermo B. Willis Spain 22 896 690 160 158 149 82 1.3k
Rosa Rodríguez‐Bailón Spain 26 1.1k 1.2× 883 1.3× 186 1.2× 162 1.0× 363 2.4× 93 1.8k
Ludwin E. Molina United States 22 1.1k 1.2× 735 1.1× 156 1.0× 86 0.5× 145 1.0× 36 1.6k
Orsolya Hunyady United States 3 1.0k 1.1× 694 1.0× 53 0.3× 129 0.8× 192 1.3× 5 1.3k
Jorge Vala Portugal 19 963 1.1× 547 0.8× 113 0.7× 98 0.6× 240 1.6× 83 1.3k
Emina Subašić Australia 17 659 0.7× 594 0.9× 83 0.5× 51 0.3× 91 0.6× 29 1.4k
Michael J. Tagler United States 11 468 0.5× 339 0.5× 124 0.8× 80 0.5× 80 0.5× 16 890
Ariel Malka United States 18 1.2k 1.4× 521 0.8× 47 0.3× 373 2.4× 164 1.1× 24 1.7k
Johanna Ray Vollhardt United States 22 1.3k 1.5× 691 1.0× 129 0.8× 126 0.8× 224 1.5× 54 1.8k
Andreas Zick Germany 22 1.8k 2.0× 756 1.1× 102 0.6× 337 2.1× 115 0.8× 110 2.2k
Geoffrey D. Munro United States 19 654 0.7× 253 0.4× 186 1.2× 152 1.0× 196 1.3× 44 1.4k

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All Works

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Willis, Guillermo B., et al.. (2025). From Perceived Economic Inequality to Support for Redistribution: The Role of Meritocracy Perception. International Review of Social Psychology. 38(1). 4–4. 1 indexed citations
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Willis, Guillermo B., et al.. (2025). Perceived Levels of Economic Inequality in Everyday Life Increase Citizens Willingness to Engage in Collective Action. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology. 35(4).
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Sánchez‐Rodríguez, Ángel, Efraín García‐Sánchez, Guillermo B. Willis, & Rosa Rodríguez‐Bailón. (2024). Individual values predict desiring more economic inequality: The moderator role of social mobility. International Journal of Psychology. 59(3). 398–409. 3 indexed citations
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Willis, Guillermo B., et al.. (2024). High relational mobility is associated with perceiving more economic inequality in everyday life. Asian Journal Of Social Psychology. 27(3). 348–359. 2 indexed citations
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Willis, Guillermo B., et al.. (2024). (Mis)perception in Social Mobility: Optimistic Bias for Personal (but not Societal) Mobility Beliefs. The Spanish Journal of Psychology. 27. e29–e29. 1 indexed citations
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Moreno‐Bella, Eva, Clara Kulich, Guillermo B. Willis, & Miguel Moya. (2023). Wage (in)equality matters: the effect of organizational economic inequality on others’ and self-ascriptions. The Journal of Social Psychology. 163(5). 716–734. 1 indexed citations
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Rodríguez‐Bailón, Rosa, et al.. (2023). Does income inequality increase status anxiety? Not directly, the role of perceived upward and downward mobility. British Journal of Social Psychology. 62(3). 1453–1468. 16 indexed citations
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Sánchez‐Rodríguez, Ángel, Rosa Rodríguez‐Bailón, & Guillermo B. Willis. (2023). The economic inequality as normative information model (EINIM). European Review of Social Psychology. 34(2). 346–386. 20 indexed citations
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Moreno‐Bella, Eva, et al.. (2023). Spanish Adaptation of the Support for Economic Inequality Scale (S-SEIS). Psicothema. 35(3). 310–318. 1 indexed citations
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García‐Castro, Juan Diego, et al.. (2022). Changing attitudes toward redistribution: The role of perceived economic inequality in everyday life and intolerance of inequality. The Journal of Social Psychology. 163(4). 566–581. 17 indexed citations
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Sánchez‐Rodríguez, Ángel, et al.. (2021). I choose to be powerful: Economic inequality encourages preferences of power over status positions. The Social Science Journal. 63(1). 321–338. 7 indexed citations
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Moreno‐Bella, Eva, et al.. (2021). ‘Congratulations for your day’: benevolent attitudes during March 8 in Mexico. Journal of Gender Studies. 32(1). 6–17. 2 indexed citations
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Willis, Guillermo B., et al.. (2020). Spanish version of the Status Anxiety Scale (Versión española de la Escala de Ansiedad por el Estatus). International Journal of Social Psychology Revista de Psicología Social. 35(2). 342–369. 17 indexed citations
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García‐Sánchez, Efraín, et al.. (2018). Perceptions of Economic Inequality and Support for Redistribution: The role of Existential and Utopian Standards. Social Justice Research. 31(4). 335–354. 27 indexed citations
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Carretero‐Dios, Hugo, et al.. (2016). Joking about ourselves: Effects of disparaging humor on ingroup stereotyping. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations. 21(4). 568–583. 9 indexed citations
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Willis, Guillermo B., et al.. (2016). Spanish version of the Generalized Sense of Power Scale / Versión española de la Escala de Sensación de Poder General. International Journal of Social Psychology Revista de Psicología Social. 31(3). 554–588. 5 indexed citations
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Willis, Guillermo B., et al.. (2016). Versión española de la Escala de Sensación de Poder General. 31(3). 570–587. 1 indexed citations

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