Janet Strayer

5.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Janet Strayer is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Janet Strayer has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Clinical Psychology, 15 papers in Social Psychology and 15 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Janet Strayer's work include Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (20 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (10 papers) and Early Childhood Education and Development (8 papers). Janet Strayer is often cited by papers focused on Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (20 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (10 papers) and Early Childhood Education and Development (8 papers). Janet Strayer collaborates with scholars based in Canada and United States. Janet Strayer's co-authors include Nancy Eisenberg, William L. Roberts, Douglas Cohen, Douglas Cohen, F. Francis Strayer, Susanne A. Denham, Ray Koopman, James E. Marcia, Elinor W. Ames and Susan Krauss Whitbourne and has published in prestigious journals such as Child Development, Developmental Psychology and Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Janet Strayer

46 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

Empathy and its development 1987 2026 2000 2013 1987 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. Empathy and its development
    1987 1.2k citations Nancy Eisenberg, Janet Strayer Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Janet Strayer Canada 24 2.3k 2.1k 978 782 617 46 4.1k
Andrew F. Newcomb United States 24 2.2k 1.0× 2.2k 1.1× 1.5k 1.6× 746 1.0× 263 0.4× 43 3.8k
Helen Davis Australia 10 1.8k 0.8× 1.5k 0.7× 544 0.6× 772 1.0× 981 1.6× 13 4.3k
Marian Radke‐Yarrow United States 37 2.6k 1.1× 4.1k 1.9× 1.2k 1.2× 968 1.2× 496 0.8× 65 5.9k
Dorothea M. Ross United States 17 1.3k 0.6× 1.0k 0.5× 764 0.8× 831 1.1× 437 0.7× 36 3.6k
Bram Orobio de Castro Netherlands 38 2.3k 1.0× 3.5k 1.7× 1.1k 1.2× 875 1.1× 583 0.9× 164 4.9k
Frederick B. Davis United States 12 1.7k 0.7× 1.2k 0.6× 485 0.5× 738 0.9× 896 1.5× 28 4.4k
Stephen Houghton Australia 39 989 0.4× 1.7k 0.8× 1.2k 1.2× 996 1.3× 719 1.2× 213 4.8k
Miriam Liss United States 34 963 0.4× 2.0k 1.0× 662 0.7× 1.5k 1.9× 930 1.5× 67 4.7k
Zolinda Stoneman United States 39 663 0.3× 2.4k 1.1× 1.0k 1.0× 1.1k 1.4× 483 0.8× 104 4.0k
Jeffrey G. Parker United States 25 3.5k 1.6× 4.6k 2.2× 2.7k 2.7× 1.1k 1.5× 525 0.9× 35 7.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Janet Strayer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Janet Strayer

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Roberts, William L., et al.. (2007). Empathy and Emotional Responsiveness in Delinquent and Non‐delinquent Adolescents. Social Development. 16(3). 555–579. 62 indexed citations
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Strayer, Janet, et al.. (1997). Guilt and Shame in Middle Childhood: Relationships with Empathic Responsiveness.. 1 indexed citations
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Cohen, Douglas & Janet Strayer. (1996). Empathy in conduct-disordered and comparison youth.. Developmental Psychology. 32(6). 988–998. 376 indexed citations
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Roberts, William L. & Janet Strayer. (1996). Empathy, Emotional Expressiveness, and Prosocial Behavior. Child Development. 67(2). 449–449. 182 indexed citations
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Strayer, Janet. (1996). Trapped in the Mirror: Psychosocial Reflections on Mid-Life and the Queen inSnow White. Human Development. 39(3). 155–172. 5 indexed citations
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Roberts, William L. & Janet Strayer. (1996). Empathy, Emotional Expressiveness, and Prosocial Behavior. Child Development. 67(2). 449–470. 227 indexed citations
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Strayer, Janet, et al.. (1995). Verbal and Facial Measures of Children′s Emotion and Empathy. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 59(2). 299–316. 34 indexed citations
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Strayer, Janet. (1993). Children's Concordant Emotions and Cognitions in Response to Observed Emotions. Child Development. 64(1). 188–201. 100 indexed citations
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Strayer, Janet. (1993). Children's Concordant Emotions and Cognitions in Response to Observed Emotions. Child Development. 64(1). 188–188. 69 indexed citations
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Eisenberg, Nancy & Janet Strayer. (1992). La empatía y su desarrollo. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 18 indexed citations
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Eisenberg, Nancy & Janet Strayer. (1987). Empathy and its development. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 1214 indexed citations breakdown →
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Roberts, William L. & Janet Strayer. (1987). Parents' responses to the emotional distress of their children: Relations with children's competence.. Developmental Psychology. 23(3). 415–422. 17 indexed citations
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Strayer, Janet & Nancy Eisenberg. (1987). Empathy viewed in context.. 14 indexed citations
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Strayer, Janet. (1986). Current Research in Affective Development. 17(4). 37–55. 5 indexed citations
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Strayer, Janet. (1986). Children's attributions regarding the situational determinants of emotion in self and others.. Developmental Psychology. 22(5). 649–654. 51 indexed citations
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Strayer, F. Francis, et al.. (1978). The perception of preschool social dominance. Aggressive Behavior. 4(2). 183–192. 13 indexed citations
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Strayer, F. Francis & Janet Strayer. (1976). An Ethological Analysis of Social Agonism and Dominance Relations among Preschool Children. Child Development. 47(4). 980–980. 205 indexed citations
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Strayer, F. Francis & Janet Strayer. (1975). An Ethological Analysis of Dominance Relations Among Young Children.. 1 indexed citations
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Strayer, Janet & Elinor W. Ames. (1972). Stimulus Orientation and the Apparent Developmental Lag between Perception and Performance. Child Development. 43(4). 1345–1345. 4 indexed citations

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