Joan S. Girgus

7.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
56 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Joan S. Girgus is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Joan S. Girgus has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 12 papers in Social Psychology and 8 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Joan S. Girgus's work include Visual perception and processing mechanisms (29 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (7 papers) and Spatial Cognition and Navigation (6 papers). Joan S. Girgus is often cited by papers focused on Visual perception and processing mechanisms (29 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (7 papers) and Spatial Cognition and Navigation (6 papers). Joan S. Girgus collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Netherlands. Joan S. Girgus's co-authors include Susan Nolen–Hoeksema, Stanley Coren, Martin E. P. Seligman, Kaite Yang, Robert H. Cormack, Alan Turner, Christine Ferri, James T. Enns, David A. Cole and Clare Porac and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Psychological Bulletin.

In The Last Decade

Joan S. Girgus

56 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The emergence of gender differences in depression during adolescence.

1994 1.6k citations Susan Nolen–Hoeksema, Joan S. Girgus Psychological Bulletin profile →
Predictors and consequences of childhood depressive symptoms: A 5-year longitudinal study.

1992 626 citations Susan Nolen–Hoeksema, Joan S. Girgus et al. Journal of Abnormal Psychology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joan S. Girgus United States	29	2.8k	1.6k	1.6k	1.3k	1.0k	56	5.7k
Anne C. Petersen United States	21	2.2k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	1.7k 1.3×	1.1k 1.0×	34	7.0k
Jim Stevenson United Kingdom	50	3.3k 1.2×	860 0.5×	1.8k 1.1×	1.5k 1.1×	1.6k 1.6×	111	7.8k
Maryse H. Richards United States	17	2.2k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	695 0.4×	1.0k 0.8×	725 0.7×	23	4.7k
Robert N. Emde United States	51	4.8k 1.8×	3.1k 1.9×	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	1.4k 1.3×	177	8.2k
Daniel N. Stern United States	43	4.4k 1.6×	2.8k 1.7×	1.6k 1.0×	1.0k 0.8×	672 0.7×	120	8.4k
Kristen C. Jacobson United States	40	2.5k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	1.6k 1.0×	1.8k 1.4×	653 0.6×	141	7.8k
Stephan A. Ahadi United States	13	4.7k 1.7×	2.3k 1.4×	585 0.4×	1.4k 1.1×	1.8k 1.8×	16	6.5k
Kelly G. Lambert United States	30	2.5k 0.9×	2.8k 1.7×	1.0k 0.7×	1.4k 1.1×	602 0.6×	74	6.4k
Steven Reiss United States	31	4.3k 1.6×	1.2k 0.7×	1.5k 1.0×	4.3k 3.3×	388 0.4×	61	8.2k
Joseph J. Campos United States	51	3.3k 1.2×	3.2k 2.0×	2.1k 1.3×	1.5k 1.2×	1.4k 1.3×	127	8.6k

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Yang, Kaite & Joan S. Girgus. (2018). Individual differences in social hypersensitivity predict the interpretation of ambiguous feedback and self-esteem. Personality and Individual Differences. 135. 316–327. 2 indexed citations

Cole, David A., et al.. (2006). Stress exposure and stress generation in child and adolescent depression: A latent trait-state-error approach to longitudinal analyses.. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 115(1). 40–51. 129 indexed citations

Nolen–Hoeksema, Susan & Joan S. Girgus. (1994). The emergence of gender differences in depression during adolescence.. Psychological Bulletin. 115(3). 424–443. 1619 indexed citations breakdown →

Nolen–Hoeksema, Susan & Joan S. Girgus. (1994). The emergence of gender differences in depression during adolescence.. Psychological Bulletin. 115(3). 424–443. 110 indexed citations

Nolen–Hoeksema, Susan, Joan S. Girgus, & Martin E. P. Seligman. (1992). Predictors and consequences of childhood depressive symptoms: A 5-year longitudinal study.. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 101(3). 405–422. 175 indexed citations

Nolen–Hoeksema, Susan, Joan S. Girgus, & Martin E. P. Seligman. (1991). Sex differences in depression and explanatory style in children. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. 20(2). 233–245. 120 indexed citations

Enns, James T. & Joan S. Girgus. (1986). A developmental study of shape integration over space and time.. Developmental Psychology. 22(4). 491–499. 18 indexed citations

Enns, James T. & Joan S. Girgus. (1985). Developmental changes in selective and integrative visual attention. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 40(2). 319–337. 79 indexed citations

Turner, Alan, Stanley Coren, & Joan S. Girgus. (1981). Seeing Is Deceiving: The Psychology of Visual Illusions. Leonardo. 14(4). 335–335. 270 indexed citations

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Coren, Stanley & Joan S. Girgus. (1980). Principles of perceptual organization and spatial distortion: The gestalt illusions.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 6(3). 404–412. 4 indexed citations

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Girgus, Joan S., et al.. (1980). The effect of spatial order on piecemeal shape recognition: A developmental study. Perception & Psychophysics. 28(2). 133–138. 14 indexed citations

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Girgus, Joan S., Stanley Coren, & Clare Porac. (1977). Independence of in vivo human lens pigmentation from u.v. light exposure. Vision Research. 17(6). 749–750. 2 indexed citations

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Girgus, Joan S.. (1976). A developmental study of the effect of eye movements on the processing of shape information. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 22(3). 386–399. 11 indexed citations

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Girgus, Joan S. & Stanley Coren. (1975). Depth cues and constancy scaling in the horizontal-vertical illusion: The bisection error.. Canadian Journal of Psychology/Revue Canadienne de Psychologie. 29(1). 59–65. 43 indexed citations

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Girgus, Joan S., et al.. (1975). Age changes in the ability to encode social cues.. Developmental Psychology. 11(1). 118–118. 4 indexed citations

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Coren, Stanley & Joan S. Girgus. (1975). A Size Illusion Based upon a Minimal Interposition Cue. Perception. 4(3). 251–254. 6 indexed citations

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Girgus, Joan S. & Stanley Coren. (1973). PERIPHERAL AND CENTRAL COMPONENTS IN THE FORMATION OF VISUAL ILLUSIONS. Optometry and Vision Science. 50(7). 533–540. 16 indexed citations

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Girgus, Joan S. & Stanley Coren. (1973). Stability of Forms under Conditions of Illusory Distortion. Perceptual and Motor Skills. 37(3). 715–719. 1 indexed citations

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Coren, Stanley & Joan S. Girgus. (1972). Density of human lens pigmentation:In vivo measures over an extended age range. Vision Research. 12(2). 343–346. 50 indexed citations

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Coren, Stanley & Joan S. Girgus. (1972). Illusion decrement in intersecting line figures. Psychonomic Science. 26(2). 108–110. 46 indexed citations

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