Kipling D. Williams

30.6k total citations · 7 hit papers
147 papers, 19.5k citations indexed

About

Kipling D. Williams is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Kipling D. Williams has authored 147 papers receiving a total of 19.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 124 papers in Social Psychology, 74 papers in Clinical Psychology and 50 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Kipling D. Williams's work include Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion (103 papers), Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (69 papers) and Social and Intergroup Psychology (44 papers). Kipling D. Williams is often cited by papers focused on Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion (103 papers), Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (69 papers) and Social and Intergroup Psychology (44 papers). Kipling D. Williams collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Netherlands. Kipling D. Williams's co-authors include Steven J. Karau, Naomi I. Eisenberger, Matthew D. Lieberman, Stephen G. Harkins, Bibb Latané, Eric D. Wesselmann, Blair Jarvis, Ilja van Beest, James H. Wirth and Steve A. Nida and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Kipling D. Williams

146 papers receiving 18.2k citations

Hit Papers

Does Rejection Hurt? An fMRI Study of Soci... 1979 2026 1994 2010 2003 2000 1979 1993 2006 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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. Does Rejection Hurt? An fMRI Study of Social Exclusion
    2003 2.5k citations Kipling D. Williams et al. profile →
  2. Cyberostracism: Effects of being ignored over the Internet.
    2000 1.6k citations Kipling D. Williams et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
  3. Many hands make light the work: The causes and consequences of social loafing.
    1979 1.5k citations Kipling D. Williams et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
  4. Social loafing: A meta-analytic review and theoretical integration.
    1993 1.4k citations Kipling D. Williams et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
  5. Ostracism
    2006 1.3k citations Kipling D. Williams profile →
  6. Cyberball: A program for use in research on interpersonal ostracism and acceptance
    2006 691 citations Kipling D. Williams et al. Behavior Research Methods profile →
  7. The Ordinal Effects of Ostracism: A Meta-Analysis of 120 Cyberball Studies
    2015 382 citations Chris Hartgerink, Ilja van Beest 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
Kipling D. Williams United States 61 13.8k 6.1k 6.0k 2.6k 2.6k 147 19.5k
Brad J. Bushman United States 79 14.5k 1.0× 10.4k 1.7× 12.3k 2.1× 2.3k 0.9× 2.2k 0.9× 285 28.1k
Gian Vittorio Caprara Italy 78 11.6k 0.8× 9.5k 1.6× 6.8k 1.1× 2.1k 0.8× 2.7k 1.1× 282 25.9k
Steven J. Heine Canada 50 10.6k 0.8× 3.7k 0.6× 8.1k 1.3× 3.5k 1.3× 2.3k 0.9× 105 20.2k
Constantine Sedikides United Kingdom 86 15.7k 1.1× 5.7k 0.9× 9.6k 1.6× 3.0k 1.2× 3.4k 1.3× 435 24.8k
William B. Swann United States 67 11.3k 0.8× 6.3k 1.0× 11.3k 1.9× 2.4k 0.9× 3.7k 1.5× 174 23.9k
Arthur Aron United States 58 10.0k 0.7× 4.1k 0.7× 6.3k 1.1× 2.9k 1.1× 2.1k 0.8× 137 18.1k
Dan P. McAdams United States 68 7.5k 0.5× 6.9k 1.1× 8.1k 1.4× 1.6k 0.6× 2.5k 1.0× 241 22.9k
Harry T. Reis United States 63 10.1k 0.7× 4.8k 0.8× 5.3k 0.9× 1.2k 0.4× 2.7k 1.1× 217 17.6k
Craig A. Anderson United States 81 12.6k 0.9× 5.9k 1.0× 13.1k 2.2× 1.9k 0.7× 1.9k 0.8× 269 25.7k
W. Keith Campbell United States 85 10.6k 0.8× 14.7k 2.4× 8.8k 1.5× 1.5k 0.6× 2.1k 0.8× 199 25.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ren, Dongning, et al.. (2024). Ostracism in everyday life: A framework of threat and behavioral responses in real life.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 129(5). 870–887. 18 indexed citations
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Wesselmann, Eric D., et al.. (2022). Exploring social exclusion: Where we are and where We're going. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 17(1). 25 indexed citations
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Kelly, Janice R., et al.. (2020). I’m up here! Sexual objectification leads to feeling ostracized.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 121(2). 332–353. 23 indexed citations
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Ren, Dongning, Eric D. Wesselmann, & Kipling D. Williams. (2017). Hurt people hurt people: ostracism and aggression. Current Opinion in Psychology. 19. 34–38. 109 indexed citations
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Freedman, Gili, Kipling D. Williams, & Jennifer S. Beer. (2016). Softening the Blow of Social Exclusion: The Responsive Theory of Social Exclusion. Frontiers in Psychology. 7. 1570–1570. 38 indexed citations
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Hales, Andrew H., Dongning Ren, & Kipling D. Williams. (2016). Protect, Correct, and Eject. Oxford University Press eBooks. 8 indexed citations
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Wesselmann, Eric D., James H. Wirth, John B. Pryor, Glenn D. Reeder, & Kipling D. Williams. (2015). The Role of Burden and Deviation in Ostracizing Others. The Journal of Social Psychology. 155(5). 483–496. 37 indexed citations
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Nezlek, John B., Eric D. Wesselmann, Ladd Wheeler, & Kipling D. Williams. (2015). Ostracism in Everyday Life: The Effects of Ostracism on Those Who Ostracize. The Journal of Social Psychology. 155(5). 432–451. 90 indexed citations
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Kelly, Janice R., et al.. (2014). The Cognitive Costs of the Counter-Stereotypic: Gender, Emotion, and Social Presence. The Journal of Social Psychology. 154(5). 447–462. 1 indexed citations
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Wolf, Wouter, et al.. (2014). Ostracism Online: A social media ostracism paradigm. Behavior Research Methods. 47(2). 361–373. 136 indexed citations
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Hartgerink, Chris, Kipling D. Williams, Jelte M. Wicherts, & Ilja van Beest. (2013). Temporal Effects of Ostracism: A Meta-Analysis of Cyberball Studies.. Open Science Framework. 5 indexed citations
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Riva, Paolo, Kipling D. Williams, & Marcello Gallucci. (2013). The relationship between fear of social and physical threat and its effect on social distress and physical pain perception. Pain. 155(3). 485–493. 31 indexed citations
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Saylor, Conway F., et al.. (2013). Ostracism in Pediatric Populations. Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics. 34(4). 279–287. 24 indexed citations
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Wesselmann, Eric D., James H. Wirth, Daniel K. Mroczek, & Kipling D. Williams. (2012). Dial a feeling: Detecting moderation of affect decline during ostracism. Personality and Individual Differences. 53(5). 580–586. 76 indexed citations
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Wesselmann, Eric D., et al.. (2010). Strides for Belonging Trump Strides for Superiority: Effects of Being Ostracized for Being Superior or Inferior to the Others.. VU Research Portal. 66(1). 8 indexed citations
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Sebastian, Catherine L., Essi Viding, Kipling D. Williams, & Sarah‐Jayne Blakemore. (2009). Social brain development and the affective consequences of ostracism in adolescence. Brain and Cognition. 72(1). 134–145. 342 indexed citations
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Lea, Martin, Kipling D. Williams, & Russell Spears. (2004). A Social Psychology of the Internet. Research Explorer (The University of Manchester). 98(42). e17545–e17545. 11 indexed citations
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Case, Trevor I., et al.. (2003). Stealing thunder as a courtroom tactic revisited: Processes and boundaries.. Law and Human Behavior. 27(3). 267–287. 42 indexed citations
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Huon, Gail F., et al.. (2001). The role of interpersonal stress in overeating among high and low disinhibitors. Eating Behaviors. 2(1). 19–26. 22 indexed citations

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