Lowell Gaertner

5.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
65 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Lowell Gaertner is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Lowell Gaertner has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 46 papers in Social Psychology and 13 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Lowell Gaertner's work include Social and Intergroup Psychology (44 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (35 papers) and Behavioral Health and Interventions (12 papers). Lowell Gaertner is often cited by papers focused on Social and Intergroup Psychology (44 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (35 papers) and Behavioral Health and Interventions (12 papers). Lowell Gaertner collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Lowell Gaertner's co-authors include Constantine Sedikides, Chester A. Insko, Jack L. Vevea, Erin M. O’Mara, John Schopler, Jonathan Iuzzini, Constantine Sedikides, Lydia Eckstein Jackson, Richard H. Gramzow and Kenneth A. Graetz and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and Journal of Experimental Psychology General.

In The Last Decade

Lowell Gaertner

64 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Pancultural self-enhancement.

2003 582 citations Constantine Sedikides, Lowell Gaertner et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lowell Gaertner United States	32	2.1k	2.1k	669	479	450	65	3.3k
Diederik A. Stapel Netherlands	32	2.0k 0.9×	1.8k 0.8×	729 1.1×	638 1.3×	326 0.7×	95	3.5k
Seger M. Breugelmans Netherlands	28	1.3k 0.6×	1.9k 0.9×	766 1.1×	289 0.6×	545 1.2×	63	3.3k
Steven Fein United States	20	1.8k 0.8×	1.3k 0.6×	549 0.8×	414 0.9×	282 0.6×	32	2.9k
Douglas S. Krull United States	18	1.6k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	633 0.9×	523 1.1×	476 1.1×	32	3.0k
Curtis D. Hardin United States	22	2.4k 1.1×	1.7k 0.8×	539 0.8×	363 0.8×	279 0.6×	39	3.5k
Shira Gabriel United States	25	1.6k 0.7×	2.1k 1.0×	346 0.5×	473 1.0×	573 1.3×	55	3.5k
Roger Giner‐Sorolla United Kingdom	34	1.7k 0.8×	1.7k 0.8×	1.4k 2.1×	366 0.8×	369 0.8×	72	3.7k
Kristin Laurin Canada	24	1.6k 0.8×	1.4k 0.7×	537 0.8×	337 0.7×	409 0.9×	58	2.8k
Bogdan Wojciszke Poland	25	2.7k 1.3×	2.2k 1.1×	1.2k 1.8×	341 0.7×	429 1.0×	73	4.2k
J.W. Ouwerkerk Netherlands	23	2.4k 1.1×	2.0k 0.9×	497 0.7×	260 0.5×	616 1.4×	35	3.8k

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Gaertner, Lowell, Peer Briken, & Klaus Michael Reininger. (2024). Sexual Mentalizing Scale (SexMent): Conceptual introduction, scale development and validation. Personality and Individual Differences. 236. 112983–112983.

March, David S., Lowell Gaertner, & Michael A. Olson. (2022). On the Automatic Nature of Threat: Physiological and Evaluative Reactions to Survival-Threats Outside Conscious Perception. Affective Science. 3(1). 135–144. 7 indexed citations

Coles, Nicholas A., et al.. (2022). Fact or artifact? Demand characteristics and participants’ beliefs can moderate, but do not fully account for, the effects of facial feedback on emotional experience.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 124(2). 287–310. 13 indexed citations

March, David S. & Lowell Gaertner. (2021). A method for estimating the time of initiating correct categorization in mouse-tracking. Behavior Research Methods. 53(6). 2439–2449. 5 indexed citations

March, David S., Lowell Gaertner, & Michael A. Olson. (2021). Danger or dislike: Distinguishing threat from negative valence as sources of automatic anti-Black bias.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 121(5). 984–1004. 13 indexed citations

O’Mara, Erin M. & Lowell Gaertner. (2017). Does self-enhancement facilitate task performance?. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 146(3). 442–455. 25 indexed citations

Sedikides, Constantine, Lowell Gaertner, Michelle Luke, Erin M. O’Mara, & Jochen E. Gebauer. (2013). A Three Tier Hierarchy of Motivational Self-Potency: Individual Self, Relational Self, Collective Self. 48. 18 indexed citations

O’Mara, Erin M., Lowell Gaertner, Constantine Sedikides, Xinyue Zhou, & Yan Liu. (2012). A longitudinal-experimental test of the panculturality of self-enhancement: Self-enhancement promotes psychological well-being both in the west and the east. Journal of Research in Personality. 46(2). 157–163. 43 indexed citations

Gaertner, Lowell, Jonathan Iuzzini, & Erin M. O’Mara. (2008). When rejection by one fosters aggression against many: Multiple-victim aggression as a consequence of social rejection and perceived groupness. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 44(4). 958–970. 95 indexed citations

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Gaertner, Lowell, et al.. (2006). Us without them: Evidence for an intragroup origin of positive in-group regard.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 90(3). 426–439. 77 indexed citations

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Gaines, Stanley O., et al.. (2005). Cultural Value Orientations, Internalized Homophobia, and Accommodation in Romantic Relationships. Journal of Homosexuality. 50(1). 97–117. 28 indexed citations

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Sedikides, Constantine, Lowell Gaertner, & Jack L. Vevea. (2005). Pancultural self-enhancement reloaded: A meta-analytic reply to Heine (2005).. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 89(4). 539–551. 231 indexed citations

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Gramzow, Richard H. & Lowell Gaertner. (2005). Self-Esteem and Favoritism Toward Novel In-Groups: The Self as an Evaluative Base.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 88(5). 801–815. 84 indexed citations

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Gaertner, Lowell, Michael A. Hogg, & R. Scott Tindale. (2005). Group and Intergroup Processes: An Introduction. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations. 8(2). 107–108. 2 indexed citations

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Herbst, Kenneth C., Lowell Gaertner, & Chester A. Insko. (2003). My head says yes but my heart says no: Cognitive and affective attraction as a function of similarity to the ideal self.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 84(6). 1206–1219. 56 indexed citations

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Wildschut, Tim, Chester A. Insko, & Lowell Gaertner. (2002). Intragroup social influence and intergroup competition.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 82(6). 975–992. 5 indexed citations

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Gaertner, Lowell, Constantine Sedikides, Jack L. Vevea, & Jonathan Iuzzini. (2002). The "I," the "we," and the "when": A meta-analysis of motivational primacy in self-definition.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 83(3). 574–591. 76 indexed citations

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Gramzow, Richard H., Lowell Gaertner, & Constantine Sedikides. (2001). Memory for in-group and out-group information in a minimal group context: The self as an informational base.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 80(2). 188–205. 69 indexed citations

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Gaertner, Lowell & Chester A. Insko. (2000). Intergroup discrimination in the minimal group paradigm: Categorization, reciprocation, or fear?. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 79(1). 77–94. 120 indexed citations

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Gaertner, Lowell, Constantine Sedikides, & Kenneth A. Graetz. (1999). In search of self-definition: Motivational primacy of the individual self, motivational primacy of the collective self, or contextual primacy?. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 76(1). 5–18. 87 indexed citations

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