Marcus Mayorga

933 total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 574 citations indexed

About

Marcus Mayorga is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Cognitive Neuroscience and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Marcus Mayorga has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 574 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 7 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 6 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in Marcus Mayorga's work include Risk Perception and Management (8 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (7 papers) and Climate Change Communication and Perception (7 papers). Marcus Mayorga is often cited by papers focused on Risk Perception and Management (8 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (7 papers) and Climate Change Communication and Perception (7 papers). Marcus Mayorga collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and United Kingdom. Marcus Mayorga's co-authors include Paul Slovic, Daniel Västfjäll, Branden B. Johnson, Ellen Peters, Scott R. Maier, Brendon Swedlow, Enrico Rubaltelli, Stephan Dickert, Nathan F. Dieckmann and Robin Gregory and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Marcus Mayorga

25 papers receiving 552 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.

Politicians polarize and experts depolarize public support for COVID-19 management policies across countries

2022 80 citations Stephan Dickert, Kimin Eom et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marcus Mayorga United States	12	356	126	113	86	60	27	574
Cydney H. Dupree United States	12	532 1.5×	218 1.7×	75 0.7×	51 0.6×	48 0.8×	22	768
Romy van der Lee Netherlands	12	540 1.5×	133 1.1×	157 1.4×	55 0.6×	38 0.6×	18	866
Troy Campbell United States	9	416 1.2×	110 0.9×	81 0.7×	48 0.6×	34 0.6×	10	652
Andrea Pereira Switzerland	10	510 1.4×	152 1.2×	137 1.2×	162 1.9×	33 0.6×	15	678
Hema Preya Selvanathan Australia	14	493 1.4×	208 1.7×	86 0.8×	67 0.8×	27 0.5×	39	649
Fanny Lalot Switzerland	17	385 1.1×	171 1.4×	92 0.8×	56 0.7×	20 0.3×	59	818
Leda Blackwood United Kingdom	15	552 1.6×	188 1.5×	41 0.4×	58 0.7×	38 0.6×	38	799
Giovanni A. Travaglino United Kingdom	17	611 1.7×	344 2.7×	158 1.4×	76 0.9×	45 0.8×	51	884
Peggy Chekroun France	10	310 0.9×	226 1.8×	114 1.0×	27 0.3×	40 0.7×	22	499
David C. Matz United States	8	519 1.5×	285 2.3×	89 0.8×	48 0.6×	28 0.5×	13	819

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marcus Mayorga

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Marcus Mayorga. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Marcus Mayorga based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Marcus Mayorga. Marcus Mayorga is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Eom, Kimin, Stephan Dickert, Gabriela M. Jiga‐Boy, et al.. (2025). It's all connected: Collectivism, climate change, and COVID-19. Acta Psychologica. 258. 105200–105200.

Mayorga, Marcus, et al.. (2024). Explaining compliance with COVID-19 regulation in China and the United States: cultural biases, political trust, and perceptions of risk and protective actions. Journal of Public Policy. 44(2). 284–326. 7 indexed citations

Markowitz, David M., David K. Sherman, Stephan Dickert, et al.. (2024). Ideological diversity of media consumption predicts COVID-19 vaccination. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 28948–28948.

Dickert, Stephan, Kimin Eom, Gabriela M. Jiga‐Boy, et al.. (2022). Politicians polarize and experts depolarize public support for COVID-19 management policies across countries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(3). 80 indexed citations breakdown →

Dickert, Stephan, Kimin Eom, Alex F. C. Flores, et al.. (2022). Structured reflection increases intentions to reduce other people’s health risks during COVID-19. PNAS Nexus. 1(5). pgac218–pgac218. 3 indexed citations

Dieckmann, Nathan F., Robin Gregory, Terre Satterfield, Marcus Mayorga, & Paul Slovic. (2021). Characterizing public perceptions of social and cultural impacts in policy decisions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(24). 9 indexed citations

Mayorga, Marcus, et al.. (2021). Is Religiosity a Barrier to Organ Donations? Examining the Role of Religiosity and the Salience of a Religious Context on Organ-Donation Decisions. Journal of the Association for Consumer Research. 7(2). 235–245. 4 indexed citations

Wirz, Christopher D., Marcus Mayorga, & Branden B. Johnson. (2021). Evaluating the Effects of News-following, Volume and Content of News Coverage on Americans’ Risk Perceptions during the 2014-2016 Ebola Outbreak. Journal of Health Communication. 26(5). 328–338. 2 indexed citations

Lindauer, Matthew, Marcus Mayorga, Joshua D. Greene, et al.. (2020). Comparing the effect of rational and emotional appeals on donation behavior. Judgment and Decision Making. 15(3). 413–420. 28 indexed citations

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Wirz, Christopher D., Marcus Mayorga, & Branden B. Johnson. (2020). A Longitudinal Analysis of Americans’ Media Sources, Risk Perceptions, and Judged Need for Action during the Zika Outbreak. Health Communication. 36(12). 1571–1580. 16 indexed citations

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Johnson, Branden B. & Marcus Mayorga. (2020). Temporal shifts in Americans’ risk perceptions of the Zika outbreak. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment An International Journal. 27(5). 1242–1257. 11 indexed citations

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Mayorga, Marcus, et al.. (2020). Information spotlighting in Americans’ Decisions Surrounding Refugee resettlement Policy. Journal of Refugee Studies. 35(1). 746–746. 1 indexed citations

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Rubaltelli, Enrico, et al.. (2019). Asymmetric cost and benefit perceptions in willingness‐to‐donate decisions. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. 33(3). 304–322. 15 indexed citations

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Mayorga, Marcus, et al.. (2019). Information Spotlighting in Americans’ Decisions Surrounding Refugee Resettlement Policy. Journal of Refugee Studies. 34(3). 3131–3363. 4 indexed citations

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Mayorga, Marcus & Branden B. Johnson. (2018). A longitudinal study of concern and judged risk: the case of Ebola in the United States, 2014–2015. Journal of Risk Research. 22(10). 1280–1293. 17 indexed citations

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Ivanov, Bobi, William J. Burns, Timothy L. Sellnow, et al.. (2016). Using an inoculation message approach to promote public confidence in protective agencies. Journal of Applied Communication Research. 44(4). 381–398. 21 indexed citations

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Maier, Scott R., Paul Slovic, & Marcus Mayorga. (2016). Reader reaction to news of mass suffering: Assessing the influence of story form and emotional response. Journalism. 18(8). 1011–1029. 45 indexed citations

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Västfjäll, Daniel, Paul Slovic, & Marcus Mayorga. (2015). Pseudoinefficacy: negative feelings from children who cannot be helped reduce warm glow for children who can be helped. Frontiers in Psychology. 6. 616–616. 45 indexed citations

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Dieckmann, Nathan F., Branden B. Johnson, Robin Gregory, et al.. (2015). Public perceptions of expert disagreement: Bias and incompetence or a complex and random world?. Public Understanding of Science. 26(3). 325–338. 38 indexed citations

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Västfjäll, Daniel, Paul Slovic, Marcus Mayorga, & Ellen Peters. (2014). Compassion Fade: Affect and Charity Are Greatest for a Single Child in Need. PLoS ONE. 9(6). e100115–e100115. 158 indexed citations

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