Michael Inzlicht

23.9k total citations · 10 hit papers
173 papers, 13.3k citations indexed

About

Michael Inzlicht is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Applied Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Inzlicht has authored 173 papers receiving a total of 13.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 63 papers in Social Psychology and 61 papers in Applied Psychology. Recurrent topics in Michael Inzlicht's work include Behavioral Health and Interventions (58 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (49 papers) and Social and Intergroup Psychology (41 papers). Michael Inzlicht is often cited by papers focused on Behavioral Health and Interventions (58 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (49 papers) and Social and Intergroup Psychology (41 papers). Michael Inzlicht collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Michael Inzlicht's co-authors include Brandon J. Schmeichel, Talia Ben‐Zeev, Joshua Aronson, Jennifer N. Gutsell, Rimma Teper, Jacob B. Hirsh, Catherine Good, Lisa Legault, Marina Milyavskaya and Travis Proulx and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Michael Inzlicht

167 papers receiving 12.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

What Is Ego Depletion? Toward a Mechanistic Revision of the Resource Model of Self-Control

2012 695 citations Michael Inzlicht et al. profile →
Improving adolescents' standardized test performance: An intervention to reduce the effects of stereotype threat

2003 674 citations Michael Inzlicht et al. profile →
Why self-control seems (but may not be) limited

2014 587 citations Michael Inzlicht et al. Trends in Cognitive Sciences profile →
A Threatening Intellectual Environment: Why Females Are Susceptible to Experiencing Problem-Solving Deficits in the Presence of Males

2000 560 citations Michael Inzlicht et al. Psychological Science profile →
The Effort Paradox: Effort Is Both Costly and Valued

2018 441 citations Michael Inzlicht et al. Trends in Cognitive Sciences profile →
Inside the Mindful Mind

2013 389 citations Zindel V. Segal, Michael Inzlicht et al. profile →
Why Are Self-Report and Behavioral Measures Weakly Correlated?

2020 371 citations Junhua Dang, Kevin M. King et al. Trends in Cognitive Sciences profile →
Emotional foundations of cognitive control

2015 366 citations Michael Inzlicht et al. Trends in Cognitive Sciences profile →
Integrating Models of Self-Regulation

2020 310 citations Michael Inzlicht, Kaitlyn M. Werner et al. profile →
Third-party evaluators perceive AI as more compassionate than expert humans

2025 23 citations Victoria Oldemburgo de Mello, Michael Inzlicht et al. Communications Psychology profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Experimental evidence that exerting effort increases meaning 2025 ·Cognition ·(unknown), (unknown), Michael Inzlicht	5
2	Inform and do no harm: Nocebo education reduces false self-diagnosis caused by mental health awareness 2025 ·Psychological Medicine ·Dasha A. Sandra, Zindel V. Segal, (unknown), (unknown), Matthew J. Burke, Michael Inzlicht	0
3	Third-party evaluators perceive AI as more compassionate than expert humans breakdown → 2025 ·Communications Psychology ·(unknown), Victoria Oldemburgo de Mello, Michael Inzlicht	23
4	An experimental manipulation of the value of effort 2024 ·Nature Human Behaviour ·Hause Lin, Andrew Westbrook, Frank Fan, Michael Inzlicht	19
5	People are increasingly bored in our digital age 2024 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Katy Y. Y. Tam, Michael Inzlicht	3
6	Twitter (X) use predicts substantial changes in well-being, polarization, sense of belonging, and outrage 2024 ·Communications Psychology ·Victoria Oldemburgo de Mello, Felix Cheung, Michael Inzlicht	5
7	What Constitutes Successful Goal Pursuit? Exploring the Relation Between Subjective and Objective Measures of Goal Progress 2023 ·PsychOpen Gold (Leibniz Institute for Psychology) ·(unknown), (unknown), Malte Friese, Kaitlyn M. Werner, (unknown), David D. Loschelder, (unknown), Michael Inzlicht, (unknown), Kelly Wang	8
8	Modulating preferences during intertemporal choices through exogenous midfrontal transcranial alternating current stimulation: A registered report 2023 ·Cortex ·(unknown), Michele Scandola, Hause Lin, Michael Inzlicht, Salvatore Maria Aglioti	3
9	Investigating adult age differences in real-life empathy, prosociality, and well-being using experience sampling 2022 ·Scientific Reports ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Michael Inzlicht, Philipp Kanske, Shu Li, Andrea Reiter	13
10	Strong Effort Manipulations Reduce Response Caution: A Preregistered Reinvention of the Ego-Depletion Paradigm 2020 ·Psychological Science ·Hause Lin, Blair Saunders, Malte Friese, Nathan J. Evans, Michael Inzlicht	72
11	Why Are Self-Report and Behavioral Measures Weakly Correlated? breakdown → 2020 ·Trends in Cognitive Sciences ·Junhua Dang, Kevin M. King, Michael Inzlicht	371
12	The Past, Present, and Future of Ego Depletion 2019 ·Social Psychology ·Michael Inzlicht, Malte Friese	56
13	Is Ego Depletion Real? An Analysis of Arguments 2018 ·Personality and Social Psychology Review ·Malte Friese, David D. Loschelder, Karolin Gieseler, Julius Frankenbach, Michael Inzlicht	187
14	The misattribution of emotions and the error-related negativity: A registered report 2018 ·Cortex ·(unknown), Blair Saunders, Michael Inzlicht	5
15	The ends of empathy: Constructing empathy from value-based choice 2017 ·OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) ·(unknown), Michael Inzlicht, (unknown), Blair Saunders	6
16	Error‐related electromyographic activity over the corrugator supercilii is associated with neural performance monitoring 2015 ·Psychophysiology ·(unknown), Blair Saunders, Michael Inzlicht	37
17	Emotion down-regulation diminishes cognitive control: A neurophysiological investigation. 2014 ·Emotion ·Nicholas Hobson, Blair Saunders, Timour Al‐Khindi, Michael Inzlicht	39
18	Existential neuroscience: a proximate explanation of religion as flexible meaning and palliative 2011 ·Religion Brain & Behavior ·Michael Inzlicht, Alexa M. Tullett, Marie Good	12
19	Stereotype threat spillover: How coping with threats to social identity affects aggression, eating, decision making, and attention. 2010 ·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·Michael Inzlicht, Sonia K. Kang	225
20	Stereotype threat and executive resource depletion: Examining the influence of emotion regulation. 2008 ·Journal of Experimental Psychology General ·Michael Johns, Michael Inzlicht, Toni Schmader	286

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