Michael Prinzing

623 total citations
24 papers, 261 citations indexed

About

Michael Prinzing is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Applied Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Prinzing has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 261 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Social Psychology, 9 papers in Applied Psychology and 7 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Michael Prinzing's work include Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (9 papers), Behavioral Health and Interventions (7 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (6 papers). Michael Prinzing is often cited by papers focused on Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (9 papers), Behavioral Health and Interventions (7 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (6 papers). Michael Prinzing collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Ireland. Michael Prinzing's co-authors include Barbara L. Fredrickson, Khoa D. Le Nguyen, Jenna L. Wells, Patty Van Cappellen, Julian De Freitas, Kate Laffan, Leonhard K. Lades, Brian D. Earp, Kelly Tan and Joshua Knobe and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Psychological Science.

In The Last Decade

Michael Prinzing

19 papers receiving 254 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael Prinzing United States 10 130 75 57 49 44 24 261
Sarah Hickinbottom Canada 2 183 1.4× 48 0.6× 30 0.5× 52 1.1× 86 2.0× 2 264
Matt Stichter United States 11 88 0.7× 25 0.3× 38 0.7× 48 1.0× 26 0.6× 28 307
Cindel White Canada 9 142 1.1× 27 0.4× 56 1.0× 155 3.2× 20 0.5× 31 276
Erika Salomon United States 6 104 0.8× 27 0.4× 37 0.6× 151 3.1× 14 0.3× 7 295
Stephanie M. Anglin United States 8 61 0.5× 20 0.3× 56 1.0× 99 2.0× 32 0.7× 18 257
Deanna C. Whelan Canada 4 147 1.1× 89 1.2× 89 1.6× 63 1.3× 97 2.2× 5 264
Matthew D. Smith United Kingdom 9 131 1.0× 18 0.2× 30 0.5× 82 1.7× 69 1.6× 22 299
Jim Hopkins United Kingdom 5 38 0.3× 15 0.2× 50 0.9× 47 1.0× 48 1.1× 13 255
Peter Meindl United States 5 106 0.8× 38 0.5× 28 0.5× 66 1.3× 45 1.0× 5 224
Jeffrey P. Schloss United States 5 89 0.7× 12 0.2× 30 0.5× 146 3.0× 26 0.6× 11 250

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Prinzing

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Prinzing

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Michael Prinzing. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Michael Prinzing 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 Michael Prinzing. Michael Prinzing is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Prinzing, Michael, et al.. (2025). Is Virtue Good for You?. Journal of Personality.
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Prinzing, Michael, et al.. (2025). Studying Philosophy Does Make People Better Thinkers. Journal of the American Philosophical Association. 11(4). 640–658.
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Prinzing, Michael, et al.. (2024). Pro-environmental behaviors and well-being in everyday life. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 98. 102394–102394. 7 indexed citations
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Tan, Kelly, et al.. (2024). Positive emotions co-experienced with strangers and acquaintances predict COVID-19 vaccination intentions through prosocial tendencies. Social Science & Medicine. 346. 116671–116671. 3 indexed citations
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Prinzing, Michael. (2024). Proenvironmental Behavior Increases Subjective Well-Being: Evidence From an Experience-Sampling Study and a Randomized Experiment. Psychological Science. 35(9). 951–961. 9 indexed citations
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Prinzing, Michael & Kate Laffan. (2024). Leveraging the link between pro-environmental behaviour and well-being to encourage sustainable lifestyle shifts. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 1 indexed citations
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Prinzing, Michael, et al.. (2024). Does Studying Philosophy Make People Better Thinkers?. Journal of the American Philosophical Association. 10(4). 855–876.
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Prinzing, Michael, Brian D. Earp, & Joshua Knobe. (2023). Why do evaluative judgments affect emotion attributions? The roles of judgments about fittingness and the true self. Cognition. 239. 105579–105579. 4 indexed citations
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Prinzing, Michael, Khoa D. Le Nguyen, & Barbara L. Fredrickson. (2023). Does shared positivity make life more meaningful? Perceived positivity resonance is uniquely associated with perceived meaning in life.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 125(2). 345–366. 15 indexed citations
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Prinzing, Michael, et al.. (2023). What makes me matter? Investigating how and why people feel significant. The Journal of Positive Psychology. 18(6). 995–1011. 7 indexed citations
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Prinzing, Michael, et al.. (2021). The goods in everyday love: Positivity resonance builds prosociality.. Emotion. 22(1). 30–45. 21 indexed citations
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Prinzing, Michael, Patty Van Cappellen, & Barbara L. Fredrickson. (2021). More Than a Momentary Blip in the Universe? Investigating the Link Between Religiousness and Perceived Meaning in Life. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 49(2). 180–196. 13 indexed citations
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Prinzing, Michael. (2021). How to Study Well-Being: A Proposal for the Integration of Philosophy With Science. Review of General Psychology. 25(2). 152–162. 4 indexed citations
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Prinzing, Michael. (2020). Going Green Is Good for You: Why We Need to Change the Way We Think about Pro-environmental Behavior. Ethics Policy & Environment. 26(1). 1–18. 19 indexed citations
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Prinzing, Michael. (2020). Positive psychology is value-laden—It’s time to embrace it. The Journal of Positive Psychology. 16(3). 289–297. 25 indexed citations
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Prinzing, Michael. (2019). The ordinary concept of a meaningful life. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations
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Prinzing, Michael. (2017). The revisionist's rubric: conceptual engineering and the discontinuity objection. Inquiry. 61(8). 854–880. 55 indexed citations

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