Mike Prentice

1.5k total citations
30 papers, 864 citations indexed

About

Mike Prentice is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Applied Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Mike Prentice has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 864 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Social Psychology, 14 papers in Applied Psychology and 9 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Mike Prentice's work include Behavioral Health and Interventions (10 papers), Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion (10 papers) and Social and Intergroup Psychology (7 papers). Mike Prentice is often cited by papers focused on Behavioral Health and Interventions (10 papers), Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion (10 papers) and Social and Intergroup Psychology (7 papers). Mike Prentice collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Mike Prentice's co-authors include Kennon M. Sheldon, Ian McGregor, Kyle Nash, Marc Halusic, Eranda Jayawickreme, Kyle Nash, William Fleeson, Julia Schüler, R. Michael Furr and Eva Jonas and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Mike Prentice

29 papers receiving 834 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mike Prentice United States 19 524 317 215 206 196 30 864
Alexander Gunz United States 10 641 1.2× 342 1.1× 277 1.3× 219 1.1× 84 0.4× 10 1.1k
Yu Niiya Japan 12 576 1.1× 339 1.1× 198 0.9× 287 1.4× 100 0.5× 33 940
A. Timur Sevincer Germany 11 527 1.0× 341 1.1× 312 1.5× 110 0.5× 152 0.8× 21 918
Letitia Slabu United Kingdom 10 542 1.0× 411 1.3× 157 0.7× 169 0.8× 89 0.5× 12 858
Aaron C. Weidman United States 13 478 0.9× 418 1.3× 158 0.7× 242 1.2× 121 0.6× 24 974
Rhett Diessner United States 15 417 0.8× 200 0.6× 110 0.5× 157 0.8× 271 1.4× 45 881
Helen C. Boucher United States 12 516 1.0× 355 1.1× 147 0.7× 156 0.8× 73 0.4× 18 754
Elizabeth J. Parks‐Stamm United States 15 249 0.5× 264 0.8× 209 1.0× 187 0.9× 89 0.5× 44 825
Belén López‐Pérez United Kingdom 18 455 0.9× 192 0.6× 96 0.4× 359 1.7× 173 0.9× 68 934
Liad Uziel Israel 12 320 0.6× 291 0.9× 245 1.1× 190 0.9× 89 0.5× 29 709

Countries citing papers authored by Mike Prentice

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mike Prentice

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mike Prentice

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All Works

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Naumann, David N, et al.. (2025). Research in health-care resilience for large-scale conflict. The Lancet. 406(10521). 2749–2750.
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Wirzberger, Maria, et al.. (2024). Optimal feedback improves behavioral focus during self-regulated computer-based work. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 3124–3124. 1 indexed citations
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Fleeson, William, et al.. (2023). Consensus, controversy, and chaos in the attribution of characteristics to the morally exceptional. Journal of Personality. 92(3). 715–734. 4 indexed citations
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Lieder, Falk, et al.. (2023). Gamification of Behavior Change: Mathematical Principle and Proof-of-Concept Study. JMIR Serious Games. 12. e43078–e43078. 7 indexed citations
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Lieder, Falk, et al.. (2022). An interdisciplinary synthesis of research on understanding and promoting well‐doing. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 16(9). 2 indexed citations
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Furr, R. Michael, et al.. (2022). Development and validation of the Moral Character Questionnaire. Journal of Research in Personality. 98. 104228–104228. 16 indexed citations
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Prentice, Mike, et al.. (2019). Strangers in a Strange Land: Relations Between Perceptions of Others' Values and Both Civic Engagement and Cultural Estrangement. Frontiers in Psychology. 10. 559–559. 20 indexed citations
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Pierrakos, Olga, et al.. (2019). Reimagining Engineering Ethics: From Ethics Education to Character Education. 1–9. 23 indexed citations
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Prentice, Mike, et al.. (2018). Morality as a Basic Psychological Need. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 10(4). 449–460. 46 indexed citations
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Prentice, Mike, Eranda Jayawickreme, & William Fleeson. (2018). Integrating whole trait theory and self‐determination theory. Journal of Personality. 87(1). 56–69. 45 indexed citations
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Sheldon, Kennon M. & Mike Prentice. (2017). Self‐determination theory as a foundation for personality researchers. Journal of Personality. 87(1). 5–14. 60 indexed citations
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Prentice, Mike, Tim Kasser, & Kennon M. Sheldon. (2017). Openness to experience predicts intrinsic value shifts after deliberating one’s own death. Death Studies. 42(4). 205–215. 5 indexed citations
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Agroskin, Dmitrij, Eva Jonas, Johannes Klackl, & Mike Prentice. (2016). Inhibition Underlies the Effect of High Need for Closure on Cultural Closed-Mindedness under Mortality Salience. Frontiers in Psychology. 7. 1583–1583. 22 indexed citations
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McGregor, Ian, Joseph Hayes, & Mike Prentice. (2015). Motivation for aggressive religious radicalization: goal regulation theory and a personality × threat × affordance hypothesis. Frontiers in Psychology. 6. 1325–1325. 28 indexed citations
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Prentice, Mike & Kennon M. Sheldon. (2014). Priming Effects on Cooperative Behavior in Social Dilemmas: Considering the Prime and the Person. The Journal of Social Psychology. 155(2). 163–181. 12 indexed citations
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McGregor, Ian, Mike Prentice, & Kyle Nash. (2013). Anxious Uncertainty and Reactive Approach Motivation (RAM) for Religious, Idealistic, and Lifestyle Extremes. Journal of Social Issues. 69(3). 537–563. 61 indexed citations
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McGregor, Ian, Mike Prentice, & Kyle Nash. (2012). Approaching Relief: Compensatory Ideals Relieve Threat-Induced Anxiety by Promoting Approach-Motivated States. Social Cognition. 30(6). 689–714. 26 indexed citations
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Nash, Kyle, Ian McGregor, & Mike Prentice. (2011). Threat and defense as goal regulation: From implicit goal conflict to anxious uncertainty, reactive approach motivation, and ideological extremism.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 101(6). 1291–1301. 68 indexed citations
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McGregor, Ian, Kyle Nash, & Mike Prentice. (2010). Reactive approach motivation (RAM) for religion.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 99(1). 148–161. 66 indexed citations

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