Seth D. Pollak

19.9k total citations · 10 hit papers
147 papers, 13.5k citations indexed

About

Seth D. Pollak is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Seth D. Pollak has authored 147 papers receiving a total of 13.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Clinical Psychology, 36 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 34 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Seth D. Pollak's work include Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (52 papers), Child Abuse and Trauma (41 papers) and Early Childhood Education and Development (29 papers). Seth D. Pollak is often cited by papers focused on Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (52 papers), Child Abuse and Trauma (41 papers) and Early Childhood Education and Development (29 papers). Seth D. Pollak collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and South Korea. Seth D. Pollak's co-authors include Jamie L. Hanson, Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff, Pawan Sinha, Karen E. Smith, Dante Cicchetti, Barbara Wolfe, Alison B. Wismer Fries, Richard J. Davidson, Doris J. Kistler and Nicole L. Hair and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Seth D. Pollak

142 papers receiving 13.0k 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.

Abnormalities of the Left Temporal Lobe and Thought Disorder in Schizophrenia

1992 965 citations Seth D. Pollak et al. profile →
Emotional Expressions Reconsidered: Challenges to Inferring Emotion From Human Facial Movements

2019 940 citations Seth D. Pollak et al. PubMed profile →
Association of Child Poverty, Brain Development, and Academic Achievement

2015 614 citations Jamie L. Hanson, Barbara Wolfe et al. profile →
Recognizing emotion in faces: Developmental effects of child abuse and neglect.

2000 590 citations Seth D. Pollak, Dante Cicchetti et al. Developmental Psychology profile →
Pubertal Development: Correspondence Between Hormonal and Physical Development

2009 483 citations Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff, Seth D. Pollak et al. Child Development profile →
Behavioral Problems After Early Life Stress: Contributions of the Hippocampus and Amygdala

2014 471 citations Jamie L. Hanson, Brendon M. Nacewicz et al. profile →
Family Poverty Affects the Rate of Human Infant Brain Growth

2013 275 citations Jamie L. Hanson, Barbara Wolfe et al. profile →
Early life stress and development: potential mechanisms for adverse outcomes

2020 264 citations Karen E. Smith, Seth D. Pollak profile →
Rethinking Concepts and Categories for Understanding the Neurodevelopmental Effects of Childhood Adversity

2020 221 citations Karen E. Smith, Seth D. Pollak Perspectives on Psychological Science profile →
Emotion regulation as mediator between childhood adversity and psychopathology: A meta-analysis

2022 100 citations Seth D. Pollak et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	How childhood adversity affects components of decision making 2025 ·Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews ·Karen E. Smith, (unknown), Seth D. Pollak	2
2	Cortisol’s diurnal rhythm indexes the neurobiological impact of child adversity in adolescence 2024 ·Biological Psychology ·Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff, Jamie L. Hanson, Paula L. Ruttle, B. Smith, Seth D. Pollak	1
3	The structure and development of explore-exploit decision making 2024 ·Cognitive Psychology ·Madeline B. Harms, (unknown), C. Shawn Green, Kristina Woodard, Robert C. Wilson, Seth D. Pollak	4
4	Altered topological structure of the brain white matter in maltreated children through topological data analysis 2023 ·Network Neuroscience ·Moo K. Chung, (unknown), Jamie L. Hanson, Andrew L. Alexander, Seth D. Pollak, Richard J. Davidson	2
5	Category Flexibility in Emotion Learning 2023 ·Affective Science ·Rista C. Plate, Kristina Woodard, Seth D. Pollak	5
6	Testimony bias lingers across development under uncertainty. 2021 ·Developmental Psychology ·Rista C. Plate, Kristin Shutts, (unknown), C. Shawn Green, Seth D. Pollak	4
7	Social relationships and children’s perceptions of adversity 2021 ·Child Development Perspectives ·Karen E. Smith, Seth D. Pollak	33
8	Rethinking Concepts and Categories for Understanding the Neurodevelopmental Effects of Childhood Adversity breakdown → 2020 ·Perspectives on Psychological Science ·Karen E. Smith, Seth D. Pollak	221
9	How developmental neuroscience can help address the problem of child poverty 2020 ·Development and Psychopathology ·Seth D. Pollak, Barbara Wolfe	16
10	Instrumental learning and cognitive flexibility processes are impaired in children exposed to early life stress 2017 ·Developmental Science ·Madeline B. Harms, (unknown), Jamie L. Hanson, Seth D. Pollak	90
11	Integrative Structural Brain Network Analysis in Diffusion Tensor Imaging 2017 ·Brain Connectivity ·Moo K. Chung, Jamie L. Hanson, Nagesh Adluru, Andrew L. Alexander, Richard J. Davidson, Seth D. Pollak	17
12	Identification of emotional facial expressions among behaviorally inhibited adolescents with lifetime anxiety disorders 2014 ·Cognition & Emotion ·Bethany C. Reeb‐Sutherland, Lela Rankin Williams, Kathryn A. Degnan, Koraly Pérez‐Edgar, Andrea Chronis‐Tuscano, Ellen Leibenluft, Daniel S. Pine, Seth D. Pollak, Nathan A. Fox	23
13	P300 as a measure of processing capacity in auditory and visual domains in specific language impairment 2011 ·Brain Research ·Julia L. Evans, (unknown), Seth D. Pollak	29
14	Tiling Manifolds with Orthonormal Basis 2008 ·Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science ·(unknown), Anqi Qiu, Brendon M. Nacewicz, Seth D. Pollak, Richard J. Davidson	2
15	Developmental Neuroscience Perspectives on Emotion Regulation 2008 ·Child Development Perspectives ·H. Hill Goldsmith, Seth D. Pollak, Richard J. Davidson	70
16	Neuroendocrine dysregulation following early social deprivation in children 2008 ·Developmental Psychobiology ·Alison B. Wismer Fries, Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff, Seth D. Pollak	138
17	Perceptual asymmetries reflect developmental changes in the neuropsychological mechanisms of emotion recognition. 2001 ·Emotion ·Seth D. Pollak, Alison B. Wismer Fries	6
18	Cognitive Brain Event-Related Potentials and Emotion Processing in Maltreated Children 1997 ·Child Development ·Seth D. Pollak, Dante Cicchetti, Rafael Klorman, Joan T. Brumaghim	137
19	Cross-antigenicity between Yersinia and Rickettsia. 1979 ·PubMed ·(unknown), Seth D. Pollak, (unknown)	2
20	[Statistic and phenomenology of combined suicides and other suicidal multiple injuries in an urban area. With two case reports]. 1978 ·PubMed ·Seth D. Pollak	5

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