Seymour Wapner

6.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
138 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Seymour Wapner is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Seymour Wapner has authored 138 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 24 papers in Social Psychology and 16 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Seymour Wapner's work include Visual perception and processing mechanisms (20 papers), Spatial Cognition and Navigation (9 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (6 papers). Seymour Wapner is often cited by papers focused on Visual perception and processing mechanisms (20 papers), Spatial Cognition and Navigation (9 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (6 papers). Seymour Wapner collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Puerto Rico. Seymour Wapner's co-authors include Heinz Werner, Peter E. Comalli, Herman A. Witkin, Helen Lewis, Karen Machover, Max Hertzman, Philip Meißner, Jack Demick, Wayne H. Holtzman and Bernard Kaplan and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and Psychological Review.

In The Last Decade

Seymour Wapner

131 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Personality through Perception

1955 781 citations Herman A. Witkin, Helen Lewis et al. The American Journal of Psychology profile →

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Irwin Silverman United States

Lewis P. Lipsitt United States

James E. Birren United States

Marion Perlmutter United States

Joachim F. Wohlwill United States

W. Jake Jacobs United States

F. J. McGuigan United States

Herbert G. Birch United States

Kathy Pezdek United States

Alexander W. Siegel United States

Irwin Silverman United States

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Countries citing papers authored by Seymour Wapner

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Fields of papers citing papers by Seymour Wapner

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Seymour Wapner

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Wapner, Seymour, et al.. (1998). Effects of lysergic acid diethylamide, and differences between normals and schizophrenics on the Stroop Color-Word Test.. PubMed. 2. 76–81. 32 indexed citations

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Wapner, Seymour. (1997). Handbook of Japan-United States environment-behavior research : toward a transactional approach. Plenum Press eBooks. 4 indexed citations

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Demick, Jack, et al.. (1992). Cultural Differences in Impact of Governmental Legislation. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 23(4). 468–487. 7 indexed citations

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Wapner, Seymour & Jack Demick. (1991). Field dependence-independence: Cognitive style across the life span.. 113 indexed citations

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Wapner, Seymour. (1985). Martha Muchow and Organismic-Developmental Theory.. Human Development. 28(4). 1 indexed citations

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Wapner, Seymour, et al.. (1984). Prior interracial experience and Black student transition into predominantly White colleges.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 47(5). 1146–1154. 1 indexed citations

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Baker, A. Harvey, et al.. (1981). Apparent arm length with active vs. passive touch. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society. 18(3). 151–154. 3 indexed citations

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Baker, A. Harvey, Jill Rierdan, & Seymour Wapner. (1974). Age Changes in Size-Value Phenomena. Child Development. 45(2). 257–257. 1 indexed citations

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Wapner, Seymour. (1973). An Organismic-Development Perspective for Understanding Transactions of Men and Environments.. Environment and Behavior. 10 indexed citations

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Glick, Joseph & Seymour Wapner. (1968). Development of Transitivity: Some Findings and Problems of Analysis. Child Development. 39(2). 621–621. 11 indexed citations

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Wapner, Seymour, Joseph Weinberg, Joseph Glick, & George Rand. (1967). Effect of Speed of Movement on Tactual-Kinesthetic Perception of Extent. The American Journal of Psychology. 80(4). 608–608. 23 indexed citations

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Comalli, Peter E., et al.. (1965). Cognitive Functioning in Two Groups of Aged: One Institutionalized, the Other Living in the Community. Journal of Gerontology. 20(1). 9–13. 16 indexed citations

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Barton, Melvin I. & Seymour Wapner. (1965). Apparent Length of Body Parts Attended to Separately and in Combination. Perceptual and Motor Skills. 20(3). 904–904. 2 indexed citations

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Comalli, Peter E., Seymour Wapner, & Heinz Werner. (1962). Interference Effects of Stroop Color-Word Test in Childhood, Adulthood, and Aging. The Journal of Genetic Psychology. 100(1). 47–53. 491 indexed citations

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Wapner, Seymour & Heinz Werner. (1957). Perceptual development : an investigation within the framework of sensory-tonic field theory. Clark Digital Commons (Clark University). 40 indexed citations

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Werner, Heinz & Seymour Wapner. (1955). The Innsbruck Studies on distorted visual fields in relation to an organismic theory of perception.. Psychological Review. 62(2). 130–138. 12 indexed citations

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Wapner, Seymour, et al.. (1955). Studies in Physiognomic Perception: II. Effect of Directional Dynamics of Pictured Objects and of Words on the Position of the Apparent Horizon. The Journal of Psychology. 39(1). 61–70. 19 indexed citations

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Witkin, Herman A., Helen Lewis, Max Hertzman, et al.. (1954). Personality through perception: an experimental and clinical study.. 149 indexed citations

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Wapner, Seymour & Heinz Werner. (1952). Experiments on sensory-tonic field theory of perception: V. Effect of body status on the kinesthetic perception of verticality.. Journal of Experimental Psychology. 44(2). 126–131. 21 indexed citations

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Werner, Heinz, Seymour Wapner, & Kenneth A Chandler. (1951). Experiments on sensory-tonic field theory of perception: II. Effect of supported and unsupported tilt of the body on the visual perception of verticality.. Journal of Experimental Psychology. 42(5). 346–350. 40 indexed citations

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