Stephen D. Short

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Stephen D. Short is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen D. Short has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Social Psychology, 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 6 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Stephen D. Short's work include Animal and Plant Science Education (4 papers), Mental Health via Writing (4 papers) and Evolution and Science Education (4 papers). Stephen D. Short is often cited by papers focused on Animal and Plant Science Education (4 papers), Mental Health via Writing (4 papers) and Evolution and Science Education (4 papers). Stephen D. Short collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Stephen D. Short's co-authors include Aaron J. Boulton, Alexander M. Schoemann, John Kitchener Sakaluk, Patricia H. Hawley, Lisa Thomson Ross, Caitlyn O. Hood, Terrence D. Jorgensen, Benjamin A. Kite, Po‐Yi Chen and Sherman A. Lee and has published in prestigious journals such as Personality and Individual Differences, Psychological Methods and Journal of Research in Science Teaching.

In The Last Decade

Stephen D. Short

21 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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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.

Determining Power and Sample Size for Simple and Complex Mediation Models

2017 1.1k citations Alexander M. Schoemann, Aaron J. Boulton et al. Social Psychological and Personality Science profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Stephen D. Short	655	537	464	244	187	23	1.5k
Gernot von Collani	526 0.8×	409 0.8×	512 1.1×	288 1.2×	206 1.1×	28	1.5k
Jennifer G. La Guardia	949 1.4×	366 0.7×	466 1.0×	233 1.0×	174 0.9×	18	1.6k
F Richard	503 0.8×	464 0.9×	451 1.0×	342 1.4×	212 1.1×	22	1.4k
Piera Brustia	515 0.8×	389 0.7×	655 1.4×	169 0.7×	173 0.9×	30	1.9k
Nekane Basabe	937 1.4×	877 1.6×	557 1.2×	155 0.6×	147 0.8×	88	2.0k
Lesley Verhofstadt	694 1.1×	600 1.1×	734 1.6×	195 0.8×	125 0.7×	75	1.7k
Sharon G. Goto	992 1.5×	1.0k 1.9×	360 0.8×	163 0.7×	243 1.3×	23	1.7k
Arne Evers	439 0.7×	559 1.0×	288 0.6×	294 1.2×	92 0.5×	31	1.5k
Beth Morling	1.1k 1.6×	677 1.3×	308 0.7×	207 0.8×	119 0.6×	33	1.8k
Julie Fitness	1.2k 1.9×	670 1.2×	490 1.1×	270 1.1×	257 1.4×	49	2.0k

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Kolak, Amy M., et al.. (2025). Mental health in emerging adulthood: Anti‐mattering mediates the effects of attachment to mothers and fathers. Family Relations. 74(4). 1930–1945.

Reid, Chelsea A. & Stephen D. Short. (2024). Cautionary comments on the cliftonstrengths assessment in higher education.. Consulting psychology journal. 76(3). 313–330. 1 indexed citations

Short, Stephen D., et al.. (2024). MAKING USE OF SEMANTICS IN AN AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM.

Robertson, Sarah, et al.. (2023). The Effect of COVID-Focused Expressive Writing on Symptoms of Depression, Anxiety, and Distress in College Students: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology. 42(3). 238–266. 1 indexed citations

Robertson, Sarah, et al.. (2022). Randomized Controlled Trial Assessing the Efficacy of Expressive Writing in Reducing Symptoms of Anxiety: Waitlist Control Design. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology. 41(1). 54–78. 1 indexed citations

Robertson, Sarah, et al.. (2019). The Effect of Expressive Writing on Symptoms of Depression in College Students: Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology. 38(5). 427–450. 9 indexed citations

Short, Stephen D., et al.. (2019). Rational engagement buffers the effect of conservatism on one's reported relevance of the theory of evolution. Journal of Research in Science Teaching. 56(10). 1384–1405. 2 indexed citations

Jorgensen, Terrence D., Benjamin A. Kite, Po‐Yi Chen, & Stephen D. Short. (2017). Permutation randomization methods for testing measurement equivalence and detecting differential item functioning in multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis.. Psychological Methods. 23(4). 708–728. 51 indexed citations

Schoemann, Alexander M., Aaron J. Boulton, & Stephen D. Short. (2017). Determining Power and Sample Size for Simple and Complex Mediation Models. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 8(4). 379–386. 1100 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sakaluk, John Kitchener & Stephen D. Short. (2017). A Methodological Review of Exploratory Factor Analysis in Sexuality Research: Used Practices, Best Practices, and Data Analysis Resources. PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints). 8 indexed citations

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Sakaluk, John Kitchener & Stephen D. Short. (2016). A Methodological Review of Exploratory Factor Analysis in Sexuality Research: Used Practices, Best Practices, and Data Analysis Resources. The Journal of Sex Research. 54(1). 1–9. 114 indexed citations

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Ross, Lisa Thomson, et al.. (2016). Scale of Unpredictability Beliefs: Reliability and Validity. The Journal of Psychology. 150(8). 976–1003. 15 indexed citations

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Ross, Lisa Thomson, Caitlyn O. Hood, & Stephen D. Short. (2016). Unpredictability and Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology. 35(5). 371–385. 43 indexed citations

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Ross, Thomas P., et al.. (2015). The Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Scale: Psychometric Properties and Form Equivalence. Psychological Reports. 116(3). 889–913. 18 indexed citations

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Campione‐Barr, Nicole, et al.. (2015). First‐ and second‐born adolescents' decision‐making autonomy throughout adolescence. Journal of Adolescence. 45(1). 250–262. 10 indexed citations

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Short, Stephen D. & Patricia H. Hawley. (2015). The Effects of Evolution Education: Examining Attitudes toward and Knowledge of Evolution in College Courses. Evolutionary Psychology. 13(1). 67–88. 26 indexed citations

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Lee, Sherman A., et al.. (2013). Fear of Muslims: Psychometric evaluation of the Islamophobia Scale.. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. 5(3). 157–171. 30 indexed citations

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Short, Stephen D. & Patricia H. Hawley. (2012). Evolutionary Attitudes and Literacy Survey (EALS): Development and Validation of a Short Form. Evolution Education and Outreach. 5(3). 419–428. 23 indexed citations

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Short, Stephen D., Sherman A. Lee, & Jeffrey A. Gibbons. (2010). Sympathetic Reactions to the Bait Dog in a Film of Dog Fighting: The Influence of Personality and Gender. Society and Animals. 18(2). 107–125. 4 indexed citations

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Lee, Sherman A., Nicole R. Guajardo, Stephen D. Short, & William R. King. (2010). Individual differences in ocular level empathic accuracy ability: The predictive power of fantasy empathy. Personality and Individual Differences. 49(1). 68–71. 17 indexed citations

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