Travis Proulx

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Travis Proulx is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Travis Proulx has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Social Psychology, 24 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 24 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Travis Proulx's work include Social and Intergroup Psychology (22 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (19 papers) and Cultural Differences and Values (12 papers). Travis Proulx is often cited by papers focused on Social and Intergroup Psychology (22 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (19 papers) and Cultural Differences and Values (12 papers). Travis Proulx collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and Canada. Travis Proulx's co-authors include Steven J. Heine, Kathleen D. Vohs, Michael Inzlicht, Eddie Harmon‐Jones, Michael J. Chandler, Willem W. A. Sleegers, Brian D. Ostafin, Ilan Dar‐Nimrod, Ian Hansen and Ilja van Beest and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, PLoS ONE and Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Travis Proulx

41 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The Meaning Maintenance Model: On the Coherence of Social Motivations

2006 912 citations Steven J. Heine, Travis Proulx et al. Personality and Social Psychology Review profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Travis Proulx Netherlands	21	1.6k	1.0k	675	475	425	42	2.5k
Mitchell J. Callan United Kingdom	24	1.0k 0.6×	1.3k 1.3×	739 1.1×	510 1.1×	349 0.8×	58	2.6k
Richard P. Eibach Canada	27	1.3k 0.8×	1.5k 1.4×	507 0.8×	393 0.8×	383 0.9×	54	3.1k
Natalie J. Ciarocco United States	12	1.9k 1.2×	990 1.0×	337 0.5×	877 1.8×	801 1.9×	19	3.0k
Lowell Gaertner United States	32	2.1k 1.3×	2.1k 2.1×	669 1.0×	450 0.9×	479 1.1×	65	3.3k
Ilan Dar‐Nimrod Australia	24	1.1k 0.7×	757 0.7×	336 0.5×	619 1.3×	372 0.9×	58	2.4k
Kristin Laurin Canada	24	1.4k 0.9×	1.6k 1.6×	537 0.8×	409 0.9×	337 0.8×	58	2.8k
Catherine A. Cottrell United States	12	1.2k 0.8×	1.4k 1.3×	467 0.7×	344 0.7×	189 0.4×	19	2.1k
Mayumi Karasawa Japan	27	2.0k 1.3×	1.2k 1.2×	326 0.5×	713 1.5×	311 0.7×	46	3.4k
Jochen E. Gebauer Germany	31	1.8k 1.1×	1.4k 1.4×	301 0.4×	1.1k 2.4×	369 0.9×	63	3.3k
Andy Martens United States	21	2.0k 1.3×	1.2k 1.2×	495 0.7×	1.1k 2.3×	527 1.2×	31	3.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Travis Proulx

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Smith, Sarah Francis, Travis Proulx, & Geoffrey Haddock. (2025). How Do People Conceptualize Narcissism and Narcissistic Individuals?. Journal of Personality.

Zarzeczna, Natalia, Ulrich von Hecker, Travis Proulx, & Geoffrey Haddock. (2019). Powerful men on top: Stereotypes interact with metaphors in social categorizations.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 46(1). 36–65. 9 indexed citations

Sleegers, Willem W. A., Travis Proulx, & Ilja van Beest. (2019). Confirmation bias and misconceptions: Pupillometric evidence for a confirmation bias in misconceptions feedback. Biological Psychology. 145. 76–83. 7 indexed citations

Klackl, Johannes, et al.. (2019). Strength of socio-political attitudes moderates electrophysiological responses to perceptual anomalies. PLoS ONE. 14(8). e0220732–e0220732. 5 indexed citations

Morey, Richard D., et al.. (2018). Beyond Statistics: Accepting the Null Hypothesis in Mature Sciences. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 1(2). 245–258. 5 indexed citations

Suhay, Elizabeth, Mark J. Brandt, & Travis Proulx. (2016). Lay Belief in Biopolitics and Political Prejudice. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 8(2). 173–182. 12 indexed citations

Sleegers, Willem W. A., Travis Proulx, & Ilja van Beest. (2015). Extremism reduces conflict arousal and increases values affirmation in response to meaning violations. Biological Psychology. 108. 126–131. 31 indexed citations

Randles, Daniel, Michael Inzlicht, Travis Proulx, Alexa M. Tullett, & Steven J. Heine. (2015). Is dissonance reduction a special case of fluid compensation? Evidence that dissonant cognitions cause compensatory affirmation and abstraction.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 108(5). 697–710. 46 indexed citations

Sleegers, Willem W. A. & Travis Proulx. (2015). The comfort of approach: self-soothing effects of behavioral approach in response to meaning violations. Frontiers in Psychology. 5. 1568–1568. 10 indexed citations

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Proulx, Travis & Brenda Major. (2013). A Raw Deal: Heightened Liberalism Following Exposure to Anomalous Playing Cards. Journal of Social Issues. 69(3). 455–472. 28 indexed citations

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Proulx, Travis, Michael Inzlicht, & Eddie Harmon‐Jones. (2012). Understanding all inconsistency compensation as a palliative response to violated expectations. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 16(5). 285–291. 249 indexed citations

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Dar‐Nimrod, Ilan, Ian Hansen, Travis Proulx, et al.. (2012). Coolness: An Empirical Investigation. Journal of Individual Differences. 33(3). 175–185. 59 indexed citations

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Proulx, Travis. (2012). Threat-Compensation in Social Psychology: Is There a Core Motivation?. Social Cognition. 30(6). 643–651. 29 indexed citations

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Randles, Daniel, Travis Proulx, & Steven J. Heine. (2010). Turn-frogs and careful-sweaters: Non-conscious perception of incongruous word pairings provokes fluid compensation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 47(1). 246–249. 65 indexed citations

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Proulx, Travis. (2009). The Feeling of the Absurd: Towards an Integrative Theory of Sense-Making. Psychological Inquiry. 20(4). 230–234. 8 indexed citations

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Norenzayan, Ara, Ilan Dar‐Nimrod, Ian Hansen, & Travis Proulx. (2008). Mortality salience and religion: divergent effects on the defense of cultural worldviews for the religious and the non‐religious. European Journal of Social Psychology. 39(1). 101–113. 65 indexed citations

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Proulx, Travis & Michael J. Chandler. (2007). Jekyll & Hyde in the East & West: Cross-cultural variations in conceptions of self-unity. International Review of Social Psychology. 20(2). 57–77. 2 indexed citations

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Chandler, Michael J. & Travis Proulx. (2007). Identity in a narrative mode. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. 28(3). 277–282. 3 indexed citations

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Chandler, Michael J. & Travis Proulx. (2006). Changing Selves in Changing Worlds: Youth Suicide on the Fault-Lines of Colliding Cultures. Archives of Suicide Research. 10(2). 125–140. 74 indexed citations

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Heine, Steven J., Travis Proulx, & Kathleen D. Vohs. (2006). The Meaning Maintenance Model: On the Coherence of Social Motivations. Personality and Social Psychology Review. 10(2). 88–110. 912 indexed citations breakdown →

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