W. Steven Rholes

11.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
93 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

W. Steven Rholes is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Demography and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, W. Steven Rholes has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Social Psychology, 31 papers in Demography and 27 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in W. Steven Rholes's work include Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (53 papers), Family Dynamics and Relationships (31 papers) and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (23 papers). W. Steven Rholes is often cited by papers focused on Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (53 papers), Family Dynamics and Relationships (31 papers) and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (23 papers). W. Steven Rholes collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Belgium. W. Steven Rholes's co-authors include Jeffry A. Simpson, E. Tory Higgins, Carl R. Jones, Diane N. Ruble, John H. Riskind, Lorne Campbell, Mike Friedman, Carol L. Wilson, M. Minda Oriña and Jamie L. Kohn and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Child Development and Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.

In The Last Decade

W. Steven Rholes

93 papers receiving 6.7k citations

Hit 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.

Category accessibility and impression formation

1977 1.0k citations W. Steven Rholes et al. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology profile →
Support seeking and support giving within couples in an anxiety-provoking situation: The role of attachment styles.

1992 940 citations Jeffry A. Simpson, W. Steven Rholes et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
Conflict in close relationships: An attachment perspective.

1996 623 citations Jeffry A. Simpson, W. Steven Rholes et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
W. Steven Rholes United States	42	5.2k	3.0k	2.2k	1.7k	1.6k	93	7.4k
Duane Buhrmester United States	32	5.1k 1.0×	6.3k 2.1×	2.4k 1.1×	1.8k 1.1×	1.4k 0.9×	42	10.2k
W. Andrew Collins United States	53	4.5k 0.9×	5.4k 1.8×	2.1k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	145	10.0k
Brett Laursen United States	53	5.5k 1.1×	6.4k 2.2×	2.2k 1.0×	1.4k 0.8×	977 0.6×	179	10.8k
Joseph P. Allen United States	57	5.4k 1.0×	6.6k 2.2×	2.0k 0.9×	1.0k 0.6×	1.2k 0.8×	200	11.4k
Wyndol Furman United States	50	7.2k 1.4×	8.2k 2.8×	3.0k 1.4×	2.1k 1.2×	2.1k 1.3×	112	13.8k
Kelly A. Brennan United States	16	7.1k 1.4×	5.2k 1.8×	2.2k 1.0×	2.1k 1.2×	1.9k 1.2×	22	9.1k
Esther D. Rothblum United States	46	4.6k 0.9×	4.1k 1.4×	2.3k 1.1×	1.2k 0.7×	597 0.4×	194	8.8k
Maja Deković Netherlands	56	3.2k 0.6×	7.4k 2.5×	2.2k 1.0×	1.3k 0.7×	713 0.4×	275	10.6k
Paula R. Pietromonaco United States	33	3.7k 0.7×	2.2k 0.7×	1.8k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	800 0.5×	65	5.7k
Ross D. Parke United States	55	3.6k 0.7×	5.5k 1.9×	2.3k 1.0×	672 0.4×	1.5k 0.9×	190	9.1k

Countries citing papers authored by W. Steven Rholes

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of W. Steven Rholes's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by W. Steven Rholes with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites W. Steven Rholes more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by W. Steven Rholes

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by W. Steven Rholes. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by W. Steven Rholes. The network helps show where W. Steven Rholes may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of W. Steven Rholes

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

1.

Wang, Shuo, et al.. (2023). Childhood Trauma and Its Link to Adult Dissociation: The Role of Mentalizing and Disorganized Attachment in a Chinese Adult Sample. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation. 24(5). 559–574. 2 indexed citations

2.

Eller, Jami, et al.. (2019). Partner predictors of marital aggression across the transition to parenthood: An I³ approach. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. 36(5). 1491–1508. 6 indexed citations

3.

Girme, Yuthika U., Christopher R. Agnew, Laura E. VanderDrift, et al.. (2017). The ebbs and flows of attachment: Within-person variation in attachment undermine secure individuals’ relationship wellbeing across time.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 114(3). 397–421. 53 indexed citations

4.

Simpson, Jeffry A. & W. Steven Rholes. (2016). Adult attachment, stress, and romantic relationships. Current Opinion in Psychology. 13. 19–24. 187 indexed citations

5.

Paetzold, Ramona L., W. Steven Rholes, & Joel Andrus. (2016). A Bayesian analysis of the link between adult disorganized attachment and dissociative symptoms. Personality and Individual Differences. 107. 17–22. 12 indexed citations

6.

Mak, Miranda Chi Kuan, Michael Harris Bond, Jeffry A. Simpson, & W. Steven Rholes. (2010). Adult Attachment, Perceived Support, and Depressive Symptoms in Chinese and American Cultures. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology. 29(2). 144–165. 34 indexed citations

7.

Friedman, Mike & W. Steven Rholes. (2006). Successfully challenging fundamentalist beliefs results in increased death awareness. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 43(5). 794–801. 52 indexed citations

8.

Rholes, W. Steven & Jeffry A. Simpson. (2004). Attachment Theory: Basic Concepts and Contemporary Questions.. 59 indexed citations

9.

Rholes, W. Steven, et al.. (1999). Attachment and anger in an anxiety-provoking situation.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 76(6). 940–957. 11 indexed citations

10.

Simpson, Jeffry A. & W. Steven Rholes. (1998). Attachment in adulthood. 3–21. 178 indexed citations

11.

Simpson, Jeffry A., et al.. (1996). Conflict in close relationships: An attachment perspective.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 71(5). 899–914. 159 indexed citations

12.

Rholes, W. Steven, et al.. (1988). Children's understanding of personal dispositions and its relationship to behavior. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 45(1). 1–17. 28 indexed citations

13.

Riskind, John H., et al.. (1987). Attributions and expectations: A confluence of vulnerabilities in mild depression in a college student population.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 53(2). 349–354. 22 indexed citations

14.

Riskind, John H., et al.. (1987). Attributions and expectations: A confluence of vulnerabilities in mild depression in a college student population.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 53(2). 349–354. 35 indexed citations

15.

Rholes, W. Steven & Diane N. Ruble. (1986). Children's Impressions of Other Persons: The Effects of Temporal Separation of Behavioral Information. Child Development. 57(4). 872–872. 37 indexed citations

16.

Rholes, W. Steven & Diane N. Ruble. (1984). Children's Understanding of Dispositional Characteristics of Others. Child Development. 55(2). 550–550. 259 indexed citations

17.

Rholes, W. Steven & Jackie Walters. (1982). Schematic Patterns of Causal Evidence. Child Development. 53(4). 1046–1046. 4 indexed citations

18.

Riskind, John H., W. Steven Rholes, & John Eggers. (1982). The Velten Mood Induction Procedure: Effects on mood and memory.. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 50(1). 146–147. 28 indexed citations

19.

Rholes, W. Steven, et al.. (1980). A developmental study of learned helplessness.. Developmental Psychology. 16(6). 616–624. 85 indexed citations

20.

Feldman, Nina S., et al.. (1976). Order of Information Presentation and Children's Moral Judgments. Child Development. 47(2). 556–556. 55 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact