William Hart

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
125 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

William Hart is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, William Hart has authored 125 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Clinical Psychology, 56 papers in Social Psychology and 53 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in William Hart's work include Personality Traits and Psychology (66 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (43 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (21 papers). William Hart is often cited by papers focused on Personality Traits and Psychology (66 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (43 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (21 papers). William Hart collaborates with scholars based in United States and Canada. William Hart's co-authors include Dolores Albarracín, Gregory K. Tortoriello, Kyle Richardson, Matthew J. Lindberg, Inge Brechan, Alice H. Eagly, Lisa Merrill, Marvin D. Rausch, John M. Adams and David W. Macomber and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Psychological Bulletin.

In The Last Decade

William Hart

116 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

  1. Feeling validated versus being correct: A meta-analysis of selective exposure to information.
    2009 798 citations William Hart et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William Hart United States 22 967 715 641 390 337 125 2.5k
Jennifer L. Howell United States 25 725 0.7× 257 0.4× 509 0.8× 160 0.4× 171 0.5× 81 1.7k
Conor M. Dowling United States 24 1.4k 1.5× 361 0.5× 309 0.5× 234 0.6× 97 0.3× 66 2.5k
James S. Fleming United States 23 422 0.4× 611 0.9× 1.0k 1.6× 617 1.6× 778 2.3× 59 3.2k
Robert J. Gregory New Zealand 26 390 0.4× 763 1.1× 330 0.5× 458 1.2× 228 0.7× 170 3.2k
Gerald R. Miller United States 34 1.7k 1.7× 515 0.7× 2.1k 3.2× 73 0.2× 379 1.1× 136 4.6k
Peter Kuipers Netherlands 4 729 0.8× 229 0.3× 993 1.5× 45 0.1× 290 0.9× 7 1.8k
Michael Becker Germany 32 501 0.5× 314 0.4× 569 0.9× 56 0.1× 683 2.0× 144 2.9k
Sonia Nieto United States 32 2.1k 2.1× 185 0.3× 300 0.5× 513 1.3× 52 0.2× 107 6.8k
Günter W. Maier Germany 25 583 0.6× 258 0.4× 729 1.1× 45 0.1× 285 0.8× 98 2.2k
Jay Haley United States 25 405 0.4× 2.0k 2.8× 1.1k 1.7× 27 0.1× 129 0.4× 73 3.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Hart

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Hart

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hart, William, et al.. (2025). Neuroticism and Executive Functioning Deficits: The Moderating Role of Negative Urgency. Psychological Reports. 3976464327–3976464327. 1 indexed citations
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Hart, William, et al.. (2025). Tactical and impulsive: direct and interactive effects of impulsivity predispositions on chronic use of various self-presentation tactics. Current Psychology. 44(11). 11296–11308. 1 indexed citations
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Hart, William, et al.. (2025). The indirect effects of psychopathy and sadism on functional impairment through executive functioning. Current Psychology. 44(19). 15838–15850.
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Hart, William, et al.. (2025). Are all narcissistic people more motivated to self-enhance?: A novel test of a NARC model postulate. Personality and Individual Differences. 242. 113217–113217. 1 indexed citations
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Hart, William, et al.. (2025). Feeling fine about being impaired: Narcissism, impairment and wellbeing. Personality and Individual Differences. 239. 113114–113114.
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Hart, William, et al.. (2024). Judging the guilt of the un-guilty: The roles of “false positive” guilt and empathy in moral character perception. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 113. 104613–104613. 3 indexed citations
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Hart, William, et al.. (2024). Psychopathic but less criminal: The buffering effects of integrity. Personality and Individual Differences. 229. 112736–112736.
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Hart, William, et al.. (2024). Antagonistic personality and symptoms of psychological distress: Feeling less bad about being impaired. Personality and Individual Differences. 223. 112619–112619. 7 indexed citations
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Hart, William, et al.. (2024). Coworkers Behaving Badly: How the Dark Triad Influences Responses to Witnessing Workplace Misconduct. Psychological Reports. 129(1). 692–714. 1 indexed citations
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Hart, William, et al.. (2024). Testing Measurement Invariance of the Left-Wing Authoritarianism Index-13 (LWAI-13) in a US Adult Sample. European Journal of Psychological Assessment. 2 indexed citations
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Hart, William, et al.. (2024). Don’t Worry About Being You: Relations Between Perceived Authenticity and Mental Health are Due to Self-Esteem and Executive Functioning. Psychological Reports. 129(2). 1564–1583. 5 indexed citations
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Hart, William, et al.. (2023). The Capone hypothesis: Do antagonistic individuals view themselves as more good than evil?. Personality and Individual Differences. 216. 112426–112426. 2 indexed citations
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Hart, William, et al.. (2023). Reducing the chances of developing narcissistic rivalry: The buffering effects of integrity. Personality and Individual Differences. 213. 112311–112311. 2 indexed citations
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Hart, William, et al.. (2023). Integrity and Moral Flexibility. Journal of Individual Differences. 45(1). 46–52. 1 indexed citations
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Hart, William, et al.. (2023). Reducing the chances of developing narcissistic rivalry: The buffering effects of self-esteem. Personality and Individual Differences. 216. 112428–112428.
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Hart, William, et al.. (2023). Self-Verifying Depression in Retrospect: More Depressed People Reconstruct the Past to Seem More Depressed. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology. 42(4). 406–426. 1 indexed citations
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Hart, William, et al.. (2022). A Self-Presentational Account of Entitlement: Entitlement Relates to Strategically Portraying Entitled Identities. The American Journal of Psychology. 135(4). 407–417.
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Hart, William, et al.. (2021). We are who we thought we were: Confirming one’s own antagonism levels.. Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment. 13(2). 133–143. 9 indexed citations
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Hart, William, John M. Adams, & Alexa M. Tullett. (2015). “It’s Complicated”—Sex Differences in Perceptions of Cross-Sex Friendships. The Journal of Social Psychology. 156(2). 190–201. 2 indexed citations
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