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Arthur Aron

Psychology

#300

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#423

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#200

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Social Psychology

#53

World Rank

#62

Historical Rank

#39

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According to Wikipedia, Arthur Aron is a professor of psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is best known for his work on intimacy in interpersonal relationships, and development of the self-expansion model of motivation in close relationships.

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Arthur Aron's Published Works

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Inclusion of Other in the Self Scale and the structure of interpersonal closeness (1992) (4006)
Close Relationships as Including Other in the Self (1991) (1690)
The extended contact effect: Knowledge of cross-group friendships and prejudice. (1997) (1304)
Reward, motivation, and emotion systems associated with early-stage intense romantic love. (2005) (870)
Some evidence for heightened sexual attraction under conditions of high anxiety. (1974) (760)
Statistics for Psychology (1994) (741)
The Experimental Generation of Interpersonal Closeness: A Procedure and Some Preliminary Findings (1997) (659)
Cross-Group Friendships and Intergroup Attitudes (2011) (634)
Sensory-processing sensitivity and its relation to introversion and emotionality. (1997) (633)
Love and the expansion of self: Understanding attraction and satisfaction. (1988) (627)
Couples' shared participation in novel and arousing activities and experienced relationship quality. (2000) (564)
Cultural Influences on Neural Substrates of Attentional Control (2008) (414)
Material-specific lateralization in the medial temporal lobe and prefrontal cortex during memory encoding. (2001) (388)
Handbook of closeness and intimacy (2004) (361)
Romantic love: a mammalian brain system for mate choice (2006) (346)
Falling in love: Prospective studies of self-concept change. (1995) (344)
Including others in the self (2004) (338)
Romantic love: An fMRI study of a neural mechanism for mate choice (2005) (317)
Neural correlates of long-term intense romantic love. (2012) (309)
Sensory Processing Sensitivity (2012) (298)
Defining the Brain Systems of Lust, Romantic Attraction, and Attachment (2002) (297)
Self-expansion motivation and including other in the self. (1997) (275)
Reward, addiction, and emotion regulation systems associated with rejection in love. (2010) (264)
Viewing Pictures of a Romantic Partner Reduces Experimental Pain: Involvement of Neural Reward Systems (2010) (258)
Dimensions of the prototype of love. (1996) (254)
Reward and motivation systems: A brain mapping study of early‐stage intense romantic love in Chinese participants (2011) (248)
Self‐expansion Model of Motivation and Cognition in Close Relationships and Beyond (2007) (234)
The Self-Expansion Model of Motivation and Cognition in Close Relationships (2013) (227)
Statistics for the Behavioral and Social Sciences: A Brief Course (1996) (219)
Love and expansion of the self: The state of the model (1996) (216)
Relationship Closeness as Including Other in the Self: Cognitive Underpinnings and Measures (1999) (206)
Does a Long-Term Relationship Kill Romantic Love? (2009) (196)
Love: American style, Russian style, and Japanese style (1994) (194)
Losing a self-expanding relationship: Implications for the self-concept. (2006) (177)
Adult Shyness: The Interaction of Temperamental Sensitivity and an Adverse Childhood Environment (2005) (176)
Shared Activities and Marital Satisfaction: Causal Direction and Self-Expansion versus Boredom (1993) (173)
Experiences of Falling in Love (1989) (163)
Self and self-expansion in relationships. (1996) (162)
Marital Boredom Now Predicts Less Satisfaction 9 Years Later (2009) (161)
The highly sensitive brain: an fMRI study of sensory processing sensitivity and response to others' emotions (2014) (160)
The Extended Contact Hypothesis: A Meta-Analysis on 20 Years of Research (2019) (153)
Confusions of Self With Close Others (2003) (149)
Dandelions, tulips and orchids: evidence for the existence of low-sensitive, medium-sensitive and high-sensitive individuals (2018) (139)
Environmental Sensitivity in Children: Development of the Highly Sensitive Child Scale and Identification of Sensitivity Groups (2018) (135)
Closeness as Including Other in the Self. (2004) (134)
The trait of sensory processing sensitivity and neural responses to changes in visual scenes. (2011) (132)
Is Long-Term Love More Than A Rare Phenomenon? If So, What Are Its Correlates? (2012) (123)
Intense, Passionate, Romantic Love: A Natural Addiction? How the Fields That Investigate Romance and Substance Abuse Can Inform Each Other (2016) (110)
Aspects of possible self that predict motivation to achieve or avoid it (2003) (103)
Including others in the self: Extensions to own and partner's group memberships. (2001) (101)
When similars do not attract: Tests of a prediction from the self-expansion model (2006) (95)
Statistics for psychology, 2nd ed. (1999) (95)
Self-expansion motivation improves cross-group interactions and enhances self-growth (2016) (94)
Experiences of falling in love: Investigating culture, ethnicity, gender, and speed (2010) (92)
Passionate Love and Marital Satisfaction at Key Transition Points in the Family Life Cycle (1993) (88)
Self and close relationships. (2003) (81)
The self-expansion model and motivation. (1998) (80)
Love: What Is It, Why Does It Matter, and How Does It Operate? (2008) (79)
Temperament trait of sensory processing sensitivity moderates cultural differences in neural response. (2010) (77)
When two is too many: Collaborative encoding impairs memory (2010) (70)
Self-Expansion Motivation and Inclusion of Brands in Self: Toward a Theory of Brand Relationships (2014) (69)
Infidelity: When, Where, Why (2010) (64)
Marital Satisfaction and Passionate Love (1995) (57)
Wanting Less Closeness in Romantic Relationships (2011) (56)
Personality goes a long way: The malleability of opposite-sex physical attractiveness (2007) (55)
The self-expansion model and optimal relationship development (2016) (46)
Love and Self-Expansion (2017) (46)
The Effect of Shared Participation in Novel and Challenging Activities on Experienced Relationship Quality: Is It Mediated by High Positive Affect? (2006) (46)
Understanding Marriage: Shared Participation in Self-Expanding Activities: Positive Effects on Experienced Marital Quality (2002) (46)
The Transcendental Meditation Program in the College Curriculum: A 4-Year Longitudinal Study of Effects on Cognitive and Affective Functioning. (1981) (44)
Falling in Love (1997) (44)
Intergroup contact : still our best hope for improving intergroup relations (2005) (44)
Self-expansion and smoking abstinence. (2010) (43)
Relationship between the temperament trait of sensory processing sensitivity and emotional reactivity (2016) (41)
Neural differences in the processing of semantic relationships across cultures. (2010) (40)
The Mesolimbic Dopamine Pathway and Romantic Love (2015) (39)
The neural mechanisms of mate choice: a hypothesis. (2002) (39)
Distinguishing Arousal from Novelty and Challenge in Initial Romantic Attraction between Strangers (2004) (39)
NEURAL CORRELATES OF MARITAL SATISFACTION AND WELL-BEING: REWARD, EMPATHY, AND AFFECT (2012) (38)
Partner support for individual self-expansion opportunities (2015) (38)
Clinical Neuropsychiatry (2017) 14, 6, 359-373 SENSORY PROCESSING SENSITIVITY AND CHILDHOOD QUALITY’S EFFECTS ON NEURAL RESPONSES TO EMOTIONAL STIMULI (2018) (36)
Dreaming of You (2014) (36)
Regional brain activity during early-stage intense romantic love predicted relationship outcomes after 40 months: An fMRI assessment (2012) (33)
Identifying, evoking, and measuring intense feelings of romantic love. (2000) (32)
Ellen Berscheid, Elaine Hatfield, and the Emergence of Relationship Science (2013) (32)
Prototype Matching in Close Relationships (2001) (32)
Friendship Development and Intergroup Attitudes: The Role of Interpersonal and Intergroup Friendship Processes (2016) (31)
Intense Passionate Love Attenuates Cigarette Cue-Reactivity in Nicotine-Deprived Smokers: An fMRI Study (2012) (29)
Observer-rated environmental sensitivity moderates children's response to parenting quality in early childhood. (2019) (28)
Affective forecasting and individual differences: accuracy for relational events and anxious attachment. (2010) (28)
Extended Contact and Including Others in the Self: Building on the Allport/Pettigrew Legacy (2009) (28)
Motivations for Unreciprocated Love (1998) (27)
Culture and attention: evidence from brain and behavior. (2009) (26)
The transcendental meditation program's effect on addictive behavior. (1980) (25)
The matching hypothesis reconsidered again: Comment on Kalick and Hamilton. (1988) (25)
Pair-Bonding as Inclusion of Other in the Self: A Literature Review (2019) (24)
Transcendental Meditation Program and Marital Adjustment (1982) (22)
Creating positive out-group attitudes through intergroup couple friendships and implications for compassionate love (2014) (21)
Effects of self‐disclosure and responsiveness between couples on passionate love within couples (2014) (19)
Do shared self-expanding activities have to be physically arousing? (2018) (17)
Cross-group friendships: How interpersonal connections encourage positive intergroup attitudes. (2011) (17)
The Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships: Romantic Love (2006) (17)
Romantic love, pair-bonding, and the dopaminergic reward system. (2014) (17)
Love and Sexuality (2014) (15)
The patterns of reduction of drug and alcohol use among Transcendental Meditation participants. (1983) (15)
Relationships with Opposite-Sexed Parents and Mate Choice (1974) (15)
People Differ in their Sensitivity to the Environment: An Integrated Theory and Empirical Evidence (2020) (14)
Exclusion of the Self by Close Others and by Groups: Implications of the Self-Expansion Model. (2005) (14)
Compassionate Love for Individuals in Other Social Groups (2009) (14)
The path to closeness (2013) (14)
Perceived Causes of Divorce and Postdivorce Adjustment Among Recently Divorced Midlife Women (1989) (14)
Variance maps as a novel tool for localizing regions of interest in imaging studies of individual differences (2005) (14)
Romantic attraction and generalized liking for others who are sources of conflict-based arousal (1989) (13)
The costs of being put on a pedestal (2014) (13)
Sensory Processing Sensitivity Predicts Individual Differences in Resting-State Functional Connectivity Associated with Depth of Processing (2021) (13)
An Introduction to Maharishi's Theory of Creativity: Its Empirical Base and Description or the Creative Process (1982) (12)
The Influence of Inner State on Self-Reported Long-Term Happiness (1987) (11)
An fMRI Study of Nicotine-Deprived Smokers' Reactivity to Smoking Cues during Novel/Exciting Activity (2014) (11)
Love as Expansion of the Self (2018) (11)
Rusbult's investment model and the expansion of the self-expansion model. (2010) (10)
The role of environmental sensitivity in the development of rumination and depressive symptoms in childhood: a longitudinal study (2021) (10)
Seeing you in me: Preliminary evidence for perceptual overlap between self and close others (2018) (10)
The heart of social psychology (1986) (10)
Extremities of Love: The Sudden Sacrifice of Career, Family, Dignity (1997) (9)
Preoccupation in an early-romantic relationship predicts experimental pain relief. (2014) (8)
Three Suggestions for Increased Emphasis in the Study of Personal Relationships (1995) (8)
Psychology's Progress and the Psychologist's Personal Experience (1981) (7)
Sensory Processing Sensitivity and the Subjective Experience of Parenting: An Exploratory Study (2019) (7)
Online Dating (2012) (7)
The Positive Psychology of Romantic Love (2013) (6)
Interpersonal Attraction, Psychology of (2001) (6)
Two new scales in the field of couples and marriage counseling: The inclusion of other in the self scale and Turkish self-change in romantic relationships scale (2018) (6)
The Heart of Social Psychology: A Backstage View of a Passionate Science (1989) (5)
An Inspiration for Expanding the Self-Expansion Model of Love (2016) (5)
Highly Sensitive Person Scale (2011) (5)
Self-expansion motivation and inclusion of others in self: An updated review (2022) (3)
Divorced Father with Custody (1990) (3)
Relationship neuroscience: Where we are and where we might be going. (2012) (3)
The Meaning of Love (2013) (3)
Behavior, the Brain, and the Social Psychology of Close Relationships (2009) (2)
THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION PROGRAM AND NORMALIZATION OF WEIGHT (2006) (2)
Manipulation of Self-Expansion Alters Responses to Attractive Alternative Partners (2020) (2)
Sensory Processing Sensitivity and its Relation to Sensation Seeking (2023) (2)
A Prototype Analysis of What it Means to be in a Romantic Relationship (2015) (1)
Emergence of Relationship Science (2013) (1)
Perceiving couples as discrete units: The existence of couple‐level identities (2020) (1)
Caryl E. Rusbult (1952-2010) (2010) (1)
Climbing Diotima's Mountain: Marriage and Achieving Our Highest Goals (2014) (1)
Brain activations during early-stage intense love predict relationship outcomes 40 months later: (634112013-021) (2011) (0)
and implications for compassionate love Creating positive out-group attitudes through intergroup couple friendships (2014) (0)
Outgroup Interactions and Closeness Index (2014) (0)
Psychodynamics of Love. (1995) (0)
Proactive and selective response control may be associated with increased GABA-ergic mediated inhibition in primary motor cortex (2009) (0)
People Differ in their Sensitivity to the Environment: An Integrated Theory, Measurement and Empirical Evidence (2023) (0)
Recruitment and Consent (2017) (0)
Differentiating attractions that do and do not result in romantic relationship formation: (512142015-552) (2014) (0)
Highly Sensitive Child Scale--12-Item Version (2018) (0)
Love and Courtship: What's Been Done--And what Hasn't. (1994) (0)
Friendship Processes Survey (2017) (0)
Self-Concept Clarity and Self-Esteem: A Meta-Analysis (2018) (0)
Data, Syntax, Output (2016) (0)
How social psychology can succeed: A response to Silverman. (1979) (0)
The Self-Expansion Model and Relationship Maintenance (2019) (0)
The analgesic effects of romantic love: a neuroimaging study (2009) (0)
Reward, Addiction, and Emotion Regulation Systems 2 Associated with Rejection in Love 3 4 (2010) (0)
Quality of the Interaction Scale (2016) (0)
Intracranial EEG shows primary motor and prefrontal signatures of stop signal response inhibition (2009) (0)
The Dynamics of Relationships and of Relationship Science. (2004) (0)

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