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Nicholas Christenfeld

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#1197

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#1473

Historical Rank

#711

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Nicholas Christenfeld's Degrees

PhD Psychology University of California, San Diego
Bachelors Psychology University of California, San Diego

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According to Wikipedia, Nicholas Christenfeld is a former professor of Psychology at the University of California, San Diego until his dismissal in 2019. He first joined the department in 1991 and was a full professor from 2003 to 2019. Among other research, he has promulgated the Theory of Deadly Initials and the theory that infants resemble their fathers more closely than they do their mothers. More recently, he studied the tendency of people to choose purebred dogs which resembled them.

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Nicholas Christenfeld's Published Works

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Physiological stress reactivity and recovery: conceptual siblings separated at birth? (1997) (436)
Toward a Causal Model of Cardiovascular Responses to Stress and the Development of Cardiovascular Disease (2003) (393)
Increase in US medication-error deaths between 1983 and 1993 (1998) (382)
The Role of Rumination in Recovery from Reactivity: Cardiovascular Consequences of Emotional States (2002) (308)
The Role of Angry Rumination and Distraction in Blood Pressure Recovery From Emotional Arousal (2006) (256)
Risk factors, confounding, and the illusion of statistical control. (2004) (256)
Speech Disfluency and the Structure of Knowledge (1991) (217)
Gender, social support, and cardiovascular responses to stress. (1999) (209)
Choices from Identical Options (1995) (190)
Gender, Jealousy, and Reason (1996) (176)
Music can facilitate blood pressure recovery from stress. (2004) (167)
Social Support Effects on Cardiovascular Reactivity: Is a Stranger as Effective as a Friend? (1997) (161)
Underestimating the duration of future events: memory incorrectly used or memory bias? (2005) (145)
An increase in the number of deaths in the United States in the first week of the month--an association with substance abuse and other causes of death. (1999) (127)
Increase in US medication-error deaths (1998) (106)
An historical context for behavioral models of hypertension. (2000) (91)
Whose baby are you? (1995) (91)
Social support and cardiovascular reactivity. (2000) (89)
On the reliable assessment of cardiovascular recovery: an application of curve-fitting techniques. (2000) (76)
Does it hurt to say um? (1995) (70)
Recreating cardiovascular responses with rumination: the effects of a delay between harassment and its recall. (2007) (66)
Story Spoilers Don’t Spoil Stories (2011) (63)
Anxiety, alcohol, aphasia, and ums. (1996) (59)
Rumination as a Mediator of Chronic Stress Effects on Hypertension: A Causal Model (2012) (55)
Gender, Race, and Performance Expectations of College Students (1999) (54)
Cardiovascular Disease and Psychiatric Comorbidity: The Potential Role of Perseverative Cognition (2009) (52)
Bias in memory predicts bias in estimation of future task duration (2007) (52)
Effect of task length on remembered and predicted duration (2008) (52)
Positive and negative opinion modeling: the influence of another's similarity and dissimilarity. (2006) (50)
Who’s funny: Gender stereotypes, humor production, and memory bias (2012) (48)
Filled pauses and gestures: It's not coincidence (1991) (48)
Jealousy and Rational Responses to Infidelity Across Gender and Culture (1996) (46)
Cognitive distancing, cognitive restructuring, and cardiovascular recovery from stress (2011) (45)
The Vocabularies of Academia (1994) (43)
Correcting Memory Improves Accuracy of Predicted Task Duration (2008) (41)
Options and UMS (1994) (36)
What's in a name: mortality and the power of symbols. (1999) (33)
Audience status moderates the effects of social support and self-efficacy on cardiovascular reactivity during public speaking (2002) (33)
The social construction of cardiovascular reactivity (1998) (31)
The strategic value of essentialism (2018) (29)
Can a machine tickle? (1999) (29)
The fluency of spoilers: Why giving away endings improves stories (2013) (28)
The generalizability of cardiovascular responses across settings. (1998) (28)
Memory for pain and the delayed effects of distraction. (1997) (27)
Improving cardiovascular recovery from stress with brief poststress exercise. (2008) (26)
Major memory for microblogs (2013) (26)
The Immediate and Delayed Cardiovascular Benefits of Forgiving (2012) (25)
Seeing the other side: Perspective taking and the moderation of extremity (2015) (25)
Humour, Tickle, and the Darwin-Hecker Hypothesis (1997) (24)
Effects of a metronome on the filled pauses of fluent speakers. (1996) (23)
The Varied Impact of Social Support on Cardiovascular Reactivity (2002) (22)
Incremental mindsets and the reduced forgiveness of chronic failures (2018) (22)
Exposure to New York City as a risk factor for heart attack mortality. (1999) (20)
Dogs Still Do Resemble Their Owners (2005) (17)
Comment on “negative emotions and acute cardiovascular responses to laboratory challenges” (1999) (15)
Exposure to the US Stroke Buckle as a Risk Factor for Cerebrovascular Mortality (2008) (14)
Disentangling the person and the place as explanations for regional differences in suicide. (2010) (14)
On the Limited Role of Efficiency in Charitable Giving (2018) (12)
Making sense of sequential lineups: An experimental and theoretical analysis of position effects (2019) (11)
Actors, observers, and the estimation of task duration (2013) (11)
Intuitive Probabilities and the Limitation of Moral Imagination. (2018) (10)
The broad applicability of memory bias and its coexistence with the planning fallacy: reply to Griffin and Buehler (2005). (2005) (10)
Calculating the posterior odds from a single-match DNA database search (2019) (7)
The role of emotional regulation in the development of hypertension (2002) (6)
The role of emotional regulation in the (2002) (4)
Rejoinder for Calculating the Posterior Odds from a Single-Match DNA Database Search (2019) (2)
Competition Breeds Desire (2015) (2)
Amazing but true: A preference for fiction-like non-fiction (2014) (2)
The influence of medical and legal authorities on deaths facilitated by physicians. (1999) (1)
The Number System of the Old European Script (2003) (1)
Anxiety , Alcohol , Aphasia , and Urns (2004) (1)
Emotion New Chapter Revised (2011) (0)
Subject Index Vol. 30, 2008 (2008) (0)
What makes a good sport? (1996) (0)
Cognitive-psychology expertise and the calculation of the probability of a wrongful conviction (2018) (0)
Who’s funny: Gender stereotypes, humor production, and memory bias (2011) (0)
The Geography of Health (2020) (0)
Successes of the Intuitive Psychologist: Observers make reasonable judgments in the 'role conferred advantage' paradigm (2019) (0)
Special Section Commentary JEALOUSY AND RATIONAL RESPONSES TO INEIDELITY ACROSS GENDER AND CULTURE (1996) (0)
Indeterminate motivations: Cardiovascular health costs of living in a social world. (2012) (0)
INCREASE IN US MEDICATION-ERROR DEATHS. AUTHORS' REPLY (1998) (0)
The difference between cardiovascular response to physical and mental stress (2000) (0)
Title Rumination as a mediator of chronic stress effects on hypertension : A causal model Permalink (2014) (0)
Why giving away endings improves stories (2013) (0)
ognitive distancing , cognitive restructuring , and cardiovascular ecovery from stress ritta (2010) (0)
Making Sense of Sequential Lineups (2018) (0)
Contents Vol. 30, 2008 (2008) (0)
Research Report CHOICES FROM IDENTICAL OPTIONS (2005) (0)
Major memory for microblogs (2013) (0)
Don't yet name your child P.I.G.: reply to Morrison and Smith. (2007) (0)
Data for: Incremental Mindsets and the Reduced Forgiveness of Chronic Failures (2017) (0)
Dogs Still Do Resemble Their (2005) (0)
Cognitive-psychology expertise and the calculation of the probability of a wrongful conviction (2018) (0)
Delayed cardiovascular recovery: A possible alternative to reactivity models of disease: (526112012-007) (2013) (0)

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