| Educational risk and resilience in African‐American youth: Context, self, action, and outcomes in school JP Connell, MB Spencer, JL Aber Child development 65 (2), 493-506, 1994 | 1628 | 1994 |
| Identity processes among racial and ethnic minority children in America MB Spencer, C Markstrom‐Adams Child development 61 (2), 290-310, 1990 | 1105 | 1990 |
| A phenomenological variant of ecological systems theory (PVEST): A self-organization perspective in context MB Spencer, D Dupree, T Hartmann Development and psychopathology 9 (4), 817-833, 1997 | 947 | 1997 |
| Motor development KE Adolph, SR Robinson Handbook of child psychology and developmental science, 1-45, 2015 | 885* | 2015 |
| Phenomenology and ecological systems theory: Development of diverse groups MB Spencer Child and adolescent development: An advanced course, 696-735, 2008 | 884 | 2008 |
| Identity and school adjustment: Revisiting the" acting White" assumption MB Spencer, E Noll, J Stoltzfus, V Harpalani Educational Psychologist 36 (1), 21-30, 2001 | 595 | 2001 |
| Old issues and new theorizing about African American youth: A phenomenological variant of ecological systems theory MB Spencer Black youth: Perspectives on their status in the United States, 37-70, 1995 | 583 | 1995 |
| Social and cultural influences on school adjustment: The application of an identity-focused.. MB Spencer Educational psychologist 34 (1), 43-57, 1999 | 535 | 1999 |
| Black males' structural conditions, achievement patterns, normative needs, and “opportunities” DP Swanson, M Cunningham, MB Spencer Urban education 38 (5), 608-633, 2003 | 453 | 2003 |
| Children's cultural values and parental child rearing strategies MB Spencer Developmental Review 3 (4), 351-370, 1983 | 450 | 1983 |
| Challenges in studying minority youth. MB Spencer, SM Dornbusch Harvard University Press, 1990 | 435 | 1990 |
| “Every shut eye ain’t sleep”: Studying how people live culturally CD Lee, MB Spencer, V Harpalani Educational Researcher 32 (5), 6-13, 2003 | 371 | 2003 |
| Research ethics for mental health science involving ethnic minority children and youths. CB Fisher, K Hoagwood, C Boyce, T Duster, DA Frank, T Grisso, ... American Psychologist 57 (12), 1024, 2002 | 290 | 2002 |
| Black children's race awareness, racial attitudes and self‐concept: A reinterpretation MB Spencer Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 25 (3), 433-441, 1984 | 279 | 1984 |
| Understanding vulnerability and resilience from a normative developmental perspective: Implications for racially and ethnically diverse youth M Beale Spencer, V Harpalani, E Cassidy, CY Jacobs, S Donde, TN Goss, ... Developmental psychopathology: Volume one: Theory and method, 627-672, 2015 | 263 | 2015 |
| Development of minority children: An introduction MB Spencer Child development, 267-269, 1990 | 262 | 1990 |
| A theoretical and empirical examination of identity as coping: Linking coping resources to the self processes of African American youth MB Spencer, SG Fegley, V Harpalani Beyond the Self, 181-188, 2019 | 261 | 2019 |
| Beginnings: The social and affective development of Black children MB Spencer, WR Allen, GK Brookins Psychology Press, 1985 | 243 | 1985 |
| Cultural cognition and social cognition as identity correlates of Black children's personal-social development MB Spencer Beginnings, 215-230, 2013 | 240 | 2013 |
| Phenomenology and intersectionality: Using PVEST as a frame for adolescent identity formation amid intersecting ecological systems of inequality G Velez, MB Spencer New directions for child and adolescent development 2018 (161), 75-90, 2018 | 230 | 2018 |
