2026 Alan Costall: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	34	10082	9439	987	943	114	6833

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Overview

Alan Costall is affiliated with the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom. Their research contributions span multiple areas within psychology and related interdisciplinary fields.

The primary fields of study for Costall include psychology, with five publications focusing on subfields such as developmental and educational psychology, clinical psychology, language and linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and even mechanical engineering.

The main topics covered in their work include:

Child and animal learning development
Language, discourse, communication strategies
Hearing impairment and communication
Embodied and extended cognition
Design education and practice
Rhetoric and communication studies
Social and cultural dynamics

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Alan Costall are:

"Playful teasing and the emergence of pretence," 2022, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
"What does the concept of affordances afford?", 2021, Adaptive Behavior
"The serial reproduction of an urban myth: revisiting Bartlett's schema theory," 2022, Memory
"On Two Aspects Of 'The Gestalt Revolution,'" 2022, Philosophia Scientae

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Costall include:

Vasudevi Reddy
Emma Williams
Rob Withagen
James Ost
Julie Udell

Costall's work has been published in various journals, notably:

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
Adaptive Behavior
Memory
Philosophia Scientae

Best Publications

Toward a second-person neuroscience.

Leonhard Schilbach;Bert Timmermans;Vasudevi Reddy;Alan Costall

1922
Citations
The emotional connotations of color: A qualitative investigation

Tom Clarke;Alan Costall

373
Citations
Taking a closer look at functional play in children with autism

Emma Williams;Vasudevi Reddy;Alan Costall

303
Citations
Michotte's experimental phenomenology of perception

Georges Thinés;Alan Paul Costall;George Butterworth

230
Citations
Against Cognitivism: Alternative Foundations for Cognitive Psychology

Arthur Still;Alan Costall

222
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Crashing memories and reality monitoring: distinguishing between perceptions, imaginations and ‘false memories’

James Ost;Aldert Vrij;Alan Costall;R. A. Y. Bull

198
Citations
Group Differences in the Mutual Gaze of Chimpanzees (Pan Troglodytes).

Kim A. Bard;Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi;Masaki Tomonaga;Masayuki Tanaka

188
Citations
Rethinking the Development of “Nonbasic” Emotions: A Critical Review of Existing Theories☆

Riccardo Draghi-Lorenz;Vasudevi Reddy;Alan Costall

186
Citations
‘Introspectionism’ and the mythical origins of scientific psychology

Alan Costall

166
Citations
Children's drawings: le dessin enfants

Georges Henri Luquet;Alan Costall

156
Citations
Against theory of mind

Ivan Leudar;Alan Costall

149
Citations
Canonical affordances in context

Alan Paul Costall

140
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ARE THEORIES OF PERCEPTION NECESSARY? A REVIEW OF GIBSON'S THE ECOLOGICAL APPROACH TO VISUAL PERCEPTION

Costall Ap

133
Citations
FROM DARWIN TO WATSON (AND COGNITIVISM) AND BACK AGAIN: THE PRINCIPLE OF ANIMAL-ENVIRONMENT MUTUALITY

Alan Costall

123
Citations
Doing Things with Things : The Design and Use of Everyday Objects

Alan Costall;O. Dreier

122
Citations
The vocal communication of different kinds of smile

Amy Drahota;Alan Costall;Vasudevi Reddy

121
Citations
Jointly structuring triadic spaces of meaning and action: book sharing from 3 months on

Nicole Rossmanith;Alan Costall;Andreas F. Reichelt;Beatriz López

119
Citations
Children with Autism Experience Problems with Both Objects and People.

Emma Williams;Alan Costall;Vasudevi Reddy

118
Citations
On the persistence of the ‘Problem of Other Minds’ in psychology: Chomsky, Grice and theory of mind

Ivan Leudar;Alan Costall

94
Citations
Cognitive Psychology in Question

Alan Costall;Arthur Still

83
Citations
'introspectionism' and the mythical origins of scientific psychology. Commentary

Alan Costall;C. D. Frith;H. C. Lau

0
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Frequent Co-Authors

Vasudevi Reddy University of Portsmouth

Ray Bull University of Derby

Chris D. Frith University College London

John F. Stins Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Leonhard Schilbach Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Gary Bente Michigan State University

Jaan Valsiner Aalborg University

Tetsuro Matsuzawa California Institute of Technology

Kim A. Bard University of Portsmouth

Masaki Tomonaga University of Human Environments

External Links

Personal website of Alan Costall

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