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

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	85	1190	1045	59	49	436	26948

Research.com Recognitions

2012 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

Alan Kingstone is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with a particular focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Their work also touches on Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Human-Computer Interaction.

The main topics addressed in Kingstone's research include:

Face Recognition and Perception
Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Action Observation and Synchronization
Gaze Tracking and Assistive Technology
Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts

Kingstone has contributed to multiple academic venues, with frequent publications in:

PLoS ONE
Journal of Vision
Attention Perception & Psychophysics
Cognition
Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology

Recent papers by Alan Kingstone include:

"RETRACTED ARTICLE: Eye tracking: empirical foundations for a minimal reporting guideline," 2022, Behavior Research Methods
"Facial masks affect emotion recognition in the general population and individuals with autistic traits," 2021, PLoS ONE
"Associations of political orientation, xenophobia, right-wing authoritarianism, and concern of COVID-19: Cognitive responses to an actual pathogen threat," 2021, Personality and Individual Differences
"Virtual Reality Erotica: Exploring General Presence, Sexual Presence, Sexual Arousal, and Sexual Desire in Women," 2021, Archives of Sexual Behavior
"Unattractive faces are more attractive when the bottom-half is masked, an effect that reverses when the top-half is concealed," 2022, Cognitive Research Principles and Implications

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kingstone are:

Farid Pazhoohi
Nicola Anderson
Walter F. Bischof
Oliver Jacobs
Basil Wahn

Kingstone has received recognition in the form of being named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2012, within the Academy of Social Sciences.

Best Publications

The eyes have it! Reflexive orienting is triggered by nonpredictive gaze

Chris Kelland Friesen;Alan Kingstone

1778
Citations
Two ways to the top: evidence that dominance and prestige are distinct yet viable avenues to social rank and influence.

Joey T. Cheng;Jessica L. Tracy;Tom Foulsham;Alan Kingstone

1265
Citations
Attentional effects of counterpredictive gaze and arrow cues.

Chris Kelland Friesen;Jelena Ristic;Alan Kingstone

553
Citations
The where, what and when of gaze allocation in the lab and the natural environment.

Tom Foulsham;Esther Walker;Alan Kingstone

549
Citations
Auditory capture of vision: examining temporal ventriloquism.

Sharon Morein-Zamir;Salvador Soto-Faraco;Alan Kingstone

547
Citations
Everyday Attention: Variation in Mind Wandering and Memory in a Lecture

Evan F. Risko;Nicola Anderson;Amara Sarwal;Megan Engelhardt

543
Citations
Are eyes special? It depends on how you look at it.

Jelena Ristic;Chris Kelland Friesen;Alan Kingstone

534
Citations
Handbook of Functional Neuroimaging of Cognition

Roberto Cabeza;Alan Kingstone

446
Citations
Cognitive Ethology: a new approach for studying human cognition.

Alan Kingstone;Daniel Smilek;John D. Eastwood

375
Citations
Eyes are special but not for everyone: The case of autism

Jelena Ristic;Laurent Mottron;Chris Kelland Friesen;Grace Iarocci

363
Citations
Social attention with real versus reel stimuli: toward an empirical approach to concerns about ecological validity.

Evan F. Risko;Kaitlin E. W. Laidlaw;Megan Freeth;Tom Foulsham

360
Citations
Attention, Researchers! It Is Time to Take a Look at the Real World:

Alan Kingstone;Daniel Smilek;Jelena Ristic;Chris Kelland Friesen

342
Citations
Potential social interactions are important to social attention

Kaitlin E. W. Laidlaw;Tom Foulsham;Gustav Kuhn;Alan Kingstone

335
Citations
Gaze allocation in a dynamic situation: effects of social status and speaking.

Tom Foulsham;Joey T. Cheng;Jessica L. Tracy;Joseph Henrich

325
Citations
Social attention and real-world scenes: the roles of action, competition and social content.

Elina Birmingham;Walter F Bischof;Alan Kingstone

323
Citations
Orienting of Visual Attention

Raymond Klein;Alan Kingstone;Amanda Pontefract

318
Citations
Saliency does not account for fixations to eyes within social scenes.

Elina Birmingham;Walter F. Bischof;Alan Kingstone

268
Citations
Covert and overt voluntary attention: linked or independent?

Amelia R. Hunt;Alan Kingstone

267
Citations
Reflexive Joint Attention Depends on Lateralized Cortical Connections

Alan Kingstone;Chris Kelland Friesen;Michael S. Gazzaniga

265
Citations
Breaking the Fourth Wall of Cognitive Science Real-World Social Attention and the Dual Function of Gaze

Evan F. Risko;Daniel C. Richardson;Alan Kingstone

264
Citations
Cognitive Ethology : A new approach for studying human cognition. Commentaries. Authors' reply

Alan Kingstone;Daniel Smilek;John D Eastwood;David Crundall

3
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Tom Foulsham University of Essex

Evan F. Risko University of Waterloo

James T. Enns University of British Columbia

Charles Spence University of Oxford

Daniel Smilek University of Waterloo

Sharon Morein-Zamir Anglia Ruskin University

Jason J. S. Barton University of British Columbia

Michael S. Gazzaniga University of California, Santa Barbara

Gustav Kuhn Plymouth University

Raymond M. Klein Dalhousie University

External Links

Personal website of Alan Kingstone

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