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Alan Kingstone publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alan Kingstone sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 436 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Alan Kingstone D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alan Kingstone sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 85 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

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  • "RETRACTED ARTICLE: Eye tracking: empirical foundations for a minimal reporting guideline," 2022, Behavior Research Methods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

  • 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

  • Attentional effects of counterpredictive gaze and arrow cues.

    Chris Kelland Friesen;Jelena Ristic;Alan Kingstone

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

    Tom Foulsham;Esther Walker;Alan Kingstone

  • Auditory capture of vision: examining temporal ventriloquism.

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

  • Everyday Attention: Variation in Mind Wandering and Memory in a Lecture

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

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

    Jelena Ristic;Chris Kelland Friesen;Alan Kingstone

  • Handbook of Functional Neuroimaging of Cognition

    Roberto Cabeza;Alan Kingstone

  • Cognitive Ethology: a new approach for studying human cognition.

    Alan Kingstone;Daniel Smilek;John D. Eastwood

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

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

  • 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

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

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

  • Potential social interactions are important to social attention

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

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

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

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

    Elina Birmingham;Walter F Bischof;Alan Kingstone

  • Orienting of Visual Attention

    Raymond Klein;Alan Kingstone;Amanda Pontefract

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

    Elina Birmingham;Walter F. Bischof;Alan Kingstone

  • Covert and overt voluntary attention: linked or independent?

    Amelia R. Hunt;Alan Kingstone

  • Reflexive Joint Attention Depends on Lateralized Cortical Connections

    Alan Kingstone;Chris Kelland Friesen;Michael S. Gazzaniga

  • 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

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Tom Foulsham
Tom Foulsham University of Essex
Evan F. Risko
Evan F. Risko University of Waterloo
Walter F. Bischof
Walter F. Bischof University of British Columbia
Salvador Soto-Faraco
Salvador Soto-Faraco Pompeu Fabra University
James T. Enns
James T. Enns University of British Columbia
Charles Spence
Charles Spence University of Oxford
Daniel Smilek
Daniel Smilek University of Waterloo
Jason J. S. Barton
Jason J. S. Barton University of British Columbia
Sharon Morein-Zamir
Sharon Morein-Zamir Anglia Ruskin University
Michael S. Gazzaniga
Michael S. Gazzaniga University of California, Santa Barbara

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