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Overview

Alan Pickering is affiliated with Goldsmiths University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a notable focus on experimental and cognitive psychology as well as cognitive neuroscience. Additional subfields of interest include clinical psychology, applied psychology, and physiology.

Their scholarly work addresses various topics, including:

  • Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Mind wandering and attention
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Recent publications by Alan Pickering feature a range of contributions to peer-reviewed journals. Examples include:

  • "Evaluating Creativity: How Idea Context and Rater Personality Affect Considerations of Novelty and Usefulness" (2022, Creativity Research Journal)
  • "The Creative Life: A Daily Diary Study of Creativity, Affect, and Well-Being in Creative Individuals" (2022, Creativity Research Journal)
  • "Social interaction anxiety, social phobia, and cognitive control: controlled reactions to facial affect during an emotional face flanker task" (2023, Current Psychology)
  • "What is next for the neurobiology of temperament, personality and psychopathology?" (2022, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences)
  • "Beyond Increasing Sample Sizes: Optimizing Effect Sizes in Neuroimaging Research on Individual Differences" (2025, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience)

Their work has appeared frequently in a select number of academic venues, with multiple publications in the Creativity Research Journal and Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. Other journals hosting their research include Current Psychology, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, and Journal of Experimental Psychology General.

Alan Pickering has collaborated repeatedly with several contemporaries, including Joydeep Bhattacharya, James Lloyd-Cox, Andrew R. du Rocher, Roger E. Beaty, and Jan Wacker.

Their book publications include a work published by UNESCO titled "The effects of environmental stress on the physiology of growth in rainbow trout, Salmo gairderi Richardson" (2021).

Best Publications

  • Measuring belief in conspiracy theories: The Generic Conspiracist Beliefs scale.

    Robert Brotherton;Christopher C. French;Alan D. Pickering

  • The neuroscience of personality

    Alan D. Pickering;Jeffrey A. Gray

  • Do women get posttraumatic stress disorder as a result of childbirth? A prospective study of incidence.

    Susan Ayers;Alan D Pickering

  • The Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory of Personality

    Philip J. Corr

  • The New Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory: Implications for Personality Measurement

    Luke D. Smillie;Alan D. Pickering;Chris J. Jackson

  • Spatial memory deficits in patients with unilateral damage to the right hippocampal formation

    S Abrahams;Alan Pickering;CE Polkey;RG Morris

  • Relation between cognitive dysfunction and pseudobulbar palsy in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

    Sharon Abrahams;L H Goldstein;A AlChalabi;A Pickering

  • Abolition of latent inhibition by a single 5 mg dose of d-amphetamine in man.

    N. S. Gray;A. D. Pickering;D. R. Hemsley;S. Dawling

  • Location of Lesions in Korsakoff's Syndrome: Neuropsychological and Neuropathological Data on Two Patients

    Andrew R. Mayes;Peter R. Meudell;David Mann;Alan Pickering

  • Damage to the salience network and interactions with the default mode network

    Sagar R. Jilka;Sagar R. Jilka;Gregory Scott;Timothy Ham;Alan Pickering

  • Attentional bias in obsessional compulsive disorder

    Philip R. Tata;Judy A. Leibowitz;Mark J. Prunty;Mary Cameron

  • Is Organic Amnesia Caused by a Selective Deficit in Remembering Contextual Information

    AR Mayes;PR Meudell;Alan Pickering

  • Disrupting feedback processing interferes with rule-based but not information-integration category learning

    W. Todd Maddox;F. Gregory Ashby;A. David Ing;Alan D. Pickering

  • Characteristics of eyewitness identification that predict the outcome of real lineups

    Tim Valentine;Alan Pickering;Stephen Darling

  • Hippocampal Involvement in Spatial and Working Memory: A Structural MRI Analysis of Patients with Unilateral Mesial Temporal Lobe Sclerosis☆

    Sharon Abrahams;RG Morris;CE Polkey;JM Jarosz

  • PERSONALITY AND REINFORCEMENT IN ASSOCIATIVE AND INSTRUMENTAL LEARNING

    Philip J. Corr;Alan D. Pickering;Jeffrey A. Gray

  • The effect of aerobic training on rehabilitation outcomes after recent severe brain injury: A randomized controlled evaluation

    Andrew Bateman;F.Jane Culpan;Alan D. Pickering;Jane H. Powell

  • Relapse to smoking during unaided cessation: clinical, cognitive and motivational predictors

    Jane H Powell;Lynne Dawkins;Robert West;John F Powell

  • Dopamine, appetitive reinforcement, and the neuropsychology of human learning: An individual differences approach

    Alan Pickering;JA Gray

  • Women's expectations and experience of birth

    Susan Ayers;A. D. Pickering

  • Interactions and reinforcement sensitivity theory: A theoretical analysis of Rusting and Larsen (1997)

    Alan Pickering;PJ Corr;JA Gray

  • Individual differences in reward–prediction–error: extraversion and feedback-related negativity

    Luke D. Smillie;Andrew J. Cooper;Alan D. Pickering

Frequent Co-Authors

Luke D. Smillie
Luke D. Smillie University of Melbourne
David R. Hemsley
David R. Hemsley King's College London
Philip J. Corr
Philip J. Corr City, University of London
John Powell
John Powell King's College London
Nicola S. Gray
Nicola S. Gray Swansea University
Andrew R. Mayes
Andrew R. Mayes University of Manchester
Jeffrey A. Gray
Jeffrey A. Gray King's College London
Sharon Abrahams
Sharon Abrahams University of Edinburgh
Emmanuelle Peters
Emmanuelle Peters King's College London
Susan Ayers
Susan Ayers City, University of London

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