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Overview

Colin MacLeod is affiliated with the University of Western Australia in Australia and specializes in psychology, with a focus on experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. Their research spans various subfields including applied psychology and social psychology.

Their work addresses a range of topics prominently featuring anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Additional focus areas include mental health research topics, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, neural and behavioral psychology studies, eating disorders and behaviors, body image and dysmorphia studies, and behavioral health and interventions.

MacLeod has published numerous papers, with recent notable works including:

  • The nature and neurobiology of fear and anxiety: State of the science and opportunities for accelerating discovery, 2023, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Gamification of cognitive bias modification for interpretations in anxiety increases training engagement and enjoyment, 2022, Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
  • Two probes and better than one: Development of a psychometrically reliable variant of the attentional probe task, 2021, Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Anxiety & inhibition: dissociating the involvement of state and trait anxiety in inhibitory control deficits observed on the anti-saccade task, 2020, Cognition & Emotion
  • A serial mediation model of attentional engagement with thin bodies on body dissatisfaction: The role of appearance comparisons and rumination, 2021, Current Psychology

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Ben Grafton
  • Julian Basanovic
  • Laura Dondzilo
  • Lies Notebaert
  • Bram Van Bockstaele

MacLeod's work has been published extensively in several academic venues, primarily:

  • Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Cognitive Therapy and Research
  • Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
  • Cognition & Emotion
  • PeerJ

Best Publications

  • Half a century of research on the Stroop effect: an integrative review.

    Colin M. MacLeod

  • Attentional bias in emotional disorders.

    Colin MacLeod;Andrew Mathews;Philip Tata

  • The Emotional Stroop Task and Psychopathology

    J. M. G. Williams;A. Mathews;C. Macleod

  • Cognitive Vulnerability to Emotional Disorders

    Andrew Mathews;Colin MacLeod

  • Selective attention and emotional vulnerability: Assessing the causal basis of their association through the experimental manipulation of attentional bias.

    Colin MacLeod;Elizabeth Rutherford;Lyn Campbell;Greg Ebsworthy

  • Selective processing of threat cues in anxiety states

    Andrew Mathews;Colin MacLeod

  • COGNITIVE APPROACHES TO EMOTION AND EMOTIONAL DISORDERS

    A. Mathews;Colin Macleod

  • Anxiety and the Allocation of Attention to Threat

    Colin MacLeod;Andrew Mathews

  • Induced processing biases have causal effects on anxiety

    Andrew Mathews;Colin MacLeod

  • Interdimensional interference in the Stroop effect: uncovering the cognitive and neural anatomy of attention

    Colin M. MacLeod;Penny A. MacDonald

  • Cognitive bias modification approaches to anxiety.

    Colin MacLeod;Andrew Mathews

  • Training and Stroop-like interference: Evidence for a continuum of automaticity.

    Colin M. MacLeod;Kevin Dunbar

  • Anxiety and the selective processing of emotional information: mediating roles of awareness, trait and state variables, and personal relevance of stimulus materials.

    Colin MacLeod;Elizabeth M. Rutherford

  • Discrimination of threat cues without awareness in anxiety states.

    Andrew Mathews;Colin MacLeod

  • The stroop task : the «Gold Standard» of attentional measures

    Colin M. MacLeod

  • In Opposition to Inhibition

    Colin M. MacLeod;Michael D. Dodd;Erin D. Sheard;Daryl E. Wilson

  • Individual differences in the selective processing of threatening information, and emotional responses to a stressful life event.

    Colin MacLeod;Rosemary Hagan

  • Cognitive functioning and anxiety

    Michael W. Eysenck;Colin MacLeod;Andrew Mathews

  • A critical review of the influence of oxytocin nasal spray on social cognition in humans: evidence and future directions.

    Adam J. Graustella;Colin MacLeod

  • Integrating Personality Structure, Personality Process, and Personality Development:

    Anna Baumert;Anna Baumert;Manfred Schmitt;Marco Perugini;Wendy Johnson

  • The production effect: delineation of a phenomenon.

    Colin M. MacLeod;Nigel Gopie;Kathleen L. Hourihan;Karen R. Neary

  • Anxiety and anxiety disorders

    Colin MacLeod

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Mathews
Andrew Mathews King's College London
Emily A. Holmes
Emily A. Holmes Uppsala University
Elske Salemink
Elske Salemink Utrecht University
Reinout W. Wiers
Reinout W. Wiers University of Amsterdam
Peter J. de Jong
Peter J. de Jong University of Groningen
Romola S. Bucks
Romola S. Bucks University of Western Australia
Adam J. Guastella
Adam J. Guastella University of Sydney
Manfred Schmitt
Manfred Schmitt University of Koblenz and Landau
Elaine Fox
Elaine Fox University of Oxford
Edward R. Watkins
Edward R. Watkins University of Exeter

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