2026 James Danckert: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	51	5579	5128	326	296	178	8429
Psychology	51	5286	4903	355	332	177	8422

Overview

James Danckert is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada and conducts research primarily in the fields of neuroscience and psychology. Their work concentrates on cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, sociology and political science, and developmental and educational psychology.

The main topics of research covered by Danckert include:

Mind wandering and attention
Neural and behavioral psychology studies
Impact of technology on adolescents
Anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes
Behavioral health and interventions
Perfectionism, procrastination, and anxiety studies
Flow experience in various fields

Danckert has contributed to multiple journals across various domains. Frequent publication venues include:

Personality and Individual Differences
Frontiers in Psychology
Behavioral Sciences
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
Experimental Brain Research

Among the recent papers authored by or involving Danckert are:

"Boredom in the COVID-19 pandemic: Trait boredom proneness, the desire to act, and rule-breaking" (2020), published in Personality and Individual Differences
"The Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on Attention, Executive Control and Working Memory in Healthy Adults: A Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials" (2021), published in Cognitive Therapy and Research
"Rich environments, dull experiences: how environment can exacerbate the effect of constraint on the experience of boredom" (2020), published in Cognition & Emotion
"In search of boredom: beyond a functional account" (2023), published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences
"Boredom proneness is associated with noisy decision-making, not risk-taking" (2021), published in Experimental Brain Research

James Danckert also has a book titled "Out of My Skull," published by Harvard University Press in 2020.

Collaborative work is a significant part of Danckert's research activities. Frequent coauthors include:

Britt Anderson
Allison C. Drody
Abigail A. Scholer
Vanessa Baaba Dadzie
John D. Eastwood

Best Publications

Common Mechanisms in Perception and Action: Attention and Performance XIX

James Danckert

741
Citations
Boredom: An Emotional Experience Distinct from Apathy, Anhedonia, or Depression

Yael K. Goldberg;John D. Eastwood;Jennifer LaGuardia;James Danckert

364
Citations
A Short Boredom Proneness Scale: Development and Psychometric Properties

Andriy A. Struk;Jonathan S. A. Carriere;J. Allan Cheyne;James Danckert

355
Citations
Exploring the relationship between boredom and sustained attention

Ela Malkovsky;Colleen Merrifield;Yael Goldberg;James Danckert

275
Citations
Boredom, sustained attention and the default mode network

James Danckert;Colleen Merrifield

248
Citations
Time Flies when You're Having Fun: Temporal Estimation and the Experience of Boredom.

James A. Danckert;Ava-Ann A. Allman

232
Citations
Revisiting unilateral neglect

James Danckert;Susanne Ferber

223
Citations
Characterizing the psychophysiological signature of boredom

Colleen Merrifield;James Danckert

222
Citations
Blindsight in action: what can the different sub-types of blindsight tell us about the control of visually guided actions?

James Danckert;Yves Rossetti

217
Citations
Superior performance for visually guided pointing in the lower visual field.

James Danckert;Melvyn A. Goodale

196
Citations
Visually guided reaching: bilateral posterior parietal lesions cause a switch from fast visuomotor to slow cognitive control

Y Rossetti;P Revol;Robert McIntosh;L Pisella

188
Citations
Attention, motor control and motor imagery in schizophrenia: implications for the role of the parietal cortex

James Danckert;Mohamed Saoud;Paul Maruff

173
Citations
Cognitive and affective predictors of boredom proneness

Julia Isacescu;Andriy Anatolievich Struk;James Danckert

168
Citations
Neuropsychological Profile of Acute Alcohol Intoxication during Ascending and Descending Blood Alcohol Concentrations

Tom A Schweizer;Muriel Vogel-Sprott;James Danckert;Eric A Roy

166
Citations
Eye movements tell only half the story.

S. Ferber;J. Danckert;M. Joanisse;H. C. Goltz

152
Citations
Direct effects of prismatic lenses on visuomotor control: an event-related functional MRI study.

James Danckert;Susanne Ferber;Melvyn A. Goodale

144
Citations
Neglected Time: Impaired Temporal Perception of Multisecond Intervals in Unilateral Neglect

James Danckert;Susanne Ferber;Carson Pun;Carol Broderick

132
Citations
Spatiotemporal distribution of facilitation and inhibition of return arising from the reflexive orienting of covert attention.

Alexander Collie;Paul Maruff;Paul Maruff;Murat Yucel;Murat Yucel;James Danckert;James Danckert

129
Citations
Selective, non-lateralized impairment of motor imagery following right parietal damage.

James Danckert;Susanne Ferber;Timothy Doherty;Helena Steinmetz

125
Citations
Facilitation and inhibition arising from the exogenous orienting of covert attention depends on the temporal properties of spatial cues and targets

Paul Maruff;Murat Yucel;Murat Yucel;Murat Yucel;James Danckert;James Danckert;James Danckert;Geoff Stuart;Geoff Stuart

113
Citations
Boredom in the COVID-19 pandemic: Trait boredom proneness, the desire to act, and rule-breaking

James Boylan;Paul Seli;Abigail A. Scholer;James Danckert

106
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Maruff University of Melbourne

Yves Rossetti Lyon Neuroscience Research Center

Jon Currie Mental Health Research Institute

Melvyn A. Goodale University of Western Ontario

Susanne Ferber University of Toronto

Laure Pisella Inserm : Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale

Murat Yücel QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute

John D. Eastwood York University

Daniel Smilek University of Waterloo

Paul Seli Duke University

External Links

Personal website of James Danckert Google Scholar page

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