2026 James E. Cutting: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	56	4148	3828	2318	2091	160	15696

Research.com Recognitions

1993 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

James E. Cutting is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the broad field of Arts and Humanities, with focused contributions in subfields such as Visual Arts and Performing Arts, Economics and Econometrics, Literature and Literary Theory, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Language and Linguistics.

The main topics covered in their work include:

Cinema and Media Studies
Aesthetic Perception and Analysis
Art History and Market Analysis
Media Influence and Health
Visual Culture and Art Theory
Subtitles and Audiovisual Media
Mental Health Research Topics

James E. Cutting has published several papers, with a notable concentration in the journal Projections. Key publications include:

"Goldilocks Aesthetics," 2020, Projections
"Three Filmmaking Practices That Guide Our Attention to Popular Cinema," 2021, Art & Perception
"Evolution of the Depiction of Telephone Calls in Popular Movies," 2022, Projections
"Replies to Commentators on Movies on Our Minds," 2023, Projections
Additionally, they appear as a co-author on the paper "On the physical variables filmmakers use to engage viewers," 2022, Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts

Another frequently appearing co-author is Kacie L. Armstrong.

Publication venues where James E. Cutting has contributed multiple works include:

Projections
Art & Perception
Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

In 1993, James E. Cutting was recognized as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Best Publications

Recognizing Friends by Their Walk ; Gait Perception without Familiarity Cues

James E. Cutting;Lynn T. Kozlowski

1588
Citations
Perceiving Layout and Knowing Distances: The Integration, Relative Potency, and Contextual Use of Different Information about Depth*

James E. Cutting;Peter M. Vishton

1382
Citations
Recognizing the sex of a walker from a dynamic point-light display

Lynn T. Kozlowski;James E. Cutting

1205
Citations
Perception with an eye for motion

James E. Cutting

861
Citations
Temporal and spatial factors in gait perception that influence gender recognition.

Catharine D. Barclay;James E. Cutting;Lynn T. Kozlowski

562
Citations
A biomechanical invariant for gait perception

James E. Cutting;Dennis R. Proffitt;Lynn T. Kozlowski

444
Citations
Categories and boundaries in speech and music

James E. Cutting;James E. Cutting;Burton S. Rosner

438
Citations
Infant sensitivity to figural coherence in biomechanical motions

Bennett I. Bertenthal;Dennis R. Proffitt;James E. Cutting

373
Citations
How the eye measures reality and virtual reality

James E. Cutting

339
Citations
Minimodularity and the Perception of Layout

Nicola Bruno;James E. Cutting

309
Citations
Generation of Synthetic Male and Female Walkers through Manipulation of a Biomechanical Invariant

James E Cutting

301
Citations
Wayfinding on foot from information in retinal, not optical, flow.

James E. Cutting;Ken Springer;Paul A. Braren;Scott H. Johnson

291
Citations
Three Gradients and the Perception of Flat and Curved Surfaces

James E. Cutting;Robert T. Millard

283
Citations
Attention and the Evolution of Hollywood Film

James E. Cutting;Jordan E. DeLong;Christine E. Nothelfer

271
Citations
Auditory and linguistic processes in speech perception: inferences from six fusions in dichotic listening.

James E. Cutting

262
Citations
How we avoid collisions with stationary and moving objects.

James E. Cutting;Peter M. Vishton;Paul A. Braren

260
Citations
Gait Perception as an Example of How We May Perceive Events

James E. Cutting;Dennis R. Proffitt

257
Citations
The minimum principle and the perception of absolute, common, and relative motions

James E. Cutting;Dennis R. Proffitt

254
Citations
Masking the motions of human gait

James E. Cutting;Cassandra Moore;Roger Morrison

253
Citations
Quicker, Faster, Darker: Changes in Hollywood Film over 75 Years:

James E Cutting;Kaitlin L Brunick;Jordan E DeLong;Catalina Iricinschi

240
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Dennis R. Proffitt University of Virginia

Heinrich H. Bülthoff Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

Daniel J. Simons University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Daniel C. Richardson University College London

Laurie Beth Feldman University at Albany, State University of New York

Marco Bertamini University of Padua

Linda B. Smith Indiana University

Anthony Chemero University of Cincinnati

Maggie Shiffrar Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Shaun Gallagher University of Memphis

External Links

Personal website of James E. Cutting

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