2026 Jonathan M. Golding: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	32	10900	10200	5698	5202	139	4507

Overview

Jonathan M. Golding is affiliated with the University of Kentucky in the United States. Their research spans social sciences and psychology, with a primary focus on topics including sexual assault and victimization studies, jury decision-making processes, deception detection and forensic psychology, criminal justice and corrections analysis, law in society and culture, crime patterns and interventions, and child abuse and trauma.

Golding has contributed to numerous publications, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches across sociology, law, gender studies, social psychology, and clinical psychology. The breadth of their work is reflected in the significant number of publications within these subfields.

Notable recent papers include:

Psychology students' motivation and learning in response to the shift to remote instruction during COVID-19, 2021, published in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology
When Opportunity Knocks: College Students' Cheating Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2022, published in Teaching of Psychology
Perceptions of plea bargaining in cases of elder financial abuse, 2020, published in Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect
Generative AI and College Students: Use and Perceptions, 2024, published in Teaching of Psychology
The Perception of a Jailhouse Informant in a Sexual Assault Case, 2020, published in Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology

Frequent collaborators include Jeffrey S. Neuschatz, Andrea M. Pals, Mary M. Levi, Alexis M. Le Grand, and Anne Lippert, indicating ongoing partnerships in producing research across multiple areas.

Golding's work appears regularly in specific publication venues:

Violence Against Women
Psychology Crime and Law
Teaching of Psychology
Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology
New York University Press eBooks

They have also contributed to book publications, particularly under New York University Press eBooks and NYU Press eBooks, with titles such as Jailhouse Informants, published in 2022.

Their research contributions integrate key themes in forensic psychology and criminal justice, reflecting interdisciplinary engagement with social sciences and law. Topics like jury decision processes, victimization studies, and deception detection highlight their focus within social and clinical psychology while also exploring broad societal and cultural implications of law.

Best Publications

Assessing the occurrence of elaborative inferences: Lexical decision versus naming

George R Potts;Janice M Keenan;Jonathan M Golding

417
Citations
Intentional Forgetting : Interdisciplinary Approaches

Jonathan M. Golding;Colin M. MacLeod

394
Citations
Mock juror sampling issues in jury simulation research: A meta-analysis.

Brian H. Bornstein;Jonathan M. Golding;Jeffrey Neuschatz;Christopher Kimbrough

251
Citations
When a child takes the stand: Jurors' perceptions of children's eyewitness testimony.

Gail S. Goodman;Jonathan M. Golding;Vicki S. Helgeson;Marshall M. Haith

201
Citations
Jurors' Reactions to Child Witnesses

Gail S. Goodman;Jonathan M. Golding;Marshall M. Haith

180
Citations
Which elaborative inferences are drawn during reading? A question of methodologies.

Janice M. Keenan;George R. Potts;Jonathan M. Golding;Tracy M. Jennings

179
Citations
Big girls don't cry: the effect of child witness demeanor on juror decisions in a child sexual abuse trial

Jonathan M Golding;Heather M Fryman;Dorothy F Marsil;John A Yozwiak

160
Citations
Adaptive forgetting in animals

Philipp J. Kraemer;Jonathan M. Golding

158
Citations
Superordinate goal inferences: Are they automatically generated during comprehension?

Debra L. Long;Jonathan M. Golding

156
Citations
A Review of Factors Affecting Jurors’ Decisions in Child Sexual Abuse Cases

Bette L. Bottoms;Jonathan M. Golding;Maggie C. Stevenson;Tisha R. A. Wiley

144
Citations
A test of the on-line status of goal-related inferences

Debra L Long;Jonathan M Golding;Arthur C Graesser

116
Citations
Methodological Issues In Evaluating The Occurrence of Inferences

Janice M. Keenan;Jonathan M. Golding;George R. Potts;Tracy M. Jennings

90
Citations
Causal connectives increase inference generation

Keith K. Millis;Jonathan M. Golding;Gregory Barker

90
Citations
The believability of repressed memories

Jonathan M. Golding;Sandra A. Sego;Rebecca Polley Sanchez;Dawn Hasemann

84
Citations
Psychology Students’ Motivation and Learning in Response to the Shift to Remote Instruction During COVID-19

Ellen L. Usher;Jonathan M. Golding;Jaeyun Han;Caiti S. Griffiths

83
Citations
Who Bought the Drinks? Juror Perceptions of Intoxication in a Rape Trial

Kellie Rose Lynch;Nesa E. Wasarhaley;Jonathan M. Golding;Theresa Simcic

83
Citations
Directed Forgetting in Older Adults Using the Item and List Methods

Sandra A. Sego;Jonathan M. Golding;Lawrence R. Gottlob

73
Citations
You Can′t Always Forget What You Want: Directed Forgetting of Related Words

J.M. Golding;D.L. Long;C.M. Macleod

72
Citations
The impact of DNA evidence in a child sexual assault trial.

Jonathan M. Golding;Terri L. Stewart;John A. Yozwiak;Yas Djadali

68
Citations
The impact of mock jury gender composition on deliberations and conviction rates in a child sexual assault trial.

Jonathan M. Golding;Gregory S. Bradshaw;Emily E. Dunlap;Emily C. Hodell

63
Citations
Jurors' Perceptions of Children's Eyewitness Testimony*

Gail S. Goodman;Jonathan M. Golding;Marshall M. Haith;Joseph Michelli

17
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Colin MacLeod University of Western Australia

Janice M. Keenan University of Denver

Arthur C. Graesser University of Memphis

Brian H. Bornstein Arizona State University

Marshall M. Haith University of Denver

Gail S. Goodman University of California, Davis

Bette L. Bottoms University of Illinois at Chicago

Joseph P. Magliano Georgia State University

Christia Spears Brown University of Kentucky

Vicki S. Helgeson Carnegie Mellon University

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