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Lance M. McCracken

Lance M. McCracken

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Psychology
Sweden
2026

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Psychology

D-Index
89
Citations
31421
World Ranking
997
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Lance M. McCracken is affiliated with Uppsala University in Sweden. Their research primarily covers intersections of medicine and psychology, with a strong focus on clinical psychology as well as pharmacology and psychiatry and mental health.

The scientist's published works address various topics within these fields, including musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, mindfulness and compassion interventions, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome research, pain management and placebo effect, complementary and alternative medicine studies, COVID-19 and mental health, and healthcare professionals' stress and burnout.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • European Journal of Pain
  • Journal of Pain
  • Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science
  • Scandinavian Journal of Pain
  • PsycTESTS Dataset

Several notable papers authored by Lance M. McCracken are:

  • "Psychological impact of COVID-19 in the Swedish population: Depression, anxiety, and insomnia and their associations to risk and vulnerability factors," 2020, European Psychiatry
  • "The role of psychological flexibility in the context of COVID-19: Associations with depression, anxiety, and insomnia," 2020, Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science
  • "New generation psychological treatments in chronic pain," 2022, BMJ

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Monica Buhrman
  • Whitney Scott
  • Juan V. Luciano
  • Christopher D. Graham
  • Felicia Sundström

Best Publications

  • Acceptance of chronic pain: component analysis and a revised assessment method

    Lance M McCracken;Kevin E Vowles;Christopher Eccleston

  • The Pain Anxiety Symptoms Scale: development and validation of a scale to measure fear of pain.

    Lance M. McCracken;Claudia Zayfert;Richard T. Gross

  • Learning to live with the pain: acceptance of pain predicts adjustment in persons with chronic pain

    Lance M McCracken

  • Coping or acceptance: What to do about chronic pain?

    Lance M McCracken;Chris Eccleston

  • Acceptance and commitment therapy and mindfulness for chronic pain: model, process, and progress.

    Lance M. McCracken;Kevin E. Vowles

  • A short version of the Pain Anxiety Symptoms Scale (PASS-20): preliminary development and validity.

    Lance M McCracken;Lara Dhingra

  • Acceptance and values-based action in chronic pain: A study of treatment effectiveness and process.

    Kevin E. Vowles;Lance M. McCracken

  • Acceptance-based treatment for persons with complex, long standing chronic pain: a preliminary analysis of treatment outcome in comparison to a waiting phase.

    Lance M. McCracken;Kevin E. Vowles;Christopher Eccleston

  • Behavioral and cognitive-behavioral treatment for chronic pain: outcome, predictors of outcome, and treatment process.

    Lance M. McCracken;Dennis C. Turk

  • Attention to pain in persons with chronic pain: A behavioral approach

    Lance M. McCracken

  • The Psychological Flexibility Model: A Basis for Integration and Progress in Psychological Approaches to Chronic Pain Management

    Lance M. McCracken;Stephen Morley

  • A prospective study of acceptance of pain and patient functioning with chronic pain

    Lance M. McCracken;Christopher Eccleston

  • Acceptance and change in the context of chronic pain

    Lance M McCracken;James W Carson;Christopher Eccleston;Francis J Keefe

  • The role of mindfulness in a contextual cognitive-behavioral analysis of chronic pain-related suffering and disability

    Lance M. McCracken;Jeremy Gauntlett-Gilbert;Kevin E. Vowles

  • Processes of change in psychological flexibility in an interdisciplinary group-based treatment for chronic pain based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

    Lance M. McCracken;Olga Gutiérrez-Martínez

  • The role of values in a contextual cognitive-behavioral approach to chronic pain.

    Lance M. McCracken;Su-Yin Yang;Su-Yin Yang

  • Prediction of pain in patients with chronic low back pain: effects of inaccurate prediction and pain-related anxiety.

    Lance M. McCracken;Richard T. Gross;P.J. Sorg;Theresa A. Edmands

  • ‘Postconcussive’ symptoms in persons with chronic pain

    Grant L. Iverson;Lance M. McCracken

  • Processes of change in treatment for chronic pain: The contributions of pain, acceptance, and catastrophizing

    Kevin E. Vowles;Lance M. McCracken;Christopher Eccleston

  • Assessing nicotine dependence: a comparison of the Fagerström Tolerance Questionnaire (FTQ) with the Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence (FTND) in a clinical sample.

    Payne Tj;Smith Po;McCracken Lm;McSherry Wc

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin E. Vowles
Kevin E. Vowles Queen's University Belfast
Sam Norton
Sam Norton King's College London
Rona Moss-Morris
Rona Moss-Morris King's College London
Sean Perrin
Sean Perrin Lund University
Grant L. Iverson
Grant L. Iverson Harvard University
Albert Feliu-Soler
Albert Feliu-Soler Autonomous University of Barcelona
Joseph Chilcot
Joseph Chilcot King's College London
Edmund Keogh
Edmund Keogh University of Bath
Stephen Morley
Stephen Morley University of Leeds
Tamar Pincus
Tamar Pincus Royal Holloway University of London

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