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Michael W. Vasey publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael W. Vasey sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 117 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Michael W. Vasey D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael W. Vasey sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Michael W. Vasey is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States. Their research spans psychology and medicine, with a primary focus on experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, social psychology, and radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes; child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development; heart rate variability and autonomic control; mental health research topics; attachment and relationship dynamics; psychological well-being and life satisfaction; and peripheral nerve disorders.

Michael W. Vasey has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed publications, with recent notable papers including:

  • "Gender Matters: Nonlinear Relationships Between Heart Rate Variability and Depression and Positive Affect," 2021, Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • "Gratitude: A Resilience Factor for More Securely Attached Children," 2020, Journal of Child and Family Studies
  • "Ethnic Differences in Resting Total Peripheral Resistance: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis," 2020, Psychosomatic Medicine
  • "Using multilevel modeling to characterize interpersonal emotion regulation strategies and psychopathology in female friends," 2020, Personality and Individual Differences
  • "Social anxiety symptoms, heart rate variability, and vocal emotion recognition in women: evidence for parasympathetically-mediated positivity bias," 2020, Anxiety Stress & Coping

The scientist frequently publishes in several venues, including:

  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Journal of Child and Family Studies
  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • Anxiety Stress & Coping
  • International Urogynecology Journal

Frequent collaborators in their research include Julian F. Thayer, Julian Koenig, Briana N. Brownlow, Matthew Lee Free, and DeWayne P. Williams.

Best Publications

  • The Continuing Problem of False Positives in Repeated Measures ANOVA in Psychophysiology: A Multivariate Solution

    Michael W. Vasey;Julian F. Thayer

  • The Developmental Psychopathology of Anxiety

    Michael W. Vasey;Guy Bosmans;Thomas H. Ollendick

  • Temperament, Anxiety, and the Processing of Threat-Relevant Stimuli

    Christopher J. Lonigan;Michael W. Vasey;Beth M. Phillips;Rebecca A. Hazen

  • Biased attention in childhood anxiety disorders : a preliminary study

    Michael W. Vasey;Eric L. Daleiden;Laura L. Williams;Lisa M. Brown

  • Negative Affectivity, Effortful Control, and Attention to Threat-Relevant Stimuli

    Christopher J. Lonigan;Michael W. Vasey

  • Anxiety Sensitivity Amelioration Training (ASAT): a longitudinal primary prevention program targeting cognitive vulnerability.

    Norman B. Schmidt;A. Meade Eggleston;Kelly Woolaway-Bickel;Kathleen Kara Fitzpatrick

  • Using diffusion models to understand clinical disorders.

    Corey N. White;Roger Ratcliff;Michael W. Vasey;Gail McKoon

  • Anxiety and the Processing of Emotionally Threatening Stimuli: Distinctive Patterns of Selective Attention among High‐ and Low‐Test‐Anxious Children

    Michael W. Vasey;Nagat El-Hag;Eric L. Daleiden

  • A catastrophizing assessment of worrisome thoughts.

    Michael W. Vasey;Thomas D. Borkovec

  • An information-processing perspective on childhood anxiety.

    Eric L. Daleiden;Michael W. Vasey

  • Worry in childhood: A developmental perspective

    Michael W. Vasey;Keith A. Crnic;Wende G. Carter

  • Temperament and risk for depressive symptoms in adolescence: mediation by rumination and moderation by effortful control.

    Katrien Verstraeten;Michael W. Vasey;Filip Raes;Patricia Bijttebier

  • An Introduction to the Developmental Psychopathology of Anxiety

    Michael W. Vasey;Mark R. Dadds

  • Attentional retraining: a randomized clinical trial for pathological worry

    Rebecca A. Hazen;Michael W. Vasey;Norman B. Schmidt

  • When tonic cardiac vagal tone predicts changes in phasic vagal tone: the role of fear and perceptual load.

    Gewnhi Park;Michael W. Vasey;Jay J. Van Bavel;Julian F. Thayer

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  • Quantifying respiratory sinus arrhythmia: Effects of misspecifying breathing frequencies across development.

    Tiffany M. Shader;Lisa M. Gatzke-Kopp;Sheila E. Crowell;M. Jamila Reid

  • Understanding comorbidity among internalizing problems: Integrating latent structural models of psychopathology and risk mechanisms.

    Benjamin L. Hankin;Hannah R. Snyder;Lauren D. Gulley;Tina H. Schweizer

  • The Latent Structure of Psychopathy in Youth: A Taxometric Investigation

    Michael W. Vasey;Roman Kotov;Paul J. Frick;Bryan R. Loney

  • Development and cognition in childhood anxiety. The example of worry

    Michael W. Vasey

  • Anxiety enhances threat processing without competition among multiple inputs: a diffusion model analysis

    Corey N. White;Roger Ratcliff;Michael W. Vasey;Gail McKoon

  • Test anxiety: Theory, assessment, and treatment: Spielberger, C. D., & Vagg, P. R. (Eds.) Washington, DC: Taylor & Francis, 1995. xv + 252 pp. $49.95

    Michael W. Vasey

Frequent Co-Authors

Julian F. Thayer
Julian F. Thayer University of California, Irvine
Filip Raes
Filip Raes KU Leuven
Russell H. Fazio
Russell H. Fazio The Ohio State University
Jay J. Van Bavel
Jay J. Van Bavel New York University
Rudi De Raedt
Rudi De Raedt Ghent University
Wendy K. Silverman
Wendy K. Silverman Yale University
Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser
Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser The Ohio State University
Eric L. Daleiden
Eric L. Daleiden University of South Carolina
Roger Ratcliff
Roger Ratcliff The Ohio State University

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