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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Paul Gilbert is affiliated with the University of Derby in the United Kingdom and works primarily in the field of Psychology, with a particular focus on Clinical Psychology. Their research contributions span several subfields including Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Health.

The research topics that Paul Gilbert has explored include:

  • Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology

Paul Gilbert has published extensively in several scientific journals. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Mindfulness
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • PLoS ONE
  • Psychology and Psychotherapy Theory Research and Practice
  • PsycTESTS Dataset

Significant recent papers by Paul Gilbert include:

  • "Compassion: From Its Evolution to a Psychotherapy" (2020) published in Frontiers in Psychology

Other recent relevant papers in the field, although authored by co-researchers, indicate the broader context of compassion and its psychological and physiological implications. These papers include:

  • "The compassionate vagus: A meta-analysis on the connection between compassion and heart rate variability" (2020) in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "Neurophysiological and behavioural markers of compassion" (2020) in Scientific Reports
  • "Self-compassion, social rank, and psychological distress in athletes of varying competitive levels" (2020) in Psychology of Sport and Exercise
  • "Compassion Protects Mental Health and Social Safeness During the COVID-19 Pandemic Across 21 Countries" (2022) in Mindfulness

Among frequent collaborators in research, Paul Gilbert has extensively worked with:

  • James N. Kirby
  • Marcela Matos
  • Nicola Petrocchi
  • Daniel Rijo
  • Jaskaran Basran

Paul Gilbert's published book includes a work released with Hermann eBooks:

  • "Tournants et tourments en métaphysique" (2020)

Best Publications

  • Compassionate mind training for people with high shame and self-criticism: overview and pilot study of a group therapy approach

    Paul Gilbert;Sue Procter

  • Introducing compassion-focused therapy

    Paul Gilbert

  • The Compassionate Mind

    Paul A. Gilbert

  • The origins and nature of compassion focused therapy.

    Paul Gilbert

  • Compassion Focused Therapy: Distinctive Features

    Paul Gilbert

  • Depression: The Evolution of Powerlessness

    Paul Gilbert

  • Fears of compassion: development of three self-report measures.

    Paul Gilbert;Kirsten McEwan;Marcela Matos;Amanda Rivis

  • Compassion : Conceptualisations, Research and Use in Psychotherapy

    Paul Gilbert

  • Criticizing and reassuring oneself: An exploration of forms, styles and reasons in female students.

    Paul Gilbert;M. Clarke;Susanne Hempel;Jeremy N. V. Miles

  • The role of defeat and entrapment (arrested flight) in depression: an exploration of an evolutionary view

    Paul Gilbert;Steven Allan

  • Human nature and suffering

    Paul Gilbert

  • The relationship of shame, social anxiety and depression: the role of the evaluation of social rank

    Paul Gilbert

  • What is shame? Some core issues and controversies.

    Paul Gilbert

  • Genome-wide association study of CNVs in 16,000 cases of eight common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

    Nick Craddock;Matthew E. Hurles;Niall Cardin;Richard D. Pearson

  • The evolution of social attractiveness and its role in shame, humiliation, guilt and therapy.

    Paul Gilbert

  • Focused therapies and compassionate mind training for shame and self-attacking.

    Paul Gilbert;Chris Irons

  • A social comparison scale: psychometric properties and relationship to psychopathology

    Steven Allan;Paul Gilbert

  • The social competition hypothesis of depression.

    John Price;Leon Sloman;Russell Gardner;Paul Gilbert

  • Compassion and cruelty : A biopsychosocial approach

    Paul Gilbert

  • The power and omnipotence of voices: subordination and entrapment by voices and significant others.

    Max Birchwood;A. Meaden;P. Trower;P. Gilbert

  • Compassionate Mind Training for People with High Shame and Self-Criticism: Overview and Pilot Study of a Group

    Therapy Approach;Paul Gilbert;Sue Procter

Frequent Co-Authors

Kirsten McEwan
Kirsten McEwan University of Derby
Marcela Matos
Marcela Matos University of Coimbra
Jeremy N. V. Miles
Jeremy N. V. Miles Google (United States)
Peter Trower
Peter Trower University of Birmingham
José Pinto-Gouveia
José Pinto-Gouveia University of Coimbra
Cristiana Duarte
Cristiana Duarte York St John University
David C. Zuroff
David C. Zuroff McGill University
Martin Brüne
Martin Brüne Ruhr University Bochum
David Veale
David Veale King's College London
Willem H. Ouwehand
Willem H. Ouwehand University of Cambridge

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