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42
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9083
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7469
National Ranking
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Peter J. B. Hancock 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 Peter J. B. Hancock sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 167 publications — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Peter J. B. Hancock 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 Peter J. B. Hancock sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1992 - Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK)

Overview

Peter J. B. Hancock is affiliated with the University of Stirling in the United Kingdom. Their research spans a range of interdisciplinary fields, primarily focusing on Neuroscience, Computer Science, and Psychology. Within these areas, their contributions cover multiple subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

The research topics addressed in their work include Face Recognition and Perception, Face recognition and analysis, Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior, Deception detection and forensic psychology, Face and Expression Recognition, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, and Visual Attention and Saliency Detection.

Their recent publications illustrate the scope and diversity of their academic contributions. Selected recent papers include:

  • "Surgical face masks impair human face matching performance for familiar and unfamiliar faces" (2020) published in Cognitive Research Principles and Implications
  • "Many Labs 5: Testing Pre-Data-Collection Peer Review as an Intervention to Increase Replicability" (2020) published in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
  • "Registered Replication Report on Fischer, Castel, Dodd, and Pratt (2003)" (2020) published in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
  • "Convolutional neural net face recognition works in non-human-like ways" (2020) published in Royal Society Open Science
  • "Honey authenticity: the opacity of analytical reports - part 1 defining the problem" (2022) published in npj Science of Food

Frequent coauthors in their body of work include Daniel J. Carragher, Anna K. Bobak, Viktoria R. Mileva, Ailsa E. Millen, and Rosyl S. Somai. These collaborations reflect ongoing partnerships in research areas related to their primary fields of study.

Their work has appeared regularly in several academic journals and publication venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Cognitive Research Principles and Implications
  • Journal of Vision
  • Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
  • npj Science of Food
  • Cortex

Within their career, they have received recognition through awards such as being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2012 and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) in 1992.

Best Publications

  • Recognition of unfamiliar faces

    Peter J.B. Hancock;Vicki Bruce;A.Mike Burton

  • Verification of face identities from images captured on video.

    Vicki Bruce;Zoë Henderson;Karen Greenwood;Peter J. B. Hancock

  • Viewing it differently: social scene perception in Williams syndrome and autism.

    Deborah M. Riby;Peter J.B. Hancock

  • From Pixels to People: A Model of Familiar Face Recognition

    A Mike Burton;Vicki Bruce;Peter J B Hancock

  • FACE PROCESSING : HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS

    Peter J. B. Hancock;A. Mike Burton;Vicki Bruce

  • Robust Representations for Face Recognition: The Power of Averages

    A. Mike Burton;Rob Jenkins;Peter J.B. Hancock;David White

  • The principal components of natural images

    Peter J B Hancock;Roland J Baddeley;Leslie S Smith

  • Do Faces Capture the Attention of Individuals with Williams Syndrome or Autism? Evidence from Tracking Eye Movements

    Deborah M. Riby;Peter J. B. Hancock

  • Hedonomics: The Power of Positive and Pleasurable Ergonomics:

    Peter A. Hancock;Aaron A. Pepe;Lauren L. Murphy

  • Looking at Movies and Cartoons: Eye-Tracking Evidence from Williams Syndrome and Autism.

    Deborah Riby;Peter J B Hancock

  • The role of masculinity and distinctiveness in judgments of human male facial attractiveness

    Anthony C. Little;Peter J. B. Hancock

  • An Empirical Comparison of Selection Methods in Evolutionary Algorithms

    Peter J. B. Hancock

  • EvoFIT: A holistic, evolutionary facial imaging technique for creating composites

    Charlie D. Frowd;Peter J. B. Hancock;Derek Carson

  • Registered Replication Report: Schooler and Engstler-Schooler (1990)

    V. K. Alogna;M. K. Attaya;P. Aucoin;Š. Bahník

  • Human female attractiveness: waveform analysis of body shape.

    Martin J Tovee;Peter J B Hancock;Sasan Mahmoodi;Ben R R Singleton

  • Genetic algorithms and permutation problems: a comparison of recombination operators for neural net structure specification

    P.J.B. Hancock

  • A forensically valid comparison of facial composite systems.

    Charlie D. Frowd;Derek Carson;Hayley Ness;Jan Richardson

  • Super-recognisers in Action: Evidence from Face-matching and Face Memory Tasks.

    Anna Katarzyna Bobak;Peter J B Hancock;Sarah Bate

  • Contemporary composite techniques: The impact of a forensically-relevant target delay.

    Charlie D Frowd;Derek Carson;Hayley Ness;Dawn McQuiston-Surrett

  • A statistical analysis of natural images matches psychophysically derived orientation tuning curves.

    Roland J. Baddeley;Peter J. B. Hancock

  • Four heads are better than one: Combining face composites yields improvements in face likeness.

    Vicki Bruce;Hayley Ness;Peter J. B. Hancock;Craig Newman

  • Surgical face masks impair human face matching performance for familiar and unfamiliar faces.

    Daniel J. Carragher;Peter J. B. Hancock

Frequent Co-Authors

Vicki Bruce
Vicki Bruce Newcastle University
A. Mike Burton
A. Mike Burton University of York
Deborah M. Riby
Deborah M. Riby Durham University
Martin J. Tovée
Martin J. Tovée Northumbria University
Anthony C. Little
Anthony C. Little University of Bath
Piers L. Cornelissen
Piers L. Cornelissen Northumbria University
Josef Kittler
Josef Kittler University of Surrey
Benedict C. Jones
Benedict C. Jones University of Strathclyde
Colin Tredoux
Colin Tredoux University of Cape Town
Xiaojun Wu
Xiaojun Wu University of Science and Technology of China

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