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6421
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Rex A. Wright 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 Rex A. Wright sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 134 publications — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Rex A. Wright 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 Rex A. Wright sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 30th percentile

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

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

Overview

Rex A. Wright is affiliated with the University of North Texas in the United States. Their primary field of study is psychology, with a focus on several subfields, including applied psychology, cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, and clinical psychology.

Their research covers a range of main topics such as behavioral health and interventions, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, neural and behavioral psychology studies, pain management and placebo effects, neuroscience, education and cognitive function, mindfulness and compassion interventions, and optimism, hope, and well-being.

Frequent co-authors in Wright's publications include:

  • Christopher Mlynski
  • Guido H. E. Gendolla
  • Ariel Reza
  • Melissa Whitted
  • Caytlin Cox

Wright's work has been published in several venues, with notable recurrence in:

  • Psychophysiology
  • Motivation Science
  • International Journal of Psychophysiology
  • Biological Psychology
  • Current Issues in Personality Psychology

Some recent papers that Wright contributed to include:

  • Fatigue influence on inhibitory control: Cardiovascular and performance findings elucidate the role of restraint intensity (2021) - Psychophysiology
  • Ability influence on effort and associated cardiovascular responses: Nocebo-Placebo evidence that perception is key (2020) - Biological Psychology
  • The role of metacognition, type of feedback, and kind of incentives for motivation to learn (2021) - Current Issues in Personality Psychology
  • Definitional devils and detail: On identifying motivation as an animating dynamic (2025) - Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • Updates and news from Motivation Science (2020) - Motivation Science

Best Publications

  • Brehm's theory of motivation as a model of effort and cardiovascular response.

    Rex A. Wright

  • Effort determination of cardiovascular response: An integrative analysis with applications in social psychology

    Rex A. Wright;Leslie D. Kirby

  • Perceived difficulty, energization, and the magnitude of goal valence ☆

    Jack W Brehm;Rex A Wright;Sheldon Solomon;Linda Silka

  • Three Decades of Research on Motivational Intensity Theory: What We Have Learned About Effort and What We Still Don't Know

    Michael Richter;Guido H.E. Gendolla;Rex A. Wright

  • Energization and goal attractiveness.

    Rex A. Wright;Jack W. Brehm

  • Refining the Prediction of Effort: Brehm's Distinction between Potential Motivation and Motivation Intensity

    Rex A. Wright

  • Effort Intensity: Some Insights From the Cardiovascular System

    Guido H. E. Gendolla;Rex A. Wright;Michael Richter

  • Energy resource depletion, task difficulty, and cardiovascular response to a mental arithmetic challenge.

    Rex A. Wright;Rebecca E. Martin;Jennifer L. Bland

  • Task difficulty, cardiovascular response, and the magnitude of goal valence

    Rex A. Wright;Richard J. Contrada;Mark J. Patane

  • Blood pressure responses and incentive appraisals as a function of perceived ability and objective task demand

    Rex A. Wright;Jody C. Dill

  • Mental fatigue influence on effort-related cardiovascular response: difficulty effects and extension across cognitive performance domains

    Rex A. Wright;Tonia R. Junious;Christin Neal;Ashley Avello

  • Ability Perception and Cardiovascular Response to Behavioral Challenge

    Rex A. Wright

  • Mental fatigue influence on effort-related cardiovascular response: extension across the regulatory (inhibitory)/non-regulatory performance dimension.

    Rex A. Wright;Christopher C. Stewart;Bradley R. Barnett

  • Reward Influence on the Heart: Cardiovascular Response as a Function of Incentive Value at Five Levels of Task Demand

    Lea Eubanks;Rex A. Wright;Barry J. Williams

  • Outcome expectancy as a moderator of mental fatigue influence on cardiovascular response.

    Christopher C. Stewart;Rex A. Wright;Siu-Kuen Azor Hui;Angel Simmons

  • Cardiovascular incentive effects where a challenge is unfixed: Demonstrations involving social evaluation, evaluator status, and monetary reward

    Rex A. Wright;Karen Killebrew;Dipti Pimpalapure

  • Task difficulty, type A behavior pattern, and cardiovascular response.

    Richard J. Contrada;Rex A. Wright;David C. Glass

  • Social evaluation and cardiovascular response: an active coping approach.

    Wright Ra;Tunstall Am;Williams Bj;Goodwin Js

  • Performance, cardiovascular, and health behavior effects of an inhibitory strength training intervention

    Siu-kuen Azor Hui;Rex A. Wright;Christopher C. Stewart;Angel Simmons

  • How motivation affects cardiovascular response : mechanisms and applications

    Rex A. Wright;Guido H. E. Gendolla

  • Cardiovascular Correlates of Challenge and Threat Appraisals: A Critical Examination of the Biopsychosocial Analysis:

    Rex A. Wright;Leslie D. Kirby

Frequent Co-Authors

Guido H. E. Gendolla
Guido H. E. Gendolla University of Geneva
Jeff Greenberg
Jeff Greenberg University of Arizona
Richard J. Contrada
Richard J. Contrada Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Jack W. Brehm
Jack W. Brehm University of Kansas
Craig A. Anderson
Craig A. Anderson Iowa State University
Sylvie Mrug
Sylvie Mrug University of Alabama at Birmingham
Eddie Harmon-Jones
Eddie Harmon-Jones University of New South Wales
Frederick X. Gibbons
Frederick X. Gibbons University of Connecticut
Sheldon Solomon
Sheldon Solomon Skidmore College
James A. Shepperd
James A. Shepperd University of Florida

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