2026 Richard D. Lane: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	72	2254	2060	1071	961	212	39371
Psychology	72	2011	1822	1169	1034	212	39392

Overview

Richard D. Lane is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and medicine, with a significant focus on subfields such as clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry and mental health, cognitive neuroscience, and social psychology.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics that reflect interdisciplinary interests, including:

Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Mental Health and Psychiatry
Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
Philosophy, Sociology, Political Theory

Richard D. Lane has published numerous articles in a range of academic venues. The most frequent publication venues for their work include Neuropsychoanalysis, Psychosomatic Medicine, BioPsychoSocial Medicine, Frontiers in Psychiatry, and Trends in Neurosciences.

Among recent papers, notable works include:

"Levels of Emotional Awareness: Theory and Measurement of a Socio-Emotional Skill," published in 2021 in the Journal of Intelligence
"The role of enhanced emotional awareness in promoting change across psychotherapy modalities," published in 2020 in the Journal of Psychotherapy Integration

Other significant papers by coauthors linked to the field include:

"Diseases, Disorders, and Comorbidities of Interoception," 2020, Trends in Neurosciences
"The evolution and development of the uniquely human capacity for emotional awareness: A synthesis of comparative anatomical, cognitive, neurocomputational, and evolutionary psychological perspectives," 2020, Biological Psychology
"Improvements in mindfulness, interoceptive and emotional awareness, emotion regulation, and interpersonal emotion management following completion of an online emotional skills training program," 2023, Emotion

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Richard D. Lane encompass:

Ryan Smith
Karen L. Weihs
Leslie S. Greenberg
John J. B. Allen
Uëli Kramer

Best Publications

A model of neurovisceral integration in emotion regulation and dysregulation.

Julian F Thayer;Richard D Lane

3603
Citations
Neurobiology of emotion perception I: the neural basis of normal emotion perception

Mary L Phillips;Wayne C Drevets;Scott L Rauch;Richard Lane

2782
Citations
Claude Bernard and the heart-brain connection: further elaboration of a model of neurovisceral integration.

Julian F. Thayer;Richard D. Lane

2259
Citations
Neurobiology of emotion perception II: Implications for major psychiatric disorders

Mary L Phillips;Wayne C Drevets;Scott L Rauch;Richard Lane

2156
Citations
Interoception and Mental Health: A Roadmap

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1584
Citations
Levels of emotional awareness: a cognitive-developmental theory and its application to psychopathology.

Richard D. Lane;Gary E. Schwartz

1503
Citations
The role of vagal function in the risk for cardiovascular disease and mortality.

Julian F. Thayer;Richard D. Lane

1342
Citations
The Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale: A cognitive-developmental measure of emotion.

Richard D. Lane;Donald M. Quinlan;Gary E. Schwartz;Pamela A. Walker

1308
Citations
Neuroanatomical correlates of pleasant and unpleasant emotion

Richard D. Lane;Eric M. Reiman;Margaret M. Bradley;Peter J. Lang

1259
Citations
Neuroanatomical correlates of happiness, sadness, and disgust.

Richard D. Lane;Eric M. Reiman;Geoffrey L. Ahern;Gary E. Schwartz

1099
Citations
Neural Correlates of Levels of Emotional Awareness: Evidence of an Interaction between Emotion and Attention in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex

Richard D. Lane;Eric M. Reiman;Beatrice Axelrod;Lang-Sheng Yun

1008
Citations
Neuroanatomical correlates of externally and internally generated human emotion

Eric M. Reiman;Richard D. Lane;Geoffrey L. Ahern;Gary E. Schwartz

972
Citations
Neural correlates of heart rate variability during emotion

Richard D. Lane;Kateri McRae;Kateri McRae;Eric M. Reiman;Kewei Chen

945
Citations
Cognitive neuroscience of emotion

Richard D. Lane;Lynn Nadel

865
Citations
IMPAIRED VERBAL AND NONVERBAL EMOTION RECOGNITION IN ALEXITHYMIA

Richard D. Lane;Lee Sechrest;Robert Reidel;Victoria Weldon

830
Citations
Neural activation during selective attention to subjective emotional responses

Richard D. Lane;Gereon R. Fink;Phyllis M.-L. Chau;Raymond J. Dolan

776
Citations
Common effects of emotional valence, arousal and attention on neural activation during visual processing of pictures

Richard D. Lane;Richard D. Lane;Phyllis M.L. Chua;Phyllis M.L. Chua;Raymond J. Dolan;Raymond J. Dolan

702
Citations
Sex Differences in Emotional Awareness

Lisa Feldman Barrett;Richard D. Lane;Lee Sechrest;Gary E. Schwartz

620
Citations
Memory reconsolidation, emotional arousal, and the process of change in psychotherapy: New insights from brain science.

Richard D. Lane;Lee Ryan;Lynn Nadel;Leslie Greenberg

595
Citations
Is alexithymia the emotional equivalent of blindsight

Richard D Lane;Geoffrey L Ahern;Gary E Schwartz;Alfred W Kaszniak

525
Citations
Impaired self-awareness and theory of mind: an fMRI study of mentalizing in alexithymia.

Yoshiya Moriguchi;Takashi Ohnishi;Richard D. Lane;Motonari Maeda

505
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Julian F. Thayer University of California, Irvine

Gary E. Schwartz University of Arizona

Eric M. Reiman Arizona State University

William D.S. Killgore University of Arizona

Kateri McRae University of Denver

John J.B. Allen University of Arizona

Lynn Nadel University of Arizona

Alfred W. Kaszniak University of Arizona

Manfred E. Beutel Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

Karen L. Weihs University of Arizona

External Links

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