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Romina Palermo 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 Romina Palermo sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 148 publications — 48th percentile

48% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Romina Palermo 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 Romina Palermo 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.

Overview

Romina Palermo is affiliated with the University of Western Australia and has contributed extensively to the fields of neuroscience and psychology. Their research primarily focuses on cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology, with additional work in clinical and social psychology as well as epidemiology.

Their main research topics include face recognition and perception, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, autism spectrum disorder research, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, aesthetic perception and analysis, and neural and behavioral psychology studies.

Palermo has published consistently in several academic journals, with frequent contributions to the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Additional venues of publication include Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews and Cognitive Development.

Recent publications include:

  • Individual differences in trust evaluations are shaped mostly by environments, not genes (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Eye Gaze in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Review of Neural Evidence for the Eye Avoidance Hypothesis (2022, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders)
  • A sensorimotor control framework for understanding emotional communication and regulation (2020, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews)
  • Development of face-based trustworthiness impressions in childhood: A systematic review and metaanalysis (2021, Cognitive Development)
  • Serial dependence of facial identity reflects high-level face coding (2021, Vision Research)

Palermo frequently collaborates with a number of researchers, including Linda Jeffery, Clare Sutherland, Gilles E. Gignac, Jeremy Wilmer, and Dana L. Walker. These collaborations have resulted in multiple co-authored publications.

Best Publications

  • Are you always on my mind? A review of how face perception and attention interact.

    Romina Palermo;Gillian Rhodes

  • Not just fear and sadness: Meta-analytic evidence of pervasive emotion recognition deficits for facial and vocal expressions in psychopathy

    Amy Dawel;Richard O'Kearney;Elinor McKone;Romina Palermo;Romina Palermo

  • Diagnosing prosopagnosia: Effects of ageing, sex, and participant–stimulus ethnic match on the Cambridge Face Memory Test and Cambridge Face Perception Test

    Devin C. Bowles;Elinor McKone;Amy Dawel;Bradley Duchaine

  • Photographs of facial expression: Accuracy, response times, and ratings of intensity

    Romina Palermo;Max Coltheart

  • Impaired holistic coding of facial expression and facial identity in congenital prosopagnosia

    Romina Palermo;Romina Palermo;Megan Louise Willis;Davide Rivolta;Elinor McKone

  • Perceived health contributes to the attractiveness of facial symmetry, averageness, and sexual dimorphism.

    Gillian Rhodes;Sakiko Yoshikawa;Romina Palermo;Leigh W. Simmons

  • Cognitive heterogeneity in genetically based prosopagnosia: A family study

    Laura Schmalzl;Romina Palermo;Max Coltheart

  • Training of familiar face recognition and visual scan paths for faces in a child with congenital prosopagnosia

    Laura Schmalzl;Romina Palermo;Melissa Green;Ruth Brunsdon

  • Face ethnicity and measurement reliability affect face recognition performance in developmental prosopagnosia: evidence from the Cambridge Face Memory Test-Australian.

    Elinor McKone;Ashleigh Hall;Madeleine Pidcock;Romina Palermo

  • Individual Differences in the Ability to Recognise Facial Identity Are Associated with Social Anxiety

    Joshua M. Davis;Elinor McKone;Elinor McKone;Hugh Dennett;Kirsty B. O'Connor

  • Attractiveness of own-race, other-race, and mixed-race faces

    Gillian Rhodes;Kieran Lee;Romina Palermo;Mahi Weiss

  • The influence of divided attention on holistic face perception.

    Romina Palermo;Gillian Rhodes

  • The Role of Spatial Attention in Nonconscious Processing A Comparison of Face and Nonface Stimuli

    Matthew Finkbeiner;Romina Palermo

  • Judging Approachability on the Face of It: The Influence of Face and Body Expressions on the Perception of Approachability

    Megan Louise Willis;Romina Palermo;Darren Burke

  • Do people have insight into their face recognition abilities

    Romina Palermo;Bruno Rossion;Gillian Rhodes;Renaud Laguesse

  • New tests to measure individual differences in matching and labelling facial expressions of emotion, and their association with ability to recognise vocal emotions and facial identity

    Romina Palermo;Romina Palermo;Kirsty B. O’Connor;Joshua M. Davis;Jessica Irons

  • Attention to Social Stimuli and Facial Identity Recognition Skills in Autism Spectrum Disorder.

    C.E. Wilson;J. Brock;Romina Palermo

  • Guidelines for studying developmental prosopagnosia in adults and children

    Kirsten A. Dalrymple;Romina Palermo

  • Face recognition impairments despite normal holistic processing and face space coding: Evidence from a case of developmental prosopagnosia

    Tirta Susilo;Elinor McKone;Hugh Dennett;Hayley Darke

  • Orbitofrontal cortex lesions result in abnormal social judgements to emotional faces

    Megan Louise Willis;Romina Palermo;Darren Burke;Ky McGrillen

  • Individual differences in trust evaluations are shaped mostly by environments, not genes

    Clare A. M. Sutherland;Clare A. M. Sutherland;Nichola S. Burton;Jeremy B. Wilmer;Gabriëlla A. M. Blokland

Frequent Co-Authors

Gillian Rhodes
Gillian Rhodes University of Western Australia
Linda Jeffery
Linda Jeffery Curtin University
Elinor McKone
Elinor McKone Australian National University
Max Coltheart
Max Coltheart Macquarie University
Laurie A. Miller
Laurie A. Miller Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Richard O'Kearney
Richard O'Kearney Australian National University
Mark A. Williams
Mark A. Williams Macquarie University
Genevieve McArthur
Genevieve McArthur Macquarie University
Olivier Piguet
Olivier Piguet University of Sydney
A. Mike Burton
A. Mike Burton University of York

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