2026 Stephen E. G. Lea: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	54	4531	4193	486	459	209	14523

Research.com Recognitions

Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Stephen E. G. Lea is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research encompasses multiple interdisciplinary fields, including social psychology, accounting, economics and econometrics, genetics, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their publication record includes recent papers such as:

Behavioral flexibility: A review, a model, and some exploratory tests (2020, Learning & Behavior)
Debt and Overindebtedness: Psychological Evidence and its Policy Implications (2020, Social Issues and Policy Review)
Predictors of psychological stress and behavioural diversity among captive red panda in Indian zoos and their implications for global captive management (2022, Scientific Reports)
Measuring response inhibition with a continuous inhibitory-control task (2020, Learning & Behavior)
Animal cognition, past present and future, a 25th anniversary special issue (2022, Animal Cognition)

Their research topics cover a range of areas, including:

Primate Behavior and Ecology
Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
Housing Market and Economics
Human-Animal Interaction Studies
Animal Behavior and Reproduction
Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction

They have published frequently in venues such as:

Learning & Behavior
Social Issues and Policy Review
Scientific Reports
Animal Cognition
Wetlands

Stephen E. G. Lea has collaborated with several coauthors repeatedly, including Ian P. L. McLaren, Pizza Ka Yee Chow, Lisa A. Leaver, Aamer Sohel Khan, and Piar Chand.

Their work intersects various subfields, particularly social psychology with five publications, accounting and economics two each, as well as genetics and cognitive neuroscience with two publications each.

Stephen E. G. Lea has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

Perception of emotion from dynamic point-light displays represented in dance

Winand H Dittrich;Tom Troscianko;Stephen E G Lea;Dawn Morgan

941
Citations
The Individual in the Economy: A Textbook of Economic Psychology

Stephen E. G. Lea;Roger M. Tarpy;Paul Webley

765
Citations
Psychological factors in consumer debt: Money management, economic socialization, and credit use

Stephen E.G. Lea;Paul Webley;Catherine M. Walker

694
Citations
Money as tool, money as drug: The biological psychology of a strong incentive

Stephen E. G. Lea;Paul Webley

669
Citations
The psychology and economics of demand.

S. E. Lea

493
Citations
The economic psychology of consumer debt

Stephen E.G. Lea;Paul Webley;R.Mark Levine

480
Citations
Foraging and reinforcement schedules in the pigeon: Optimal and non-optimal aspects of choice

S.E.G. Lea

455
Citations
The effects of captive experience on reintroduction survival in carnivores: A review and analysis

Kristen R. Jule;Lisa A. Leaver;Stephen E.G. Lea

455
Citations
STUDENT ATTITUDES TO STUDENT DEBT

Emma Davies;Stephen E.G. Lea

452
Citations
The Descent of Mind: Psychological Perspectives on Hominid Evolution

Michael C. Corballis;Stephen E. G. Lea

265
Citations
Seeking the real spain? Authenticity in Motivation

Jo Waller;Stephen E.G. Lea

262
Citations
DEMAND FOR FOOD ON FIXED-RATIO SCHEDULES AS A FUNCTION OF THE QUALITY OF CONCURRENTLY AVAILABLE REINFORCEMENT1

S. E. G. Lea;S. E. G. Lea;T. J. Roper

246
Citations
Visual perception of intentional motion.

Winand H Dittrich;Stephen E G Lea

245
Citations
Why Are Modern Families Small? Toward an Evolutionary and Cultural Explanation for the Demographic Transition

Lesley Newson;Tom Postmes;S. E. G Lea;Paul Webley

238
Citations
The Economic Psychology of Everyday Life

Paul Webley;Carole Burgoyne;Stephen E. G. Lea;Brian Young

221
Citations
Pride in economic psychology

Stephen E.G. Lea;Paul Webley

175
Citations
Dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) fail to show understanding of means-end connections in a string-pulling task.

Britta Osthaus;Stephen E. G. Lea;Alan M. Slater

171
Citations
The unacceptability of money as a gift

P. Webley;S.E.G. Lea;R. Portalska

167
Citations
The repeatability of cognitive performance: a meta-analysis

Maxime Cauchoix;P Chow;P Chow;J van Horik;C Atance

166
Citations
Perception of object unity in chicks: A comparison with the human infant☆

Stephen E.G. Lea;Alan M. Slater;Catriona M.E. Ryan

147
Citations
Categorization of natural movements by pigeons: visual concept discrimination and biological motion.

Winand H. Dittrich;Stephen E. G. Lea;Jacqueline Barrett;Philip R. Gurr

139
Citations
Adaptation by learning: its significance for farm animal husbandry

Beat Wechsler;Stephen E.G. Lea

138
Citations
The psychology of animal learning: By N. J. Mackintosh London: Academic Press (1974). Price £8

S.E.G. Lea

77
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan Slater University of Exeter

Denis Mareschal Birkbeck, University of London

Stephen J. Ceci Cornell University

Tom Beckers KU Leuven

Michael J. Morgan City, University of London

Paul C. Quinn University of Delaware

Michael C. Corballis University of Auckland

Tom Postmes University of Groningen

Ludwig Huber University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna

Edmund Fantino University of California, San Diego

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