2026 Stephen R. Mitroff: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	41	7998	7467	4274	3889	167	5604

Overview

Stephen R. Mitroff is affiliated with George Washington University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a total of 24 publications spanning this field.

Within psychology, they have contributed to several subfields: social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, and applied psychology.

Mitroff's research topics cover a range of areas including human-automation interaction and safety, radiology practices and education, neural and behavioral psychology studies, behavioral health and interventions, safety warnings and signage, artificial intelligence in healthcare and education, as well as child and animal learning development.

The scientist has authored several papers in notable publication venues. Frequent venues include:

Journal of Vision
Cognitive Research Principles and Implications
UNC Libraries
Journal of Experimental Psychology General
JNCI Cancer Spectrum

Some recent notable papers are:

"Great expectations: minor differences in initial instructions have a major impact on visual search in the absence of feedback," 2021, Cognitive Research Principles and Implications
"Standard experimental paradigm designs and data exclusion practices in cognitive psychology can inadvertently introduce systematic "shadow" biases in participant samples," 2023, Cognitive Research Principles and Implications
"A precise quantification of how prior experience informs current behavior," 2022, Journal of Experimental Psychology General
"Advancing Research on Medical Image Perception by Strengthening Multidisciplinary Collaboration," 2021, JNCI Cancer Spectrum
"Increases in symptoms associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder among university students during the COVID-19 pandemic," 2022, Journal of American College Health

Mitroff works with several frequent co-authors, including:

Dwight J. Kravitz
Patrick Cox
Samoni Nag
Emma M. Siritzky
Justin N. Grady

Best Publications

Video Game Players Show More Precise Multisensory Temporal Processing Abilities

Sarah E. Donohue;Marty G. Woldorff;Stephen R. Mitroff

319
Citations
Generalization of conditioned fear along a dimension of increasing fear intensity

Joseph E. Dunsmoor;Stephen R. Mitroff;Kevin S. LaBar

246
Citations
Nothing compares 2 views: change blindness can occur despite preserved access to the changed information.

Stephen R. Mitroff;Daniel J. Simons;Daniel T. Levin

245
Citations
The relationship between object files and conscious perception

Stephen R Mitroff;Brian J Scholl;Karen Wynn

229
Citations
Distractor Filtering in Media Multitaskers

Matthew S Cain;Stephen R Mitroff

206
Citations
Rare Targets Are Rarely Missed in Correctable Search

Mathias S. Fleck;Stephen R. Mitroff

201
Citations
The persistence of object file representations.

Nicholaus S. Noles;Brian J. Scholl;Stephen R. Mitroff

187
Citations
Enhanced change detection performance reveals improved strategy use in avid action video game players

Kait Clark;Mathias S. Fleck;Stephen R. Mitroff

170
Citations
A Bayesian Optimal Foraging Model of Human Visual Search

Matthew S. Cain;Edward Vul;Kait Clark;Stephen R. Mitroff

160
Citations
Generalized “Satisfaction of Search”: Adverse Influences on Dual-Target Search Accuracy

Mathias S. Fleck;Ehsan Samei;Stephen R. Mitroff

158
Citations
Improved visual cognition through stroboscopic training

L. Gregory Appelbaum;Julia E. Schroeder;Matthew S. Cain;Stephen R. Mitroff

157
Citations
The siren song of implicit change detection.

Stephen R. Mitroff;Daniel J. Simons;Steven L. Franconeri

148
Citations
See an object, hear an object file: Object correspondence transcends sensory modality

Kerry E. Jordan;Kait Clark;Stephen R. Mitroff

147
Citations
Space and time, not surface features, guide object persistence.

Stephen R. Mitroff;George A. Alvarez

136
Citations
Stroboscopic visual training improves information encoding in short-term memory.

L. Gregory Appelbaum;Matthew S. Cain;Julia E. Schroeder;Elise F. Darling

113
Citations
Action video game playing is associated with improved visual sensitivity, but not alterations in visual sensory memory.

L. Gregory Appelbaum;Matthew S. Cain;Elise F. Darling;Stephen R. Mitroff

104
Citations
The Ultra-Rare-Item Effect Visual Search for Exceedingly Rare Items Is Highly Susceptible to Error

Stephen R. Mitroff;Adam T. Biggs

104
Citations
Forming and updating object representations without awareness: evidence from motion-induced blindness.

Stephen R. Mitroff;Brian J. Scholl

104
Citations
Assessing visual search performance differences between Transportation Security Administration Officers and nonprofessional visual searchers

Adam T. Biggs;Matthew S. Cain;Kait Clark;Elise F. Darling

101
Citations
A taxonomy of errors in multiple-target visual search

Matthew S. Cain;Stephen H. Adamo;Stephen R. Mitroff

97
Citations
Cohesion as a constraint on object persistence in infancy.

Erik W. Cheries;Stephen R. Mitroff;Karen Wynn;Brian J. Scholl

95
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian J. Scholl Yale University

Marty G. Woldorff Duke University

Karen Wynn Yale University

Daniel J. Simons University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Kevin S. LaBar Duke University

Joseph E. Dunsmoor The University of Texas at Austin

David J. Madden Duke University

Edward Vul University of California, San Diego

David M. Sobel Brown University

Steven Franconeri Northwestern University

External Links

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