2026 Teresa McCormack: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	41	7991	7460	789	753	132	5793

Overview

Teresa McCormack is affiliated with Queen's University Belfast in the United Kingdom and has a research portfolio focused mainly on psychology and neuroscience. Their work spans multiple subfields including cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, general decision sciences, developmental and educational psychology, and applied psychology.

The researcher has contributed extensively to the study of decision-making and behavioral economics, psychological and temporal perspectives, behavioral health and interventions, child and animal learning development, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, neural and behavioral psychology studies, and mind wandering and attention.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Cognitive Science
Synthese
Developmental Psychology
British Journal of Health Psychology

Some of Teresa McCormack's recent published papers are:

"Exploring people's beliefs about the experience of time," 2020, Synthese
"Temporal Binding, Causation, and Agency: Developing a New Theoretical Framework," 2020, Cognitive Science
"Regret and Decision-Making: A Developmental Perspective," 2020, Current Directions in Psychological Science
"More Later: Delay of Gratification and Thought About the Future in Children," 2021, Child Development
"Human Vision Reconstructs Time to Satisfy Causal Constraints," 2022, Psychological Science

Teresa McCormack regularly collaborates with several co-authors including Christoph Hoerl, Aidan Feeney, Sarah R. Beck, Sara Lorimer, and Patrick A. O'Connor. The volume of co-authored publications suggests ongoing contributions within a network of researchers in related fields.

Best Publications

Joint attention : communication and other minds : issues in philosophy and psychology

Naomi Eilan;Christoph Hoerl;Teresa McCormack;Johannes Roessler

465
Citations
Joint Attention: Communication and Other Minds

Naomi Eilan;Christoph Hoerl;Teresa McCormack;Johannes Roessler

305
Citations
Planning in young children: A review and synthesis

Teresa McCormack;Cristina M. Atance

229
Citations
Developmental changes in time estimation: comparing childhood and old age.

Teresa McCormack;Gordon D. A. Brown;Elizabeth A. Maylor;Richard J. Darby

200
Citations
Memory and temporal perspective: The role of temporal frameworks in memory development.

Teresa McCormack;Christoph Hoerl

176
Citations
Thinking in and about time: A dual systems perspective on temporal cognition

Christoph Hoerl;Teresa McCormack

172
Citations
Duration judgements in patients with schizophrenia.

Brita Elvevåg;Teresa McCormack;Teresa McCormack;A. Gilbert;A. Gilbert;G. D. A. Brown;G. D. A. Brown

166
Citations
Searching and planning: young children's reasoning about past and future event sequences.

Kerry L. McColgan;Teresa McCormack

156
Citations
Making Decisions about the Future

Christoph Hoerl;Teresa McCormack

134
Citations
The development of regret

Eimear O'Connor;Teresa McCormack;Aidan Feeney

130
Citations
Time and memory: Issues in philosophy and psychology.

Christoph Hoerl;Teresa McCormack

126
Citations
Children's Reasoning about the Temporal Order of Past and Future Events.

Teresa McCormack;Mary Hanley

113
Citations
Joint reminiscing as joint attention to the past

Christoph Hoerl;Teresa McCormack

112
Citations
Children's reasoning about the causal significance of the temporal order of events.

Teresa McCormack;Christoph Hoerl

103
Citations
Young children's reasoning about the order of past events

Teresa McCormack;Christoph Hoerl

103
Citations
The development of temporal concepts: Learning to locate events in time

Teresa McCormack;Christoph Hoerl

100
Citations
The prevalence of specific learning disorder in mathematics and comorbidity with other developmental disorders in primary school-age children.

Kinga Morsanyi;Bianca M.C.W. van Bers;Teresa McCormack;Jemma McGourty

98
Citations
Do Children Who Experience Regret Make Better Decisions? A Developmental Study of the Behavioral Consequences of Regret

Eimear O'Connor;Teresa McCormack;Aidan Feeney

97
Citations
Temporal Decentering and the Development of Temporal Concepts

Teresa McCormack;Christoph Hoerl

94
Citations
Temporal information and children's and adults' causal inferences

Patrick Burns;Teresa McCormack

90
Citations
Identification of tone duration, line length, and letter position: an experimental approach to timing and working memory deficits in schizophrenia.

Brita Elvevag;Gordon D. A. Brown;Teresa Mccormack;Janet I. Vousden

89
Citations
Understanding Counterfactuals, Understanding CausationIssues in Philosophy and Psychology

Christoph Hoerl;Teresa McCormack;Sarah R. Beck

27
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Sarah R. Beck University of Birmingham

Gordon D. A. Brown University of Warwick

David A. Lagnado University College London

Tom Beckers KU Leuven

Terry E. Goldberg Columbia University

Rhiannon N. Turner Queen's University Belfast

Elizabeth A. Maylor University of Warwick

Brita Elvevåg University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway

Deborah M. Riby Durham University

Nick Chater University of Warwick

External Links

Personal website of Teresa McCormack

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