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William A. Cunningham

William A. Cunningham

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
54
Citations
25265
World Ranking
4485
National Ranking
295

William A. Cunningham 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 William A. Cunningham sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 128 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

William A. Cunningham 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 William A. Cunningham sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

William A. Cunningham is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research spans multiple disciplines with a focus on neuroscience, psychology, and social sciences.

The main fields of study in their work include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences

Within these broader areas, their subfields of study cover:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Social Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Applied Psychology

Their research addresses several key topics, such as:

  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Mental Health Research Topics

William A. Cunningham has published papers in a variety of frequent venues, with multiple contributions appearing in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nature Communications
  • Science
  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • PNAS Nexus

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams, 2020, Nature
  • National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic, 2022, Nature Communications
  • AI and the transformation of social science research, 2023, Science
  • The rise of affectivism, 2021, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Crowdsourcing hypothesis tests: Making transparent how design choices shape research results, 2020, Psychological Bulletin

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Panagiotis Mitkidis
  • Suraiya Allidina
  • Jay Joseph Van Bavel
  • Dominic J. Packer
  • Rebekah Gelpí

Best Publications

  • To Parcel or Not to Parcel: Exploring the Question, Weighing the Merits

    Todd D. Little;William A. Cunningham;Golan Shahar;Keith F. Widaman

  • Performance on Indirect Measures of Race Evaluation Predicts Amygdala Activation

    Elizabeth A. Phelps;Kevin J. O'Connor;William A. Cunningham;E. Sumie Funayama

  • Implicit Attitude Measures: Consistency, Stability, and Convergent Validity

    William A. Cunningham;Kristopher J. Preacher;Mahzarin R. Banaji

  • Type I and Type II error concerns in fMRI research: re-balancing the scale

    Matthew D. Lieberman;William A. Cunningham

  • Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams

    Rotem Botvinik-Nezer;Rotem Botvinik-Nezer;Felix Holzmeister;Colin F. Camerer;Anna Dreber;Anna Dreber

  • Separable Neural Components in the Processing of Black and White Faces

    William A. Cunningham;Marcia K. Johnson;Carol L. Raye;J. Chris Gatenby

  • Executive Function: Mechanisms Underlying Emotion Regulation.

    Philip David Zelazo;William A. Cunningham

  • Attitudes and evaluations: a social cognitive neuroscience perspective

    William A. Cunningham;Philip David Zelazo

  • The Neural Substrates of In-Group Bias: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Investigation

    Jay J. Van Bavel;Dominic J. Packer;William A. Cunningham

  • Implicit and Explicit Evaluation: fMRI Correlates of Valence, Emotional Intensity, and Control in the Processing of Attitudes

    William A. Cunningham;Carol L. Raye;Marcia K. Johnson

  • Implicit and Explicit Ethnocentrism: Revisiting the Ideologies of Prejudice

    William A. Cunningham;John B. Nezlek;Mahzarin R. Banaji

  • The iterative reprocessing model: A multilevel framework for attitudes and evaluation.

    William A. Cunningham;Philip David Zelazo;Dominic J. Packer;Jay J. Van Bavel

  • Affect-biased attention as emotion regulation

    Rebecca M. Todd;William A. Cunningham;William A. Cunningham;Adam K. Anderson;Evan Thompson

  • Motivational Salience Amygdala Tuning From Traits, Needs, Values, and Goals

    William A. Cunningham;Tobias Brosch

  • Affective Flexibility Evaluative Processing Goals Shape Amygdala Activity

    William A. Cunningham;Jay J. Van Bavel;Jay J. Van Bavel;Ingrid R. Johnsen

  • Neural components of social evaluation.

    William A. Cunningham;Marcia K. Johnson;J. Chris Gatenby;John C. Gore

  • National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic

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  • Neural correlates of evaluation associated with promotion and prevention regulatory focus.

    William A. Cunningham;Carol L. Raye;Marcia K. Johnson

  • Self-Categorization With a Novel Mixed-Race Group Moderates Automatic Social and Racial Biases:

    Jay J. Van Bavel;William A. Cunningham

  • Emotional States from Affective Dynamics

    William A. Cunningham;William A. Cunningham;Kristen A. Dunfield;Kristen A. Dunfield;Paul E. Stillman

  • Modulation of the fusiform face area following minimal exposure to motivationally relevant faces: Evidence of in-group enhancement (not out-group disregard)

    Jay J. Van Bavel;Dominic J. Packer;William A. Cunningham

  • Implicit Measurement of Attitudes: A Physiological Approach

    William A. Cunningham;William A. Cunningham;William A. Cunningham;Dominic J. Packer;Dominic J. Packer;Amanda Kesek;Jay J. Van Bavel

Frequent Co-Authors

Jay J. Van Bavel
Jay J. Van Bavel New York University
Marcia K. Johnson
Marcia K. Johnson Yale University
Anna Dreber
Anna Dreber Stockholm School of Economics
C. Neil Macrae
C. Neil Macrae University of Aberdeen
Philip David Zelazo
Philip David Zelazo University of Minnesota
Jean M. Vettel
Jean M. Vettel United States Army Research Laboratory
Carol L. Raye
Carol L. Raye Yale University
June Gruber
June Gruber University of Colorado Boulder
Jean-Baptiste Poline
Jean-Baptiste Poline Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Mahzarin R. Banaji
Mahzarin R. Banaji Harvard University

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