C. Neil Macrae

28.0k total citations · 9 hit papers
208 papers, 20.2k citations indexed

About

C. Neil Macrae is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, C. Neil Macrae has authored 208 papers receiving a total of 20.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 139 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 86 papers in Social Psychology and 72 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in C. Neil Macrae's work include Social and Intergroup Psychology (69 papers), Face Recognition and Perception (57 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (51 papers). C. Neil Macrae is often cited by papers focused on Social and Intergroup Psychology (69 papers), Face Recognition and Perception (57 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (51 papers). C. Neil Macrae collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. C. Neil Macrae's co-authors include Galen V. Bodenhausen, Jason P. Mitchell, Alan B. Milne, Mahzarin R. Banaji, Malia F. Mason, William M. Kelley, Lynden K. Miles, Carrie L. Wyland, Daniel M. Wegner and Scott T. Grafton and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

C. Neil Macrae

202 papers receiving 19.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Wandering Minds: The Default Network and Stimulus-Independent Thought

2007 2.1k citations C. Neil Macrae et al. profile →
Finding the Self? An Event-Related fMRI Study

2002 1.2k citations C. Neil Macrae et al. profile →
Social Cognition: Thinking Categorically about Others

2000 920 citations C. Neil Macrae et al. profile →
Dissociable Medial Prefrontal Contributions to Judgments of Similar and Dissimilar Others

2006 774 citations Jason P. Mitchell, C. Neil Macrae et al. Neuron profile →
Stereotypes as energy-saving devices: A peek inside the cognitive toolbox.

1994 689 citations C. Neil Macrae et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
Stereotypes and Stereotyping

1996 664 citations C. Neil Macrae et al. profile →
The Link between Social Cognition and Self-referential Thought in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex

2005 603 citations Jason P. Mitchell, Mahzarin R. Banaji et al. profile →
Why self-control seems (but may not be) limited

2014 587 citations Michael Inzlicht, Brandon J. Schmeichel et al. Trends in Cognitive Sciences profile →
Out of mind but back in sight: Stereotypes on the rebound.

1994 569 citations C. Neil Macrae et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
C. Neil Macrae United Kingdom	69	11.7k	7.6k	6.2k	5.4k	2.0k	208	20.2k
Nalini Ambady United States	68	6.7k 0.6×	7.1k 0.9×	6.6k 1.1×	6.5k 1.2×	1.2k 0.6×	194	18.2k
Jan De Houwer Belgium	71	10.8k 0.9×	6.9k 0.9×	7.0k 1.1×	5.5k 1.0×	3.6k 1.8×	422	21.6k
Eddie Harmon‐Jones United States	77	9.2k 0.8×	8.2k 1.1×	5.9k 0.9×	5.0k 0.9×	806 0.4×	206	20.7k
Daniel M. Wegner United States	73	11.4k 1.0×	10.1k 1.3×	6.9k 1.1×	5.8k 1.1×	2.0k 1.0×	167	27.0k
Klaus R. Scherer Switzerland	95	14.2k 1.2×	14.8k 1.9×	17.3k 2.8×	4.1k 0.8×	2.2k 1.1×	340	37.8k
Gerald L. Clore United States	58	6.0k 0.5×	10.2k 1.3×	6.0k 1.0×	5.8k 1.1×	1.4k 0.7×	120	21.7k
Elizabeth F. Loftus United States	76	16.3k 1.4×	9.0k 1.2×	4.5k 0.7×	4.9k 0.9×	6.8k 3.4×	384	28.3k
William A. Cunningham United States	39	4.5k 0.4×	5.2k 0.7×	3.1k 0.5×	4.0k 0.7×	798 0.4×	139	13.5k
Paul J. Silvia United States	76	8.8k 0.8×	5.3k 0.7×	12.1k 1.9×	1.9k 0.4×	1.8k 0.9×	312	20.2k
Gary G. Berntson United States	78	6.6k 0.6×	7.8k 1.0×	5.7k 0.9×	2.4k 0.4×	1.7k 0.8×	204	25.7k

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Golubickis, Marius, et al.. (2024). The temporal profile of self-prioritization. Consciousness and Cognition. 125. 103763–103763.

Golubickis, Marius, et al.. (2024). Stimulus valence moderates self-learning. Cognition & Emotion. 38(6). 884–897. 1 indexed citations

Golubickis, Marius, et al.. (2024). Facial misfits accelerate stereotype-based associative learning. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 19320–19320.

Sui, Jie, et al.. (2023). Electrophysiological correlates of self-prioritization. Consciousness and Cognition. 108. 103475–103475. 19 indexed citations

Golubickis, Marius, et al.. (2023). Facial first impressions are not mandatory: A priming investigation. Cognition. 241. 105620–105620.

Golubickis, Marius & C. Neil Macrae. (2021). Judging me and you: Task design modulates self-prioritization. Acta Psychologica. 218. 103350–103350. 10 indexed citations

Falbén, Johanna K., et al.. (2020). Self-relevance enhances evidence gathering during decision-making. Acta Psychologica. 209. 103122–103122. 13 indexed citations

Falbén, Johanna K., et al.. (2019). Predictably confirmatory: The influence of stereotypes during decisional processing. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 72(10). 2437–2451. 9 indexed citations

Golubickis, Marius, et al.. (2019). Valence and ownership: object desirability influences self-prioritization. Psychological Research. 85(1). 91–100. 27 indexed citations

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Miles, Lynden K., et al.. (2016). Taming temptation: Visual perspective impacts consumption and willingness to pay for unhealthy foods.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied. 22(1). 85–94. 22 indexed citations

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Inzlicht, Michael, Brandon J. Schmeichel, & C. Neil Macrae. (2014). Why self-control seems (but may not be) limited. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 18(3). 127–133. 587 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fiske, Susan T. & C. Neil Macrae. (2012). The SAGE Handbook of Social Cognition. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 18 indexed citations

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Cunningham, Sheila J. & C. Neil Macrae. (2011). The colour of gender stereotyping. British Journal of Psychology. 102(3). 598–614. 75 indexed citations

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Mitchell, Jason P., C. Neil Macrae, & Mahzarin R. Banaji. (2006). Dissociable Medial Prefrontal Contributions to Judgments of Similar and Dissimilar Others. Neuron. 50(4). 655–663. 774 indexed citations breakdown →

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Quinn, Kimberly A. & C. Neil Macrae. (2005). Categorizing Others: The Dynamics of Person Construal.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 88(3). 467–479. 87 indexed citations

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Macrae, C. Neil. (2004). Medial Prefrontal Activity Predicts Memory for Self. Cerebral Cortex. 14(6). 647–654. 448 indexed citations

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Mitchell, Jason P., et al.. (2002). Unintentional remembering: Subliminal cues alter nonconscious memory strategies. Memory. 10. 1 indexed citations

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Macrae, C. Neil, et al.. (2002). I was always on my mind: The self and temporary forgetting. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 9(3). 611–614. 56 indexed citations

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Ellis, Hadyn D. & C. Neil Macrae. (2001). Validation in psychology. 2 indexed citations

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Macrae, C. Neil, et al.. (1990). Attributional biases and driver behavior. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 5(3). 185–192. 25 indexed citations

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