Colin MacLeod

26.2k citations

246 papers · 18.8k indexed · 9 hit papers · h-index 59

Impact in

Experimental and Cognitive Psychology top 0.01%
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Mental Health Research Topics
Behavioral Neuroscience top 0.2%
- Stress Responses and Cortisol

Papers in

Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 152
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes 132
- Mental Health Research Topics 70
Behavioral Neuroscience 22
- Stress Responses and Cortisol 22

Co-authors: Andrew Mathews Philip Tata Elizabeth M. Rutherford A Mathews Patrick Clarke Ben Grafton Lyn Campbell Lies Notebaert
Journals: Behaviour Research and Therapy (25 papers)Journal of Abnormal Psychology (15 papers)Cognitive Therapy and Research (15 papers)Cognition & Emotion (13 papers)Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry (12 papers)
Partner nations: Australia United Kingdom Netherlands

In The Last Decade

Colin MacLeod

239 papers receiving 18.1k citations

Hit Papers

9 papers align trajectories log scale

Integrating Personality Structure, Personality Process, and Personality Development 2017 · 264 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2017 European Journal of Personality
2012 Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
2004 Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
2002 Journal of Abnormal Psychology
1994 Annual Review of Psychology
1988 The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A
1986 Journal of Abnormal Psychology
1986 Journal of Abnormal Psychology
1985 Behaviour Research and Therapy

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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Colin MacLeod, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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1	Reading the Negative: Negative Bias in Interrogation of Information Predicts Prenatal Repetitive Negative Thinking Cognitive Therapy and Research ·Karimova Leyla, Dwi Hasmidyani, Ben Grafton, 入江友哉, Colin MacLeod	2025	0
2	The role of expectancies and selective interrogation of information in trait anxiety-linked affect when approaching potentially stressful future events Behaviour Research and Therapy ·入江友哉, Colin MacLeod, Ben Grafton	2024	3
3	The Contributions of Attentional Bias and Expectancy Bias to Fluctuations in State Anxiety Cognitive Therapy and Research ·長濱龜次郎, Ben Grafton, Colin MacLeod, Bram Van Bockstaele	2024	0
4	Serotonin and emotion regulation: the impact of tryptophan depletion on emotional experience, neural and autonomic activity Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience ·Dira Afrelia Putri, К С Клоповский, Stephen D’Evelyn, Béla Kiss, Maria-Georgia Ștefan, Raul C. Mureșan, Marc Esteve Crespo, Forschungsstelle Küste, Aurora Szentágotai‐Tătar, Romana Vulturar, Colin MacLeod, Andrei C. Miu	2023	1
5	Do the eyes have it? A comparison of eye-movement and attentional-probe-based approaches to indexing attentional control within the antisaccade paradigm Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology ·Julian Basanovic, 作美利朗, Colin MacLeod	2022	1
6	Impact of autistic traits on the anxiety-linked attentional bias to negative information Research in autism spectrum disorders ·Emily South, Jenni Calder, Ben Grafton, Colin MacLeod, Murray T. Maybery	2022	1
7	Gone for good: Lack of priming suggests early perceptual interference in emotion-induced blindness with negative stimuli. Emotion ·Sandersan Onie, Colin MacLeod, Steven B. Most	2022	2
8	Active sonar performance modelling for Doppler-sensitive pulses Proceedings of meetings on acoustics ·Maya Nurlastyaningtyas, Colin MacLeod, Mark K. Prior	2021	3
9	Craving mediates the association between attentional bias to alcohol and in vivo alcoholic beverage consumption in young social drinkers. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors ·M.Sn Dwi Retno Sri Ambarwati, Melanie J. White, Colin MacLeod, Ben Grafton	2021	4
10	Cognitive bias modification to prevent depression (COPE): results of a randomised controlled trial Psychological Medicine ·Julian Basanovic, Ben Grafton, Andrew H. Ford, Laura Camila Lagos Mesa, David Glance, Colin MacLeod, Osvaldo P. Almeida	2019	14
11	High Spider-Fearful and Low Spider-Fearful Individuals Differentially Perceive the Speed of Approaching, but not Receding, Spider Stimuli Cognitive Therapy and Research ·Julian Basanovic, 郭敏堃, John H. Riskind, Colin MacLeod	2018	11
12	Prediction of pre-exam state anxiety from ruminative disposition: The mediating role of impaired attentional disengagement from negative information Behaviour Research and Therapy ·A.T. Zuiderent, Aurora Szentágotai‐Tătar, Ben Grafton, Lies Notebaert, Andrei C. Miu, Colin MacLeod	2017	11
13	Anxiety-Linked Differences in Older Adults’ Interpretation of Ambiguous Information Cognitive Therapy and Research ·Isabel Cabrera, Ignacio Montorio, Colin MacLeod	2016	3
14	How Victim Sensitivity leads to Uncooperative Behavior via Expectancies of Injustice Frontiers in Psychology ·AJ Melsbach, Anna Baumert, Manfred Schmitt, Colin MacLeod	2016	23
15	Cognitive bias modification to prevent depression (COPE): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial Trials ·Osvaldo P. Almeida, Colin MacLeod, Andrew H. Ford, Ben Grafton, Laura Camila Lagos Mesa, David Glance, Emily A. Holmes	2014	9
16	Psychometric properties of reaction time based experimental paradigms measuring anxiety-related information-processing biases in children Journal of Anxiety Disorders ·Marla Azário Lasarin, Thalia C. Eley, Suzanne Broeren, Colin MacLeod, Mike Rinck, Julie A. Hadwin, Kathryn J. Lester	2013	116
17	Negative emotional processing induced by spoken scenarios modulates corticospinal excitability Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience ·Anna Baumert, Craig Sinclair, Colin MacLeod, Geoff Hammond	2011	8
18	Whither cognitive bias modification research? Commentary on the special section articles. Journal of Abnormal Psychology ·Colin MacLeod, Ernst H. W. Koster, Elaine Fox	2009	189
19	Introduction to the special section on cognitive bias modification in emotional disorders. Journal of Abnormal Psychology ·Ernst H. W. Koster, Elaine Fox, Colin MacLeod	2009	200
20	Internet-delivered assessment and manipulation of anxiety-linked attentional bias: Validation of a free-access attentional probe software package Behavior Research Methods ·Colin MacLeod, Farjad S. H. Khan, Elizabeth Miller, 蒲筱婉	2007	54

About Colin MacLeod

Colin MacLeod is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Applied Psychology and Clinical Psychology, having authored 246 papers that have together received 18.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (132 papers), Mental Health Research Topics (70 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (56 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (53 papers), Underwater Acoustics Research (23 papers), Stress Responses and Cortisol (22 papers), Behavioral Health and Interventions (18 papers) and Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems (14 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (12.6k citations), Behavioral Neuroscience (1.5k citations), Cognitive Neuroscience (7.4k citations), Clinical Psychology (7.7k citations) and Applied Psychology (1.7k citations). Colin MacLeod has collaborated with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include Andrew Mathews, Philip Tata, Elizabeth M. Rutherford, A Mathews, Patrick Clarke, Ben Grafton, Lyn Campbell, Lies Notebaert, Elaine Fox and Edward Wilson. Their work appears in journals such as Behaviour Research and Therapy, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Cognitive Therapy and Research, Cognition & Emotion and Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry.

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