Gray Atherton

726 total citations
33 papers, 476 citations indexed

About

Gray Atherton is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Gray Atherton has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 476 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 14 papers in Social Psychology and 10 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Gray Atherton's work include Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (15 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (9 papers) and Social and Intergroup Psychology (7 papers). Gray Atherton is often cited by papers focused on Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (15 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (9 papers) and Social and Intergroup Psychology (7 papers). Gray Atherton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Malaysia and Spain. Gray Atherton's co-authors include Liam Cross, Martine Turgeon, Natalie Sebanz, Susan X. Day, Sabrina Golonka, Yuko Morimoto, Andrew D. Wilson, Satoshi Nakashima, John Michael and Micael Sousa and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Gray Atherton

29 papers receiving 468 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gray Atherton United Kingdom 14 322 164 132 93 93 33 476
Liam Cross United Kingdom 14 350 1.1× 209 1.3× 136 1.0× 94 1.0× 96 1.0× 41 547
Tara Flanagan Canada 12 299 0.9× 78 0.5× 207 1.6× 99 1.1× 134 1.4× 27 608
Lauren Marsh United Kingdom 13 228 0.7× 181 1.1× 38 0.3× 36 0.4× 174 1.9× 21 423
Bahar Tunçgenç United Kingdom 11 228 0.7× 262 1.6× 61 0.5× 38 0.4× 134 1.4× 29 519
Debra Fine United Kingdom 3 358 1.1× 182 1.1× 185 1.4× 115 1.2× 105 1.1× 4 615
Melanie Yergeau United States 10 275 0.9× 40 0.2× 105 0.8× 89 1.0× 102 1.1× 16 485
Melissa J. Herzog United States 10 305 0.9× 105 0.6× 305 2.3× 181 1.9× 138 1.5× 15 569
Thomas Arciszewski France 13 142 0.4× 163 1.0× 73 0.6× 34 0.4× 101 1.1× 35 407
Steven D. Stagg United Kingdom 13 458 1.4× 76 0.5× 331 2.5× 128 1.4× 122 1.3× 20 638
Brett Heasman United Kingdom 12 456 1.4× 55 0.3× 270 2.0× 124 1.3× 108 1.2× 22 626

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gray Atherton

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gray Atherton

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All Works

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Cross, Liam, et al.. (2025). The Moving Mandala: Exploring the Pro-Social Effects of Musical and Non-Musical Synchrony in Children in a Virtual World. European Journal of Investigation in Health Psychology and Education. 15(3). 39–39. 1 indexed citations
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Cross, Liam, et al.. (2025). GrooVR: an open access virtual reality drumming application to improve pro-sociality using synchronous movement. Frontiers in Psychology. 16. 1536761–1536761.
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Atherton, Gray, Lucy J. Robinson, Lois E. H. Smith, & Liam Cross. (2024). The wind in the willows effect: Does age affect human versus animal faux pas recognition?. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 249. 106116–106116.
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Atherton, Gray, et al.. (2024). Participatory Design of an Embodied Mixed Reality Experience Aimed to Assessing Individual and Collaborative Behaviors of Children. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 8(CHI PLAY). 1–27.
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Cross, Liam, et al.. (2024). Game Changer: Exploring the Role of Board Games in the Lives of Autistic People. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 55(10). 3478–3497. 7 indexed citations
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Atherton, Gray, et al.. (2023). Mediating Interpersonal Synchronization in Children through a Full-Body Mixed Reality System: Analysis of the Pre-Interactive Mandala Experience. PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality. 32. 35–51. 4 indexed citations
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Cross, Liam, et al.. (2023). Your Move: An Open Access Dataset of Over 1500 Board Gamer’s Demographics, Preferences and Motivations. Simulation & Gaming. 54(5). 554–575. 9 indexed citations
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Atherton, Gray, et al.. (2023). Autism, pets, and the importance of seeing human. Autism Research. 16(9). 1765–1774. 4 indexed citations
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Atherton, Gray, et al.. (2023). Autism, thy name is man: Exploring implicit and explicit gender bias in autism perceptions. PLoS ONE. 18(8). e0284013–e0284013. 23 indexed citations
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Atherton, Gray, et al.. (2022). ‘They ask no questions and pass no criticism’: A mixed-methods study exploring pet ownership in autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 53(8). 3280–3294. 12 indexed citations
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Atherton, Gray & Liam Cross. (2021). The Use of Analog and Digital Games for Autism Interventions. Frontiers in Psychology. 12. 669734–669734. 24 indexed citations
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Atherton, Gray, et al.. (2021). Lost in the crowd: Imagining walking in synchrony with a crowd increases affiliation and deindividuation. PLoS ONE. 16(7). e0254017–e0254017. 10 indexed citations
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Cross, Liam, et al.. (2021). Moving From Me to We: Interpersonal Coordination’s Effects on Self-Construal. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 50–63. 3 indexed citations
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Atherton, Gray & Liam Cross. (2020). Walking in My Shoes: Imagined Synchrony Improves Attitudes Towards Out-groups. Psychological Studies. 65(4). 351–359. 5 indexed citations
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Cross, Liam, et al.. (2020). Still want to help? Interpersonal coordination's effects on helping behaviour after a 24 hour delay. Acta Psychologica. 206. 103062–103062. 15 indexed citations
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Atherton, Gray, Natalie Sebanz, & Liam Cross. (2019). Imagine All The Synchrony: The effects of actual and imagined synchronous walking on attitudes towards marginalised groups. PLoS ONE. 14(5). e0216585–e0216585. 27 indexed citations
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Cross, Liam, Gray Atherton, Andrew D. Wilson, & Sabrina Golonka. (2017). Imagined Steps: Mental Simulation of Coordinated Rhythmic Movements Effects on Pro-sociality. Frontiers in Psychology. 8. 1798–1798. 14 indexed citations

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