Jacques Launay

3.3k total citations
29 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Jacques Launay is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jacques Launay has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Social Psychology, 14 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 8 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Jacques Launay's work include Action Observation and Synchronization (15 papers), Neuroscience and Music Perception (8 papers) and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (7 papers). Jacques Launay is often cited by papers focused on Action Observation and Synchronization (15 papers), Neuroscience and Music Perception (8 papers) and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (7 papers). Jacques Launay collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and Finland. Jacques Launay's co-authors include Robin Dunbar, Bronwyn Tarr, Eiluned Pearce, Roger T. Dean, Freya Bailes, Emma Cohen, Lauren Stewart, Wouter Wolf, Pádraig MacCarron and James Carney and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Personality and Individual Differences.

In The Last Decade

Jacques Launay

28 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jacques Launay United Kingdom 20 1.3k 940 428 291 280 29 1.9k
Bronwyn Tarr United Kingdom 9 790 0.6× 695 0.7× 282 0.7× 170 0.6× 134 0.5× 11 1.2k
Marcel Zentner United Kingdom 22 1.1k 0.8× 1.7k 1.8× 971 2.3× 480 1.6× 217 0.8× 31 3.1k
Emma Cohen United Kingdom 23 1.0k 0.8× 559 0.6× 385 0.9× 47 0.2× 768 2.7× 48 2.0k
Ivana Konvalinka Denmark 17 1.1k 0.9× 1.1k 1.2× 317 0.7× 44 0.2× 216 0.8× 32 1.8k
Petr Janata United States 29 1.5k 1.1× 2.9k 3.0× 860 2.0× 578 2.0× 102 0.4× 62 3.8k
Katie Overy United Kingdom 20 727 0.6× 1.6k 1.7× 377 0.9× 573 2.0× 116 0.4× 48 2.1k
Paul Reddish Czechia 12 742 0.6× 383 0.4× 229 0.5× 29 0.1× 479 1.7× 18 1.1k
R. Michael Brown United States 20 454 0.3× 674 0.7× 271 0.6× 74 0.3× 272 1.0× 43 1.5k
Jo‐Anne Bachorowski United States 22 1.4k 1.1× 816 0.9× 1.4k 3.2× 23 0.1× 383 1.4× 40 3.5k
Mechthild Papoušek Germany 26 612 0.5× 487 0.5× 740 1.7× 70 0.2× 80 0.3× 56 3.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jacques Launay

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jacques Launay

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Launay, Jacques, et al.. (2020). Signals through music and dance: Perceived social bonds and formidability on collective movement. Acta Psychologica. 208. 103093–103093. 19 indexed citations
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Dingle, Genevieve A., Stephen Clift, Saoirse Finn, et al.. (2019). An Agenda for Best Practice Research on Group Singing, Health, and Well-Being. Music & Science. 2. 45 indexed citations
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Dunbar, Robin, Jacques Launay, Rafael Wlodarski, et al.. (2016). Functional Benefits of (Modest) Alcohol Consumption. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology. 3(2). 118–133. 54 indexed citations
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Launay, Jacques, Roger T. Dean, & Freya Bailes. (2016). Rapid learning of associations between sound and action through observed movement: A TMS study.. Psychomusicology Music Mind and Brain. 26(1). 35–42. 5 indexed citations
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Tarr, Bronwyn, Jacques Launay, & Robin Dunbar. (2016). Silent disco: dancing in synchrony leads to elevated pain thresholds and social closeness. Evolution and Human Behavior. 37(5). 343–349. 198 indexed citations
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Dunbar, Robin, Jacques Launay, & Oliver Scott Curry. (2015). The Complexity of Jokes Is Limited by Cognitive Constraints on Mentalizing. Human Nature. 27(2). 130–140. 22 indexed citations
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Launay, Jacques. (2015). Music as a technology for social bonding: Comment on “Music, empathy, and cultural understanding” by E. Clarke et al.. Physics of Life Reviews. 15. 94–95. 3 indexed citations
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Launay, Jacques, et al.. (2015). Singing and social bonding: changes in connectivity and pain threshold as a function of group size. Evolution and Human Behavior. 37(2). 152–158. 151 indexed citations
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Launay, Jacques. (2015). Musical Sounds, Motor Resonance, and Detectable Agency. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 10(1-2). 30–40. 19 indexed citations
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Launay, Jacques & Robin Dunbar. (2015). Playing with Strangers: Which Shared Traits Attract Us Most to New People?. PLoS ONE. 10(6). e0129688–e0129688. 34 indexed citations
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Tarr, Bronwyn, Jacques Launay, Emma Cohen, & Robin Dunbar. (2015). Synchrony and exertion during dance independently raise pain threshold and encourage social bonding. Biology Letters. 11(10). 219 indexed citations
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Launay, Jacques, et al.. (2015). Higher-order mentalising and executive functioning. Personality and Individual Differences. 86. 6–14. 25 indexed citations
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Wolf, Wouter, Jacques Launay, & Robin Dunbar. (2015). Joint attention, shared goals, and social bonding. British Journal of Psychology. 107(2). 322–337. 73 indexed citations
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Pearce, Eiluned, Jacques Launay, & Robin Dunbar. (2015). The ice-breaker effect: singing mediates fast social bonding. Royal Society Open Science. 2(10). 150221–150221. 198 indexed citations
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Tarr, Bronwyn, Jacques Launay, & Robin Dunbar. (2014). Music and social bonding: “self-other†merging and neurohormonal mechanisms. Frontiers in Psychology. 5. 1096–1096. 290 indexed citations
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Launay, Jacques, Manon Grube, & Lauren Stewart. (2014). Dysrhythmia: a specific congenital rhythm perception deficit. Frontiers in Psychology. 5. 18–18. 31 indexed citations
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Launay, Jacques & Robin Dunbar. (2014). Does implied community size predict likeability of a similar stranger?. Evolution and Human Behavior. 36(1). 32–37. 12 indexed citations
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Launay, Jacques, Roger T. Dean, & Freya Bailes. (2014). Synchronising movements with the sounds of a virtual partner enhances partner likeability. Cognitive Processing. 15(4). 491–501. 74 indexed citations
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Launay, Jacques, Roger T. Dean, & Freya Bailes. (2013). Evidence for multiple strategies in off-beat tapping with anisochronous stimuli. Psychological Research. 78(5). 721–735. 9 indexed citations

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