John D. Eastwood

6.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
60 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

John D. Eastwood is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, John D. Eastwood has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 21 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 13 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in John D. Eastwood's work include Mind wandering and attention (28 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (23 papers) and Face Recognition and Perception (13 papers). John D. Eastwood is often cited by papers focused on Mind wandering and attention (28 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (23 papers) and Face Recognition and Perception (13 papers). John D. Eastwood collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Taiwan and United States. John D. Eastwood's co-authors include Daniel Smilek, Philip M. Merikle, M. Fenske, Alexandra Frischen, Kimberley B. Mercer-Lynn, Shelley A. Fahlman, Alan Kingstone, David B. Flora, James Danckert and Andrew Hunter and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Bulletin, PLoS ONE and Journal of Educational Psychology.

In The Last Decade

John D. Eastwood

58 papers receiving 4.1k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John D. Eastwood Canada	30	3.4k	1.4k	907	787	513	60	4.3k
Maurizio Codispoti Italy	35	4.0k 1.2×	2.4k 1.7×	1.6k 1.8×	1.0k 1.3×	355 0.7×	78	6.4k
Jie Sui United Kingdom	35	2.7k 0.8×	1.4k 1.0×	1.3k 1.5×	344 0.4×	593 1.2×	133	4.1k
James Danckert Canada	39	4.0k 1.2×	909 0.7×	810 0.9×	503 0.6×	339 0.7×	146	4.7k
Disa Sauter Netherlands	35	2.2k 0.6×	1.6k 1.2×	1.6k 1.8×	495 0.6×	348 0.7×	101	4.1k
Kristen A. Lindquist United States	36	4.3k 1.3×	2.9k 2.1×	2.6k 2.9×	916 1.2×	601 1.2×	111	7.5k
Carl Senior United Kingdom	31	3.1k 0.9×	1.7k 1.3×	1.1k 1.2×	809 1.0×	262 0.5×	113	5.2k
Michela Balconi Italy	40	4.1k 1.2×	1.2k 0.9×	1.6k 1.7×	595 0.8×	349 0.7×	411	5.9k
Alexandra Frischen Canada	15	2.0k 0.6×	769 0.6×	742 0.8×	262 0.3×	225 0.4×	19	2.5k
Dominique Lamy Israel	34	4.6k 1.4×	3.0k 2.2×	932 1.0×	1.4k 1.7×	243 0.5×	111	6.6k
Malia F. Mason United States	26	3.2k 0.9×	1.5k 1.1×	855 0.9×	385 0.5×	534 1.0×	47	4.3k

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Risko, Evan F., et al.. (2025). Boredom signals deviation from a cognitive homeostatic set point. Communications Psychology. 3(1). 22–22.

Eastwood, John D., et al.. (2024). The experience of effort in ADHD: a scoping review. Frontiers in Psychology. 15. 1349440–1349440. 1 indexed citations

Eastwood, John D., et al.. (2023). A longitudinal approach to understanding boredom during pandemics: The predictive roles of trauma and emotion dysregulation. Frontiers in Psychology. 13. 3 indexed citations

Eastwood, John D., et al.. (2021). Temperament Profiles Associated with Internalizing Symptoms and Externalizing Behavior in Adolescents with ADHD. Child Psychiatry & Human Development. 53(1). 109–123. 4 indexed citations

Petranker, Rotem & John D. Eastwood. (2021). Sitting with it: An investigation of the relationship between trait mindfulness and sustained attention. Consciousness and Cognition. 90. 103101–103101. 10 indexed citations

Toplak, Maggie E., et al.. (2018). Mental effort and discomfort: Testing the peak-end effect during a cognitively demanding task. PLoS ONE. 13(2). e0191479–e0191479. 16 indexed citations

Gerritsen, Cory, Joel O. Goldberg, & John D. Eastwood. (2015). Boredom proneness predicts quality of life in outpatients diagnosed with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. International Journal of Social Psychiatry. 61(8). 781–787. 18 indexed citations

Roberts, Karen, Trevor Hart, & John D. Eastwood. (2015). Factor structure and validity of the State-Trait Inventory for Cognitive and Somatic Anxiety.. Psychological Assessment. 28(2). 134–146. 37 indexed citations

Gerritsen, Cory, et al.. (2014). I can’t get no satisfaction: Potential causes of boredom. Consciousness and Cognition. 27. 27–41. 48 indexed citations

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Cunningham, Charles E., John R. Walker, John D. Eastwood, et al.. (2013). Modeling Mental Health Information Preferences During the Early Adult Years: A Discrete Choice Conjoint Experiment. Journal of Health Communication. 19(4). 413–440. 51 indexed citations

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Marcus, Madalyn, et al.. (2012). What Are Young Adults Saying About Mental Health? An Analysis of Internet Blogs. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 14(1). e17–e17. 47 indexed citations

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Fahlman, Shelley A., Kimberley B. Mercer-Lynn, David B. Flora, & John D. Eastwood. (2011). Development and Validation of the Multidimensional State Boredom Scale. Assessment. 20(1). 68–85. 318 indexed citations

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Eastwood, John D., et al.. (2010). Is boredom associated with problem gambling behaviour? It depends on what you mean by ‘boredom’. International Gambling Studies. 10(1). 91–104. 107 indexed citations

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Reynolds, Michael, John D. Eastwood, Marita Partanen, Alexandra Frischen, & Daniel Smilek. (2008). Monitoring eye movements while searching for affective faces. Visual Cognition. 17(3). 318–333. 28 indexed citations

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Kingstone, Alan, Daniel Smilek, & John D. Eastwood. (2008). Cognitive Ethology: A new approach for studying human cognition. British Journal of Psychology. 99(3). 317–340. 214 indexed citations

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Frischen, Alexandra, Daniel Smilek, John D. Eastwood, & Steven P. Tipper. (2007). Inhibition of return in response to gaze cues: The roles of time course and fixation cue. Visual Cognition. 15(8). 881–895. 64 indexed citations

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Eastwood, John D. & Daniel Smilek. (2005). Functional consequences of perceiving facial expressions of emotion without awareness. Consciousness and Cognition. 14(3). 565–584. 41 indexed citations

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Eastwood, John D., Daniel Smilek, & Philip M. Merikle. (2003). Negative facial expression captures attention and disrupts performance. Perception & Psychophysics. 65(3). 352–358. 214 indexed citations

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Eastwood, John D., Daniel Smilek, & Philip M. Merikle. (2001). Differential attentional guidance by unattended faces expressing positive and negative emotion. Perception & Psychophysics. 63(6). 1004–1013. 463 indexed citations

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Eastwood, John D., Peter Gaskovski, & Kenneth S. Bowers. (1998). The folly of effort: Ironic effects in the mental control of pain. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. 46(1). 77–91. 11 indexed citations

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