Paul Forbes

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 686 citations indexed

About

Paul Forbes is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Forbes has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 686 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 12 papers in Social Psychology and 9 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Paul Forbes's work include Action Observation and Synchronization (7 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (6 papers) and COVID-19 and Mental Health (6 papers). Paul Forbes is often cited by papers focused on Action Observation and Synchronization (7 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (6 papers) and COVID-19 and Mental Health (6 papers). Paul Forbes collaborates with scholars based in Austria, United Kingdom and Germany. Paul Forbes's co-authors include Claus Lamm, Antonia F. de C. Hamilton, Jonas P. Nitschke, Matthew A J Apps, Patricia Lockwood, Jo Cutler, Nida Ali, Xueni Pan, Holly Joseph and Kate Nation and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Paul Forbes

28 papers receiving 672 citations

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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.

Resilience during uncertainty? Greater social connectedness during COVID‐19 lockdown is associated with reduced distress and fatigue

2020 235 citations Jonas P. Nitschke, Paul Forbes et al. British Journal of Health Psychology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paul Forbes Austria	13	267	225	216	114	111	28	686
Nadja Heym United Kingdom	15	191 0.7×	141 0.6×	389 1.8×	197 1.7×	46 0.4×	38	778
Sarah M. Rabbitt United States	7	215 0.8×	120 0.5×	301 1.4×	114 1.0×	43 0.4×	8	657
Casey L. Brown United States	15	326 1.2×	266 1.2×	227 1.1×	239 2.1×	50 0.5×	32	810
Anja Podlešek Slovenia	16	191 0.7×	61 0.3×	306 1.4×	95 0.8×	127 1.1×	78	724
Bahar Tunçgenç United Kingdom	11	262 1.0×	228 1.0×	61 0.3×	76 0.7×	134 1.2×	29	519
Rosalba Morese Switzerland	16	155 0.6×	198 0.9×	167 0.8×	85 0.7×	50 0.5×	45	560
Pio Enrico Ricci Bitti Italy	17	226 0.8×	227 1.0×	173 0.8×	227 2.0×	44 0.4×	43	766
Antonia Ypsilanti United Kingdom	15	116 0.4×	153 0.7×	193 0.9×	125 1.1×	83 0.7×	35	571
Marinella Majorano Italy	18	137 0.5×	154 0.7×	208 1.0×	178 1.6×	463 4.2×	61	836
Helga Noice United States	16	341 1.3×	253 1.1×	76 0.4×	313 2.7×	198 1.8×	30	913

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Forbes

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Forbes, Paul, et al.. (2025). Dissociable glucocorticoid and noradrenergic effects on parochial cooperation and competition in intergroup conflict. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(29). e2502257122–e2502257122. 1 indexed citations

Forbes, Paul, Ekaterina Pronizius, Anja C. Feneberg, et al.. (2025). Affective and Social Predictors of Food Consumption During the COVID-19 Lockdown. Biological Psychiatry. 97(10). 1002–1010. 1 indexed citations

Pronizius, Ekaterina, Paul Forbes, Anja C. Feneberg, et al.. (2024). Everyday helping is associated with enhanced mood but greater stress when it is more effortful. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 24120–24120. 1 indexed citations

Forbes, Paul, Gökhan Aydogan, Boryana Todorova, et al.. (2024). Acute stress reduces effortful prosocial behaviour. eLife. 12. 2 indexed citations

Forbes, Paul, et al.. (2024). No effects of acute stress on monetary delay discounting: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis. Neurobiology of Stress. 31. 100653–100653. 1 indexed citations

Forbes, Paul, Gökhan Aydogan, Boryana Todorova, et al.. (2023). Acute stress reduces effortful prosocial behaviour. eLife. 12. 10 indexed citations

Feneberg, Anja C., Paul Forbes, Claus Lamm, et al.. (2023). Perceptions of Stress and Mood Associated With Listening to Music in Daily Life During the COVID-19 Lockdown. JAMA Network Open. 6(1). e2250382–e2250382. 13 indexed citations

Forbes, Paul, Ekaterina Pronizius, Anja C. Feneberg, et al.. (2022). The effects of social interactions on momentary stress and mood during COVID ‐19 lockdowns. British Journal of Health Psychology. 28(2). 306–319. 12 indexed citations

Feneberg, Anja C., Paul Forbes, Ekaterina Pronizius, et al.. (2022). Diurnal dynamics of stress and mood during COVID-19 lockdown: a large multinational ecological momentary assessment study. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1975). 20212480–20212480. 20 indexed citations

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Hartmann, Helena, Paul Forbes, Markus Rütgen, & Claus Lamm. (2022). Placebo Analgesia Reduces Costly Prosocial Helping to Lower Another Person’s Pain. Psychological Science. 33(11). 1867–1881. 19 indexed citations

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Nitschke, Jonas P., Paul Forbes, & Claus Lamm. (2022). Does stress make us more—or less—prosocial? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of acute stress on prosocial behaviours using economic games. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 142. 104905–104905. 24 indexed citations

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Lamm, Claus, Urs M. Nater, Anja C. Feneberg, et al.. (2020). The COVID-19 crisis, stress, mood, and behaviour: an ecological momentary assessment study. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations

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Nitschke, Jonas P., Paul Forbes, Nida Ali, et al.. (2020). Resilience during uncertainty? Greater social connectedness during COVID‐19 lockdown is associated with reduced distress and fatigue. British Journal of Health Psychology. 26(2). 553–569. 235 indexed citations breakdown →

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Forbes, Paul, et al.. (2020). The effects of self-relevance vs. reward value on facial mimicry. Acta Psychologica. 212. 103193–103193. 9 indexed citations

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Forbes, Paul & Antonia F. de C. Hamilton. (2020). Brief Report: Autistic Adults Assign Less Weight to Affective Cues When Judging Others’ Ambiguous Emotional States. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 50(8). 3066–3070. 2 indexed citations

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Forbes, Paul & Antonia F. de C. Hamilton. (2017). A model to investigate intention understanding in autism?. Physics of Life Reviews. 24. 99–100. 2 indexed citations

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Forbes, Paul & Antonia F. de C. Hamilton. (2017). Moving higher and higher: imitators’ movements are sensitive to observed trajectories regardless of action rationality. Experimental Brain Research. 235(9). 2741–2753. 15 indexed citations

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Forbes, Paul, Yin Wang, & Antonia F. de C. Hamilton. (2016). STORMy Interactions: Gaze and the Modulation of Mimicry in Adults on the Autism Spectrum. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 24(2). 529–535. 22 indexed citations

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Pan, Xueni, Mel Slater, Alejandro Beacco, et al.. (2016). The Responses of Medical General Practitioners to Unreasonable Patient Demand for Antibiotics - A Study of Medical Ethics Using Immersive Virtual Reality. PLoS ONE. 11(2). e0146837–e0146837. 92 indexed citations

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Forbes, Paul, Xueni Pan, & Antonia F. de C. Hamilton. (2016). Reduced Mimicry to Virtual Reality Avatars in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 46(12). 3788–3797. 37 indexed citations

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