Thomas Armstrong

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Thomas Armstrong is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Armstrong has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 27 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 19 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Thomas Armstrong's work include Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (23 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (19 papers) and Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (8 papers). Thomas Armstrong is often cited by papers focused on Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (23 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (19 papers) and Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (8 papers). Thomas Armstrong collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Thomas Armstrong's co-authors include Bunmi O. Olatunji, David H. Zald, Brian Detweiler–Bedell, Bethany G. Ciesielski, Shivali Sarawgi, Lisa S. Elwood, Sarah A. Bilsky, Edwin S. Dalmaijer, Maureen McHugo and Bieke David and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Current Biology and Journal of Abnormal Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Armstrong

52 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Eye tracking of attention in the affective disorders: A meta-analytic review and synthesis

2012 732 citations Thomas Armstrong, Bunmi O. Olatunji profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Armstrong United States	23	1.1k	1.1k	718	399	179	57	2.0k
Issidoros Sarinopoulos United States	14	748 0.7×	984 0.9×	559 0.8×	621 1.6×	193 1.1×	18	2.1k
Craig J. Gonsalvez Australia	28	815 0.7×	1.4k 1.3×	889 1.2×	683 1.7×	274 1.5×	85	2.8k
Patrick Clarke Australia	22	1.2k 1.1×	803 0.7×	756 1.1×	166 0.4×	157 0.9×	81	1.8k
Rebecca J. Compton United States	25	898 0.8×	1.5k 1.4×	375 0.5×	339 0.8×	157 0.9×	59	2.1k
Jorg Huijding Netherlands	27	691 0.6×	657 0.6×	889 1.2×	553 1.4×	139 0.8×	73	1.9k
Hadas Okon‐Singer Israel	25	776 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	326 0.5×	321 0.8×	199 1.1×	67	1.9k
Kevin Dutton United Kingdom	13	1.7k 1.6×	2.2k 2.0×	669 0.9×	565 1.4×	123 0.7×	20	3.2k
Richard B. Lopez United States	16	840 0.8×	925 0.9×	666 0.9×	285 0.7×	208 1.2×	37	1.9k
Maital Neta United States	25	1.1k 1.0×	1.7k 1.6×	287 0.4×	823 2.1×	98 0.5×	63	2.6k
Tony T. Wells United States	24	1.0k 0.9×	663 0.6×	854 1.2×	289 0.7×	133 0.7×	49	1.9k

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Armstrong, Thomas, et al.. (2025). Suicide Ideation Severity and Oculomotor Avoidance of Suicide‐Related Stimuli. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. 55(1). e13166–e13166. 2 indexed citations

Armstrong, Thomas, et al.. (2025). Benefits of the “worst-case scenario”: a multi-level examination of the effects of confronting the feared outcome during imagery-based exposure. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. 54(5). 644–663. 1 indexed citations

Armstrong, Thomas, et al.. (2024). A multilevel examination of an inhibitory retrieval approach to exposure: Differentiating the unique and combined effects of multiple-context and multiple-stimulus cues. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. 86. 101986–101986. 1 indexed citations

Armstrong, Thomas, et al.. (2024). Long-term disgust habituation with limited generalisation in care home workers. PLoS ONE. 19(4). e0299429–e0299429. 3 indexed citations

Armstrong, Thomas, et al.. (2023). A novel probe of attentional bias for threat in specific phobia: Application of the “MouseView.js” approach. Journal of Anxiety Disorders. 96. 102700–102700. 3 indexed citations

Armstrong, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Sea urchin Arbacia punctulata feeding preference for algal turf over kelp in a degraded kelp forest ecosystem. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 571. 151976–151976. 1 indexed citations

Anwyl-Irvine, Alexander Leslie, Thomas Armstrong, & Edwin S. Dalmaijer. (2021). MouseView.js: Reliable and valid attention tracking in web-based experiments using a cursor-directed aperture. Behavior Research Methods. 54(4). 1663–1687. 26 indexed citations

Armstrong, Thomas, et al.. (2021). Beyond vernacular: Measurement solutions to the lexical fallacy in disgust research. Journal of Anxiety Disorders. 82. 102408–102408. 6 indexed citations

Armstrong, Thomas, et al.. (2020). Fear Learning in Veterans With Combat-Related PTSD Is Linked to Anxiety Sensitivity: Evidence From Self-Report and Pupillometry. Behavior Therapy. 52(1). 149–161. 9 indexed citations

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Armstrong, Thomas & Bunmi O. Olatunji. (2017). Pavlovian disgust conditioning as a model for contamination-based OCD: Evidence from an analogue study. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 93. 78–87. 39 indexed citations

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Rifkin, Lara S., Casey A. Schofield, Courtney Beard, & Thomas Armstrong. (2016). Adaptation of a paradigm for examining the development of fear beliefs through the verbal information pathway in preschool-age children. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 87. 34–39. 3 indexed citations

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Armstrong, Thomas. (2015). Peer Feedback in Disciplinary Writing for Publication in English: The Case of ‘Rolli’, a German-L1 Novice Scholar. 86–105. 3 indexed citations

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Armstrong, Thomas, et al.. (2013). Attentional bias in injection phobia: Overt components, time course, and relation to behavior. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 51(6). 266–273. 35 indexed citations

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Armstrong, Thomas, Andrew J. Tomarken, & Bunmi O. Olatunji. (2011). The moderating effects of contamination sensitivity on state affect and information processing: Examination of disgust specificity. Cognition & Emotion. 26(1). 136–143. 1 indexed citations

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Armstrong, Thomas, et al.. (2010). Orienting and maintenance of gaze in contamination fear: Biases for disgust and fear cues. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 48(5). 402–408. 64 indexed citations

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Ciesielski, Bethany G., Thomas Armstrong, David H. Zald, & Bunmi O. Olatunji. (2010). Emotion Modulation of Visual Attention: Categorical and Temporal Characteristics. PLoS ONE. 5(11). e13860–e13860. 63 indexed citations

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Armstrong, Thomas & Howard Gardner. (2006). Inteligencias múltiples en el aula : guía práctica para educadores. 10 indexed citations

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Armstrong, Thomas. (2001). IKSWAL: Interesting Kids Saddled with Alienating Labels.. Educational leadership. 59(3). 38–41. 1 indexed citations

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Armstrong, Thomas. (1996). Understanding Children. Labels Can Last a Lifetime.. Learning Research and Practice. 24(6). 41–43. 1 indexed citations

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Armstrong, Thomas. (1988). Learning Differences--Not Disabilities.. Principal. 68(1). 34–36. 6 indexed citations

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