W. Jake Jacobs

5.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
85 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

W. Jake Jacobs is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, W. Jake Jacobs has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 22 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 19 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in W. Jake Jacobs's work include Memory and Neural Mechanisms (27 papers), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (14 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (12 papers). W. Jake Jacobs is often cited by papers focused on Memory and Neural Mechanisms (27 papers), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (14 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (12 papers). W. Jake Jacobs collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and South Africa. W. Jake Jacobs's co-authors include Lynn Nadel, Aurelio José Figueredo, Vincent M. LoLordo, Kevin G. F. Thomas, Beth Kirsner, Jessica D. Payne, Holly E. Laurance, Eric D. Jackson, Paul R. Gladden and Ming‐Chyi Pai and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, NeuroImage and Psychological Review.

In The Last Decade

W. Jake Jacobs

84 papers receiving 3.7k 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.

The evolutionary basis of risky adolescent behavior: Implications for science, policy, and practice.

2011 484 citations Aurelio José Figueredo, W. Jake Jacobs et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
W. Jake Jacobs United States	32	1.4k	1.4k	1.0k	940	568	85	3.9k
Kristen C. Jacobson United States	40	1.6k 1.2×	1.8k 1.4×	1.1k 1.0×	2.5k 2.6×	352 0.6×	141	7.8k
Stephanie H.M. van Goozen Netherlands	46	1.3k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	2.0k 1.9×	3.2k 3.4×	1.0k 1.8×	108	6.6k
Sven C. Mueller Belgium	33	1.1k 0.8×	724 0.5×	782 0.7×	962 1.0×	293 0.5×	99	3.1k
Joan S. Girgus United States	29	1.6k 1.1×	1.3k 1.0×	1.6k 1.6×	2.8k 2.9×	170 0.3×	56	5.7k
Roland Jouvent France	39	1.5k 1.1×	969 0.7×	542 0.5×	1.2k 1.2×	123 0.2×	152	4.6k
Stephanie Burnett Heyes United Kingdom	24	1.4k 1.0×	988 0.7×	881 0.8×	1.3k 1.4×	236 0.4×	40	3.5k
Wendy Heller United States	50	5.9k 4.2×	3.8k 2.8×	1.1k 1.1×	1.9k 2.1×	415 0.7×	158	8.7k
Christine L. Larson United States	38	3.4k 2.5×	2.1k 1.5×	1.2k 1.1×	1.9k 2.0×	654 1.2×	122	6.5k
Derek Mitchell Canada	38	2.7k 2.0×	1.2k 0.9×	1.9k 1.8×	3.6k 3.8×	181 0.3×	99	6.5k
Bruce E. Wexler United States	49	3.7k 2.6×	1.7k 1.2×	839 0.8×	1.8k 1.9×	189 0.3×	155	7.7k

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Henry, Michelle, et al.. (2018). Elevated Cortisol Leaves Working Memory Unaffected in Both Men and Women. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 12. 299–299. 3 indexed citations

Corral-Frías, Nadia Saraí, Lynn Nadel, Jean‐Marc Fellous, & W. Jake Jacobs. (2016). Behavioral and self-reported sensitivity to reward are linked to stress-related differences in positive affect. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 66. 205–213. 28 indexed citations

Adams, Thomas G., Robert E. Brady, Jeffrey M. Lohr, & W. Jake Jacobs. (2015). A meta-analysis of CBT components for anxiety disorders.. Behavior Therapy. 11 indexed citations

Wolf, Pedro S. A., Aurelio José Figueredo, & W. Jake Jacobs. (2013). Global positioning system technology (GPS) for psychological research: a test of convergent and nomological validity. Frontiers in Psychology. 4. 315–315. 11 indexed citations

Hoscheidt, Siobhan M., Kevin S. LaBar, Lee Ryan, W. Jake Jacobs, & Lynn Nadel. (2013). Encoding negative events under stress: High subjective arousal is related to accurate emotional memory despite misinformation exposure. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 112. 237–247. 41 indexed citations

Chen, Yu‐Ju, et al.. (2011). Psychophysiological Determinants of Repeated Ventilator Weaning Failure: An Explanatory Model. American Journal of Critical Care. 20(4). 292–302. 21 indexed citations

Britton, Willoughby B., Ben Shahar, Ohad Szepsenwol, & W. Jake Jacobs. (2011). Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Improves Emotional Reactivity to Social Stress: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial. Behavior Therapy. 43(2). 365–380. 186 indexed citations

Metcalfe, Janet & W. Jake Jacobs. (2009). People's study time allocation and its relation to animal foraging. Behavioural Processes. 83(2). 213–221. 23 indexed citations

Kállai, János, Kázmér Karádi, Tamás Bereczkei, et al.. (2006). Spatial exploration behaviour in an extended labyrinth in patients with panic disorder and agoraphobia. Psychiatry Research. 149(1-3). 223–230. 16 indexed citations

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Jackson, Eric D., Jessica D. Payne, Lynn Nadel, & W. Jake Jacobs. (2005). Stress Differentially Modulates Fear Conditioning in Healthy Men and Women. Biological Psychiatry. 59(6). 516–522. 142 indexed citations

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Payne, Jessica D., Lynn Nadel, John J. B. Allen, Kevin G. F. Thomas, & W. Jake Jacobs. (2002). The effects of experimentally induced stress on false recognition. Memory. 10(1). 1–6. 115 indexed citations

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Kirsner, Beth, Aurelio José Figueredo, & W. Jake Jacobs. (2002). Self, friends, and lovers: structural relations among Beck Depression Inventory scores and perceived mate values. Journal of Affective Disorders. 75(2). 131–148. 138 indexed citations

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Thomas, Kevin G. F., et al.. (2001). Place learning in virtual space III: Investigation of spatial navigation training procedures and their application to fMRI and clinical neuropsychology. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers. 33(1). 21–37. 36 indexed citations

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Thomas, Kevin G. F., Holly E. Laurance, Susan E. Luczak, & W. Jake Jacobs. (1999). Age-Related Changes in a Human Cognitive Mapping System: Data from a Computer-Generated Environment. CyberPsychology & Behavior. 2(6). 545–566. 14 indexed citations

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Kállai, János, et al.. (1999). Attention fixation training: training people to form cognitive maps help to control symptoms of panic disorder with agoraphobia. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. 30(4). 273–288. 12 indexed citations

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Jacobs, W. Jake, et al.. (1996). On the veracity and variability of traumatic memory.. Traumatology An International Journal. 2(2). 18 indexed citations

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Bulsara, Adi R. & W. Jake Jacobs. (1991). Single Neuron Model: Response to Weak Modulation in the Presence of Noise. Neural Information Processing Systems. 4. 67–74. 1 indexed citations

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Jacobs, W. Jake, et al.. (1988). A rapid and sensitive method for measuring the conditional emotional response II: On-the-baseline excitatory conditioning and extinction. Pavlovian Journal of Biological Science. 23(1). 29–34. 4 indexed citations

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Gorn, Gerald J., W. Jake Jacobs, & Michael J. Mana. (1987). Observations on Awareness and Conditioning. ACR North American Advances. 4 indexed citations

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Jacobs, W. Jake & James Blackburn. (1987). Incubation of conditional suppression is an associatively-based phenomenon. Pavlovian Journal of Biological Science. 22(3). 118–121. 5 indexed citations

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