William A. Cunningham

21.3k total citations · 5 hit papers
139 papers, 13.5k citations indexed

About

William A. Cunningham is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, William A. Cunningham has authored 139 papers receiving a total of 13.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 43 papers in Social Psychology and 40 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in William A. Cunningham's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (35 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (31 papers) and Cultural Differences and Values (27 papers). William A. Cunningham is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (35 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (31 papers) and Cultural Differences and Values (27 papers). William A. Cunningham collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. William A. Cunningham's co-authors include Todd D. Little, Keith F. Widaman, Golan Shahar, Matthew D. Lieberman, Mahzarin R. Banaji, Jay J. Van Bavel, Philip David Zelazo, Carol L. Raye, Dominic J. Packer and Marcia K. Johnson and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

In The Last Decade

William A. Cunningham

129 papers receiving 12.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

To Parcel or Not to Parcel: Exploring the Question, Weighing the Merits

2002 5.2k citations William A. Cunningham et al. profile →
Type I and Type II error concerns in fMRI research: re-balancing the scale

2009 1.1k citations William A. Cunningham et al. profile →
Performance on Indirect Measures of Race Evaluation Predicts Amygdala Activation

2000 705 citations William A. Cunningham et al. profile →
Implicit Attitude Measures: Consistency, Stability, and Convergent Validity

2001 686 citations William A. Cunningham et al. profile →
AI and the transformation of social science research

2023 133 citations William A. Cunningham et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
William A. Cunningham United States	39	5.2k	4.5k	4.0k	3.1k	2.9k	139	13.5k
Elaine N. Aron United States	39	6.0k 1.2×	1.9k 0.4×	3.5k 0.9×	3.2k 1.0×	3.1k 1.1×	75	11.8k
Peter J. Rentfrow United Kingdom	49	5.1k 1.0×	2.6k 0.6×	4.8k 1.2×	3.2k 1.0×	4.2k 1.5×	126	15.1k
Arthur Aron United States	58	10.0k 1.9×	2.9k 0.6×	6.3k 1.6×	4.8k 1.6×	4.1k 1.4×	137	18.1k
Nalini Ambady United States	68	7.1k 1.4×	6.7k 1.5×	6.5k 1.6×	6.6k 2.1×	2.0k 0.7×	194	18.2k
Marco Perugini Italy	46	3.8k 0.7×	2.5k 0.5×	4.2k 1.0×	3.8k 1.2×	3.7k 1.3×	151	14.0k
Antony S. R. Manstead United Kingdom	70	8.5k 1.6×	3.2k 0.7×	7.4k 1.8×	2.5k 0.8×	1.7k 0.6×	222	19.1k
Michael Inzlicht Canada	56	4.9k 0.9×	3.8k 0.8×	3.9k 1.0×	4.1k 1.3×	2.4k 0.9×	173	13.3k
Nico H. Frijda Netherlands	41	6.0k 1.2×	3.1k 0.7×	3.0k 0.7×	3.1k 1.0×	1.7k 0.6×	110	11.8k
Timothy D. Wilson United States	53	7.1k 1.4×	5.2k 1.2×	6.3k 1.5×	4.3k 1.4×	2.6k 0.9×	131	22.3k
Jim Blascovich United States	60	5.8k 1.1×	2.1k 0.5×	4.0k 1.0×	2.3k 0.7×	1.8k 0.6×	142	13.0k

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Koster, Raphaël, Edgar A. Duéñez‐Guzmán, William A. Cunningham, & Joel Z. Leibo. (2025). Tabula rasa agents display emergent in-group behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(25). e2319947121–e2319947121. 1 indexed citations

Mattson, Whitney I., Kathryn Vannatta, Warren Lo, et al.. (2024). Exploring the link among injury severity, white matter connectivity and psychosocial outcomes in pediatric TBI: a probabilistic tractography approach. International Journal of Neuroscience. 135(12). 1395–1407.

Cunningham, William A., et al.. (2023). Framing Subjective Emotion Reports as Dynamic Affective Decisions. Affective Science. 4(3). 522–528. 6 indexed citations

Peragine, Diana E., James J. Kim, Jessica A. Maxwell, et al.. (2023). Not Who You Are, But Who You Are With: Re-examining Women’s Less Satisfying Sexual Debuts. Archives of Sexual Behavior. 52(8). 3405–3427. 3 indexed citations

Cunningham, William A., et al.. (2023). Decoupling the Conflicting Evaluative Meanings in Automatically Activated Race-Based Associations. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 50(7). 987–1005. 1 indexed citations

Cunningham, William A., et al.. (2020). Attentional priorities drive effects of time pressure on altruistic choice. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3534–3534. 45 indexed citations

Cunningham, William A., et al.. (2020). Through the looking glass: Distinguishing neural correlates of relational and non-relational self-reference and person representation. Cortex. 130. 257–274. 4 indexed citations

Schneider, Stephen P., et al.. (2020). Ideology and predictive processing: coordination, bias, and polarization in socially constrained error minimization. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 34. 192–198. 17 indexed citations

Falbén, Johanna K., et al.. (2019). Predictably confirmatory: The influence of stereotypes during decisional processing. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 72(10). 2437–2451. 9 indexed citations

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Turner, Brandon M., et al.. (2019). Predicting Task and Subject Differences with Functional Connectivity and Blood-Oxygen-Level-Dependent Variability. Brain Connectivity. 9(6). 451–463. 8 indexed citations

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Man, Vincent, June Gruber, David C. Glahn, & William A. Cunningham. (2018). Altered amygdala circuits underlying valence processing among manic and depressed phases in bipolar adults. Journal of Affective Disorders. 245. 394–402. 8 indexed citations

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Gruber, June, et al.. (2015). Comparing Happiness and Hypomania Risk: A Study of Extraversion and Neuroticism Aspects. PLoS ONE. 10(7). e0132438–e0132438. 10 indexed citations

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Bavel, Jay J. Van & William A. Cunningham. (2012). A Social Identity Approach to Person Memory: Group Membership, Collective Identification, and Social Role Shape Attention and Memory. SSRN Electronic Journal. 6 indexed citations

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Bavel, Jay J. Van, et al.. (2012). The Importance of Moral Construal: Moral versus Non-Moral Construal Elicits Faster, More Extreme, Universal Evaluations of the Same Actions. Insecta mundi.

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Opfer, John E., et al.. (2010). Electrophysiological Evidence for Multiple Representations of Number in the Human Brain. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 32(32). 2 indexed citations

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Cunningham, William A., et al.. (2007). Correlated Physical and Mental Summary Scores for the SF-36 and SF-12 Health Survey, V.1. 1 indexed citations

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Cunningham, William A., et al.. (2001). EXPLORING PREDATORY PRICING IN THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY. Transportation Journal. 41(1). 5–15. 2 indexed citations

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Farris, Martin T. & William A. Cunningham. (1989). TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS EDUCATION IN COMMUNITY COLLEGES. Transportation Journal. 28(4). 49–56. 2 indexed citations

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Ozment, John, et al.. (1989). MOTOR CARRIER MARKETING/PRICING STRATEGY--A LOGISTICAL APPROACH. Journal of the Transportation Research Forum. 29(2). 1 indexed citations

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Cunningham, William A., et al.. (1987). INTRASTATE DEREGULATION OF THE MOTOR CARRIER INDUSTRY : A SURVEY OF TRANSPORTATION EDUCATORS. 55(1). 1 indexed citations

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