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Presence Current · Arkansas
Last published 2026
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Colton L. Hunter

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Researcher

Also affiliated: Clemson University (2020); Hologic (Germany) (2024)

Faculty Researcher

4 h-index 15 pubs 60 cited

  • Stress, Psychological
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Cognition
  • Emotions
  • Hydrocortisone
  • Adult
  • Inhibition, Psychological
  • Young Adult
  • Influenza Vaccines
  • Writing
  • Executive Function
  • Adolescent
  • Synaptic Transmission

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Colton L. Hunter's research investigates the complex interplay between psychological stress, cognitive function, and emotional processing in adults. His work has explored how acute stress influences executive control, including distinct effects on affective and cognitive processes. Hunter has also examined the relationship between different types of stress, such as early life stress and recent life stress, and their impact on response inhibition and cognitive inhibition. Further research has delved into how writing about stressful experiences can affect memory functions, with observed differences between men and women. Additionally, his scholarship has considered how socioeconomic factors, like family income during adolescence, may mediate long-term and working memory in adulthood. Hunter also studies the connection between immune responses, induced by factors like vaccines, and intergroup bias, specifically in the context of evaluating job applicants.

Metrics

  • h-index: 4
  • Publications: 15
  • Citations: 60

Selected Publications

  • Penny for your thoughts: A review and proposed model of socioeconomic status, working memory and worry (2026)
    British Journal of Developmental Psychology DOI OpenAlex
  • Penny for Your Thoughts: A Model of Socioeconomic Status, Working Memory, and Worry (2024)
  • Acute immune system activation exerts time-dependent effects on inhibitory control: Results of both a randomized controlled experiment of influenza vaccination and a systematic review and meta-analysis – ISPNE 2024 Dirk Hellhammer Award (2024)
    Psychoneuroendocrinology 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Immune response and intergroup bias: Vaccine-induced increases in cytokine activity are associated with worse evaluations of resume for Latina job applicant (2024)
    Brain Behavior and Immunity 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Writing about a stressful experience can impair visual working memory (2024)
    PLoS ONE 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • A mismatch between early and recent life stress predicts better response inhibition, but not cognitive inhibition (2024)
    Stress 8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Acute stress influences the emotional foundations of executive control: Distinct effects on control-related affective and cognitive processes (2023)
    Psychoneuroendocrinology 16 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Immune System and Intergroup Bias: Vaccine-Induced Increases in Cytokine Activity Are Associated with Worse Evaluations of Resume for Latina Job Applicant (2023)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • (A lack of) effects of acute social stress on attentional bias to threat (2023)
    Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Testing the theory of stress as a cumulative prediction error (2023)
    Psychoneuroendocrinology 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • (A Lack of) Sex Differences in the Effects of Acute Stress on Attentional Bias to Threat (2023)
    Psychoneuroendocrinology DOI OpenAlex
  • Writing about a stressful experience improves semantic clustering of memory in men, not women (2023)
    Stress and Health 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Stress and memory encoding: What are the roles of the stress-encoding delay and stress relevance? (2022)
    Learning & Memory 16 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Mediators of the associations between family income during adolescence and adult long-term memory and working memory (2021)
    Cognitive Development 5 citations DOI OpenAlex

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