Colton L. Hunter Data-verified

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Researcher

Last publication 2024 Last refreshed 2026-05-16

faculty

4 h-index 19 pubs 54 cited

Biography and Research Information

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Colton L. Hunter's research investigates the interplay between stress, cognition, and emotion in adults. His work examines how psychological stress impacts memory encoding, executive control, and attentional biases. Hunter has studied the differential effects of acute social stress and early versus recent life stress on cognitive functions like response inhibition and visual working memory. Additionally, his research explores how writing about stressful experiences can influence memory clustering, with observed sex differences in these effects. Hunter also investigates the broader impacts of stress, including its connection to the immune response and intergroup bias, as seen in studies on vaccine-induced cytokine activity and evaluations of job applicants. His scholarship metrics include an h-index of 4 across 14 publications, with key collaborators at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville including Grant S. Shields, Zach J. Gray, Anastasia Makhanova, and Mikayla Tolliver.

Metrics

  • h-index: 4
  • Publications: 19
  • Citations: 54

Selected Publications

  • 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)
    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)
    3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Writing about a stressful experience can impair visual working memory (2024)
    2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • A mismatch between early and recent life stress predicts better response inhibition, but not cognitive inhibition (2024)
    7 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Acute stress influences the emotional foundations of executive control: Distinct effects on control-related affective and cognitive processes (2023)
    14 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)
    2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Testing the theory of stress as a cumulative prediction error (2023)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • (A Lack of) Sex Differences in the Effects of Acute Stress on Attentional Bias to Threat (2023)
  • Writing about a stressful experience improves semantic clustering of memory in men, not women (2023)
    2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Stress and memory encoding: What are the roles of the stress-encoding delay and stress relevance? (2022)
    15 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Mediators of the associations between family income during adolescence and adult long-term memory and working memory (2021)
    4 citations DOI OpenAlex

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