🏅 Most cited researcher in the School of Psychology
2024-12-01 · Awards · Dominique Makowski
Over the past year, Dominique Makowski has been the most cited researcher in the School of Psychology at the University of Sussex, based on the departmental citation figures ResearchGate reports each month. A nice confirmation of his and his lab's impact and research quality. Congrats 🎉
Update, 2026. The streak has held. The lab's output has remained the most cited in the department in the time since.
ResearchGate's monthly departmental notice, September and November 2025.The same notice, May and August 2026.
Exploring the neuropsychology of reality and its distortions.
The Reality Bending Lab, led by Dominique Makowski at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK, conducts
world-leading research on reality perception, illusions, fake news, AI-beliefs, deception and its links with
emotions, cognitive control and the Self. Using recording signals from the body (ECG, EDA…) and the brain
(EEG), we analyse data using advanced modelling (Bayesian statistics, chaos theory, computational models) and
develop
open-source tools to improve
neuropsychological science.
Pevensey 1 - room 2B7, School of Psychology, University of Sussex, BN1 9QH
University of Sussex
Brighton
is the sunniest city in the UK and, by some margin, its most cheerfully strange — on the sea, an
hour from London. The University of Sussex sits just above it in the South Downs, and its School of
Psychology is one of the largest and strongest in the country.
It is famous for its research on consciousness and interoception, with scientists like
Anil Seth,
Andy Clark,
Zoltan Dienes
and
Hugo Critchley, its teaching of cutting-edge psychological methods (with stats rockstar
Andy Field), its history of multidisciplinary research (arts and science), and its radical engagement in
open and disruptive science.
