OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Thinking & Reasoning is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Analytic-thinking predicts hoax beliefs and helping behaviors in response to the COVID-19 pandemic	43
An examination of the underlying dimensional structure of three domains of contaminated mindware: paranormal beliefs, conspiracy beliefs, and anti-science attitudes	41
The relation between semantic memory structure, associative abilities, and verbal and figural creativity	40
From slow to fast logic: the development of logical intuitions	21
Confirmation bias in information search, interpretation, and memory recall: evidence from reasoning about four controversial topics	20
Why it is so hard to teach people they can make a difference: climate change efficacy as a non-analytic form of reasoning	18
Domain-specific experience and dual-process thinking	16
Semantic memory and creativity: the costs and benefits of semantic memory structure in generating original ideas	14
Individual differences in epistemically suspect beliefs: the role of analytic thinking and susceptibility to cognitive biases	13
Information about the human causes of global warming influences causal attribution, concern, and policy support related to global warming	8
Both a bioweapon and a hoax: the curious case of contradictory conspiracy theories about COVID-19	7
Searching for the cognitive basis of anti-vaccination attitudes	7
The role of representativeness in reasoning and metacognitive processes: an in-depth analysis of the Linda problem	7
Visuospatial, rather than verbal working memory capacity plays a key role in verbal and figural creativity	6
When beliefs and evidence collide: psychological and ideological predictors of motivated reasoning about climate change	6
Disfluent fonts do not help people to solve math and non-math problems regardless of their numeracy	6
Belief in fake news, responsiveness to cognitive conflict, and analytic reasoning engagement	6
Accident and agency: a mixed methods study contrasting luck and interactivity in problem solving	5
A motivational systems approach to investigating opinions on climate change	5
Metacognitive control in single- vs. dual-process theory	5
What inspires us? An experimental analysis of the semantic meaning of irrelevant information in creative ideation	5
Bullshit blind spots: the roles of miscalibration and information processing in bullshit detection	5
Motivated formal reasoning: Ideological belief bias in syllogistic reasoning across diverse political issues	5
Understanding the relationship between rationality and intelligence: a latent-variable approach	5
Uncontrolled logic:intuitive sensitivity to logical structure in random responding	5