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Papers

(The median citation count of Thinking & Reasoning is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Mark it out! Spontaneous cognitive offloading in route planning	34
Global relations versus object relations in visual analogies	32
Conspiracy beliefs in the context of a comprehensive rationality assessment	23
Plausible or problematic? Evaluating logical fallacies in a scientific text	17
Is the new paradigm a new paradigm? Commentary on Knauff and Gazzo Castañeda (2023)	15
The stability of syllogistic reasoning performance over time	14
Out of the blue: on the suddenness of perceived chance events	13
Examining the role of deliberation in de-bias training	12
The implicit perception of harm following moral violations in autism	9
Different incubation tasks in insight problem solving: evidence for unconscious analytic thought	9
Uncontrolled logic:intuitive sensitivity to logical structure in random responding	8
Diversity effects in subjective probability judgment	8
From slow to fast logic: the development of logical intuitions	8
Law and order: the timing of mitigating evidence affects punishment decisions	7
Dispelling the fog of conspiracy: experimental manipulations, individual difference factors and the tendency to endorse conspiracy explanations	7
Thinking about climate change: look up and look around!	6
How are beliefs represented in the mind?	6
Jumping to fixations: jumping to conclusions is associated with less hypothesis generation and more fixation	6
The influence of varying positive affect in approach-motivation intensity on creative idea generation and creative idea evaluation: an fNIRS study	5
A motivational systems approach to investigating opinions on climate change	5
The role of subjective accessibility in metacognitive judgments of creative performance	5
Comparing the functional benefits of counterfactual and prefactual thinking: the content-specific and content-neutral pathways	5
Determinants of creative thinking: the effect of task characteristics in solving remote associate test problems	4
How to evaluate the rationality of heuristics?	4
Responsibility attribution about mechanical devices by children and adults	4

Bullshit blind spots: the roles of miscalibration and information processing in bullshit detection	4
Disfluency attenuates the reception of pseudoprofound and postmodernist bullshit	4
Elementary probabilistic operations: a framework for probabilistic reasoning	4
Bullshit receptivity, problem solving, and metacognition: simply the BS, not better than all the rest	4
The effect of cardinality in the pigeonhole principle	3
Mindset effects on the regulation of thinking time in problem-solving	3
Understanding the relationship between rationality and intelligence: a latent-variable approach	3
Towards an empirically informed normative Bayesian scheme-based account of argument from expert opinion	3
When beliefs and evidence collide: psychological and ideological predictors of motivated reasoning about climate change	3
Limits of the foreign language effect: intertemporal choice	3
Verbal and numeric probabilities differentially shape decisions	3
Conceptual clarity and empirical testability: Commentary on Knauff and Gazzo Castañeda (2023)	3
Insight problem solving ability predicts reduced susceptibility to fake news, bullshit, and overclaiming	2
Looks real, feels fake: conflict detection in deepfake videos	2
What happened to the “new paradigm”? Commentary on Knauff and Gazzo Castañeda (2023)	2
Profiling older adults’ decision-making under risk: the role of cognitive functioning and personality traits	2
How does unconscious processing promote creative problem-solving? An examination using priming methods	2
Towards a taxonomy of tasks for human sequential decision-making	2
The distinctive characteristics of bullshit: intention, meaningfulness, and source reliability	2
How and when does syntax perpetuate stereotypes? Probing the framing effects of subject-complement statements of equality	2
“Experts think…” The production and comprehension of propositional attitude generics	2
The temporal dynamics of third-party moral judgment of harm transgressions: answers from a 2-response paradigm	2
The skeptical import of motivated reasoning: a closer look at the evidence	2
When nomenclature matters: Is the “new paradigm” really a new paradigm for the psychology of reasoning?	2
Expertise overcomes impasse to yield far transfer and insight in problem-solving	2
“If only” counterfactual thoughts about cooperative and uncooperative decisions in social dilemmas	2