OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
From slow to fast logic: the development of logical intuitions	26
Why it is so hard to teach people they can make a difference: climate change efficacy as a non-analytic form of reasoning	25
Confirmation bias in information search, interpretation, and memory recall: evidence from reasoning about four controversial topics	25
Semantic memory and creativity: the costs and benefits of semantic memory structure in generating original ideas	23
Individual differences in epistemically suspect beliefs: the role of analytic thinking and susceptibility to cognitive biases	18
When beliefs and evidence collide: psychological and ideological predictors of motivated reasoning about climate change	12
Information about the human causes of global warming influences causal attribution, concern, and policy support related to global warming	12
Searching for the cognitive basis of anti-vaccination attitudes	9
Both a bioweapon and a hoax: the curious case of contradictory conspiracy theories about COVID-19	9
Metacognitive control in single- vs. dual-process theory	8
Motivated formal reasoning: Ideological belief bias in syllogistic reasoning across diverse political issues	8
Understanding the relationship between rationality and intelligence: a latent-variable approach	8
Accident and agency: a mixed methods study contrasting luck and interactivity in problem solving	7
What inspires us? An experimental analysis of the semantic meaning of irrelevant information in creative ideation	7
Belief in fake news, responsiveness to cognitive conflict, and analytic reasoning engagement	7
Visuospatial, rather than verbal working memory capacity plays a key role in verbal and figural creativity	6
The impact of working memory on divergent thinking flexibility	6
A motivational systems approach to investigating opinions on climate change	6
Stumpers: an annotated compendium*	5
Solving problems with an Aha! increases risk preference	5
Bullshit blind spots: the roles of miscalibration and information processing in bullshit detection	5
The new paradigm and massive modalization: Commentary on Knauff and Gazzo Castañeda (2023)	5
Uncontrolled logic:intuitive sensitivity to logical structure in random responding	5
Mental models, computational explanation and Bayesian cognitive science: Commentary on Knauff and Gazzo Castañeda (2023)	4
Expertise overcomes impasse to yield far transfer and insight in problem-solving	4

Increasing climate efficacy is not a surefire means to promoting climate commitment	4
Everyday reasoning with unfamiliar conditionals	4
How and when does syntax perpetuate stereotypes? Probing the framing effects of subject-complement statements of equality	4
Bullshit receptivity, problem solving, and metacognition: simply the BS, not better than all the rest	4
Elaborative feedback and instruction improve cognitive reflection but do not transfer to related tasks	3
When nomenclature matters: Is the “new paradigm” really a new paradigm for the psychology of reasoning?	3
Verbal and numeric probabilities differentially shape decisions	3
Not out of MY bank account! Science messaging when climate change policies carry personal financial costs	3
Limits of the foreign language effect: intertemporal choice	3
The bat-and-ball problem: a word-problem debiasing approach	3
The skeptical import of motivated reasoning: a closer look at the evidence	3
Insight problem solving ability predicts reduced susceptibility to fake news, bullshit, and overclaiming	3
Diversity effects in subjective probability judgment	3
Argument evaluation and production in the correction of political innumeracy	2
Testing the underlying structure of unfounded beliefs about COVID-19 around the world	2
Conflict detection predicts the temporal stability of intuitive and deliberate reasoning	2
Different incubation tasks in insight problem solving: evidence for unconscious analytic thought	2
Why can it be so hard to solve Bayesian problems? Moving from number comprehension to relational reasoning demands	2
“If only” counterfactual thoughts about cooperative and uncooperative decisions in social dilemmas	2
Mindset effects on the regulation of thinking time in problem-solving	2
The stability of syllogistic reasoning performance over time	2
Robust intuition? Exploring the difference in the strength of intuitions from perspective of attentional bias	2
“The game would have been better for me if…”: children’s counterfactual thinking about their own performance in a game	2
What happened to the “new paradigm”? Commentary on Knauff and Gazzo Castañeda (2023)	2
Determinants of creative thinking: the effect of task characteristics in solving remote associate test problems	2
The influence of varying positive affect in approach-motivation intensity on creative idea generation and creative idea evaluation: an fNIRS study	2