OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Thinking & Reasoning is 1. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Analytic-thinking predicts hoax beliefs and helping behaviors in response to the COVID-19 pandemic	42
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	38
From slow to fast logic: the development of logical intuitions	21
Why it is so hard to teach people they can make a difference: climate change efficacy as a non-analytic form of reasoning	17
Confirmation bias in information search, interpretation, and memory recall: evidence from reasoning about four controversial topics	16
Domain-specific experience and dual-process thinking	15
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	12
Metacognition in moral decisions: judgment extremity and feeling of rightness in moral intuitions	10
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
The role of representativeness in reasoning and metacognitive processes: an in-depth analysis of the Linda problem	7
Searching for the cognitive basis of anti-vaccination attitudes	7
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
Visuospatial, rather than verbal working memory capacity plays a key role in verbal and figural creativity	6
Metacognitive control in single- vs. dual-process theory	5
A motivational systems approach to investigating opinions on climate change	5
Accident and agency: a mixed methods study contrasting luck and interactivity in problem solving	5
Uncontrolled logic:intuitive sensitivity to logical structure in random responding	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	4
The new paradigm and massive modalization: Commentary on Knauff and Gazzo Castañeda (2023)	4
How and when does syntax perpetuate stereotypes? Probing the framing effects of subject-complement statements of equality	4

Insight problem solving ability predicts reduced susceptibility to fake news, bullshit, and overclaiming	4
Errors, fast and slow: an analysis of response times in probability judgments	4
Mental models, computational explanation and Bayesian cognitive science: Commentary on Knauff and Gazzo Castañeda (2023)	4
Stumpers: an annotated compendium*	4
When beliefs and evidence collide: psychological and ideological predictors of motivated reasoning about climate change	4
Bullshit blind spots: the roles of miscalibration and information processing in bullshit detection	4
The impact of working memory on divergent thinking flexibility	4
What inspires us? An experimental analysis of the semantic meaning of irrelevant information in creative ideation	4
Individual differences in analytical thinking and complexity of inference in conditional reasoning	3
Diversity effects in subjective probability judgment	3
Increasing climate efficacy is not a surefire means to promoting climate commitment	3
Limits of the foreign language effect: intertemporal choice	3
Everyday reasoning with unfamiliar conditionals	3
Expertise overcomes impasse to yield far transfer and insight in problem-solving	3
When nomenclature matters: Is the “new paradigm” really a new paradigm for the psychology of reasoning?	3
The influence of varying positive affect in approach-motivation intensity on creative idea generation and creative idea evaluation: an fNIRS study	3
Not out of MY bank account! Science messaging when climate change policies carry personal financial costs	2
The stability of syllogistic reasoning performance over time	2
Dual process theory 2.0	2
The bat-and-ball problem: a word-problem debiasing approach	2
The effect of cardinality in the pigeonhole principle	1
Conceptual clarity and empirical testability: Commentary on Knauff and Gazzo Castañeda (2023)	1
Four- to six-year-olds’ ratio reasoning-from 2D to 3D quantities	1
Dynamic overconfidence: a growth curve and cross lagged analysis of accuracy, confidence, overestimation and their relations	1
The seductive allure effect extends from neuroscientific to psychoanalytic explanations among Turkish medical students: preliminary implications of biased scientific reasoning within the context of me	1
Who detects and why: how do individual differences in cognitive characteristics underpin different types of responses to reasoning tasks?	1
Conflict detection predicts the temporal stability of intuitive and deliberate reasoning	1
“If only” counterfactual thoughts about cooperative and uncooperative decisions in social dilemmas	1
The skeptical import of motivated reasoning: a closer look at the evidence	1
Verbal and numeric probabilities differentially shape decisions	1
Thinking about climate change: look up and look around!	1
Bullshit receptivity, problem solving, and metacognition: simply the BS, not better than all the rest	1
Solving problems with an Aha! increases risk preference	1
“The game would have been better for me if…”: children’s counterfactual thinking about their own performance in a game	1
Testing the underlying structure of unfounded beliefs about COVID-19 around the world	1
What happened to the “new paradigm”? Commentary on Knauff and Gazzo Castañeda (2023)	1
Intuitions about the epistemic virtues of majority voting	1
Determinants of creative thinking: the effect of task characteristics in solving remote associate test problems	1
Different incubation tasks in insight problem solving: evidence for unconscious analytic thought	1
Is the new paradigm a new paradigm? Commentary on Knauff and Gazzo Castañeda (2023)	1
Political ideology and environmentalism impair logical reasoning	1
A question of detail: matching counterfactuals to actual cause in pre-emption scenarios	1
Why can it be so hard to solve Bayesian problems? Moving from number comprehension to relational reasoning demands	1
Acute stress improves analogical reasoning: examining the roles of stress hormones and long-term memory	1