OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Thinking & Reasoning is 4. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Examining the role of deliberation in de-bias training	43
Diversity effects in subjective probability judgment	21
Thinking about climate change: look up and look around!	20
How to evaluate the rationality of heuristics?	17
Systematic adaptive and maladaptive giving-up strategies in cognitive problem-solving	14
Testing the independence of representational change theory processes	13
Towards an empirically informed normative Bayesian scheme-based account of argument from expert opinion	12
Towards a taxonomy of tasks for human sequential decision-making	10
Domain effects on interpretations of general conditionals: The case of mathematics	10
Expertise overcomes impasse to yield far transfer and insight in problem-solving	10
Argument evaluation and production in the correction of political innumeracy	9
Open-minded and reflective thinking predicts reasoning and meta-reasoning: evidence from a ratio-bias conflict task	8
Searching for the cognitive basis of anti-vaccination attitudes	8
The role of cognitive biases in shaping irrational beliefs: a multi-Study Investigation	8
Is the new paradigm a new paradigm? Commentary on Knauff and Gazzo Castañeda (2023)	7
Bullshit receptivity, problem solving, and metacognition: simply the BS, not better than all the rest	6
“Experts think…” The production and comprehension of propositional attitude generics	6
When beliefs and evidence collide: psychological and ideological predictors of motivated reasoning about climate change	6
Who detects and why: how do individual differences in cognitive characteristics underpin different types of responses to reasoning tasks?	5
Initial judgment of solvability: integrating prior expectations with experience-based heuristic cues	5
System 2 and cognitive transparency: deliberation helps to justify sound intuitions during reasoning	5
How does unconscious processing promote creative problem-solving? An examination using priming methods	5
Different incubation tasks in insight problem solving: evidence for unconscious analytic thought	5
What inspires us? An experimental analysis of the semantic meaning of irrelevant information in creative ideation	5
How are beliefs represented in the mind?	5

Emergence of the smart intuitor: how cognitive ability shapes adolescent reasoning	4
Global relations versus object relations in visual analogies	4
Mindset effects on the regulation of thinking time in problem-solving	4
Law and order: the timing of mitigating evidence affects punishment decisions	4
The stability of syllogistic reasoning performance over time	4
Comparing the functional benefits of counterfactual and prefactual thinking: the content-specific and content-neutral pathways	4