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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Thinking about climate change: look up and look around!	43
Examining the role of deliberation in de-bias training	21
Diversity effects in subjective probability judgment	19
Systematic adaptive and maladaptive giving-up strategies in cognitive problem-solving	17
Testing the independence of representational change theory processes	16
How to evaluate the rationality of heuristics?	13
Towards an empirically informed normative Bayesian scheme-based account of argument from expert opinion	11
Domain effects on interpretations of general conditionals: The case of mathematics	10
Towards a taxonomy of tasks for human sequential decision-making	10
Argument evaluation and production in the correction of political innumeracy	9
Expertise overcomes impasse to yield far transfer and insight in problem-solving	9
Open-minded and reflective thinking predicts reasoning and meta-reasoning: evidence from a ratio-bias conflict task	8
The role of cognitive biases in shaping irrational beliefs: a multi-Study Investigation	8
Searching for the cognitive basis of anti-vaccination attitudes	7
Is the new paradigm a new paradigm? Commentary on Knauff and Gazzo Castañeda (2023)	6
Bullshit receptivity, problem solving, and metacognition: simply the BS, not better than all the rest	6
What inspires us? An experimental analysis of the semantic meaning of irrelevant information in creative ideation	5
Higher-level domain-general skills in maths problem solving	5
How are beliefs represented in the mind?	5
How does unconscious processing promote creative problem-solving? An examination using priming methods	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
“Experts think…” The production and comprehension of propositional attitude generics	5
Who detects and why: how do individual differences in cognitive characteristics underpin different types of responses to reasoning tasks?	5
Different incubation tasks in insight problem solving: evidence for unconscious analytic thought	5

Global relations versus object relations in visual analogies	4
Emergence of the smart intuitor: how cognitive ability shapes adolescent reasoning	4
Law and order: the timing of mitigating evidence affects punishment decisions	4
Mindset effects on the regulation of thinking time in problem-solving	4
Conceptual clarity and empirical testability: Commentary on Knauff and Gazzo Castañeda (2023)	3
The distinctive characteristics of bullshit: intention, meaningfulness, and source reliability	3
Correction	3
The skeptical import of motivated reasoning: a closer look at the evidence	3
Kahneman, Tversky, and Kahneman-Tversky: three ways of thinking	3
Jumping to conclusions predicts truncated searches even in uncongenial contexts	3
What happened to the “new paradigm”? Commentary on Knauff and Gazzo Castañeda (2023)	3
Gain-loss domain and social value orientation as determinants of risk allocation decisions	3
Conspiracy beliefs in the context of a comprehensive rationality assessment	2
Robust intuition? Exploring the difference in the strength of intuitions from perspective of attentional bias	2
Motivated formal reasoning: Ideological belief bias in syllogistic reasoning across diverse political issues	2
Counterfactual thoughts in complex causal domain: content, benefits, and implications for their function	2
Knowledge of examples affects conditional reasoning with mathematical content	2
Voters’ wishful thinking in an unprecedented event of three national elections repeated within one year: fast thinking, bias, high emotions and potential rationality	2
Inferentialism, metacognition, and the limits of centering	2
Two components of individual differences in actively open-minded thinking standards: myside bias and uncertainty aversion	2
Disfluency attenuates the reception of pseudoprofound and postmodernist bullshit	2
The role of subjective accessibility in metacognitive judgments of creative performance	2
Information about the human causes of global warming influences causal attribution, concern, and policy support related to global warming	2
On being drawn to different types of arguments: a mouse-tracking study	2
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	2