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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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Thinking about climate change: look up and look around!	45
Examining the role of deliberation in de-bias training	22
Systematic adaptive and maladaptive giving-up strategies in cognitive problem-solving	21
Testing the independence of representational change theory processes	17
How to evaluate the rationality of heuristics?	16
Towards a taxonomy of tasks for human sequential decision-making	11
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
Expertise overcomes impasse to yield far transfer and insight in problem-solving	9
Argument evaluation and production in the correction of political innumeracy	9
The role of cognitive biases in shaping irrational beliefs: a multi-Study Investigation	8
Searching for the cognitive basis of anti-vaccination attitudes	8
Open-minded and reflective thinking predicts reasoning and meta-reasoning: evidence from a ratio-bias conflict task	8
How does unconscious processing promote creative problem-solving? An examination using priming methods	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	6
Is the new paradigm a new paradigm? Commentary on Knauff and Gazzo Castañeda (2023)	6
Who detects and why: how do individual differences in cognitive characteristics underpin different types of responses to reasoning tasks?	6
“Experts think…” The production and comprehension of propositional attitude generics	6
Initial judgment of solvability: integrating prior expectations with experience-based heuristic cues	5
Law and order: the timing of mitigating evidence affects punishment decisions	5
Jumping to conclusions predicts truncated searches even in uncongenial contexts	5
Higher-level domain-general skills in maths problem solving	5
Emergence of the smart intuitor: how cognitive ability shapes adolescent reasoning	5
Different incubation tasks in insight problem solving: evidence for unconscious analytic thought	5

How are beliefs represented in the mind?	5
System 2 and cognitive transparency: deliberation helps to justify sound intuitions during reasoning	5
Global relations versus object relations in visual analogies	5
Conceptual clarity and empirical testability: Commentary on Knauff and Gazzo Castañeda (2023)	4
Mindset effects on the regulation of thinking time in problem-solving	4
The distinctive characteristics of bullshit: intention, meaningfulness, and source reliability	3
The skeptical import of motivated reasoning: a closer look at the evidence	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
Correction	3
Kahneman, Tversky, and Kahneman-Tversky: three ways of thinking	3
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
Two components of individual differences in actively open-minded thinking standards: myside bias and uncertainty aversion	2
Motivated formal reasoning: Ideological belief bias in syllogistic reasoning across diverse political issues	2
Knowledge of examples affects conditional reasoning with mathematical content	2
Inferentialism, metacognition, and the limits of centering	2
On being drawn to different types of arguments: a mouse-tracking study	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
Counterfactual thoughts in complex causal domain: content, benefits, and implications for their function	2
Information about the human causes of global warming influences causal attribution, concern, and policy support related to global warming	2
Robust intuition? Exploring the difference in the strength of intuitions from perspective of attentional bias	2
Political belief bias: the role of analytic thinking and valuing epistemic rationality	1
Insight problem solving ability predicts reduced susceptibility to fake news, bullshit, and overclaiming	1
Divergent thinking is linked with convergent thinking; implications for models of creativity	1
The implicit perception of harm following moral violations in autism	1
Reasoning does hurt: deliberation is associated with heightened levels of doubt	1
Dispelling the fog of conspiracy: experimental manipulations, individual difference factors and the tendency to endorse conspiracy explanations	1
The role of subjective accessibility in metacognitive judgments of creative performance	1
Adaptive decision making in the wild: a case study of chess	1
Editorial	1
Mark it out! Spontaneous cognitive offloading in route planning	1
The influence of varying positive affect in approach-motivation intensity on creative idea generation and creative idea evaluation: an fNIRS study	1
Disfluency attenuates the reception of pseudoprofound and postmodernist bullshit	1
The temporal dynamics of third-party moral judgment of harm transgressions: answers from a 2-response paradigm	1
Conspiracy beliefs in the context of a comprehensive rationality assessment	1
Jumping to fixations: jumping to conclusions is associated with less hypothesis generation and more fixation	1
Out of the blue: on the suddenness of perceived chance events	1