OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Thinking & Reasoning is 5. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
An examination of the underlying dimensional structure of three domains of contaminated mindware: paranormal beliefs, conspiracy beliefs, and anti-science attitudes	45
Analytic-thinking predicts hoax beliefs and helping behaviors in response to the COVID-19 pandemic	43
The relation between semantic memory structure, associative abilities, and verbal and figural creativity	40
From slow to fast logic: the development of logical intuitions	22
Confirmation bias in information search, interpretation, and memory recall: evidence from reasoning about four controversial topics	21
Why it is so hard to teach people they can make a difference: climate change efficacy as a non-analytic form of reasoning	18
Domain-specific experience and dual-process thinking	16
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	13
Information about the human causes of global warming influences causal attribution, concern, and policy support related to global warming	8
When beliefs and evidence collide: psychological and ideological predictors of motivated reasoning about climate change	8
Searching for the cognitive basis of anti-vaccination attitudes	7
Both a bioweapon and a hoax: the curious case of contradictory conspiracy theories about COVID-19	7
Accident and agency: a mixed methods study contrasting luck and interactivity in problem solving	6
Understanding the relationship between rationality and intelligence: a latent-variable approach	6
Visuospatial, rather than verbal working memory capacity plays a key role in verbal and figural creativity	6
Disfluent fonts do not help people to solve math and non-math problems regardless of their numeracy	6
Motivated formal reasoning: Ideological belief bias in syllogistic reasoning across diverse political issues	6
Belief in fake news, responsiveness to cognitive conflict, and analytic reasoning engagement	6
Metacognitive control in single- vs. dual-process theory	5
Errors, fast and slow: an analysis of response times in probability judgments	5
Uncontrolled logic:intuitive sensitivity to logical structure in random responding	5
The impact of working memory on divergent thinking flexibility	5
A motivational systems approach to investigating opinions on climate change	5
What inspires us? An experimental analysis of the semantic meaning of irrelevant information in creative ideation	5

Bullshit blind spots: the roles of miscalibration and information processing in bullshit detection