Andrew Perfors

1.7k total citations
39 papers, 861 citations indexed

About

Andrew Perfors is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Sociology and Political Science and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrew Perfors has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 861 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 13 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 11 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Andrew Perfors's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (10 papers), Language and cultural evolution (8 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (5 papers). Andrew Perfors is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (10 papers), Language and cultural evolution (8 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (5 papers). Andrew Perfors collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Andrew Perfors's co-authors include Charles Kemp, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Danielle Navarro, Yoshihisa Kashima, Patrick Shafto, Terry Regier, Simon Dennis, Joshua P. White, Daniel R. Little and Stephan Lewandowsky and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, PLoS ONE and Psychological Science.

In The Last Decade

Andrew Perfors

35 papers receiving 808 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Andrew Perfors Australia 14 307 293 206 169 144 39 861
Micah B. Goldwater Australia 14 370 1.2× 145 0.5× 68 0.3× 210 1.2× 58 0.4× 60 769
Leon Rozenblit United States 7 295 1.0× 165 0.6× 173 0.8× 172 1.0× 38 0.3× 12 798
Shalom M. Fisch United States 14 404 1.3× 99 0.3× 197 1.0× 105 0.6× 18 0.1× 36 841
Nicholas D. Duran United States 20 389 1.3× 294 1.0× 142 0.7× 314 1.9× 17 0.1× 56 1.1k
Karsten Olsen United Kingdom 7 143 0.5× 141 0.5× 190 0.9× 379 2.2× 70 0.5× 7 939
Sidney Strauss Israel 17 755 2.5× 124 0.4× 64 0.3× 157 0.9× 72 0.5× 47 1.4k
Sallie E. Gordon United States 9 206 0.7× 128 0.4× 194 0.9× 228 1.3× 21 0.1× 24 740
Adrian Simpson United Kingdom 25 303 1.0× 358 1.2× 84 0.4× 208 1.2× 27 0.2× 107 2.0k
Roman Taraban United States 19 954 3.1× 270 0.9× 45 0.2× 622 3.7× 65 0.5× 72 1.7k
Jon Sprouse United States 21 405 1.3× 464 1.6× 98 0.5× 653 3.9× 80 0.6× 42 1.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Andrew Perfors

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andrew Perfors

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Andrew Perfors. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Andrew Perfors based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Andrew Perfors. Andrew Perfors is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Fay, Nicolas, et al.. (2025). Truth over falsehood: Experimental evidence on what persuades and spreads.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
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Walker, Bradley, et al.. (2024). Does Mud Really Stick? No Evidence for Continued Influence of Misinformation on Newly Formed Person Impressions. Collabra Psychology. 10(1). 2 indexed citations
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Perfors, Andrew, David Mitchell, Timothy John Haynes Lovell, et al.. (2023). Evaluating the effectiveness of different perceptual training methods in a difficult visual discrimination task with ultrasound images. Cognitive Research Principles and Implications. 8(1). 19–19.
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Perfors, Andrew, Steven T. Piantadosi, & Celeste Kidd. (2023). Trans-inclusive gender categories are cognitively natural. Nature Human Behaviour. 7(10). 1609–1611. 1 indexed citations
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Garrett, Paul Michael, Joshua P. White, Simon Dennis, et al.. (2022). Papers Please - Predictive Factors of National and International Attitudes Toward Immunity and Vaccination Passports: Online Representative Surveys. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 8(7). e32969–e32969. 7 indexed citations
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Howe, Piers D. L., Andrew Perfors, Bradley Walker, Yoshihisa Kashima, & Nicolas Fay. (2022). Base rate neglect and conservatism in probabilistic reasoning: Insights from eliciting full distributions. Judgment and Decision Making. 17(5). 962–987. 2 indexed citations
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Walker, Bradley, et al.. (2022). Impression formation stimuli: A corpus of behavior statements rated on morality, competence, informativeness, and believability. PLoS ONE. 17(6). e0269393–e0269393. 8 indexed citations
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Garrett, Paul Michael, Joshua P. White, Stephan Lewandowsky, et al.. (2021). The acceptability and uptake of smartphone tracking for COVID-19 in Australia. PLoS ONE. 16(1). e0244827–e0244827. 58 indexed citations
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Perfors, Andrew, David Mitchell, Timothy John Haynes Lovell, et al.. (2021). How effective is perceptual training? Evaluating two perceptual training methods on a difficult visual categorisation task. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 43(43).
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Lewandowsky, Stephan, Simon Dennis, Andrew Perfors, et al.. (2021). Public acceptance of privacy-encroaching policies to address the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. PLoS ONE. 16(1). e0245740–e0245740. 52 indexed citations
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Kashima, Yoshihisa, et al.. (2021). Ideology, communication and polarization. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1822). 20200133–20200133. 28 indexed citations
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Perfors, Andrew, et al.. (2015). Leaping to Conclusions: Why Premise Relevance Affects Argument Strength. Cognitive Science. 40(7). 1775–1796. 15 indexed citations
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Perfors, Andrew & Danielle Navarro. (2014). Language Evolution Can Be Shaped by the Structure of the World. Cognitive Science. 38(4). 775–793. 35 indexed citations
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Shafto, Patrick, et al.. (2012). Epistemic trust: modeling children’s reasoning about others’ knowledge and intent. Developmental Science. 15(3). 436–447. 99 indexed citations
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Perfors, Andrew & Nicholas R. Burns. (2010). Adult language learners under cognitive load do not over-regularize like children. Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide). 32(32). 2 indexed citations
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Perfors, Andrew & David Dunbar. (2010). Phonetic training makes word learning easier. Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide). 32(32). 11 indexed citations
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Perfors, Andrew & Danielle Navarro. (2009). Confirmation bias is rational when hypotheses are sparse. Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide). 31(31). 6 indexed citations
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Perfors, Andrew, et al.. (2006). Poverty of the Stimulus? A Rational Approach. Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide). 28(28). 62 indexed citations
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Perfors, Andrew, Charles Kemp, & Joshua B. Tenenbaum. (2005). Modeling the acquisition of domain structure and feature understanding. Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide). 27(27). 2 indexed citations

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