Bence Bagó

2.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
29 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Bence Bagó is a scholar working on General Decision Sciences, Cognitive Neuroscience and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Bence Bagó has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in General Decision Sciences, 11 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 10 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Bence Bagó's work include Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (14 papers), Misinformation and Its Impacts (7 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (5 papers). Bence Bagó is often cited by papers focused on Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (14 papers), Misinformation and Its Impacts (7 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (5 papers). Bence Bagó collaborates with scholars based in France, Hungary and United States. Bence Bagó's co-authors include Wim De Neys, Gordon Pennycook, David G. Rand, Jonathon McPhetres, Balázs Aczél, Aba Szollosi, Jean‐François Bonnefon, Olivier Houdé, Adam J. Berinsky and Julie Vidal and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Cognition and Neuropsychologia.

In The Last Decade

Bence Bagó

27 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Fake news, fast and slow: Deliberation reduces belief in ... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 2021 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Fake news, fast and slow: Deliberation reduces belief in false (but not true) news headlines.
    2020 308 citations Bence Bagó, Gordon Pennycook et al. Journal of Experimental Psychology General profile →
  2. Beliefs About COVID-19 in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States: A Novel Test of Political Polarization and Motivated Reasoning
    2021 153 citations Gordon Pennycook, Jonathon McPhetres et al. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bence Bagó France 15 664 492 341 192 182 29 1.3k
Matthew J. Lindberg United States 10 732 1.1× 211 0.4× 162 0.5× 86 0.4× 254 1.4× 14 1.3k
Nathaniel Barr Canada 9 492 0.7× 409 0.8× 99 0.3× 81 0.4× 66 0.4× 15 970
Philip Pärnamets Sweden 13 561 0.8× 313 0.6× 83 0.2× 94 0.5× 161 0.9× 28 1.1k
Nadia M. Brashier United States 10 1.3k 1.9× 446 0.9× 49 0.1× 345 1.8× 358 2.0× 16 1.7k
Onurcan Yılmaz Türkiye 20 716 1.1× 527 1.1× 55 0.2× 52 0.3× 59 0.3× 61 1.2k
Eryn J. Newman Australia 14 440 0.7× 321 0.7× 47 0.1× 104 0.5× 75 0.4× 42 1.0k
Abraham M. Rutchick United States 16 584 0.9× 246 0.5× 24 0.1× 96 0.5× 134 0.7× 29 1.1k
Inge Brechan Norway 6 562 0.8× 102 0.2× 52 0.2× 69 0.4× 247 1.4× 10 1.1k
Jakub Šrol Slovakia 13 515 0.8× 289 0.6× 52 0.2× 78 0.4× 54 0.3× 34 768
Jonathon McPhetres United States 15 1.4k 2.0× 266 0.5× 27 0.1× 272 1.4× 399 2.2× 29 1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Bence Bagó

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bence Bagó

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bence Bagó

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bence Bagó. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Bence Bagó 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 Bence Bagó. Bence Bagó is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bagó, Bence, David G. Rand, & Gordon Pennycook. (2023). Reasoning about climate change. PNAS Nexus. 2(5). pgad100–pgad100. 9 indexed citations
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Bagó, Bence, et al.. (2023). Reasoning and cognitive control, fast and slow. Judgment and Decision Making. 18. 1 indexed citations
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Pennycook, Gordon, Bence Bagó, & Jonathon McPhetres. (2022). Science beliefs, political ideology, and cognitive sophistication.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 152(1). 80–97. 38 indexed citations
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Awad, Edmond, Bence Bagó, Jean‐François Bonnefon, et al.. (2022). Polarized Citizen Preferences for the Ethical Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in 20 Countries. MDM Policy & Practice. 7(2). 97860325–97860325. 6 indexed citations
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Bagó, Bence, David G. Rand, & Gordon Pennycook. (2022). Does deliberation decrease belief in conspiracies?. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 103. 104395–104395. 28 indexed citations
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Pennycook, Gordon, Jonathon McPhetres, Bence Bagó, & David G. Rand. (2021). Beliefs About COVID-19 in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States: A Novel Test of Political Polarization and Motivated Reasoning. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 48(5). 750–765. 153 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pennycook, Gordon, Jonathon McPhetres, Bence Bagó, & David G. Rand. (2020). Beliefs about COVID-19 in Canada, the U.K., and the U.S.A.. 8 indexed citations
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Bagó, Bence, Jean‐François Bonnefon, & Wim De Neys. (2020). Intuition rather than deliberation determines selfish and prosocial choices.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 150(6). 1081–1094. 23 indexed citations
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Bagó, Bence, et al.. (2020). Fake news, fast and slow: Deliberation reduces belief in false (but not true) news headlines.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 149(8). 1608–1613. 308 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bagó, Bence, et al.. (2019). Second-guess: Testing the specificity of error detection in the bat-and-ball problem. Acta Psychologica. 193. 214–228. 11 indexed citations
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Bagó, Bence, et al.. (2018). Fast and slow thinking: Electrophysiological evidence for early conflict sensitivity. Neuropsychologia. 117. 483–490. 34 indexed citations
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Bagó, Bence & Wim De Neys. (2018). The intuitive greater good: Testing the corrective dual process model of moral cognition.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 148(10). 1782–1801. 94 indexed citations
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Aczél, Balázs, Aba Szollosi, & Bence Bagó. (2017). The Effect of Transparency on Framing Effects in Within‐Subject Designs. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. 31(1). 25–39. 11 indexed citations
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Bagó, Bence & Wim De Neys. (2017). Rise and fall of conflicting intuitions during reasoning.. Cognitive Science. 3 indexed citations
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Szollosi, Aba, Bence Bagó, Barnabás Szászi, & Balázs Aczél. (2017). Exploring the determinants of confidence in the bat-and-ball problem. Acta Psychologica. 180. 1–7. 11 indexed citations
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Bagó, Bence & Wim De Neys. (2016). Fast logic?: Examining the time course assumption of dual process theory. Cognition. 158. 90–109. 226 indexed citations
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Aczél, Balázs, et al.. (2015). An empirical analysis of the methodology of automatic imitation research in a strategic context.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 41(4). 1049–1062. 3 indexed citations
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Aczél, Balázs, et al.. (2015). Is it time for studying real-life debiasing? Evaluation of the effectiveness of an analogical intervention technique. Frontiers in Psychology. 6. 1120–1120. 27 indexed citations
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Aczél, Balázs, et al.. (2015). Measuring Individual Differences in Decision Biases: Methodological Considerations. Frontiers in Psychology. 6. 1770–1770. 34 indexed citations
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Papp, Z., et al.. (1988). Intelligent medical instruments. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine. 7(2). 18–23. 6 indexed citations

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