Christopher A. Was

1.7k total citations
56 papers, 917 citations indexed

About

Christopher A. Was is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher A. Was has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 917 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 24 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 23 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Christopher A. Was's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (14 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (13 papers) and Memory Processes and Influences (11 papers). Christopher A. Was is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (14 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (13 papers) and Memory Processes and Influences (11 papers). Christopher A. Was collaborates with scholars based in United States, Oman and Israel. Christopher A. Was's co-authors include Dan J. Woltz, John Dunlosky, Nathaniel L. Foster, Rachael N. Blasiman, Katherine A. Rawson, Robert Ariel, Michael L. Mueller, Frank J. Sansosti, Heather Bailey and Phillip Hamrick and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Computers & Education and Journal of Experimental Psychology General.

In The Last Decade

Christopher A. Was

46 papers receiving 873 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christopher A. Was United States 16 373 320 308 245 112 56 917
Garvin Brod Germany 19 509 1.4× 509 1.6× 278 0.9× 328 1.3× 101 0.9× 59 1.2k
Joshua Flavell Australia 7 372 1.0× 711 2.2× 247 0.8× 262 1.1× 134 1.2× 13 1.1k
Corentin Gonthier France 16 417 1.1× 198 0.6× 346 1.1× 85 0.3× 78 0.7× 47 819
Gnanathusharan Rajendran United Kingdom 17 755 2.0× 444 1.4× 108 0.4× 269 1.1× 128 1.1× 41 1.1k
Veronica X. Yan United States 16 279 0.7× 401 1.3× 378 1.2× 187 0.8× 213 1.9× 47 897
Andreja Bubić Croatia 16 625 1.7× 186 0.6× 349 1.1× 190 0.8× 249 2.2× 60 1.2k
Elisabeth Norman Norway 17 294 0.8× 245 0.8× 195 0.6× 96 0.4× 165 1.5× 28 683
Esperanza Báusela Herreras Spain 12 290 0.8× 125 0.4× 126 0.4× 304 1.2× 139 1.2× 115 990
Audrey K. Kittredge United States 10 432 1.2× 473 1.5× 153 0.5× 206 0.8× 55 0.5× 15 768
Paul W. Foos United States 18 324 0.9× 233 0.7× 316 1.0× 129 0.5× 96 0.9× 52 866

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All Works

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Hamrick, Phillip, Christopher A. Was, & Yin Zhang⋆. (2024). Do verbal and nonverbal declarative memory tasks in second language research measure the same abilities?. Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 46(2). 581–596.
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Was, Christopher A., et al.. (2023). The Relationship between Executive Functions and Metacognition in College Students. Journal of Intelligence. 11(12). 220–220. 7 indexed citations
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Was, Christopher A., et al.. (2023). Metacognitive Cues, Working Memory, and Math Anxiety: The Regulated Attention in Mathematical Problem Solving (RAMPS) Framework. Journal of Intelligence. 11(6). 117–117. 8 indexed citations
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Foster, Nathaniel L., Michael L. Mueller, Christopher A. Was, Katherine A. Rawson, & John Dunlosky. (2019). Why does interleaving improve math learning? The contributions of discriminative contrast and distributed practice. Memory & Cognition. 47(6). 1088–1101. 36 indexed citations
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Was, Christopher A., et al.. (2017). Academic Identity Status and the Relationship to Achievement Goal Orientation. Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology. 7(18). 14 indexed citations
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Was, Christopher A.. (2017). Orientación de meta de logro académico: un nuevo planteamiento. Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology. 4(10). 11 indexed citations
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Morris, Bradley J., et al.. (2014). Intuitive Statistics: Identifying Children’s Data Comparison Strategies using Eye Tracking. Cognitive Science. 36(36).
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Morris, Bradley J., et al.. (2014). Individuation vs. Aggregation Strategies for Processing Number Sets. Cognitive Science. 36(36).
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Was, Christopher A., et al.. (2014). Mind Wandering and Online Learning: How Working Memory, Interest, and Mind Wandering Impact Learning from Videos. Cognitive Science. 36(36). 3 indexed citations
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Morris, Bradley J., et al.. (2013). Representing Number Sets: Encoding Statistical Properties. Cognitive Science. 35(35).
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Was, Christopher A., et al.. (2013). Improving Metacognition in a College Classroom: Does Enough Practice Work?.. 23(1). 77–93. 1 indexed citations
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Hejazi, Elaheh, et al.. (2012). Academic Identity Status, Goal Orientation, and Academic Achievement among High School Students.. 22(1). 291–320. 16 indexed citations
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Was, Christopher A., John Dunlosky, Heather Bailey, & Katherine A. Rawson. (2012). The unique contributions of the facilitation of procedural memory and working memory to individual differences in intelligence. Acta Psychologica. 139(3). 425–433. 5 indexed citations
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Ariel, Robert, et al.. (2011). Habitual reading biases in the allocation of study time. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 18(5). 1015–1021. 41 indexed citations
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Was, Christopher A., Katherine A. Rawson, Heather Bailey, & John Dunlosky. (2011). Content-embedded tasks beat complex span for predicting comprehension. Behavior Research Methods. 43(4). 910–915. 18 indexed citations
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Gardner, Michael K., Robert D. Hill, & Christopher A. Was. (2011). A Procedural Approach to Remembering Personal Identification Numbers among Older Adults. PLoS ONE. 6(10). e25428–e25428. 2 indexed citations
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Was, Christopher A.. (2010). The persistence of content-specific memory operations: Priming effects following a 24-h delay. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 17(3). 362–368. 11 indexed citations
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Cook, Anne E., Sabine Guéraud, Christopher A. Was, & Edward J. O’Brien. (2007). Foregrounding Effects During Reading, Revisited. Discourse Processes. 44(2). 91–111. 16 indexed citations
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Woltz, Dan J. & Christopher A. Was. (2007). Available but unattended conceptual information in working memory: Temporarily active semantic content or persistent memory for prior operations?. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 33(1). 155–168. 31 indexed citations
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Woltz, Dan J. & Christopher A. Was. (2006). Availability of related long-term memory during and after attention focus in working memory. Memory & Cognition. 34(3). 668–684. 105 indexed citations

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