Harry Helson

7.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
42 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Harry Helson is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Harry Helson has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 5 papers in Social Psychology and 4 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Harry Helson's work include Visual perception and processing mechanisms (3 papers), Color perception and design (3 papers) and Color Science and Applications (3 papers). Harry Helson is often cited by papers focused on Visual perception and processing mechanisms (3 papers), Color perception and design (3 papers) and Color Science and Applications (3 papers). Harry Helson collaborates with scholars based in United States and Canada. Harry Helson's co-authors include Allen Parducci, Walter C. Michels, William Bevan, Robert R. Blake, Jane Srygley Mouton, Madison Bentley, Frederick H. Rohles, Joseph A. Steger, Lloyd L. Avant and Philip Himelstein and has published in prestigious journals such as American Psychologist, Physics Today and Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Harry Helson

39 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

Adaptation-Level Theory 1964 2026 1984 2005 1965 1964 500 1000 1.5k
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. Adaptation-Level Theory
    1965 1.8k citations Allen Parducci, Harry Helson The American Journal of Psychology profile →
  2. Adaptation-level theory : an experimental and systematic approach to behavior
    1964 906 citations Harry Helson Harper & Row eBooks profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Harry Helson United States 18 1.0k 961 665 638 556 42 3.6k
Allen Parducci United States 22 1.1k 1.1× 1.0k 1.1× 936 1.4× 652 1.0× 598 1.1× 52 4.4k
Egon Brunswik United States 11 1.1k 1.1× 1.2k 1.2× 880 1.3× 788 1.2× 152 0.3× 14 4.7k
Solomon E. Asch United States 12 947 0.9× 1.8k 1.9× 611 0.9× 2.4k 3.8× 249 0.4× 17 5.5k
Thomas M. Ostrom United States 27 699 0.7× 1.2k 1.3× 409 0.6× 1.5k 2.3× 340 0.6× 75 3.1k
Marshall R. Jones United States 5 822 0.8× 1.1k 1.2× 601 0.9× 939 1.5× 170 0.3× 8 3.7k
John Sabini United States 32 900 0.9× 1.2k 1.3× 997 1.5× 1.1k 1.7× 266 0.5× 71 3.4k
Ebbe Β. Ebbesen United States 28 995 1.0× 1.0k 1.1× 627 0.9× 793 1.2× 71 0.1× 49 3.6k
John T. Lanzetta United States 33 1.1k 1.1× 1.6k 1.7× 1.0k 1.6× 739 1.2× 93 0.2× 70 3.3k
Michael R. Leippe United States 27 1.0k 1.0× 1.2k 1.2× 257 0.4× 941 1.5× 164 0.3× 49 2.7k
Michael S. Humphreys Australia 35 3.0k 3.0× 1.3k 1.4× 1.1k 1.6× 674 1.1× 368 0.7× 137 5.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Harry Helson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Helson, Harry. (1969). Why did their precursors fail and the Gestalt psychologists succeed? Reflections on theories and theorists.. American Psychologist. 24(11). 1006–1011. 6 indexed citations
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Helson, Harry, et al.. (1968). Effects of Duration of Series and Anchor-Stimuli on Judgments of Perceived Size. The American Journal of Psychology. 81(3). 291–291. 6 indexed citations
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Helson, Harry, et al.. (1967). Torque Sensitivity as a Function of Knob Radius and Load. The American Journal of Psychology. 80(4). 558–558. 7 indexed citations
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Helson, Harry, et al.. (1967). Torque sensitivity as a function of knob radius and load.. PubMed. 80(4). 558–71. 9 indexed citations
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Helson, Harry, et al.. (1966). A Study of Inflection-Points in the Locus of Adaptation-Levels as a Function of Anchor-Stimuli. The American Journal of Psychology. 79(3). 400–400. 8 indexed citations
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Parducci, Allen & Harry Helson. (1965). Adaptation-Level Theory. The American Journal of Psychology. 78(1). 158–158. 1844 indexed citations breakdown →
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Helson, Harry. (1964). Adaptation-level theory : an experimental and systematic approach to behavior. Harper & Row eBooks. 906 indexed citations breakdown →
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Helson, Harry & William Bevan. (1964). An investigation of variables in judgments of relative area.. Journal of Experimental Psychology. 67(4). 335–341. 11 indexed citations
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Helson, Harry & Joseph A. Steger. (1962). On the inhibitory effects of a second stimulus following the primary stimulus to react.. Journal of Experimental Psychology. 64(3). 201–205. 28 indexed citations
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Helson, Harry, Robert R. Blake, & Jane Srygley Mouton. (1958). Petition-Signing as Adjustment to Situational and Personal Factors. The Journal of Social Psychology. 48(1). 3–10. 22 indexed citations
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Helson, Harry, et al.. (1958). A Study of the Witte-Konig Paradoxical Fusion-Effect. The American Journal of Psychology. 71(1). 316–316. 1 indexed citations
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Helson, Harry, Robert R. Blake, & Jane Srygley Mouton. (1958). An Experimental Investigation of the Effectiveness of the “Big Lie” in Shifting Attitudes. The Journal of Social Psychology. 48(1). 51–60. 10 indexed citations
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Blake, Robert R., Harry Helson, & Jane Srygley Mouton. (1957). The Generality of Conformity Behavior as a Function of Factual Anchorage. Difficulty of Task, and Amount of Social Pressure1. Journal of Personality. 25(3). 294–305. 38 indexed citations
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Helson, Harry, et al.. (1956). Quantitative Denotations of Common Terms as a Function of Background. The American Journal of Psychology. 69(2). 194–194. 6 indexed citations
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Helson, Harry. (1955). Un planteamiento experimental del estudio de la personalidad. Revista de psicología general y aplicada: Revista de la Federación Española de Asociaciones de Psicología. 10(33). 5–24. 1 indexed citations
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Helson, Harry. (1955). An experimental approach to personality.. PubMed. 89–99. 5 indexed citations
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Helson, Harry & Philip Himelstein. (1955). A Short Method for Calculating the Adaptation-Level for Absolute and Comparative Rating Judgments. The American Journal of Psychology. 68(4). 631–631. 23 indexed citations
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Helson, Harry, et al.. (1954). The Use of Comparative Rating Scales for the Evaluation of Psychophysical Data. The American Journal of Psychology. 67(2). 321–321. 23 indexed citations
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Helson, Harry & R. W. PICKFORD. (1954). Individual Differences in Colour Vision. The American Journal of Psychology. 67(1). 189–189. 15 indexed citations
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Michels, Walter C. & Harry Helson. (1954). A Quantitative Theory of Time-Order Effects. The American Journal of Psychology. 67(2). 327–327. 46 indexed citations

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