James Deese

6.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
50 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

James Deese is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, James Deese has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 7 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 6 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in James Deese's work include Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (5 papers), Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 papers) and Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (3 papers). James Deese is often cited by papers focused on Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (5 papers), Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 papers) and Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (3 papers). James Deese collaborates with scholars based in United States. James Deese's co-authors include Roger Kaufman, Walter Kintsch, Richard S. Lazarus, Moshe Anisfeld, Lorand B. Szalay, Sonia F. Osler, James F. Keenan, William Bechtel, R. Hamilton and C. T. Morgan and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Bulletin, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and Psychological Review.

In The Last Decade

James Deese

47 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

On the prediction of occurrence of particular verbal intr... 1952 2026 1976 2001 1959 1957 1952 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. On the prediction of occurrence of particular verbal intrusions in immediate recall.
    1959 1.5k citations James Deese Journal of Experimental Psychology profile →
  2. Serial effects in recall of unorganized and sequentially organized verbal material.
    1957 281 citations James Deese et al. Journal of Experimental Psychology profile →
  3. The psychology of learning
    1952 269 citations James Deese profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
James Deese United States 23 2.4k 1.3k 1.1k 995 857 50 4.5k
Edward Joseph Shoben United States 22 1.5k 0.6× 648 0.5× 1.7k 1.5× 1.3k 1.3× 923 1.1× 101 3.8k
Leo Postman United States 36 2.1k 0.9× 615 0.5× 1.5k 1.3× 1.1k 1.1× 808 0.9× 128 4.2k
William F. Battig United States 19 3.7k 1.6× 896 0.7× 2.4k 2.2× 1.8k 1.8× 1.2k 1.4× 81 6.2k
Robert L. Solso United States 18 3.0k 1.3× 867 0.7× 1.9k 1.6× 1.8k 1.8× 761 0.9× 69 5.3k
Michael M. Gruneberg United Kingdom 17 1.9k 0.8× 637 0.5× 1.1k 0.9× 921 0.9× 328 0.4× 64 3.4k
Mary Lois Marckworth Canada 2 3.9k 1.7× 715 0.6× 2.9k 2.5× 1.8k 1.8× 1.4k 1.6× 4 6.3k
W. F. Twaddell United States 5 3.9k 1.7× 722 0.6× 2.9k 2.6× 1.8k 1.8× 1.4k 1.7× 12 6.4k
Roger W. Schvaneveldt United States 23 2.9k 1.2× 636 0.5× 2.4k 2.1× 1.3k 1.3× 765 0.9× 48 4.8k
W. K. Estes United States 45 3.4k 1.5× 848 0.7× 2.2k 1.9× 1.5k 1.5× 1.4k 1.6× 130 6.6k
Harry P. Bahrick United States 29 1.8k 0.8× 502 0.4× 1.2k 1.1× 854 0.9× 647 0.8× 66 3.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Deese, James, et al.. (2003). How to study : and other skills for success in college. TU Digital Collections (Thammasat University).
2.
Deese, James. (1993). Human abilities versus intelligence. Intelligence. 17(2). 107–116. 6 indexed citations
3.
Deese, James. (1986). Reality and control. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 9(3). 521–522. 1 indexed citations
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Deese, James, et al.. (1985). Thought into Speech: The Psychology of a Language. Language. 61(1). 234–234. 74 indexed citations
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Deese, James. (1978). Thought into speech.. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 66(3). 314–21. 59 indexed citations
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Deese, James, et al.. (1974). Marking and Propositional Effects in Associations to Compounds. The American Journal of Psychology. 87(1/2). 1–1. 3 indexed citations
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Deese, James, et al.. (1971). Does linguistic marking have a psychological correlate?. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior. 10(6). 707–714. 34 indexed citations
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Deese, James, et al.. (1971). Comprehensibility and subject-verb relations in complex sentences. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior. 10(2). 163–170. 22 indexed citations
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Deese, James & Walter Kintsch. (1971). Learning, Memory, and Conceptual Processes. The American Journal of Psychology. 84(2). 292–292. 268 indexed citations
10.
Deese, James. (1964). Principles of psychology. Allyn and Bacon eBooks. 15 indexed citations
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Deese, James & Omar Khayyam Moore. (1964). Comments and Conclusions. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 29(1). 177–177. 1 indexed citations
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Deese, James, et al.. (1964). Selected Readings on the Learning Process. The American Journal of Psychology. 77(2). 346–346. 13 indexed citations
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Deese, James. (1964). The associative structure of some common english adjectives. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior. 3(5). 347–357. 74 indexed citations
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Deese, James. (1962). On the structure of associative meaning.. Psychological Review. 69(3). 161–175. 157 indexed citations
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Deese, James. (1962). Form class and the determinants of association. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior. 1(2). 79–84. 65 indexed citations
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Deese, James. (1959). On the prediction of occurrence of particular verbal intrusions in immediate recall.. Journal of Experimental Psychology. 58(1). 17–22. 1526 indexed citations breakdown →
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Deese, James. (1959). Influence of Inter-Item Associative Strength upon Immediate Free Recall. Psychological Reports. 5(3). 305–312. 244 indexed citations
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Lazarus, Richard S., James Deese, & Sonia F. Osler. (1952). The effects of psychological stress upon performance.. Psychological Bulletin. 49(4). 293–317. 243 indexed citations
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Deese, James, et al.. (1952). An experimental analysis of the errors in rote serial learning.. Journal of Experimental Psychology. 44(3). 199–202. 13 indexed citations
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Lazarus, Richard S., James Deese, & Sonia F. Osler. (1951). Review of Research on Effects of Psychological Stress upon Performance. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 3 indexed citations

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