James N. MacGregor

2.5k total citations
47 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

James N. MacGregor is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology and General Decision Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, James N. MacGregor has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 10 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 9 papers in General Decision Sciences. Recurrent topics in James N. MacGregor's work include Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (14 papers), Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes (11 papers) and Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (9 papers). James N. MacGregor is often cited by papers focused on Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (14 papers), Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes (11 papers) and Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (9 papers). James N. MacGregor collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United Kingdom and United States. James N. MacGregor's co-authors include Thomas C. Ormerod, Edward P. Chronicle, John Cunningham, Natasha Caverley, Jarrod Haar, Jenny Gibb, Eric S. Lee, Jennifer Walinga, Ian Morrison and Michael Lee and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Review, Journal of Business Ethics and Journal of Management Studies.

In The Last Decade

James N. MacGregor

46 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
James N. MacGregor Canada 19 660 465 308 296 210 47 1.7k
Evangelos Karapanos Portugal 24 171 0.3× 164 0.4× 194 0.6× 177 0.6× 400 1.9× 87 2.7k
Diane J. Schiano United States 26 395 0.6× 437 0.9× 331 1.1× 61 0.2× 395 1.9× 53 3.0k
Andreas Sonderegger Switzerland 22 657 1.0× 474 1.0× 245 0.8× 71 0.2× 670 3.2× 64 2.2k
Stellan Ohlsson United States 29 1.8k 2.7× 1.2k 2.6× 1.4k 4.5× 60 0.2× 432 2.1× 112 4.3k
Gitte Lindgaard Canada 18 222 0.3× 323 0.7× 140 0.5× 79 0.3× 598 2.8× 83 2.1k
Antonella De Angeli Italy 27 145 0.2× 314 0.7× 425 1.4× 108 0.4× 516 2.5× 129 2.9k
Niels van Berkel Denmark 24 313 0.5× 227 0.5× 341 1.1× 99 0.3× 304 1.4× 147 2.1k
Marc T. P. Adam Australia 24 230 0.3× 226 0.5× 264 0.9× 134 0.5× 270 1.3× 116 1.9k
Joachim Funke Germany 26 680 1.0× 157 0.3× 550 1.8× 57 0.2× 350 1.7× 144 2.2k
John Pruitt United States 12 235 0.4× 142 0.3× 137 0.4× 106 0.4× 112 0.5× 30 1.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ormerod, Thomas C. & James N. MacGregor. (2017). Enabling spontaneous analogy through heuristic change. Cognitive Psychology. 99. 1–16. 5 indexed citations
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Cunningham, John & James N. MacGregor. (2016). A Self‐Report Measure of Productive Thinking in Solving Insight Problems. The Journal of Creative Behavior. 53(1). 97–108. 3 indexed citations
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MacGregor, James N.. (2015). Effects of cluster location and cluster distribution on performance on the traveling salesman problem. Attention Perception & Psychophysics. 77(7). 2491–2501. 3 indexed citations
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Ormerod, Thomas C., et al.. (2013). Act first, think later: The presence and absence of inferential planning in problem solving. Memory & Cognition. 41(7). 1096–1108. 12 indexed citations
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MacGregor, James N., et al.. (2011). Human Performance on the Traveling Salesman and Related Problems: A Review. Purdue e-Pubs (Purdue University System). 3(2). 65 indexed citations
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Cunningham, John, James N. MacGregor, Jenny Gibb, & Jarrod Haar. (2009). Categories of insight and their correlates: An exploration of relationships among classic‐type insight problems, rebus puzzles, remote associates and esoteric analogies. The Journal of Creative Behavior. 43(4). 262–280. 45 indexed citations
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MacGregor, James N. & John Cunningham. (2008). Rebus puzzles as insight problems. Behavior Research Methods. 40(1). 263–268. 59 indexed citations
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Caverley, Natasha, John Cunningham, & James N. MacGregor. (2007). Sickness Presenteeism, Sickness Absenteeism, and Health Following Restructuring in a Public Service Organization. Journal of Management Studies. 44(2). 304–319. 277 indexed citations
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Chronicle, Edward P., James N. MacGregor, Thomas C. Ormerod, & Evie Fioratou. (2006). The remnants of insight. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 28(28). 3 indexed citations
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Chronicle, Edward P., James N. MacGregor, & Thomas C. Ormerod. (2006). Asymmetrical Analogical Transfer in Insight Problem Solving. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 28(28). 2 indexed citations
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Chronicle, Edward P., James N. MacGregor, & Thomas C. Ormerod. (2004). What Makes an Insight Problem? The Roles of Heuristics, Goal Conception, and Solution Recoding in Knowledge-Lean Problems.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 30(1). 14–27. 88 indexed citations
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MacGregor, James N., Edward P. Chronicle, & Thomas C. Ormerod. (2004). Convex hull or crossing avoidance? Solution heuristics in the traveling salesperson problem. Memory & Cognition. 32(2). 260–270. 38 indexed citations
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Ormerod, Thomas C., James N. MacGregor, & Edward P. Chronicle. (2002). Dynamics and constraints in insight problem solving.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 28(4). 791–799. 45 indexed citations
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Ormerod, Thomas C., James N. MacGregor, & Edward P. Chronicle. (2002). Dynamics and constraints in insight problem solving.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 28(4). 791–799. 127 indexed citations
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Chronicle, Edward P., Thomas C. Ormerod, & James N. MacGregor. (2001). When insight just won't come: The failure of visual cues in the nine-dot problem. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A. 54(3). 903–919. 10 indexed citations
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MacGregor, James N., Thomas C. Ormerod, & Edward P. Chronicle. (2001). Information processing and insight: A process model of performance on the nine-dot and related problems.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 27(1). 176–201. 202 indexed citations
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MacGregor, James N., Thomas C. Ormerod, & Edward P. Chronicle. (2000). A model of human performance on the traveling salesperson problem. Memory & Cognition. 28(7). 1183–1190. 67 indexed citations
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Ormerod, Thomas C., Edward P. Chronicle, & James N. MacGregor. (1997). Facilitation in variants of the nine-dot problem: perceptual or cognitive mediation?. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 2 indexed citations
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MacGregor, James N. & Thomas C. Ormerod. (1996). Human performance on the traveling salesman problem. Perception & Psychophysics. 58(4). 527–539. 143 indexed citations
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MacGregor, James N.. (1987). Short-term memory capacity: Limitation or optimization?. Psychological Review. 94(1). 107–108. 37 indexed citations

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