John B. Pittenger

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

John B. Pittenger is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, John B. Pittenger has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 19 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 6 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in John B. Pittenger's work include Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (9 papers), Aesthetic Perception and Analysis (5 papers) and Face Recognition and Perception (5 papers). John B. Pittenger is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (9 papers), Aesthetic Perception and Analysis (5 papers) and Face Recognition and Perception (5 papers). John B. Pittenger collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. John B. Pittenger's co-authors include James R. Pomerantz, Michael Kubovy, Robert E. Shaw, Leonard S. Mark, Patrick A. Cabe, Douglas Johnson, James T. Todd, James J. Jenkins, Roderick W. Barron and William M. Mace and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Bulletin, Psychological Science and Developmental Psychology.

In The Last Decade

John B. Pittenger

42 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Perceptual Organization

1982 1.1k citations John B. Pittenger, Michael Kubovy et al. The American Journal of Psychology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John B. Pittenger United States	21	1.6k	917	428	419	256	42	2.4k
Lionel Standing Canada	20	1.4k 0.9×	649 0.7×	354 0.8×	319 0.8×	312 1.2×	80	2.4k
Robert E. Shaw United States	26	1.2k 0.8×	548 0.6×	352 0.8×	645 1.5×	478 1.9×	76	3.2k
Fred L. Royer United States	18	1.7k 1.1×	971 1.1×	217 0.5×	505 1.2×	484 1.9×	50	2.7k
Margaret Jean Intons-Peterson United States	16	2.2k 1.4×	1.0k 1.1×	185 0.4×	614 1.5×	746 2.9×	38	3.3k
Michael Kubovy United States	32	3.4k 2.2×	1.5k 1.6×	699 1.6×	910 2.2×	362 1.4×	92	4.8k
Julian Hochberg United States	25	1.8k 1.1×	781 0.9×	381 0.9×	749 1.8×	384 1.5×	80	3.3k
Edward C. Carterette United States	24	1.7k 1.1×	740 0.8×	307 0.7×	298 0.7×	264 1.0×	90	2.7k
Paul Fraisse France	21	1.6k 1.0×	1.0k 1.1×	115 0.3×	463 1.1×	397 1.6×	110	2.5k
James R. Pomerantz United States	22	2.9k 1.9×	1.4k 1.5×	467 1.1×	759 1.8×	622 2.4×	53	4.1k
Alvin G. Goldstein United States	27	1.5k 1.0×	821 0.9×	472 1.1×	488 1.2×	177 0.7×	70	2.0k

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All Works

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Valenti, S. Stavros, John B. Pittenger, & William M. Mace. (2013). Studies in Perception and Action II. Psychology Press eBooks. 3 indexed citations

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Valenti, S. Stavros, John B. Pittenger, & William M. Mace. (2013). Situational Awareness: Passive Observation and Active Control. 370–373. 1 indexed citations

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Sarrazin, Jean-Christophe, et al.. (2005). Tau and Kappa effects in physical space: the case of audition. Psychological Research. 71(2). 201–218. 32 indexed citations

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Cabe, Patrick A. & John B. Pittenger. (2000). Human sensitivity to acoustic information from vessel filling.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 26(1). 313–324. 34 indexed citations

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Cabe, Patrick A. & John B. Pittenger. (2000). Human sensitivity to acoustic information from vessel filling.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 26(1). 313–324. 28 indexed citations

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Pittenger, John B.. (1990). Body proportions as information for age and cuteness: Animals in illustrated children’s books. Perception & Psychophysics. 48(2). 124–130. 11 indexed citations

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Grosofsky, Alexis, et al.. (1989). Attractiveness of Facial Profiles Is a Function of Distance From Archetype. Ecological Psychology. 1(3). 227–251. 20 indexed citations

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Pittenger, John B., Leonard S. Mark, & Douglas Johnson. (1989). Longitudinal stability of facial attractiveness. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society. 27(2). 171–174. 9 indexed citations

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Pittenger, John B., et al.. (1988). A Mechanism for the Direct Perception of Change: The Example of Bacterial Chemotaxis. Perception. 17(1). 119–133. 20 indexed citations

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Pittenger, John B.. (1986). What's Happening Out There?. Contemporary Psychology. 31(2). 100–101. 1 indexed citations

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Pittenger, John B., et al.. (1984). Facial self-perception: Its relation to objective appearance and self-concept. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society. 22(3). 167–170. 6 indexed citations

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Johnson, Douglas & John B. Pittenger. (1984). Attribution, the attractiveness stereotype, and the elderly.. Developmental Psychology. 20(6). 1168–1172. 22 indexed citations

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Johnson, Douglas & John B. Pittenger. (1984). Attribution, the attractiveness stereotype, and the elderly.. Developmental Psychology. 20(6). 1168–1172. 29 indexed citations

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Pittenger, John B., et al.. (1983). List Equivalency of the CID Everyday Sentences (Harris Revision) under Three Signal-to-Noise Ratios. Ear and Hearing. 4(5). 251–254. 6 indexed citations

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Pittenger, John B. & James T. Todd. (1983). Perception of growth from changes in body proportions.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 9(6). 945–954. 17 indexed citations

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Pittenger, John B., Michael Kubovy, & James R. Pomerantz. (1982). Perceptual Organization. The American Journal of Psychology. 95(3). 518–518. 1111 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bremer, Christine D., et al.. (1977). An Illusion of Auditory Saltation Similar to the Cutaneous "Rabbit". The American Journal of Psychology. 90(4). 645–645. 26 indexed citations

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Mace, William M. & John B. Pittenger. (1975). Directly perceiving Gibson: A further reply to Gyr.. Psychological Bulletin. 82(1). 137–139. 30 indexed citations

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Pittenger, John B. & Robert E. Shaw. (1975). Aging faces as viscal-elastic events: Implications for a theory of nonrigid shape perception.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 1(4). 374–382. 184 indexed citations

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Yonas, Albert & John B. Pittenger. (1973). Searching for many targets: An analysis of speed and accuracy. Perception & Psychophysics. 13(3). 513–516. 14 indexed citations

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