John Barresi

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

John Barresi is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, John Barresi has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 13 papers in Social Psychology and 11 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in John Barresi's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (10 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (6 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (4 papers). John Barresi is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (10 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (6 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (4 papers). John Barresi collaborates with scholars based in Canada and United States. John Barresi's co-authors include Jerry A. Fodor, Chris Moore, Carol E. Thompson, Raymond Martin, Donald Robbins, Eugene Winograd, Raymond Martin, Edward E. Smith, Alan E. Gross and Carolyn Cohen and has published in prestigious journals such as Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Frontiers in Psychology and Journal of Personality.

In The Last Decade

John Barresi

43 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Psychosemantics: The Problem of Meaning in the Philosophy... 1989 2026 2001 2013 1989 200 400 600
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. Psychosemantics: The Problem of Meaning in the Philosophy of Mind
    1989 644 citations John Barresi, Jerry A. Fodor 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 Career Trend Papers Cites
John Barresi Canada 17 749 700 679 541 265 45 1.8k
Robert M. Gordon United States 14 600 0.8× 698 1.0× 730 1.1× 434 0.8× 244 0.9× 34 1.6k
Maria Czyzewska United States 14 568 0.8× 678 1.0× 365 0.5× 411 0.8× 146 0.6× 21 1.4k
Daniel D. Hutto Australia 25 539 0.7× 1.4k 2.0× 1.1k 1.6× 531 1.0× 199 0.8× 100 2.3k
Tim P. German United States 17 1.4k 1.9× 930 1.3× 768 1.1× 383 0.7× 230 0.9× 21 2.2k
J. A. Fodor United States 16 1.1k 1.4× 1.1k 1.5× 391 0.6× 833 1.5× 114 0.4× 36 2.6k
Jesse M. Bering United States 26 526 0.7× 686 1.0× 1.1k 1.6× 416 0.8× 1.2k 4.5× 65 2.4k
Karen Bartsch United States 19 1.8k 2.4× 722 1.0× 778 1.1× 290 0.5× 215 0.8× 35 2.4k
Olivier Mascaro France 11 844 1.1× 456 0.7× 557 0.8× 386 0.7× 623 2.4× 24 1.8k
Robert Morrison United States 17 900 1.2× 665 0.9× 311 0.5× 483 0.9× 162 0.6× 82 2.0k
Susan Carey United States 10 1.9k 2.6× 742 1.1× 713 1.1× 629 1.2× 209 0.8× 17 3.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Barresi

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Barresi

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of John Barresi. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of John Barresi based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with John Barresi. John Barresi is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Barresi, John. (2019). On building a person: benchmarks for robotic personhood. Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence. 32(4). 581–600. 4 indexed citations
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Moore, Chris & John Barresi. (2017). The Role of Second-Person Information in the Development of Social Understanding. Frontiers in Psychology. 8. 1667–1667. 17 indexed citations
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Barresi, John & Raymond Martin. (2011). History as Prologue. Oxford University Press eBooks. 9 indexed citations
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Barresi, John, et al.. (2010). Does motor mimicry contribute to emotion recognition?. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 33(6). 447–448. 1 indexed citations
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Barresi, John. (2007). Consciousness and intentionality. Journal of Consciousness Studies. 14. 3 indexed citations
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Barresi, John & Chris Moore. (2004). Even an “epistemic triangle” has three sides. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 27(1). 98–99. 1 indexed citations
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Barresi, John & Raymond Martin. (2003). Self-concern From Priestley To Hazlitt. British Journal for the History of Philosophy. 11(3). 499–507.
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Christie, John & John Barresi. (2002). Using Illusory Line Motion to Differentiate Misrepresentation (Stalinesque) and Misremembering (Orwellian) Accounts of Consciousness. Consciousness and Cognition. 11(2). 347–365. 7 indexed citations
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Barresi, John & Raymond Martin. (1999). Naturalization of the Soul: Self and Personal Identity in the Eighteenth Century. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 22 indexed citations
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Moore, Chris, John Barresi, & Carol E. Thompson. (1998). The Cognitive Basis of Future‐oriented Prosocial Behavior. Social Development. 7(2). 198–218. 130 indexed citations
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Barresi, John & Chris Moore. (1996). Understanding self and other. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 19(1). 142–154. 2 indexed citations
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Barresi, John. (1995). You can cheat people, but not nature!. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 18(3). 544–545. 19 indexed citations
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Barresi, John & Chris Moore. (1993). Sharing a perspective precedes the understanding of that perspective. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 16(3). 513–514. 30 indexed citations
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Barresi, John, et al.. (1993). The Subjective‐Objective Dimension in the Individual‐Society Connection: A Duality Perspective. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour. 23(2). 197–216. 7 indexed citations
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Moore, Chris & John Barresi. (1993). Knowledge of the psychological states of self and others is not only theory-laden but also data-driven. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 16(1). 61–62. 53 indexed citations
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Barresi, John & Jerry A. Fodor. (1989). Psychosemantics: The Problem of Meaning in the Philosophy of Mind. The American Journal of Psychology. 102(1). 122–122. 644 indexed citations breakdown →
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Barresi, John. (1987). Prospects for the Cyberiad: Certain Limits on Human Self‐Knowledge in the Cybernetic Age. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour. 17(1). 19–46. 28 indexed citations
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Robbins, Donald, et al.. (1978). The genesis and use of exemplar vs. prototype knowledge in abstract category learning. Memory & Cognition. 6(4). 473–480. 14 indexed citations
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Winograd, Eugene, Carolyn Cohen, & John Barresi. (1976). Memory for concrete and abstract words in bilingual speakers. Memory & Cognition. 4(3). 323–329. 27 indexed citations
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Barresi, John, et al.. (1975). Role of distinctive features in the abstraction of related concepts.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Learning & Memory. 1(4). 360–368. 22 indexed citations

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