John D. Coley

5.6k total citations
62 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

John D. Coley is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, John D. Coley has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 26 papers in Social Psychology and 16 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in John D. Coley's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (27 papers), Animal and Plant Science Education (16 papers) and Cultural Differences and Values (11 papers). John D. Coley is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (27 papers), Animal and Plant Science Education (16 papers) and Cultural Differences and Values (11 papers). John D. Coley collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and France. John D. Coley's co-authors include Douglas L. Medin, Susan A. Gelman, Scott Atran, Kimberly D. Tanner, Elizabeth B. Lynch, Patrick Shafto, Norbert Roß, Edward E. Smith, Alejandro López and Brett K. Hayes and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Child Development.

In The Last Decade

John D. Coley

60 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John D. Coley United States 27 1.7k 1.1k 655 548 448 62 3.1k
Charles W. Kalish United States 32 1.7k 1.0× 919 0.8× 391 0.6× 496 0.9× 518 1.2× 79 2.7k
Susan Carey United States 10 1.9k 1.2× 713 0.7× 629 1.0× 1.1k 2.0× 209 0.5× 17 3.3k
David M. Sobel United States 36 2.9k 1.7× 1.2k 1.1× 555 0.8× 1.5k 2.7× 577 1.3× 148 5.4k
Lawrence A. Hirschfeld United States 20 1.4k 0.8× 1.3k 1.2× 820 1.3× 528 1.0× 1.3k 3.0× 44 3.8k
Maureen A. Callanan United States 32 1.8k 1.1× 709 0.6× 469 0.7× 1.4k 2.5× 475 1.1× 75 3.5k
Deborah Kelemen United States 29 1.5k 0.9× 1.4k 1.3× 333 0.5× 749 1.4× 956 2.1× 62 3.4k
Giyoo Hatano Japan 29 1.9k 1.1× 860 0.8× 734 1.1× 1.8k 3.2× 312 0.7× 94 3.8k
Tania Lombrozo United States 31 1.4k 0.9× 635 0.6× 598 0.9× 549 1.0× 710 1.6× 141 3.7k
Cristine H. Legare United States 41 2.6k 1.6× 2.0k 1.9× 753 1.1× 1.3k 2.3× 1.3k 3.0× 104 5.4k
Kayoko Inagaki Japan 21 1.2k 0.7× 681 0.6× 264 0.4× 862 1.6× 181 0.4× 46 2.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by John D. Coley

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John D. Coley

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Tanner, Kimberly D., et al.. (2025). Spontaneous Anthropocentric Language Use in University Students’ Explanations of Biological Concepts Varies by Topic and Predicts Misconception Agreement. CBE—Life Sciences Education. 24(1). ar11–ar11. 1 indexed citations
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Ronfard, Samuel, et al.. (2023). Why we should care about moral foundations when preparing for the next pandemic: Insights from Canada, the UK and the US. PLoS ONE. 18(5). e0285549–e0285549. 1 indexed citations
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Helmuth, Brian, et al.. (2023). Conceptualizing Human–Nature Relationships: Implications of Human Exceptionalist Thinking for Sustainability and Conservation. Topics in Cognitive Science. 15(3). 357–387. 25 indexed citations
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Coley, John D., et al.. (2016). Intuitive biological thought: Developmental changes and effects of biology education in late adolescence. Cognitive Psychology. 92. 1–21. 38 indexed citations
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Coley, John D., et al.. (2013). Evaluating Two Mechanisms of Flexible Induction: Selective Memory Retrieval and Evidence Explanation. Cognitive Science. 35(35). 5 indexed citations
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Feeney, Aidan, et al.. (2012). The inductive potential of religion categories in Northern Ireland.. Cognitive Science. 34(34). 2351–2357. 2 indexed citations
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Kutchukian, Peter S., Mika Lindvall, Michael P. Dillon, et al.. (2012). Inside the Mind of a Medicinal Chemist: The Role of Human Bias in Compound Prioritization during Drug Discovery. PLoS ONE. 7(11). e48476–e48476. 47 indexed citations
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Feeney, Aidan, et al.. (2010). The relevance framework for category-based induction: Evidence from garden-path arguments.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 36(4). 906–919. 11 indexed citations
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Coley, John D.. (2007). The Human Animal: Developmental Changes in Judgments of Taxonomic and Psychological Similarity among Humans and Other Animals. 11(4). 733. 20 indexed citations
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Coley, John D., et al.. (2005). Context-Sensitive Induction. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 27(27). 8 indexed citations
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Coley, John D., et al.. (2005). Effects of Experience on Relational Inferences in Children: The Case of Folk Biology. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 27(27). 12 indexed citations
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Coley, John D., et al.. (2005). Children's Use of Relevance in Open-Ended Induction in the Domain of Biology. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 27(27). 1 indexed citations
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Coley, John D., et al.. (2003). Thinking About Music: Novice and Expert Inductive Reasoning. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 25(25). 2 indexed citations
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Coley, John D., et al.. (2003). Knowledge, expectations, and inductive reasoning within conceptual hierarchies. Cognition. 90(3). 217–253. 26 indexed citations
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Shafto, Patrick & John D. Coley. (2003). Development of categorization and reasoning in the natural world: Novices to experts, naive similarity to ecological knowledge.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 29(4). 641–649. 119 indexed citations
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Kalish, Charles W., Susan A. Gelman, Douglas L. Medin, et al.. (2001). Why essences are essential in the psychology of concepts. Cognition. 82(1). 59–69. 108 indexed citations
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Lynch, Elizabeth B., John D. Coley, & Douglas L. Medin. (2000). Tall is typical: Central tendency, ideal dimensions, and graded category structure among tree experts and novices. Memory & Cognition. 28(1). 41–50. 121 indexed citations
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Coley, John D., Douglas L. Medin, & Scott Atran. (1997). Does rank have its privilege? Inductive inferences within folkbiological taxonomies. Cognition. 64(1). 73–112. 84 indexed citations
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Coley, John D. & Susan A. Gelman. (1989). The Effects of Object Orientation and Object Type on Children's Interpretation of the Word "Big". Child Development. 60(2). 372–372. 3 indexed citations
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Coley, John D. & Susan A. Gelman. (1989). The Effects of Object Orientation and Object Type on Children's Interpretation of the Word Big. Child Development. 60(2). 372–380. 23 indexed citations

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