Paul Seli

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 675 citations indexed

About

Paul Seli is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Seli has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 675 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 7 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 4 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Paul Seli's work include Mind wandering and attention (8 papers), Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (4 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (3 papers). Paul Seli is often cited by papers focused on Mind wandering and attention (8 papers), Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (4 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (3 papers). Paul Seli collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Paul Seli's co-authors include Derek J. Koehler, Gordon Pennycook, James Allan Cheyne, Jonathan A. Fugelsang, Jonathan W. Schooler, Matthew L. Stanley, Nathaniel Barr, Daniel Smilek, Anna Smith and Alexander Landry and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Trends in Cognitive Sciences and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Paul Seli

18 papers receiving 650 citations

Hit Papers

Analytic cognitive style predicts religious and paranorma... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 100 200 300
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. Analytic cognitive style predicts religious and paranormal belief
    2012 373 citations Gordon Pennycook, James Allan Cheyne et al. Cognition profile →

Peers

Paul Seli
Annika M. Svedholm‐Häkkinen Finland
Mirosław Kofta Poland
Evelyn Rosset United States
Tapani Riekki Finland
Neil Van Leeuwen United States
Grzegorz Sędek Poland
Florián Cova Switzerland
Alexa M. Tullett United States
Théodore Alexopoulos France
Tomas Ståhl Netherlands
Annika M. Svedholm‐Häkkinen Finland
Paul Seli
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Countries citing papers authored by Paul Seli

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Fields of papers citing papers by Paul Seli

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Seli

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Paul Seli. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Paul Seli 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 Paul Seli. Paul Seli is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Smallwood, Jonathan, et al.. (2025). Opening the black box: Think Aloud as a method to study the spontaneous stream of consciousness. Consciousness and Cognition. 128. 103815–103815. 2 indexed citations
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Petranker, Rotem, et al.. (2024). Keeping the promise: a critique of the current state of microdosing research. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 15. 1217102–1217102. 7 indexed citations
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Landry, Alexander & Paul Seli. (2024). A family-resemblances framework for dehumanization research. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6. 100185–100185. 3 indexed citations
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Smith, Anna, Alexander P. Christensen, Anya Ragnhildstveit, et al.. (2023). Back to the basics: Abstract painting as an index of creativity. Creativity Research Journal. 35(4). 698–713. 4 indexed citations
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Smith, Anna, et al.. (2022). Fixation, flexibility, and creativity: The dynamics of mind wandering.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 48(7). 689–710. 15 indexed citations
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Landry, Alexander, Jonathan W. Schooler, Robb Willer, & Paul Seli. (2022). Reducing Explicit Blatant Dehumanization by Correcting Exaggerated Meta-Perceptions. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 14(4). 407–418. 28 indexed citations
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Danckert, James, et al.. (2022). Under pressure: Locomotion and assessment in the COVID-19 pandemic. Self and Identity. 22(1). 1–18. 1 indexed citations
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Smallwood, Jonathan, Adam Turnbull, Hao-Ting Wang, et al.. (2021). The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought. iScience. 24(3). 102132–102132. 59 indexed citations
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Ho, Nerissa Siu Ping, Daniel H. Baker, Theodoros Karapanagiotidis, et al.. (2020). Missing the forest because of the trees: slower alternations during binocular rivalry are associated with lower levels of visual detail during ongoing thought. Neuroscience of Consciousness. 2020(1). niaa020–niaa020. 4 indexed citations
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Smith, Anna, et al.. (2020). Comparing the phenomenological qualities of stimulus-independent thought, stimulus-dependent thought and dreams using experience sampling. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1817). 20190694–20190694. 20 indexed citations
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O’Neill, Kevin, Anna Smith, Daniel Smilek, & Paul Seli. (2020). Dissociating the freely-moving thought dimension of mind-wandering from the intentionality and task-unrelated thought dimensions. Psychological Research. 85(7). 2599–2609. 13 indexed citations
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Stanley, Matthew L., et al.. (2020). Analytic-thinking predicts hoax beliefs and helping behaviors in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Thinking & Reasoning. 27(3). 464–477. 60 indexed citations
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Stanley, Matthew L., et al.. (2020). Exposure to opposing reasons reduces negative impressions of ideological opponents. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 91. 104030–104030. 16 indexed citations
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Ralph, Brandon C. W., et al.. (2019). Yearning for distraction: Evidence for a trade-off between media multitasking and mind wandering.. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale. 74(1). 56–72. 10 indexed citations
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Seli, Paul, Michael J. Kane, Thomas Metzinger, et al.. (2018). The Family-Resemblances Framework for Mind-Wandering Remains Well Clad. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 22(11). 959–961. 45 indexed citations
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Jonker, Tanya R., Paul Seli, & Colin M. MacLeod. (2012). Less we forget: Retrieval cues and release from retrieval-induced forgetting. Memory & Cognition. 40(8). 1236–1245. 10 indexed citations
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Pennycook, Gordon, James Allan Cheyne, Paul Seli, Derek J. Koehler, & Jonathan A. Fugelsang. (2012). Analytic cognitive style predicts religious and paranormal belief. Cognition. 123(3). 335–346. 373 indexed citations breakdown →

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