Topics Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (17 papers) Education and Critical Thinking Development (10 papers) Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes (8 papers) Overview Impact Standout Papers Peers Geography Research Space Co-Authors Works Hit Papers Confirmation Bias: A Ubiquitous Phenomenon in Many Guises 1998 2026 2007 2016 1998 2000 1999 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k Peers Raymond S. Nickerson
Comparison fields: 5 of 204 Cognitive Neuroscience 2.6k Sociology and Political Science 2.1k Social Psychology 1.7k Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 1.5k Developmental and Educational Psychology 1.5k Artificial Intelligence 1.1k Education 1.1k General Decision Sciences 758 Statistics and Probability 498 Management Science and Operations Research 481 Communication 476 Economics and Econometrics 446 Safety Research 405 Clinical Psychology 399 Information Systems 361 Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty 347 Applied Psychology 340 Information Systems and Management 323 General Health Professions 286 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 278 Philosophy 272 Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 271 Human-Computer Interaction 265 Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 254 Political Science and International Relations 248 Literature and Literary Theory 212 History and Philosophy of Science 202 Marketing 196 Strategy and Management 180 Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 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Cognitive Neuroscience 2.6k Sociology and Political Science 2.1k Social Psychology 1.7k Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 1.5k Developmental and Educational Psychology 1.5k Lance J. Rips United States
George Miller United States
Robert P. Abelson United States
Ralph L. Rosnow United States
Reid Hastie United States
Kevin R. Murphy United States
Steven A. Sloman United States
Norman H. Anderson United States
Joseph P. Simmons United States
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All Works Load more (20 of 141) # Work Indexed citations 1 2 2 1 3 12 4 2 5 2 6 1 7 11 8 Null hypothesis significance testing: A review of an old and continuing controversy.
breakdown → 695 9 Looking Ahead: Human Factors Challenges in A Changing World
44 10 4 11 Enseñar a pensar : aspectos de la aptitud intelectual
36 12 Using computers: The human factors of information systems
12 13 Adult Literacy and Technology.
1985 · Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) · Raymond S. Nickerson 8 14 Kinds of Thinking Taught in Current Programs.
19 15 30 16 Thoughts on Teaching Thinking.
12 17 Some comments on human archival memory as a very large data base
2 18 Characteristics of the Speech of Deaf Persons.
56 19 20 20 68
Load more (20 of 141) About Raymond S. Nickerson Raymond S. Nickerson is a scholar working on General Decision Sciences , Theoretical Computer Science and Developmental and Educational Psychology , having authored 141 papers that have together received 10.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (17 papers), Education and Critical Thinking Development (10 papers) and Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in General Decision Sciences (758 citations), Cognitive Neuroscience (2.6k citations) and Developmental and Educational Psychology (1.5k citations). Raymond S. Nickerson has collaborated with scholars based in United States , Israel and Poland . Frequent co-authors include Marilyn Jager Adams , John A. Swets , Κ. Ν. Stevens , Francis T. Durso , Stephan Lewandowsky , Susan Dumais , Timothy J. Perfect , David N. Perkins , Jerome I. Elkind and Jaime Carbonell . Their work appears in journals such as Psychological Bulletin , Psychological Review and American Psychologist .
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