Raymond S. Nickerson

19.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
141 papers, 10.2k citations indexed

About

Raymond S. Nickerson is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Neuroscience and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Raymond S. Nickerson has authored 141 papers receiving a total of 10.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 23 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 20 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Raymond S. Nickerson's work include Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (17 papers), Education and Critical Thinking Development (10 papers) and Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes (8 papers). Raymond S. Nickerson is often cited by papers focused on Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (17 papers), Education and Critical Thinking Development (10 papers) and Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes (8 papers). Raymond S. Nickerson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Poland. Raymond S. Nickerson's 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 and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Bulletin, Psychological Review and American Psychologist.

In The Last Decade

Raymond S. Nickerson

132 papers receiving 9.0k citations

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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.

Confirmation Bias: A Ubiquitous Phenomenon in Many Guises

1998 4.0k citations Raymond S. Nickerson profile →
Null hypothesis significance testing: A review of an old and continuing controversy.

2000 695 citations Raymond S. Nickerson Psychological Methods profile →
How we know—and sometimes misjudge—what others know: Imputing one's own knowledge to others.

1999 540 citations Raymond S. Nickerson profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Knowledge assessment: Squeezing information from multiple-choice testing. 2015 ·Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied ·Raymond S. Nickerson, (unknown), Michael T. Carlin	2
2	Keep or trade? Effects of pay-off range on decisions with the two-envelops problem 2014 ·Thinking & Reasoning ·Raymond S. Nickerson, (unknown), (unknown), Michael T. Carlin	1
3	Five down, Absquatulated: Crossword puzzle clues to how the mind works 2011 ·Psychonomic Bulletin & Review ·Raymond S. Nickerson	12
4	An Inside Look at the Two Envelopes Paradox 2009 ·Teaching Statistics ·Ruma Falk, Raymond S. Nickerson	2
5	Keep or trade? An experimental study of the exchange paradox 2008 ·Thinking & Reasoning ·(unknown), Raymond S. Nickerson	2
6	Efficiency in data gathering: Set size effects in the selection task 2008 ·Thinking & Reasoning ·Raymond S. Nickerson, (unknown)	1
7	The exchange paradox: Probabilistic and cognitive analysis of a psychological conundrum 2006 ·Thinking & Reasoning ·Raymond S. Nickerson, Ruma Falk	11
8	Null hypothesis significance testing: A review of an old and continuing controversy. breakdown → 2000 ·Psychological Methods ·Raymond S. Nickerson	695
9	Looking Ahead: Human Factors Challenges in A Changing World 1992 ·Medical Entomology and Zoology ·Raymond S. Nickerson	44
10	A Minimalist Approach to the "Paradox of Sense Making" 1991 ·Educational Researcher ·Raymond S. Nickerson, John M. Carroll	4
11	Enseñar a pensar : aspectos de la aptitud intelectual 1990 ·Raymond S. Nickerson, David N. Perkins	36
12	Using computers: The human factors of information systems 1986 ·CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) ·Raymond S. Nickerson	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. 1984 ·Educational leadership ·Raymond S. Nickerson	19
15	Computer programming as a vehicle for teaching thinking skills 1983 ·Thinking The Journal of Philosophy for Children ·Raymond S. Nickerson	30
16	Thoughts on Teaching Thinking. 1981 ·Educational leadership ·Raymond S. Nickerson	12
17	Some comments on human archival memory as a very large data base 1977 ·Very Large Data Bases ·Raymond S. Nickerson	2
18	Characteristics of the Speech of Deaf Persons. 1975 ·The Volta Review ·Raymond S. Nickerson	56
19	Can characters be classified directly as digits vs letters or must they be identified first? 1973 ·Memory & Cognition ·Raymond S. Nickerson	20
20	Response times with a memory-dependent decision task. 1966 ·Journal of Experimental Psychology ·Raymond S. Nickerson	68

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