Richard D. Walk

4.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
55 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Richard D. Walk is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard D. Walk has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 12 papers in Social Psychology and 9 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Richard D. Walk's work include Visual perception and processing mechanisms (14 papers), Color perception and design (6 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (5 papers). Richard D. Walk is often cited by papers focused on Visual perception and processing mechanisms (14 papers), Color perception and design (6 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (5 papers). Richard D. Walk collaborates with scholars based in United States. Richard D. Walk's co-authors include Eleanor J. Gibson, Herbert L. Pick, Jerome S. Bruner, M. Brewster Smith, Robert W. White, Frank A. Geldard, Thomas J. Tighe, Lawrence M. Baker, Michael Wertheimer and William Scott and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Scientific American and The American Journal of Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Richard D. Walk

54 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

Opinions and Personality 1957 2026 1980 2003 1957 1960 1960 100 200 300 400 500
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. Opinions and Personality
    1957 514 citations Richard D. Walk et al. The American Journal of Psychology profile →
  2. The "visual cliff".
    1960 359 citations Eleanor J. Gibson, Richard D. Walk profile →
  3. The “Visual Cliff”
    1960 339 citations Eleanor J. Gibson, Richard D. Walk Scientific American profile →

Peers

Richard D. Walk
Edwin G. Boring United States
Eckhard H. Hess United States
Julian Jaynes United States
Julian Hochberg United States
Howard E. Gruber United States
Neil Sutherland United Kingdom
Gregory A. Kimble United States
Lewis Petrinovich United States
Charles K. West United States
Leon J. Kamin United States
Edwin G. Boring United States
Richard D. Walk
Citations per year, relative to Richard D. Walk Richard D. Walk (= 1×) peers Edwin G. Boring

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Walk, Richard D., et al.. (1988). Perception of the smile and other emotions of the body and face at different distances. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society. 26(6). 20 indexed citations
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Walk, Richard D., et al.. (1986). Perception of emotion from body posture. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society. 24(5). 16 indexed citations
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Walk, Richard D., et al.. (1974). Visual placing by human infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 18(1). 34–40. 7 indexed citations
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Walk, Richard D.. (1971). Artistic Style as Concept Formation for Children and Adults.. Merrill-palmer Quarterly. 7 indexed citations
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Walk, Richard D., et al.. (1968). Differential visual depth threshold of the chick. Psychonomic Science. 12(5). 197–198. 5 indexed citations
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Walk, Richard D.. (1966). The Development of Depth Perception in Animals and Human Infants. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 31(5). 82–82. 59 indexed citations
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Walk, Richard D., et al.. (1965). Discrimination learning with varying numbers of positive and negative stimuli by children of different ages. Psychonomic Science. 2(1-12). 95–96. 5 indexed citations
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Walk, Richard D.. (1965). A preference technique to investigate visual acuity in the rat. Psychonomic Science. 3(1-12). 301–302. 3 indexed citations
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Walk, Richard D.. (1965). Tactual and visual learning of forms differing in degree of symmetry. Psychonomic Science. 2(1-12). 93–94. 10 indexed citations
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Walk, Richard D., et al.. (1964). A study of the depth perception of monocular hooded rats on the visual cliff. Psychonomic Science. 1(1-12). 53–54. 7 indexed citations
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Walk, Richard D., et al.. (1961). Influence of Reserpine on Avoidance Conditioning, Exploratory Behavior, and Discrimination Learning in the Rat. Psychological Reports. 8(2). 251–258. 3 indexed citations
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Gibson, Eleanor J. & Richard D. Walk. (1960). The “Visual Cliff”. Scientific American. 202(4). 64–71. 339 indexed citations breakdown →
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Walk, Richard D.. (1960). Response of dark- and light-reared rats to stimulus change.. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology. 53(6). 609–611. 12 indexed citations
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Gibson, Eleanor J., Richard D. Walk, & Thomas J. Tighe. (1959). Enhancement and deprivation of visual stimulation during rearing as factors in visual discrimination learning.. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology. 52(1). 74–81. 27 indexed citations
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Walk, Richard D.. (1959). Fear and Courage: A Psychological Study,. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 1 indexed citations
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Walk, Richard D.. (1958). "Visual" and "visual-motor" experience: A replication.. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology. 51(6). 785–787. 3 indexed citations
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Walk, Richard D., Eleanor J. Gibson, Herbert L. Pick, & Thomas J. Tighe. (1958). Further experiments on prolonged exposure to visual forms: The effect of single stimuli and prior reinforcement.. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology. 51(4). 483–487. 19 indexed citations
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Walk, Richard D., Eleanor J. Gibson, & Thomas J. Tighe. (1957). Behavior of Light- and Dark-Reared Rats on a Visual Cliff. Science. 126(3263). 80–81. 9 indexed citations
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Walk, Richard D. & Wilbur Schramm. (1956). The Process and Effects of Mass Communications. The American Journal of Psychology. 69(2). 340–340. 22 indexed citations
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Walk, Richard D.. (1956). Self ratings of fear in a fear-invoking situation.. Journal of Abnormal & Social Psychology. 52(2). 171–178. 130 indexed citations

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