Thomas C. Ormerod

5.1k total citations
103 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Thomas C. Ormerod is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Artificial Intelligence and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas C. Ormerod has authored 103 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 28 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 17 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Thomas C. Ormerod's work include Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (21 papers), Design Education and Practice (17 papers) and Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes (14 papers). Thomas C. Ormerod is often cited by papers focused on Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (21 papers), Design Education and Practice (17 papers) and Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes (14 papers). Thomas C. Ormerod collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Canada and United States. Thomas C. Ormerod's co-authors include James N. MacGregor, Linden J. Ball, Edward P. Chronicle, Ut Na Sio, Coral J. Dando, Nicola Morley, Padraic Monaghan, Jonathan St. B. T. Evans, Ian Dennis and Andrew J. Shepherd and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Bulletin, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Thomas C. Ormerod

97 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas C. Ormerod United Kingdom 31 1.1k 843 589 545 514 103 3.0k
Linden J. Ball United Kingdom 34 1.3k 1.2× 862 1.0× 1.1k 1.9× 437 0.8× 566 1.1× 153 3.7k
Kristina Höök Sweden 42 587 0.5× 854 1.0× 546 0.9× 494 0.9× 939 1.8× 197 5.7k
David Kirsh United States 26 777 0.7× 1.3k 1.5× 300 0.5× 767 1.4× 1.0k 2.0× 83 5.0k
Dominic W. Massaro United States 9 586 0.5× 815 1.0× 216 0.4× 929 1.7× 650 1.3× 9 4.1k
Kasper Hornbæk Denmark 43 410 0.4× 1.5k 1.8× 510 0.9× 507 0.9× 984 1.9× 198 7.1k
Marianna Obrist United Kingdom 33 1.0k 0.9× 1.1k 1.3× 235 0.4× 175 0.3× 929 1.8× 170 4.3k
Kenneth Kotovsky United States 27 1.2k 1.1× 434 0.5× 1.3k 2.2× 646 1.2× 544 1.1× 87 3.4k
Stellan Ohlsson United States 29 1.8k 1.6× 1.2k 1.4× 272 0.5× 1.4k 2.5× 432 0.8× 112 4.3k
James D. Hollan United States 26 326 0.3× 703 0.8× 215 0.4× 871 1.6× 565 1.1× 92 5.1k
Krzysztof Z. Gajos United States 40 324 0.3× 925 1.1× 179 0.3× 1.1k 2.0× 609 1.2× 134 5.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas C. Ormerod

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ormerod, Thomas C., et al.. (2025). Using cognitive cases to establish incidence: The case of exaptative actions. London Met Repository (London Metropolitan University). 3(3). 431–453. 1 indexed citations
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Hurst, Megan, et al.. (2024). Perceived body acceptance by personal trainers and client body appreciation in women in the UK: A pre-registered study. Psychology of sport and exercise. 77. 102799–102799.
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Ormerod, Thomas C. & Harriet Gross. (2023). Expertise overcomes impasse to yield far transfer and insight in problem-solving. Thinking & Reasoning. 30(1). 24–48. 4 indexed citations
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Ormerod, Thomas C., et al.. (2023). Uncertainty in Child Custody Cases After Parental Separation: Context and Decision-Making Process. Trends in Psychology. 33(1). 177–204. 5 indexed citations
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Morgan, Jenna, et al.. (2022). Is there evidence of age bias in breast cancer health care professionals’ treatment of older patients?. European Journal of Surgical Oncology. 48(12). 2401–2407. 11 indexed citations
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Dando, Coral J. & Thomas C. Ormerod. (2019). Noncoercive human intelligence gathering.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 149(8). 1435–1448. 11 indexed citations
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Ormerod, Thomas C., et al.. (2018). Unanticipated questions can yield unanticipated outcomes in investigative interviews. PLoS ONE. 13(12). e0208751–e0208751. 8 indexed citations
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Monaghan, Padraic, et al.. (2015). Sleep promotes analogical transfer in problem solving. Cognition. 143. 25–30. 28 indexed citations
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Ormerod, Thomas C. & Coral J. Dando. (2014). Finding a needle in a haystack: Toward a psychologically informed method for aviation security screening.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 144(1). 76–84. 45 indexed citations
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Sio, Ut Na, Padraic Monaghan, & Thomas C. Ormerod. (2012). Sleep on it, but only if it is difficult: Effects of sleep on problem solving. Memory & Cognition. 41(2). 159–166. 78 indexed citations
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Dando, Coral J. & Thomas C. Ormerod. (2009). Effects of the change temporal order technique on eyewitness memory.. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 31(31). 911–8. 1 indexed citations
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Ormerod, Thomas C. & Ut Na Sio. (2009). Mechanisms underlying incubation in problem-solving: Evidence for unconscious cue assimilation. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 31(31). 4 indexed citations
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Sio, Ut Na & Thomas C. Ormerod. (2009). Does incubation enhance problem solving? A meta-analytic review.. Psychological Bulletin. 135(1). 94–120. 308 indexed citations
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Chronicle, Edward P., James N. MacGregor, Thomas C. Ormerod, & Evie Fioratou. (2006). The remnants of insight. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 28(28). 3 indexed citations
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Chronicle, Edward P., James N. MacGregor, & Thomas C. Ormerod. (2006). Asymmetrical Analogical Transfer in Insight Problem Solving. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 28(28). 2 indexed citations
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Dix, Alan, et al.. (2006). As useful as a bicycle to a fish: exploration versus constraint in creativity. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 28(28). 2 indexed citations
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Ormerod, Thomas C., Nicola Morley, John Mariani, et al.. (2004). Doing ethnography and experiments together to explore collaborative photograph handling.. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. 15(3). 728–37. 4 indexed citations
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Ormerod, Thomas C., James N. MacGregor, & Edward P. Chronicle. (2002). Dynamics and constraints in insight problem solving.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 28(4). 791–799. 45 indexed citations
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Ormerod, Thomas C., et al.. (1999). Desperado : three-in-one indexing for innovative design. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 336–343. 9 indexed citations
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MacGregor, James N. & Thomas C. Ormerod. (1996). Human performance on the traveling salesman problem. Perception & Psychophysics. 58(4). 527–539. 143 indexed citations

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