Tom Trabasso

12.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
86 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

About

Tom Trabasso is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tom Trabasso has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 17 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 15 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Tom Trabasso's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (18 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (12 papers) and Educational Strategies and Epistemologies (9 papers). Tom Trabasso is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (18 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (12 papers) and Educational Strategies and Epistemologies (9 papers). Tom Trabasso collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Belgium. Tom Trabasso's co-authors include Arthur C. Graesser, Murray Singer, Paul van den Broek, Nancy L. Stein, Linda L. Sperry, Peter Bryant, Joseph P. Magliano, Soyoung Suh, Gordon H. Bower and Heinz Mandl and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Psychological Review.

In The Last Decade

Tom Trabasso

83 papers receiving 7.3k citations

Hit Papers

Constructing inferences d... 1985 2026 1998 2012 1994 1985 1988 500 1000 1.5k

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Tom Trabasso 5.3k 2.2k 2.2k 1.6k 1.6k 86 8.7k
Jean M. Mandler 5.0k 1.0× 2.5k 1.1× 2.9k 1.3× 959 0.6× 1.1k 0.7× 116 9.1k
William F. Brewer 4.1k 0.8× 1.8k 0.8× 1.9k 0.9× 1.2k 0.7× 3.3k 2.1× 89 8.7k
Morton Ann Gernsbacher 5.1k 1.0× 6.4k 2.9× 3.2k 1.5× 1.2k 0.7× 1.4k 0.9× 140 11.2k
Robert S. Lockhart 2.9k 0.5× 4.1k 1.8× 2.3k 1.1× 1.1k 0.7× 753 0.5× 29 7.7k
Ellen M. Markman 7.3k 1.4× 1.7k 0.7× 1.9k 0.9× 753 0.5× 1.4k 0.9× 114 9.1k
Bärbel Inhelder 4.4k 0.8× 1.2k 0.6× 1.7k 0.8× 756 0.5× 3.9k 2.5× 76 10.9k
W. Nelson Francis 3.9k 0.7× 5.0k 2.2× 2.5k 1.2× 2.2k 1.3× 376 0.2× 56 9.9k
Jane Oakhill 7.4k 1.4× 2.8k 1.3× 1.4k 0.6× 1.1k 0.6× 2.7k 1.8× 161 9.9k
Gregory L. Murphy 4.2k 0.8× 2.4k 1.1× 3.2k 1.5× 2.2k 1.3× 427 0.3× 147 8.9k
Frank C. Keil 5.1k 1.0× 2.9k 1.3× 2.1k 1.0× 1.2k 0.8× 1.5k 1.0× 229 10.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tom Trabasso

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tom Trabasso

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All Works

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Ross, Hildy, Michael G. Ross, Nancy L. Stein, & Tom Trabasso. (2006). How Siblings Resolve Their Conflicts: The Importance of First Offers, Planning, and Limited Opposition. Child Development. 77(6). 1730–1745. 36 indexed citations
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Trabasso, Tom, et al.. (2003). Story understanding and counterfactual reasoning.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 29(5). 904–923. 21 indexed citations
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Trabasso, Tom, et al.. (1999). Modeling causal integration and availability of information during comprehension of narrative texts.. 48 indexed citations
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Stein, Nancy L., Susan Folkman, Tom Trabasso, & Tom Richards. (1997). Appraisal and goal processes as predictors of psychological well-being in bereaved caregivers.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 72(4). 872–884. 134 indexed citations
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Stein, Nancy L., Susan Folkman, Tom Trabasso, & Tom Richards. (1997). Appraisal and goal processes as predictors of psychological well-being in bereaved caregivers.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 72(4). 872–884. 111 indexed citations
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Trabasso, Tom, et al.. (1995). Explanatory inferences and other strategies during comprehension and their effect on recall.. 20 indexed citations
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Graesser, Arthur C., Murray Singer, & Tom Trabasso. (1994). Constructing inferences during narrative text comprehension.. Psychological Review. 101(3). 371–395. 1638 indexed citations breakdown →
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Stein, Nancy L., et al.. (1993). The representation and organization of emotional experience: Unfolding the emotion episode.. 65 indexed citations
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Trabasso, Tom, et al.. (1989). Goals, plans, and actions in storytelling to pictures. 3 indexed citations
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Trabasso, Tom & Paul van den Broek. (1985). Causal thinking and the representation of narrative events. Journal of Memory and Language. 24(5). 612–630. 683 indexed citations breakdown →
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Trabasso, Tom. (1982). Causal Cohesion and Story Coherence.. 277 indexed citations
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Wilkening, Friedrich, et al.. (1980). Information integration by children. 149 indexed citations
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Trabasso, Tom. (1980). On the Making of Inferences During Reading and Their Assessment. Technical Report No. 157.. 5 indexed citations
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Perlmutter, Marion, et al.. (1979). The Leg Bone Is Connected to the Knee Bone: Children's Representation of Body Parts in Memory, Drawing, and Language. Child Development. 50(4). 1192–1192. 10 indexed citations
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Trabasso, Tom, et al.. (1977). Seeing, Hearing, and Doing: A Developmental Study of Memory for Actions. Child Development. 48(4). 1482–1482. 11 indexed citations
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Ruble, Diane N., et al.. (1977). Recall and Order Effects as Factors in Children's Moral Judgments. Child Development. 48(2). 470–470. 42 indexed citations
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Lutkus, Anthony & Tom Trabasso. (1974). Transitive inferences by preoperational, retarded adolescents.. PubMed. 78(5). 599–606. 19 indexed citations
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Trabasso, Tom, et al.. (1974). Mental operations on number symbols by children. Memory & Cognition. 2(3). 591–595.
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Ornstein, Peter A. & Tom Trabasso. (1974). To organize is to remember: The effects of instructions to organize and to recall.. Journal of Experimental Psychology. 103(5). 1014–1018. 12 indexed citations
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Garrod, Simon & Tom Trabasso. (1973). A dual-memory information processing interpretation of sentence comprehension. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior. 12(2). 155–167. 37 indexed citations

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