Wouter Kool

4.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
27 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Wouter Kool is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences and Applied Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wouter Kool has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 13 papers in General Decision Sciences and 7 papers in Applied Psychology. Recurrent topics in Wouter Kool's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (18 papers), Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (13 papers) and Behavioral Health and Interventions (7 papers). Wouter Kool is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (18 papers), Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (13 papers) and Behavioral Health and Interventions (7 papers). Wouter Kool collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Wouter Kool's co-authors include Matthew Botvinick, Joseph T. McGuire, Samuel J. Gershman, Fiery Cushman, Falk Lieder, Jonathan D. Cohen, Thomas L. Griffiths, Amitai Shenhav, Sebastian Musslick and Alexander J. Millner and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Wouter Kool

24 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Decision making and the avoidance of cognitive demand.

2010 719 citations Wouter Kool, Joseph T. McGuire et al. Journal of Experimental Psychology General profile →
Toward a Rational and Mechanistic Account of Mental Effort

2017 619 citations Wouter Kool, Matthew Botvinick et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wouter Kool United States	16	1.6k	648	574	559	356	27	2.5k
Joseph T. McGuire United States	14	2.4k 1.5×	755 1.2×	729 1.3×	520 0.9×	435 1.2×	29	3.3k
A. Ross Otto Canada	28	1.5k 0.9×	713 1.1×	518 0.9×	460 0.8×	295 0.8×	69	2.6k
Stefano Palminteri France	27	1.8k 1.1×	518 0.8×	430 0.7×	270 0.5×	267 0.8×	71	2.8k
G. Elliott Wimmer United States	18	1.6k 1.0×	449 0.7×	376 0.7×	202 0.4×	305 0.9×	20	2.3k
Peter Sokol‐Hessner United States	16	1.3k 0.8×	655 1.0×	491 0.9×	278 0.5×	436 1.2×	27	2.4k
Jan Peters Germany	26	1.8k 1.1×	987 1.5×	883 1.5×	561 1.0×	274 0.8×	67	3.1k
Giorgio Coricelli France	14	1.0k 0.6×	304 0.5×	485 0.8×	182 0.3×	295 0.8×	23	1.7k
Maël Lebreton France	20	1.3k 0.8×	389 0.6×	338 0.6×	162 0.3×	210 0.6×	40	1.9k
Ruolei Gu China	31	2.2k 1.4×	1.1k 1.7×	377 0.7×	407 0.7×	606 1.7×	155	3.2k
Woo‐Young Ahn United States	23	985 0.6×	558 0.9×	338 0.6×	347 0.6×	184 0.5×	60	2.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wouter Kool

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kool, Wouter, et al.. (2025). Distractor-specific control adaptation in multidimensional environments. Nature Human Behaviour. 9(3). 534–553. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Jeffrey, Vincenzo G. Fiore, Christopher J. Hammond, et al.. (2025). Impaired arbitration between reward-related decision-making strategies in Alcohol Users compared to Alcohol Non-Users: a computational modeling study. PubMed. 3(1). 1–1.

Kool, Wouter, et al.. (2025). Free recall is shaped by inference and scaffolded by event structure. Communications Psychology. 3(1). 71–71.

Moran, Erin K., et al.. (2025). Evidence for shallow cognitive maps in schizophrenia. Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. 25(4). 1192–1209.

Ho, Chien-Ju, et al.. (2024). The consequences of AI training on human decision-making. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(33). e2408731121–e2408731121. 6 indexed citations

Kavitha, G., Ashley E. Thompson, Jessica Royer, et al.. (2023). Neurocognitive basis of model-based decision making and its metacontrol in childhood. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 62. 101269–101269. 3 indexed citations

Ho, Chien-Ju, et al.. (2023). Humans Forgo Reward to Instill Fairness into AI. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing. 11(1). 152–162. 2 indexed citations

Kool, Wouter, et al.. (2023). Need for cognition moderates the relief of avoiding cognitive effort. PLoS ONE. 18(11). e0287954–e0287954. 5 indexed citations

Patil, Indrajeet, Wouter Kool, Stephanie Campbell, et al.. (2020). Reasoning supports utilitarian resolutions to moral dilemmas across diverse measures.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 120(2). 443–460. 67 indexed citations

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Liu, Shari, Fiery Cushman, Samuel J. Gershman, Wouter Kool, & Elizabeth S. Spelke. (2019). Hard choices: Children's understanding of the cost of action selection.. Cognitive Science. 671–6677. 2 indexed citations

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Kool, Wouter, et al.. (2019). Metacontrol of decision-making strategies in human aging. eLife. 8. 29 indexed citations

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Kool, Wouter, et al.. (2019). The transdiagnostic structure of mental effort avoidance. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 1689–1689. 39 indexed citations

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Kool, Wouter, et al.. (2018). Incentives Boost Model-Based Control Across a Range of Severity on Several Psychiatric Constructs. Biological Psychiatry. 85(5). 425–433. 58 indexed citations

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Hoogland, Menno L. P., et al.. (2017). Anse Trabaud commune de Sainte-Anne, Martinique:reconstruction d’un village amérindien. Son insertion dans le réseau d’échanges Antillais entre 600 et 1200 après J.-C. Rapport final, prospection thématique, sondages et fouille 2012 et 2015.. Leiden Repository (Leiden University). 2 indexed citations

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Gold, James M., et al.. (2014). Cognitive effort avoidance and detection in people with schizophrenia. Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. 15(1). 145–154. 76 indexed citations

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Kool, Wouter, Andrew R. A. Conway, & Nicholas B. Turk‐Browne. (2014). Sequential dynamics in visual short-term memory. Attention Perception & Psychophysics. 76(7). 1885–1901. 22 indexed citations

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Kool, Wouter, et al.. (2013). Neural and Behavioral Evidence for an Intrinsic Cost of Self-Control. PLoS ONE. 8(8). e72626–e72626. 86 indexed citations

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Kool, Wouter & Matthew Botvinick. (2012). A labor/leisure tradeoff in cognitive control.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 143(1). 131–141. 214 indexed citations

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Kool, Wouter, et al.. (2010). Decision making and the avoidance of cognitive demand.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 139(4). 665–682. 719 indexed citations breakdown →

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Colzato, Lorenza S., Wouter Kool, & Bernhard Hommel. (2008). Stress modulation of visuomotor binding. Neuropsychologia. 46(5). 1542–1548. 37 indexed citations

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