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David A. Lagnado publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David A. Lagnado sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 167 publications — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

David A. Lagnado D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David A. Lagnado sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

David A. Lagnado is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans fields primarily in Computer Science and Social Sciences, with significant contributions to subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences, Law, and Social Psychology.

The topics covered in Lagnado's work include Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference, Jury Decision Making Processes, Child and Animal Learning Development, and Philosophy and History of Science.

Frequent publication venues for Lagnado's research encompass Cognition, Frontiers in Psychology, SSRN Electronic Journal, arXiv (Cornell University), and Cognitive Science. This distribution reflects a focus on cognitive and psychological aspects as well as interdisciplinary areas connecting technology and social sciences.

Lagnado has collaborated extensively with co-authors such as Ben R. Newell, David R. Shanks, Alice Liefgreen, Matija Franklin, and Toby D. Pilditch, with repeated partnerships indicating ongoing research engagements.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Lagnado include:

  • A counterfactual simulation model of causal judgments for physical events, 2021, Psychological Review
  • Temporal Binding, Causation, and Agency: Developing a New Theoretical Framework, 2020, Cognitive Science
  • Argumentative explanations for interactive recommendations, 2021, Artificial Intelligence
  • Blaming automated vehicles in difficult situations, 2021, iScience
  • Causal Responsibility and Robust Causation, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology

Lagnado has contributed to book publications with titles including Explaining the Evidence published by Cambridge University Press in 2021 and Straight Choices, released by Psychology Press eBooks in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Judgments of cause and blame: The effects of intentionality and foreseeability

    David A. Lagnado;Shelley Channon

  • The Advantage of Timely Intervention.

    David A. Lagnado;Steven Sloman

  • Causality in Thought

    Steven A. Sloman;David Lagnado

  • Straight Choices: The Psychology of Decision Making

    Benjamin R. Newell;David A. Lagnado;David R. Shanks

  • Beyond covariation: Cues to causal structure.

    DA Lagnado;Waldmann;Y Hagmaye;SA Sloman

  • A General Structure for Legal Arguments about Evidence Using Bayesian Networks.

    Norman E. Fenton;Martin Neil;David A. Lagnado

  • Do We "do"?

    Steven A. Sloman;David A. Lagnado

  • Time as a guide to cause.

    David A. Lagnado;Steven A. Sloman

  • Feelings of control: contingency determines experience of action.

    James W. Moore;David Lagnado;Darvany C. Deal;Patrick Haggard

  • Causal responsibility and counterfactuals.

    David A. Lagnado;Tobias Gerstenberg;Ro'i Zultan

  • Insight and Strategy in Multiple-Cue Learning.

    David A. Lagnado;Ben R. Newell;Steven Kahan;David R. Shanks

  • Causal reasoning through intervention.

    York Hagmayer;Steven A. Sloman;David A. Lagnado;Michael R. Waldmann

  • Formalizing Neurath’s ship: Approximate algorithms for online causal learning.

    Neil R. Bramley;Peter Dayan;Thomas L. Griffiths;David A. Lagnado

  • Medication impairs probabilistic classification learning in Parkinson's disease.

    Marjan Jahanshahi;Leonora Wilkinson;Harpreet Gahir;Angeline Dharminda

  • The Problem of Induction

    Steven A. Sloman;D. Lagnado

  • Challenging the role of implicit processes in probabilistic category learning.

    Ben R. Newell;David A. Lagnado;David R. Shanks

  • Eye-Tracking Causality

    Tobias Gerstenberg;Matthew F. Peterson;Noah D. Goodman;David A. Lagnado

  • A counterfactual simulation model of causal judgments for physical events.

    Tobias Gerstenberg;Noah D. Goodman;David A. Lagnado;Joshua B. Tenenbaum

  • Conservative Forgetful Scholars: How People Learn Causal Structure Through Sequences of Interventions

    Neil R. Bramley;David A. Lagnado;Maarten Speekenbrink

  • Evaluating everyday explanations.

    Jeffrey C. Zemla;Steven Sloman;Christos Bechlivanidis;David A. Lagnado

  • Legal idioms: a framework for evidential reasoning

    David A. Lagnado;Norman E. Fenton;Martin Neil

Frequent Co-Authors

Norman Fenton
Norman Fenton Queen Mary University of London
Steven A. Sloman
Steven A. Sloman Brown University
David R. Shanks
David R. Shanks University College London
Martin Neil
Martin Neil Queen Mary University of London
Teresa McCormack
Teresa McCormack Queen's University Belfast
Ben R. Newell
Ben R. Newell University of New South Wales
Marjan Jahanshahi
Marjan Jahanshahi University College London
Ulrike Hahn
Ulrike Hahn Birkbeck, University of London
Noah D. Goodman
Noah D. Goodman Stanford University

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