2026 Derek J. Koehler: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	34	10052	9409	701	657	103	7803

Overview

Derek J. Koehler is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on areas within the social sciences, with a strong emphasis on decision-making processes and behavioral economics.

The main fields of study for Koehler include social sciences, with subfields covering sociology and political science, cognitive neuroscience, general decision sciences, artificial intelligence, and communication. This multidisciplinary approach reflects a wide scope in understanding human behavior and decision-making mechanisms.

Koehler's research topics encompass:

Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Misinformation and Its Impacts
Social and Intergroup Psychology
Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
Behavioral Health and Interventions
Social Media and Politics

The scientist has published frequently in several academic venues, including:

Judgment and Decision Making
Cognition
Technology Mind and Behavior
Journal of Gambling Studies
SSRN Electronic Journal

Recent notable papers by Derek J. Koehler include:

On the belief that beliefs should change according to evidence: Implications for conspiratorial, moral, paranormal, political, religious, and science beliefs (2020, Judgment and Decision Making)
Controlling the narrative: Euphemistic language affects judgments of actions while avoiding perceptions of dishonesty (2021, Cognition)
Reducing the number of non-naïve participants in Mechanical Turk samples (2020, Methods in Psychology)
Inducing feelings of ignorance makes people more receptive to expert (economist) opinion (2020, Judgment and Decision Making)
Distributed metacognition: Increased bias and deficits in metacognitive sensitivity when retrieving information from the internet (2021, Technology Mind and Behavior)

Frequent collaborators of Koehler include:

Jonathan A. Fugelsang
Alexander C. Walker
Ethan Andrew Meyers
Madison Stange
Mike J. Dixon

Best Publications

Support theory: A nonextensional representation of subjective probability.

Amos Tversky;Derek J. Koehler

1514
Citations
Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making

Derek J. Koehler;Nigel Harvey

1101
Citations
Explanation, imagination, and confidence in judgment.

Derek J. Koehler

730
Citations
On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit

Gordon Pennycook;James Allan Cheyne;Nathaniel Barr;Derek J. Koehler

673
Citations
Analytic cognitive style predicts religious and paranormal belief.

Gordon Pennycook;James Allan Cheyne;Paul Seli;Derek J. Koehler

665
Citations
What makes us think? A three-stage dual-process model of analytic engagement.

Gordon Pennycook;Jonathan A. Fugelsang;Derek J. Koehler

543
Citations
Everyday Consequences of Analytic Thinking

Gordon Pennycook;Jonathan A. Fugelsang;Derek J. Koehler

422
Citations
Overconfidence in Probability and Frequency Judgments: A Critical Examination

Lyle A. Brenner;Derek J. Koehler;Varda Liberman;Amos Tversky

403
Citations
Atheists and Agnostics Are More Reflective than Religious Believers: Four Empirical Studies and a Meta-Analysis.

Gordon Pennycook;Robert M. Ross;Derek J. Koehler;Jonathan A. Fugelsang

281
Citations
Dunning-Kruger effects in reasoning: Theoretical implications of the failure to recognize incompetence.

Gordon Pennycook;Robert M. Ross;Robert M. Ross;Derek J. Koehler;Jonathan A. Fugelsang

249
Citations
People focus on optimistic scenarios and disregard pessimistic scenarios while predicting task completion times.

Ian R. Newby-Clark;Michael Ross;Roger Buehler;Derek J. Koehler

242
Citations
Cognitive style and religiosity: the role of conflict detection.

Gordon Pennycook;James Allan Cheyne;Nathaniel Barr;Derek J. Koehler

241
Citations
Is the cognitive reflection test a measure of both reflection and intuition

Gordon Pennycook;James Allan Cheyne;Derek J. Koehler;Jonathan A. Fugelsang

236
Citations
The calibration of expert judgment: Heuristics and biases beyond the laboratory.

Derek J. Koehler;Lyle Brenner;Dale Griffin

234
Citations
Probability Judgment in Medicine: Discounting Unspecified Possibilities

Donald A. Redelmeier;Derek J. Koehler;Varda Liberman;Amos Tversky

206
Citations
The role of analytic thinking in moral judgements and values

Gordon Pennycook;James Allan Cheyne;Nathaniel Barr;Derek J. Koehler

180
Citations
Hypothesis generation and confidence in judgment

Derek J. Koehler

169
Citations
On the evaluation of one‐sided evidence

Lyle A. Brenner;Derek J. Koehler;Amos Tversky

165
Citations
Can journalistic "false balance" distort public perception of consensus in expert opinion?

Derek J. Koehler

147
Citations
People focus on optimistic scenarios and disregard pessimistic scenarios while predicting task completion times.

Unknown

147
Citations
On the belief that beliefs should change according to evidence: Implications for conspiratorial, moral, paranormal, political, religious, and science beliefs

Unknown

132
Citations
Self-predictions overweight strength of current intentions

Derek J. Koehler;Connie S.K. Poon

127
Citations
Belief bias during reasoning among religious believers and skeptics.

Gordon Pennycook;James Allan Cheyne;Derek J. Koehler;Jonathan A. Fugelsang

119
Citations
Probability matching in choice under uncertainty: intuition versus deliberation.

Derek J. Koehler;Greta James

114
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan A. Fugelsang University of Waterloo

Gordon Pennycook Cornell University

Amos Tversky Stanford University

Mike J. Dixon University of Waterloo

Dale Griffin University of British Columbia

Ben R. Newell University of New South Wales

Evan F. Risko University of Waterloo

Richard Gonzalez University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Valerie A. Thompson University of Saskatchewan

Paul Seli Duke University

External Links

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