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Derek J. Koehler

Derek J. Koehler

University of Waterloo
Canada

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
34
Citations
7803
World Ranking
10049
National Ranking
700

Derek J. Koehler publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 103 publications — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Derek J. Koehler 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 Derek J. Koehler sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 34 D-Index — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making

    Derek J. Koehler;Nigel Harvey

  • Explanation, imagination, and confidence in judgment.

    Derek J. Koehler

  • On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit

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

  • Analytic cognitive style predicts religious and paranormal belief.

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

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

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

  • Everyday Consequences of Analytic Thinking

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

  • Overconfidence in Probability and Frequency Judgments: A Critical Examination

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Cognitive style and religiosity: the role of conflict detection.

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

  • Is the cognitive reflection test a measure of both reflection and intuition

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

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

    Derek J. Koehler;Lyle Brenner;Dale Griffin

  • Probability Judgment in Medicine: Discounting Unspecified Possibilities

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

  • The role of analytic thinking in moral judgements and values

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

  • Hypothesis generation and confidence in judgment

    Derek J. Koehler

  • On the evaluation of one‐sided evidence

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

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

    Derek J. Koehler

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

    Unknown

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

    Unknown

  • Self-predictions overweight strength of current intentions

    Derek J. Koehler;Connie S.K. Poon

  • Belief bias during reasoning among religious believers and skeptics.

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

  • Probability matching in choice under uncertainty: intuition versus deliberation.

    Derek J. Koehler;Greta James

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan A. Fugelsang
Jonathan A. Fugelsang University of Waterloo
Gordon Pennycook
Gordon Pennycook Cornell University
Amos Tversky
Amos Tversky Stanford University
Mike J. Dixon
Mike J. Dixon University of Waterloo
Dale Griffin
Dale Griffin University of British Columbia
Ben R. Newell
Ben R. Newell University of New South Wales
Evan F. Risko
Evan F. Risko University of Waterloo
Richard Gonzalez
Richard Gonzalez University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Valerie A. Thompson
Valerie A. Thompson University of Saskatchewan
Paul Seli
Paul Seli Duke University

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