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D-Index
47
Citations
11971
World Ranking
6083
National Ranking
3304

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science
  • 1975 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Earl Hunt was affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research spanned multiple fields, primarily focusing on psychology and medicine, with notable contributions in experimental and cognitive psychology as well as pulmonary and respiratory medicine. Their work encompassed subfields such as social psychology, genetics, and cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist's research topics included cognitive abilities and testing, kidney stones and urolithiasis treatments, emotional intelligence and performance, genetic associations and epidemiology, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, healthcare policy and management, and gallbladder and bile duct disorders.

Among Earl Hunt's recent papers were these publications:

  • "Racial and Ethnic Representation in Nephrolithiasis Guidelines: Are They Generalizable?" (2024) published in Urology
  • "Index" (2023) published by Cambridge University Press eBooks
  • "Physician and Patient Adherence to Kidney Stone Prevention Guidelines in a Diverse, Low-resource, Urban Population" (2025) published in Urology
  • "Reply to Editorial Comment on 'Physician and Patient Adherence to Kidney Stone Prevention Guidelines in a Diverse, Low-Resource, Urban Population'" (2025) published in Urology
  • "Narrative medicine" (2025) published in The New Scientist

Earl Hunt collaborated frequently with several coauthors throughout their career. Significant collaborators included Richard J. Haier and Roberto Colom, each coauthoring 16 publications with Hunt. Other notable coauthors were B Edelblute, Kara Watts, and Alexander Small, with 3 joint publications each.

Publications were often featured in venues such as Urology, Cambridge University Press eBooks, and The New Scientist. Earl Hunt also contributed to book publications, including the title The Science of Human Intelligence (2023), published by Cambridge University Press, which had been cited 25 times.

Their career was recognized through awards such as the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science in 2011 and the distinction of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) awarded in 1975.

Best Publications

  • Experiments in induction

    Earl B. Hunt;Janet Marin;Philip J. Stone

  • A System for the Behavioral Assessment of Athletic Coaches.

    Ronald E. Smith;Frank L. Smoll;Earl Hunt

  • Mechanics of Verbal Ability.

    Earl Hunt

  • The Transfer of Spatial Knowledge in Virtual Environment Training

    David Waller;Earl Hunt;David Knapp

  • Intelligence as an information-processing concept

    Erl K. Hunt

  • What does it mean to be high verbal

    Earl Hunt;Clifford Lunneborg;Joe Lewis

  • The Whorfian Hypothesis: A Cognitive Psychology Perspective

    Earl Hunt;Franca Agnoli

  • Individual Differences in the Verification of Sentence-Picture Relationships

    Colin M. Macleod;Earl B. Hunt;Nancy N. Mathews

  • Concept learning,: An information processing problem

    Earl B. Hunt

  • Individual Differences in Cognition: A New Approach to Intelligence

    Earl Hunt;Nancy Frost;Clifford Lunneborg

  • Information processing correlates of reading

    John Palmer;Colin M MacLeod;Earl Hunt;Janet E Davidson

  • Toward a Mediational Model of Coach-Player Relationships.

    Frank L. Smoll;Ronald E. Smith;Bill Curtis;Earl Hunt

  • The Blackwell dictionary of cognitive psychology

    Michael W. Eysenck;Andrew W. Ellis;Earl B. Hunt;P. N. Johnson-Laird

  • AGE DIFFERENCES IN THE SPEED OF MENTAL ROTATION

    Cynthia Berg;Christopher Hertzog;Earl Hunt

  • Ability factors and cognitive processes

    Marcy Lansman;Gary Donaldson;Earl Hunt;Steven Yantis

  • Comparing the Tortoise and the Hare: Gender Differences and Experience in Dynamic Spatial Reasoning Tasks

    David J. Law;James W. Pellegrino;Earl B. Hunt

  • Memory impairment in epileptic patients: selective effects of phenobarbital concentration

    Colin M. MacLeod;Anatole S. Dekabian;Earl Hunt

  • Individual Differences in Attention.

    Earl Hunt;James W. Pellegrino;Penny L. Yee

  • On the nature of intelligence

    Earl Hunt

  • Spatial representations of virtual mazes: the role of visual fidelity and individual differences.

    David Waller;David Knapp;Earl B. Hunt

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael W. Eysenck
Michael W. Eysenck Royal Holloway University of London
Ronald E. Smith
Ronald E. Smith University of Washington
Frank L. Smoll
Frank L. Smoll University of Washington
Andrew W. Ellis
Andrew W. Ellis University of York
Philip N. Johnson-Laird
Philip N. Johnson-Laird Princeton University
Geoffrey R. Loftus
Geoffrey R. Loftus University of Washington
Joel R. Levin
Joel R. Levin University of Arizona
Robert J. Sternberg
Robert J. Sternberg Cornell University
John W. Berry
John W. Berry Queen's University
Elizabeth F. Loftus
Elizabeth F. Loftus University of California, Irvine

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