2026 Gideon Keren: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	46	3657	3372	153	146	113	8291

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

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Publications

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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3372

153

146

113

8291

Social Sciences and Humanities

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Citations

8291

World Ranking

3657

National Ranking

153

Overview

Gideon Keren is affiliated with Tilburg University in the Netherlands, focusing primarily on research in psychology and decision sciences. Their work spans various subfields including general decision sciences, statistics and probability, cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, and general psychology.

The main topics covered in Keren's research include:

Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
Probability and Statistical Research
Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Mental Health Research Topics
Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology
Behavioral Health and Interventions
Social and Intergroup Psychology

Keren has contributed to several publication venues, often collaborating on interdisciplinary studies. The frequent publication venues include:

Memory & Cognition
Review of General Psychology
The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology

Their recent scholarly papers highlight diverse areas of research. These include:

"Simplifying and Facilitating Comprehension: The 'as if' Heuristic and Its Implications for Psychological Science," published in 2020 in Review of General Psychology
"Framing," published in 2020 in The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology
"Are random events perceived as rare? On the relationship between perceived randomness and outcome probability," published in 2020 in Memory & Cognition (authored by Karl Halvor Teigen, a frequent coauthor)

Keren's frequent collaborators include:

Karl Halvor Teigen
Seger M. Breugelmans

Their research addresses topics central to understanding human behavior and cognition through the lenses of decision-making and probability. This interdisciplinary approach integrates experimental psychology with behavioral economics and cognitive neuroscience.

Best Publications

Two Is Not Always Better Than One: A Critical Evaluation of Two-System Theories.

Gideon Keren;Yaacov Schul

971
Citations
Calibration and probability judgements: Conceptual and methodological issues

Gideon Keren

689
Citations
Immediacy and Certainty in Intertemporal Choice

Gideon Keren;Peter Roelofsma

457
Citations
A Handbook for data analysis in the behavioral sciences : methodological issues

Gideon Keren;Charles Lewis

354
Citations
Facing uncertainty in the game of bridge: A calibration study

Gideon Keren

351
Citations
On the robustness and possible accounts of ambiguity aversion

GB Gideon Keren;Lem Léonie Gerritsen

262
Citations
New time-series statistic for detecting rhythmic co-occurrence in the frequency domain: the weighted coherence and its application to psychophysiological research.

Stephen W. Porges;Robert E. Bohrer;Michael N. Cheung;Fritz Drasgow

208
Citations
Violation of utility theory in unique and repeated gambles

Gideon Keren;Willem A. Wagenaar

202
Citations
Determinants of trust

Ccp Chris Snijders;GB Gideon Keren

176
Citations
Does the expert know? The reliability of predictions and confidence ratings of experts

W A Wagenaar;G B Keren

173
Citations
Surprises: low probabilities or high contrasts?

KH Karl Teigen;GB Gideon Keren

168
Citations
On the psychology of playing blackjack: Normative and descriptive considerations with implications for decision theory.

Gideon B. Keren;Willem A. Wagenaar

167
Citations
On the ability of monitoring non-veridical perceptions and uncertain knowledge: some calibration studies.

Gideon Keren

163
Citations
Behavioral decision theory and environmental risk management: Assessment and resolution of four ‘survival’ dilemmas

Charles Vlek;Gideon Keren

156
Citations
Yet Another Look at the Heuristics and Biases Approach

GB Gideon Keren;KH Karl Teigen

149
Citations
Recognition models of alphanumeric characters

GB Gideon Keren;S Stan Baggen

140
Citations
Order effects in sequentially judged options due to the direction of comparison

Wja Wändi Bruine de Bruin;GB Gideon Keren

139
Citations
A Tale of Two Systems: A Scientific Advance or a Theoretical Stone Soup? Commentary on Evans & Stanovich (2013).

Gideon Keren

139
Citations
On the Assessment of Decision Quality: Considerations Regarding Utility, Conflict and Accountability

GB Gideon Keren;Wja Wändi Bruine de Bruin

137
Citations
Calibration of probability assessments by professional blackjack dealers, statistical experts, and lay people

Willem A Wagenaar;Gideon B Keren

131
Citations
Belief in the Law of Small Numbers

Gideon Keren;Charles Lewis

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Karl Halvor Teigen University of Oslo

Sarah Lichtenstein Oregon Research Institute

Florian G. Kaiser Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

Henk Aarts Utrecht University

Stephen W. Porges Indiana University

Fritz Drasgow University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Marcel Zeelenberg Tilburg University

Jeroen G. W. Raaijmakers University of Amsterdam

Stanley Wasserman Indiana University

External Links

Personal website of Gideon Keren Google Scholar page

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