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92
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45617
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Harold Pashler 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 Harold Pashler sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 208 publications — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Harold Pashler 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 Harold Pashler sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 92 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1999 - Troland Research Awards, United States National Academy of Sciences For his many experimental breakthroughs in the study of spatial attention and central executive control and for his insightful theoretical analysis of human cognitive architecture.

Overview

Harold Pashler is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences with specific attention to developmental and educational psychology, sociology and political science, cultural studies, management science and operations research, and artificial intelligence.

The scientist's recent papers cover various aspects of experimental psychology and social science topics. These publications include:

  • Mitigating cue competition effects in human category learning, 2020, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • The tainted altruism effect: a successful pre-registered replication, 2022, Royal Society Open Science
  • A Train Wreck by Any Other Name, 2021, Psychological Inquiry
  • Statistical consequences of staging exploration and confirmation, 2021, Methods in Psychology

Frequent co-authors contributing alongside Harold Pashler include:

  • Christine R. Harris
  • Jonas Sin-Heng Lau
  • Michael Casale
  • V.S. Chua Alcala
  • Kendra Johnson

The scientist's works have been published in several notable venues such as:

  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • Psychological Inquiry
  • Methods in Psychology

Harold Pashler's main fields of study encompass social sciences, with subfields including developmental and educational psychology, sociology and political science, cultural studies, management science and operations research, and artificial intelligence.

The key research topics that form the basis of their scientific inquiry involve:

  • Child and animal learning development
  • Language and cultural evolution
  • Reading and literacy development
  • Evolutionary game theory and cooperation
  • Crime, deviance, and social control
  • Forecasting techniques and applications
  • Bayesian modeling and causal inference

In recognition of their contributions to psychology, Harold Pashler was awarded the Troland Research Award by the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1999. The award citation highlights their experimental breakthroughs in the study of spatial attention and central executive control as well as their theoretical analysis of human cognitive architecture.

Best Publications

  • Dual-task interference in simple tasks: Data and theory.

    Harold Pashler

  • Learning Styles: Concepts and Evidence

    Harold Pashler;Mark McDaniel;Doug Rohrer;Robert Bjork

  • The Psychology of Attention

    Harold E. Pashler

  • Distributed practice in verbal recall tasks: A review and quantitative synthesis.

    Nicholas J. Cepeda;Harold Pashler;Edward Vul;John T. Wixted

  • Puzzlingly high correlations in fMRI studies of emotion, personality, and social cognition.

    Edward Vul;Christine Harris;Piotr Winkielman;Harold Pashler

  • Editors' Introduction to the Special Section on Replicability in Psychological Science: A Crisis of Confidence?

    Harold Pashler;Eric–Jan Wagenmakers

  • Familiarity and visual change detection.

    Harold Pashler

  • How persuasive is a good fit? A comment on theory testing.

    Seth Roberts;Harold Pashler

  • Spacing Effects in Learning A Temporal Ridgeline of Optimal Retention

    Nicholas J. Cepeda;Nicholas J. Cepeda;Edward Vul;Edward Vul;Doug Rohrer;John T. Wixted

  • Is the Replicability Crisis Overblown? Three Arguments Examined:

    Harold Pashler;Christine R. Harris

  • The influence of retrieval on retention

    Mark Carrier;Harold Pashler

  • Processing stages in overlapping tasks: evidence for a central bottleneck.

    Harold Pashler

  • Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning. IES Practice Guide. NCER 2007-2004.

    Harold Pashler;Patrice M. Bain;Brian A. Bottge;Arthur Graesser

  • Chronometric evidence for central postponement in temporally overlapping tasks

    Harold Pashler;James C. Johnston

  • Using Spacing to Enhance Diverse Forms of Learning: Review of Recent Research and Implications for Instruction

    Shana K. Carpenter;Nicholas J. Cepeda;Doug Rohrer;Sean H. K. Kang

  • When Does Feedback Facilitate Learning of Words

    Harold Pashler;Nicholas J. Cepeda;John T. Wixted;Doug Rohrer

  • Attentional limitations in dual-task performance.

    Harold Pashler;James C. Johnston

  • Improvement in line orientation discrimination is retinally local but dependent on cognitive set

    Ling-Po Shiu;Harold Pashler

  • Measuring the Crowd Within: Probabilistic Representations Within Individuals

    Edward Vul;Harold E Pashler

  • Attention and Performance

    Harold Pashler;James C. Johnston;Eric Ruthruff

Frequent Co-Authors

Doug Rohrer
Doug Rohrer University of South Florida
Michael C. Mozer
Michael C. Mozer Google (United States)
Christine R. Harris
Christine R. Harris University of California, San Diego
Edward Vul
Edward Vul University of California, San Diego
Shana K. Carpenter
Shana K. Carpenter Oregon State University
John T. Wixted
John T. Wixted University of California, San Diego
Eric Ruthruff
Eric Ruthruff University of New Mexico
James C. Johnston
James C. Johnston Ames Research Center
Mark A. McDaniel
Mark A. McDaniel Washington University in St. Louis
Roger W. Remington
Roger W. Remington University of Minnesota

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