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86
Citations
33193
World Ranking
1124
National Ranking
696

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1982 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration

Overview

Jonathan Baron is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. The research profile encompasses multiple fields, primarily Neuroscience, Psychology, and Physics and Astronomy, with notable contributions across these domains.

Their research spans a variety of subfields, including:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • General Decision Sciences

Jonathan Baron's main topics of study include:

  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Free Will and Agency
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Emotions and Moral Behavior
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Nuclear physics research studies
  • Astronomical and nuclear sciences

Jonathan Baron has published research in several journals, frequently contributing to the following venues:

  • Judgment and Decision Making
  • Argumentation
  • Physical Review C
  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Selected recent papers include:

  • Consequences, norms, and inaction: A critical analysis (2020), Judgment and Decision Making
  • Religion, cognitive style, and rational thinking (2020), Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • Consequences, norms, and inaction: Response to Gawronski et al. (2020) (2021), Judgment and Decision Making
  • Two components of individual differences in actively open-minded thinking standards: myside bias and uncertainty aversion (2024), Thinking & Reasoning
  • Individual Differences in Argument Strength Discrimination (2023), Argumentation

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated on at least two publications with Jonathan Baron include:

  • Geoffrey P. Goodwin
  • Annika M. Svedholm-Häkkinen
  • Mika Hietanen
  • D. J. Hartley
  • K. Villafana

Jonathan Baron has been recognized by prestigious organizations, having been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1982. Additionally, they hold a fellowship with The National Academy of Public Administration.

Best Publications

  • Thinking and deciding

    Jonathan Baron

  • Omission and commission in judgment and choice

    Mark Spranca;Elisa Minsk;Jonathan Baron

  • Outcome bias in decision evaluation.

    Jonathan Baron;John C. Hershey

  • Reluctance to vaccinate: Omission bias and ambiguity

    Ilana Ritov;Jonathan Baron

  • Rationality and Intelligence

    Jonathan Baron

  • Rationality for Economists

    Daniel McFadden;Mark J. Machina;Jonathan Baron

  • Use of orthographic and word-specific knowledge in reading words aloud.

    Jonathan Baron;Carol Strawson

  • Status-Quo and Omission Biases

    Ilana Ritov;Jonathan Baron

  • Ambiguity and rationality

    Deborah Frisch;Jonathan Baron

  • Regular ArticleProtected Values

    Jonathan Baron;Mark Spranca

  • Reference Points and Omission Bias

    Jonathan Baron;Ilana Ritov

  • Omission bias, individual differences, and normality

    Jonathan Baron;Ilana Ritov

  • Ignorance of Hedonic Adaptation to Hemodialysis: A Study Using Ecological Momentary Assessment

    Jason Riis;George Loewenstein;Jonathan Baron;Christopher Jepson

  • Moral heuristics. Commentaries. Author's reply

    Cass R. Sunstein;Matthew D. Adler;Christopher J. Anderson;Elizabeth Anderson

  • Phonemic stage not necessary for reading

    Jonathan Baron

  • Orthographic and Word-Specific Mechanisms in Children's Reading of Words.

    Jonathan Baron

  • An analysis of the word-superiority effect☆

    Jonathan Baron;Ian Thurston

  • Outcome Knowledge, Regret, and Omission Bias

    Ilana Ritov;Jonathan Baron

  • Psychological Strategies for Winning a Geopolitical Forecasting Tournament

    Barbara Mellers;Lyle Ungar;Jonathan Baron;Jaime Ramos

  • Judgment Misguided: Intuition and Error in Public Decision Making

    Jonathan Baron

Frequent Co-Authors

Ilana Ritov
Ilana Ritov Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Barbara A. Mellers
Barbara A. Mellers University of Pennsylvania
Joshua D. Greene
Joshua D. Greene Harvard University
Philip E. Tetlock
Philip E. Tetlock University of Pennsylvania
George Loewenstein
George Loewenstein Carnegie Mellon University
Rebecca Treiman
Rebecca Treiman Washington University in St. Louis
Jonathan Haidt
Jonathan Haidt New York University
John Sabini
John Sabini University of Pennsylvania
Linda S. Siegel
Linda S. Siegel University of British Columbia
Elke U. Weber
Elke U. Weber Princeton University

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