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Keith E. Stanovich

Keith E. Stanovich

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Psychology
Canada
2026

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Psychology

D-Index
118
Citations
85512
World Ranking
271
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Canada Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Canada Leader Award
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association
  • 2012 - E. L. Thorndike Award, American Psychological Association
  • 1994 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Keith E. Stanovich is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their main field of study is Social Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Developmental and Educational Psychology, General Decision Sciences, Statistics and Probability, and Political Science and International Relations.

Stanovich's research covers a range of topics, such as:

  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
  • Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Media Influence and Health

Recent papers by Stanovich include:

  • "Actively Open-Minded Thinking and Its Measurement," 2023, published in Journal of Intelligence
  • "Conspiracy beliefs in the context of a comprehensive rationality assessment," 2024, published in Thinking & Reasoning
  • "A good architecture for fast and slow thinking, but exclusivity is exclusively in the past," 2023, published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • "Toward a Psychology of Ideas Rather Than Demographics: Commentary on Hommel (2024)," 2024, published in Perspectives on Psychological Science

Co-authors frequently collaborating with Stanovich are:

  • Maggie E. Toplak
  • Richard F. West

Stanovich has contributed to several academic venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Thinking & Reasoning
  • Journal of Intelligence
  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
  • Perspectives on Psychological Science

Their book publications include a work released by The MIT Press titled The Bias That Divides Us (2021).

Awards received by Stanovich include:

  • Fellow of the American Educational Research Association, 2013
  • E. L. Thorndike Award, American Psychological Association, 2012
  • Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), 1994

Best Publications

  • MATTHEW EFFECTS IN READING: SOME CONSEQUENCES OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN THE ACQUISITION OF LITERACY

    Keith E. Stanovich;Keith E. Stanovich

  • Individual differences in reasoning: Implications for the rationality debate?

    Keith E. Stanovich;Richard F. West

  • Dual-Process Theories of Higher Cognition: Advancing the Debate

    Jonathan St. B. T. Evans;Keith E. Stanovich

  • TOWARD AN INTERACTIVE-COMPENSATORY MODEL OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF READING FLUENCY

    Keith E. Stanovich

  • Early reading acquisition and its relation to reading experience and ability 10 years later.

    Anne E. Cunningham;Keith E. Stanovich

  • Who Is Rational?: Studies of individual Differences in Reasoning

    Keith E. Stanovich

  • Phenotypic performance profile of children with reading disabilities: A regression-based test of the phonological-core variable-difference model.

    Keith E. Stanovich;Linda S. Siegel

  • Progress in Understanding Reading: Scientific Foundations and New Frontiers

    Keith E. Stanovich

  • Explaining the Differences Between the Dyslexic and the Garden-Variety Poor Reader The Phonological-Core Variable-Difference Model

    Keith E. Stanovich

  • What Reading Does for the Mind.

    Anne E. Cunningham;Keith E. Stanovich

  • Practitioner Review: Do performance-based measures and ratings of executive function assess the same construct?

    Maggie E. Toplak;Richard F. West;Keith E. Stanovich

  • Exposure to print and orthographic processing.

    Keith E Stanovich;Richard F. West

  • Assessing phonological awareness in kindergarten children: Issues of task comparability

    Keith E Stanovich;Anne E Cunningham;Barbara B Cramer

  • Rationality and the Reflective Mind

    Keith E. Stanovich

  • The Cognitive Reflection Test as a predictor of performance on heuristics-and-biases tasks

    Maggie E. Toplak;Richard F. West;Keith E. Stanovich

  • On the relative independence of thinking biases and cognitive ability.

    Keith E. Stanovich;Richard F. West

  • Individual differences in rational thought.

    Keith E. Stanovich;Richard F. West

  • The Robot's Rebellion: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin

    Keith E. Stanovich

  • Assessing miserly information processing: An expansion of the Cognitive Reflection Test

    Maggie E. Toplak;Richard F. West;Keith E. Stanovich

  • Speculations on the Causes and Consequences of Individual Differences in Early Reading Acquisition

    Keith E. Stanovich

  • Heuristics and Biases: Individual Differences in Reasoning: Implications for the Rationality Debate?

    Keith E. Stanovich;Richard F. West

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard F. West
Richard F. West James Madison University
Maggie E. Toplak
Maggie E. Toplak York University
Linda S. Siegel
Linda S. Siegel University of British Columbia
Jonathan St. B. T. Evans
Jonathan St. B. T. Evans Plymouth University
Joachim I. Krueger
Joachim I. Krueger Brown University
Richard M. Sorrentino
Richard M. Sorrentino University of Western Ontario
John D. Mayer
John D. Mayer University of New Hampshire
David R. Olson
David R. Olson University of Toronto
Mike Oaksford
Mike Oaksford Birkbeck, University of London
Andrew M. Colman
Andrew M. Colman University of Leicester

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