2026 Liane Gabora: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	39	8596	8031	575	541	207	6071

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Overview

Liane Gabora is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research primarily spans the social sciences and physics and astronomy, focusing on various interdisciplinary fields related to cognitive and cultural evolution.

Their recent work includes the following publications:

A model of the transition to behavioural and cognitive modernity using reflexively autocatalytic networks, 2020, Journal of The Royal Society Interface
An evolutionary process without variation and selection, 2021, Journal of The Royal Society Interface
An Autocatalytic Network Model of Conceptual Change, 2021, Topics in Cognitive Science
Modeling Discontinuous Cultural Evolution: The Impact of Cross-Domain Transfer, 2022, Frontiers in Psychology
A Dynamic Autocatalytic Network Model of Therapeutic Change, 2022, Entropy

Gabora's contributions have appeared frequently in various publication venues including:

Behavioral and Brain Sciences
arXiv (Cornell University)
Journal of The Royal Society Interface
Frontiers in Psychology
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Their work touches on several main fields of study:

Social Sciences
Physics and Astronomy

With subfields covering:

Sociology and Political Science
Cultural Studies
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive Neuroscience

The primary topics in Gabora's research include:

Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
Language and cultural evolution
Origins and Evolution of Life
Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
Aesthetic Perception and Analysis
Cognitive Science and Mapping
Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence

Gabora has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, most frequently with:

Mike Steel
Kirthana Ganesh
Joscha Bach
Nicole Beckage
Suk Kyoung Choi

Best Publications

The shifting sands of creative thinking: Connections to dual-process theory

Paul T. Sowden;Andrew Pringle;Liane Gabora

492
Citations
Revenge of the “Neurds”: Characterizing Creative Thought in Terms of the Structure and Dynamics of Memory

Liane Gabora

379
Citations
Concepts and Their Dynamics: A Quantum‐Theoretic Modeling of Human Thought

Diederik Aerts;Liane Gabora;Sandro Sozzo

296
Citations
Cognitive mechanisms underlying the creative process

Liane Gabora

255
Citations
The Origin and Evolution of Culture and Creativity

Liane Gabora

216
Citations
Meme and Variations: A Computational Model of Cultural Evolution

L. Gabora

206
Citations
Toward an Ecological Theory of Concepts

Liane M. Gabora;Eleanor Rosch;Diederik Aerts

196
Citations
Creative Thought as a non Darwinian Evolutionary Process

Liane M Gabora

186
Citations
Amplifying Phenomenal Information: Toward a Fundamental Theory of Consciousness

Liane Gabora

163
Citations
Incorporating characteristics of human creativity into an evolutionary art algorithm

Steve Dipaola;Liane Gabora

134
Citations
WICS: A Model for College and University Admissions.

Robert J. Sternberg;Christina R. Bonney;Liane Gabora;Maegan Merrifield

109
Citations
The cultural evolution of socially situated cognition

Liane Gabora

109
Citations
Quantum structure and human thought.

Diederik Aerts;Jan Broekaert;Liane Gabora;Sandro Sozzo

104
Citations
Meme and Variations: A Computer Model of Cultural Evolution

Liane Gabora

101
Citations
Self-other organization: Why early life did not evolve through natural selection

Liane M Gabora

101
Citations
Conceptual closure. How memories are woven into an interconnected worldview.

Liane M. Gabora

96
Citations
An evolutionary framework for cultural change: Selectionism versus communal exchange

Liane Gabora

94
Citations
A model of the emergence and evolution of integrated worldviews

Liane Gabora;Diederik Aerts

92
Citations
Evolution as context-driven actualisation of potential: toward an interdisciplinary theory of change of state

Liane M Gabora;Diederik Aerts

91
Citations
Introduction to the special issue on quantum cognition

Peter Bruza;Jerome R. Busemeyer;Liane Gabora

90
Citations
Evolutionary approaches to creativity.

Liane Gabora;Scott Barry Kaufman

88
Citations
The Shifting Sands of Creative Thinking: Connections to Dual Process Theory and Implications for Creativity Training

Paul Sowden;Andrew Pringle;Liane Gabora

6
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert J. Sternberg Cornell University

Paul Thagard University of Waterloo

Jerome R. Busemeyer Indiana University

External Links

Personal website of Liane Gabora

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