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Overview

Linden J. Ball is affiliated with the University of Central Lancashire in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. Additional areas of study include social psychology and the intersection of sociology and political science.

Ball's recent research outputs include several papers published between 2020 and 2023. Notable publications are:

  • A systematic review of the psychological distance of climate change: Towards the development of an evidence-based construct, 2022, Journal of Environmental Psychology
  • The impact of advertising creativity, warning-based appeals and green dispositions on the attentional effectiveness of environmental advertisements, 2020, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • The design entrepreneur: How adaptive cognition and formal design training create entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intention, 2023, Design Studies
  • Sticky notes as a kind of design material: How sticky notes support design cognition and design collaboration, 2021, Design Studies
  • What makes creative advertisements memorable? The role of insight, 2020, Psychological Research

The most frequent co-authors in Ball's work include John E. Marsh, Beth H. Richardson, Emma Threadgold, Bo T. Christensen, and Wangbing Shen, indicating collaborative research efforts across various projects and topics.

Ball's research has appeared prominently in several publication venues, most notably:

  • Journal of Cognitive Psychology
  • Journal of Intelligence
  • Design Studies
  • Psychological Research
  • Auditory Perception & Cognition

The scientist's main research interests reflect a multidisciplinary approach, involving these topics:

  • Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Climate Change Communication and Perception
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Design Education and Practice

Best Publications

  • Spontaneous analogising in engineering design: a comparative analysis of experts and novices

    Linden J Ball;Thomas C Ormerod;Nicola J Morley

  • An Eye Movement Analysis of Web Page Usability

    Laura Cowen;Linden J.s Ball;Judy Delin

  • The role of answer fluency and perceptual fluency as metacognitive cues for initiating analytic thinking

    Valerie A. Thompson;Jamie A. Prowse Turner;Gordon Pennycook;Linden J. Ball

  • Analogical Reasoning and Mental Simulation in Design: Two Strategies Linked to Uncertainty Resolution

    Linden J. Ball;Bo Thomas Christensen

  • Putting ethnography to work: the case for a cognitive ethnography of design

    Linden J. Ball;Thomas C. Ormerod

  • Collaborative problem–solution co-evolution in creative design

    Stefan Wiltschnig;Bo T. Christensen;Linden J. Ball

  • Cognitive processes in engineering design: a longitudinal study

    L. J. Ball;J. St. B. T. Evans;I. Dennis

  • Structured and opportunistic processing in design: a critical discussion

    Linden J. Ball;Thomas C. Ormerod

  • Effects of belief and logic on syllogistic reasoning: Eye-movement evidence for selective processing models.

    Linden J. Ball;Peter Phillips;Caroline N. Wade;Jeremy D. Quayle

  • Viewing another person's eye movements improves identification of pulmonary nodules in chest x-ray inspection

    Damien Litchfield;Linden J. Ball;Tim Donovan;David J. Manning

  • Structure in idea sketching behaviour

    Manolya Kavakli;Stephen A.R Scrivener;Linden J Ball

  • Applying ethnography in the analysis and support of expertise in engineering design

    Linden J Ball;Thomas C Ormerod

  • Belief-logic conflict resolution in syllogistic reasoning: Inspection-time evidence for a parallel-process model

    Edward J. N. Stupple;Linden J. Ball

  • Disfluent Fonts Don't Help People Solve Math Problems

    Andrew Meyer;Shane Frederick;Terence C. Burnham;Juan D. Guevara Pinto

  • Working memory, metacognitive uncertainty, and belief bias in syllogistic reasoning.

    Jeremy D. Quayle;Linden J. Ball

  • In Search of Salience: A Response-time and Eye-movement Analysis of Bookmark Recognition

    Alex Poole;Linden J Ball;Peter Phillips

  • Inspection times and the selection task: What do eye-movements reveal about relevance effects?

    Linden J. Ball;Erica J. Lucas;Jeremy N. V. Miles;Alastair G. Gale

  • Design requirements, epistemic uncertainty and solution development strategies in software design

    Linden J. Ball;Balder Onarheim;Bo Thomas Christensen

  • When logic and belief collide: Individual differences in reasoning times support a selective processing model

    Edward J. N. Stupple;Linden J. Ball;Jonathan St. B. T. Evans;Emily Kamal-Smith

  • Advancing an understanding of design cognition and design metacognition: Progress and prospects

    Linden J. Ball;Bo T. Christensen

  • Cueing retrospective verbal reports in usability testing through eye-movement replay

    Nicola Eger;Linden J. Ball;Robert Stevens;Jon Dodd

  • How the detection of insurance fraud succeeds and fails

    Nicola J. Morley;Linden J. Ball;Thomas C. Ormerod

  • Uncertainty and sketching behaviour

    Stephen A. R. Scrivener;Linden J. Ball;Winger S-W Tseng

  • Detecting insider threats through language change.

    Paul J. Taylor;Coral J. Dando;Thomas C. Ormerod;Linden J. Ball

Frequent Co-Authors

Valerie A. Thompson
Valerie A. Thompson University of Saskatchewan
Mark L. Howe
Mark L. Howe City, University of London
Gordon Pennycook
Gordon Pennycook Cornell University
Trevor J. Crawford
Trevor J. Crawford Lancaster University
Jonathan St. B. T. Evans
Jonathan St. B. T. Evans Plymouth University
Charlie Lewis
Charlie Lewis Lancaster University
Jane Simpson
Jane Simpson Lancaster University
Jeremy N. V. Miles
Jeremy N. V. Miles Google (United States)
Naomi A. Fineberg
Naomi A. Fineberg University of Hertfordshire
Kenneth Gilhooly
Kenneth Gilhooly Brunel University London

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