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Overview

Richard F. West is affiliated with James Madison University in the United States. Their academic profile reflects collaboration with several researchers, notably frequent co-authors Keith E. Stanovich and Maggie E. Toplak.

Their work spans various areas within academic research, although specific details about publications, main fields of study, and topics have not been disclosed in the available data. Despite that, the presence of frequent collaboration with Keith E. Stanovich and Maggie E. Toplak suggests an interest in fields related to cognitive science, education, or psychology, as these co-authors are known for work in those domains.

Richard F. West has not publicly listed any recent papers with titles, venues, or years of publication in the current data set. There is also no recorded information on awards received or book publications associated with this researcher.

This profile is based solely on verified affiliations and co-authorship patterns, without speculation on research impact or specific contributions due to limited available data.

Best Publications

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

    Keith E. Stanovich;Richard F. West

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • Reasoning independently of prior belief and individual differences in actively open-minded thinking.

    Keith E. Stanovich;Richard F. West

  • On Priming by a Sentence Context

    Keith E. Stanovich;Richard F. West

  • Heuristics and Biases as Measures of Critical Thinking: Associations with Cognitive Ability and Thinking Dispositions

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

  • Myside Bias, Rational Thinking, and Intelligence

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

  • Cognitive sophistication does not attenuate the bias blind spot.

    Richard F. West;Russell J. Meserve;Keith E. Stanovich

  • Advancing the rationality debate

    Keith E. Stanovich;Richard F. West

  • Decision-making and cognitive abilities: A review of associations between Iowa Gambling Task performance, executive functions, and intelligence.

    Maggie E. Toplak;Geoff B. Sorge;André Benoit;Richard F. West

  • Mechanisms of sentence context effects in reading: Automatic activation and conscious attention.

    Keith E. Stanovich;Richard F. West

  • Natural myside bias is independent of cognitive ability

    Keith E. Stanovich;Richard F. West

  • Heuristic and analytic processing: age trends and associations with cognitive ability and cognitive styles.

    Judite V. Kokis;Robyn Macpherson;Maggie E. Toplak;Richard F. West

  • Automatic Contextual Facilitation in Readers of Three Ages.

    Richard F. West;Keith E. Stanovich

  • The domain specificity and generality of belief bias: Searching for a generalizable critical thinking skill.

    Walter C. Sá;Richard F. West;Keith E. Stanovich

  • The effect of sentence context on ongoing word recognition: Tests of a two-process theory.

    Keith E. Stanovich;Richard F. West

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

    Keith E. Stanovich;Richard F. West

  • Individual differences in reasoning: Implications for the rationality debate?-Open Peer Commentary-Gone with the wind: Individual differences in heuristics and biases undermine the implication of

    K. E. Stanovich;R. F. West;D. C. Funder

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith E. Stanovich
Keith E. Stanovich University of Toronto
Maggie E. Toplak
Maggie E. Toplak York University
David C. Funder
David C. Funder University of California, Riverside
Richard M. Sorrentino
Richard M. Sorrentino University of Western Ontario

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