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Valerie A. Thompson

Valerie A. Thompson

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
42
Citations
8802
World Ranking
7481
National Ranking
506

Valerie A. Thompson publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 96 publications — 17th percentile

17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Valerie A. Thompson D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Valerie A. Thompson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Valerie A. Thompson is affiliated with the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. Their research focuses on areas intersecting computer science and decision sciences, with particular attention to artificial intelligence and general decision sciences. Contributions also extend to experimental and cognitive psychology, management science and operations research, and cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist's work covers several specific topics including decision-making and behavioral economics, cognitive science and mapping, forecasting techniques and applications, neural and behavioral psychology studies, cognitive abilities and testing, child and animal learning development, and explainable artificial intelligence (XAI).

Valerie A. Thompson has published multiple research papers with notable venues reflecting their areas of expertise. These publication venues include:

  • Cognition
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
  • Journal of Intelligence
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition

Selected recent publications exemplify important themes in their work:

  • The smart intuitor: Cognitive capacity predicts intuitive rather than deliberate thinking (2020, Cognition)
  • Logical intuition is not really about logic. (2022, Journal of Experimental Psychology General)
  • Reasoning strategy vs cognitive capacity as predictors of individual differences in reasoning performance (2021, Cognition)
  • Eye-tracking IQ: Cognitive capacity and strategy use on a ratio-bias task (2020, Cognition)
  • Reasoning = representation + process: Common ground for Fuzzy Trace and Dual Process Theories. (2021, Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition)

The scientist collaborates frequently with other researchers across related fields. Frequent coauthors with multiple joint publications include:

  • Ian R. Newman
  • Omid Ghasemi
  • Simon J. Handley
  • Stephanie Howarth
  • Henry Markovits

Best Publications

  • Conditionals: A Theory of Meaning, Pragmatics, and Inference

    Philip Johnson-Laird;Ruth M. J. Byrne

  • Intuition, reason, and metacognition

    Valerie A. Thompson;Jamie A. Prowse Turner;Gordon Pennycook

  • MorePower 6.0 for ANOVA with relational confidence intervals and Bayesian analysis

    Jamie I. D. Campbell;Valerie A. Thompson

  • Meta-Reasoning: Monitoring and Control of Thinking and Reasoning

    Rakefet Ackerman;Valerie A. Thompson

  • Dual-process theories: A metacognitive perspective.

    Valerie A. Thompson

  • 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

  • INTERPRETATIONAL FACTORS IN CONDITIONAL REASONING

    Valerie A. Thompson

  • Conflict, metacognition, and analytic thinking

    Valerie A. Thompson;Stephen C. Johnson

  • Frequency versus probability formats in statistical word problems.

    Jonathan St.B.T Evans;Simon J Handley;Nick Perham;David E Over

  • Confidence and accuracy in deductive reasoning.

    Jody M. Shynkaruk;Valerie A. Thompson

  • Base rates: both neglected and intuitive.

    Gordon Pennycook;Dries Trippas;Simon J. Handley;Valerie A. Thompson

  • The task-specific nature of domain-general reasoning.

    Valerie A. Thompson

  • Reasoning counterfactually: Making inferences about things that didn't happen.

    Valerie A. Thompson;Ruth M. J. Byrne

  • Rule-based reasoning is fast and belief-based reasoning can be slow: Challenging current explanations of belief-bias and base-rate neglect

    Ian R. Newman;Maia Gibb;Valerie A. Thompson

  • Memory for pictures and sounds: independence of auditory and visual codes.

    Valerie A. Thompson;Allan Paivio

  • CONDITIONAL REASONING: THE NECESSARY AND SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS

    Valerie A. Thompson

  • Analytic thinking: do you feel like it?

    Valerie Thompson;Kinga Morsanyi

  • Disfluent Fonts Don't Help People Solve Math Problems

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

  • Why It Matters: The Implications of Autonomous Processes for Dual Process Theories—Commentary on Evans & Stanovich (2013)

    Valerie A. Thompson

  • When fast logic meets slow belief: Evidence for a parallel-processing model of belief bias.

    Dries Trippas;Valerie A. Thompson;Simon J. Handley

  • A dual-process model of belief and evidence interactions in causal reasoning.

    Jonathan A. Fugelsang;Valerie A. Thompson

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan St. B. T. Evans
Jonathan St. B. T. Evans Plymouth University
Gordon Pennycook
Gordon Pennycook Cornell University
Linden J. Ball
Linden J. Ball University of Central Lancashire
Simon J. Handley
Simon J. Handley Macquarie University
Henry Markovits
Henry Markovits University of Quebec at Montreal
David E. Over
David E. Over Durham University
Jamie I. D. Campbell
Jamie I. D. Campbell University of Saskatchewan
Jonathan A. Fugelsang
Jonathan A. Fugelsang University of Waterloo
Wim De Neys
Wim De Neys Université Paris Cité
Ruth M. J. Byrne
Ruth M. J. Byrne Trinity College Dublin

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