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Woo-kyoung Ahn

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
33
Citations
5477
World Ranking
10462
National Ranking
5496

Woo-kyoung Ahn 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.

Woo-kyoung Ahn 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 Woo-kyoung Ahn sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 33 D-Index — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Woo-kyoung Ahn is a researcher affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with notable contributions to Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology as key subfields.

The research topics covered by Woo-kyoung Ahn include:

  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Embodied and Extended Cognition

Woo-kyoung Ahn has published multiple papers in several peer-reviewed journals. Some of the recent publications include:

  • "Neurodualism: People Assume that the Brain Affects the Mind more than the Mind Affects the Brain," 2021, Cognitive Science
  • "Effects of genetic information on memory for severity of depressive symptoms," 2020, PLoS ONE
  • "The effect of neuroscientific evidence on sentencing depends on how one conceives of reasons for incarceration," 2022, PLoS ONE
  • "It's Time to be disgusting about COVID-19: Effect of disgust priming on COVID-19 public health compliance among liberals and conservatives," 2022, PLoS ONE
  • "The symptom discounting effect: what to do when negative genetic test results become risk factors for alcohol use disorder," 2022, Scientific Reports

The venues where Woo-kyoung Ahn frequently publishes include:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Cognitive Therapy and Research
  • Cognitive Science
  • Scientific Reports
  • Current Directions in Psychological Science

Woo-kyoung Ahn has collaborated extensively with several researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Annalise Perricone
  • Alma Bitran
  • Jussi Valtonen
  • Andrei Cimpian
  • Matthew S. Lebowitz

Best Publications

  • Feature Centrality and Conceptual Coherence

    Steven A. Sloman;Bradley C. Love;Woo Kyoung Ahn

  • Clinical psychologists' theory-based representations of mental disorders predict their diagnostic reasoning and memory.

    Nancy S. Kim;Woo-kyoung Ahn

  • Causal status as a determinant of feature centrality.

    Woo-kyoung Ahn;Nancy S. Kim;Mary E. Lassaline;Martin J. Dennis

  • Effects of biological explanations for mental disorders on clinicians’ empathy

    Matthew S. Lebowitz;Woo-kyoung Ahn

  • Why are different features central for natural kinds and artifacts?: the role of causal status in determining feature centrality

    Woo-kyoung Ahn

  • The role of mechanism beliefs in causal reasoning.

    Woo-kyoung Ahn;Charles W. Kalish

  • Mental Health Clinicians’ Beliefs About the Biological, Psychological, and Environmental Bases of Mental Disorders

    Woo-kyoung Ahn;Caroline C. Proctor;Elizabeth H. Flanagan

  • Why essences are essential in the psychology of concepts.

    Woo kyoung Ahn;Charles Kalish;Susan A. Gelman;Douglas L. Medin

  • Fixable or fate? Perceptions of the biology of depression

    Matthew S. Lebowitz;Woo-kyoung Ahn;Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

  • A two-stage model of category construction ☆

    Woo Kyoung Ahn;Douglas L. Medin

  • Schema acquisition from a single example

    Woo kyoung Ahn;William F. Brewer;Raymond J. Mooney

  • CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION AS A SEARCH FOR UNDERLYING MECHANISMS : AN EXPLANATION OF THE CONJUNCTION FALLACY AND THE DISCOUNTING PRINCIPLE

    Woo-kyoung Ahn;Jeremy Bailenson

  • Can Clinicians Recognize DSM-IV Personality Disorders From Five-Factor Model Descriptions of Patient Cases?

    B.A. Benjamin M. Rottman;Woo-kyoung Ahn;Charles A. Sanislow;Nancy S. Kim

  • Causal status effect in children's categorization

    Woo kyoung Ahn;Susan A. Gelman;Jennifer A. Amsterlaw;Jill Hohenstein

  • Beliefs About Essences and the Reality of Mental Disorders

    Woo-kyoung Ahn;Elizabeth H. Flanagan;Jessecae K. Marsh;Charles A. Sanislow

  • A Two‐Stage Model of Category Construction

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  • The causal status effect in categorization: An overview

    Woo-kyoung Ahn;Nancy S. Kim

  • Primacy in causal strength judgments: the effect of initial evidence for generative versus inhibitory relationships.

    Martin J. Dennis;Woo-Kyoung Ahn

  • Categorization Inside and Outside the Laboratory: Essays in Honor of Douglas L. Medin

    Woo-kyoung Ahn;Robert L. Goldstone;Bradley C. Love;Arthur B. Markman

  • Effect of theory-based feature correlations on typicality judgments.

    Woo-Kyoung Ahn;Jessecae K. Marsh;Christian C. Luhmann;Kevin Lee

  • The influence of naive causal theories on lay concepts of mental illness.

    Nancy S. Kim;Woo-Kyoung Ahn

  • Emphasizing Malleability in the biology of depression: Durable effects on perceived agency and prognostic pessimism.

    Matthew S. Lebowitz;Woo-kyoung Ahn

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles A. Sanislow
Charles A. Sanislow Wesleyan University
Robert L. Goldstone
Robert L. Goldstone Indiana University
Douglas L. Medin
Douglas L. Medin Northwestern University
William F. Brewer
William F. Brewer University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bradley C. Love
Bradley C. Love University College London
Charles W. Kalish
Charles W. Kalish University of Wisconsin–Madison
Arthur B. Markman
Arthur B. Markman The University of Texas at Austin
Jeremy N. Bailenson
Jeremy N. Bailenson Stanford University
Joshua Knobe
Joshua Knobe Yale University
Thomas J. Palmeri
Thomas J. Palmeri Vanderbilt University

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