Douglas L. Medin

Cognitive Science & Psychology · 1975–2012

A researcher in the Science corpus: 17 papers; trusts 30 researchers and is trusted by 30 researchers here, as inferred from the citation graph.

Subfields

• Cognitive Science & Psychology — 33 citations into it; #378 of 582 by trust here, #446 by citations
• Cognitive Neuroscience — 32 citations into it; #8,605 of 10,852 by trust here, #2,465 by citations
• Sociology and Political Science — 29 citations into it; #21,629 of 22,756 by trust here, #4,616 by citations
• Social Psychology — 25 citations into it
• Experimental and Cognitive Psychology — 14 citations into it; #8,657 of 9,731 by trust here, #3,857 by citations
• General Decision Sciences — 13 citations into it
• Developmental and Educational Psychology — 11 citations into it; #6,559 of 8,223 by trust here, #1,535 by citations
• Applied Psychology — 9 citations into it

Whom Douglas L. Medin trusts overall

Their strongest outbound trust, strongest first, inferred from their citations.

1. Amos Tversky
2. Gerd Gigerenzer
3. Eleanor Rosch
4. Yaacov Trope
5. Philip Tetlock
6. Carolyn B. Mervis
7. Keith J. Holyoak
8. Ryszard S. Michalski
9. Nira Liberman
10. J. Baron

Who trusts Douglas L. Medin overall

1. John Paul Minda
2. David J. Smith
3. Dedre Gentner
4. Gordon D. Logan
5. Josh Tenenbaum
6. Arthur B. Markman
7. Brenden M. Lake
8. Daniel T. Levin
9. James L. McClelland
10. Steven L. Salzberg

Papers from Douglas L. Medin's perspective

Ordered by how strongly the researchers Douglas L. Medin trusts endorse each paper. Same corpus, a different order for every researcher.

1. Family Resemblances: Studies in the Internal Structure of Categories
2. Context theory of classification learning.
3. Basic objects in natural categories
4. On the genesis of abstract ideas.
5. Categories and Concepts
6. Ad hoc categories
7. How the mind works
8. Thinking the unthinkable: sacred values and taboo cognitions. (Trends in Cognitive Sciences)
9. Temporal construal. (Psychology Review)
10. Concepts and Conceptual Development: Ecological and Intellectual Factors in Categorization

Their papers

• SUSTAIN: a network model of category learning. (2004) — 801 citations
• Sinning Saints and Saintly Sinners (2009) — 728 citations
• Essentialism and Folkbiology: evidence from Brazil (2002) — 105 citations
• Cultural and experiential differences in the development of folkbiological induction (2003) — 280 citations
• Construal levels and moral judgment: Some complications (2012) — 92 citations
• Concepts and categories: Memory, meaning, and metaphysics (2012) — 127 citations
• The Costs and Benefits of Calculation and Moral Rules (2010) — 160 citations
• The native mind and the cultural construction of nature. (2008) — 331 citations
• Influence of deontological versus consequentialist orientations on act choices and framing effects: when principles are more important than consequences (2008) — 148 citations
• Evolution and Devolution of Knowledge: A Tale of Two Biologies (2004) — 132 citations
• FOLKBIOLOGY DOESN'T COME FROM FOLKPSYCHOLOGY: EVIDENCE FROM YUKATEK MAYA IN CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE (2001) — 110 citations
• Concepts do more than categorize. (1999)
• The role of covariation versus mechanism information in causal attribution. (1995)
• Respects for similarity (1993)
• The role of theories in conceptual coherence. (1985)
• Context theory of classification learning. (1978)
• A theory of context in discrimination learning (1975)