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Thomas Caton Ormerod

15 works· latest 2025· 2 institutionscluster: provisionalORCID 0000-0002-9180-1326

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Does incubation enhance problem solving? A meta-analytic review.2009 · 548 citations
Information processing and insight: A process model of performance on the nine-dot and related problems.2001 · 310 citations
Dynamics and constraints in insight problem solving.2002 · 208 citations
What Makes an Insight Problem? The Roles of Heuristics, Goal Conception, and Solution Recoding in Knowledge-Lean Problems.2004 · 127 citations
Finding a needle in a haystack: Toward a psychologically informed method for aviation security screening.2014 · 70 citations

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Using cognitive cases to establish incidence: The case of exaptative actions

Possibility Studies & Society·2025·6 authors·Open access

1citations

Is there evidence of age bias in breast cancer health care professionals’ treatment of older patients?

European Journal of Surgical Oncology·2022·5 authors·Open access

30citations

Perspectiva sistêmica e práticas em psicologia: temas e campos de atuação

EDITORA CRV eBooks·2020·34 authors·book

1citations

THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE CHILD: AN INTEGRATIVE REVIEW OF ENGLISH AND PORTUGUESE LITERATURES

Psicologia em Estudo·2019·2 authors·Open access

20citations

Triage decision-making by welfare fraud investigators.

Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition·2018·3 authors·Open access

5citations

Finding a needle in a haystack: Toward a psychologically informed method for aviation security screening.

Journal of Experimental Psychology General·2014·2 authors·Open access

Do preference reversals generalise? Results on ambiguity and loss aversion

Journal of Economic Psychology·2011·3 authors·Open access

10citations

Does incubation enhance problem solving? A meta-analytic review.

Psychological Bulletin·2009·2 authors·Open access

548citations

Individual Differences in Optimization Problem Solving: Reconciling Conflicting Results

The Journal of Problem Solving·2008·5 authors·Open access

10citations

It looks easy! Heuristics for combinatorial optimization problems

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology·2005·4 authors

17citations

What Makes an Insight Problem? The Roles of Heuristics, Goal Conception, and Solution Recoding in Knowledge-Lean Problems.

Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition·2004·3 authors·Open access

127citations

Dynamics and constraints in insight problem solving.

Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition·2002·3 authors

208citations

When Insight Just Won't Come: The Failure of Visual Cues in the Nine-Dot Problem

The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A·2001·3 authors

67citations

Information processing and insight: A process model of performance on the nine-dot and related problems.

Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition·2001·3 authors

310citations

RATIONALITIES 1 AND 2 : DUAL PROCESSES OR DIFFERENT TASK DEMANDS ?

Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University)·1997·1 author

3citations