John D. Coley

Northeastern University — United States

Psychology · Social Sciences

34h-index5.6kcitations108works1.32yr avg
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Research Topics

Child and Animal Learning Development(37), Cultural Differences and Values(18), Animal and Plant Science Education(17), Categorization, perception, and language(16), Social and Intergroup Psychology(11)

Publications108 total

An Underview Effect? Psycho-Social Impacts of Saturation Diving Among Aquanauts
Environment and Behavior·2025Open Access
The #BuffaloSyllabus, Community Healing, and Reparative Justice in the Aftermath of Racial Violence
2025
Cross cultural differences in essentialist beliefs about religion categories: comparing Northern Ireland to the US
Research Portal (Queen's University Belfast)·2025Open Access
Working across religions, cultures, settings, and development: Protocol for wave 2 data collection with children and parents by the developing belief network
PLoS ONE·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Means to an end: teleological bias in moral reasoning
Frontiers in Psychology·2025Open Access
Working across religions, cultures, settings, and development: Protocol for Wave 2 data collection with children and parents by the Developing Belief Network
2025Open Access
Mental Models Matter: Conceptualizations of the Human–Nature Relationship Predict Pro-Environmental Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions
Sustainability·2025Open Access
Assessing Nature: perceptions, knowledge, and gaps
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Spontaneous Anthropocentric Language Use in University Students’ Explanations of Biological Concepts Varies by Topic and Predicts Misconception Agreement
CBE—Life Sciences Education·2025· 6 citedOpen Access
Dipping Your Toe in The CURE Pool: Longitudinal Tracking of Instructors Suggests Use of a Short-Duration CURE Can Catalyze Expansion to Longer CURE Experiences
CBE—Life Sciences Education·2024Open Access
The development and diversity of religious cognition and behavior: Protocol for Wave 1 data collection with children and parents by the Developing Belief Network
PLoS ONE·2024· 7 citedOpen Access
The development and diversity of religious cognition and behavior: Protocol for Wave 1 data collection with children and parents by the Developing Belief Network
2024· 1 citedOpen Access
The development and diversity of religious cognition and behavior: Protocol for Wave 1 data collection with children and parents by the Developing Belief Network
2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Higher education in the social sciences impacts essentialist conceptions of racial disparities
2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Why we should care about moral foundations when preparing for the next pandemic: Insights from Canada, the UK and the US
PLoS ONE·2023· 2 citedOpen Access
Conceptualizing Human–Nature Relationships: Implications of Human Exceptionalist Thinking for Sustainability and Conservation
Topics in Cognitive Science·2023· 39 citedOpen Access
Human Exceptionalist Thinking about Climate Change
Sustainability·2022· 18 citedOpen Access
Intuitive biological thinking in Chinese 8th graders
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology·2022· 11 cited
How Culture Shapes Social Categorization and Inductive Reasoning:A Developmental Comparison between the United States and China
Journal of Cognition and Development·2022· 6 cited
Effects of Reading Interventions on Student Understanding of and Misconceptions about Antibiotic Resistance
Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education·2022· 14 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Douglas L. Medin(13), Scott Atran(8), Susan A. Gelman(7), Patrick Shafto(6), Kimberly D. Tanner(6), Elizabeth B. Lynch(4), Julia Beth Proffitt(4), Norbert Roß(3), R. Cole Eidson(3), Aidan Feeney(3), Yian Xu(3), Nicole Betz(3), Brett K. Hayes(2), Nadya Vasilyeva(2), Kirsty Smyth(2), Melanie Arenson(2), Anna Vitkin(2), Bin Zuo(2), Scott Atran(1), Alejandro López(1)