Critical Thinking

Latest research

1. Argumentation about Energy in Elementary School, from Evidence and from Models

   • Roger G. Tobin
   • Sara J. Lacy
   • Sally Crissman

   in Research in Science Education

   Article Open access 30 March 2026

   

2. The Eclipse of Reason in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Why we are Failing to Cope with AI Development and Steer it Toward Sustainability

   • Federico Cugurullo

   in Philosophy & Technology

   Article Open access 30 March 2026

   

3. Validation of the Measure of Peer Argumentive Discourse Style (PADS) in a Science Context: Evidence for the Construct Validity and Reliability

   • Xingya Xu
   • Michelle M. Buehl

   in Research in Science Education

   Article Open access 28 March 2026

   

4. Frisch's likely path to the 2.1 cm critical radius in the 1940 Frisch–Peierls Memorandum

   • Joseph L. McCauley

   in The European Physical Journal H

   Article 26 March 2026

   

5. Towards a framework for understanding and assessing critical thinking in generative AI-enhanced learning environments: a scoping review

   • Ngo Cong-Lem
   • Nguyen Thi Thuy-Dung

   in European Journal of Psychology of Education

   Article 24 March 2026

   

6. Statistical Stockholm syndrome: the statistical significance myth is the problem

   • Edward E. Rigdon

   in Journal of Marketing Analytics

   Article 24 March 2026

7. From the Elephant to Butyric Acid Bacterium—It Is [Not] All the Same! How the Genetic Code Is Not Universal

   • Janella K. Baxter

   in Biological Theory

   Article 23 March 2026

8. Limitations to the perceived institutional autonomy coming from government steering: A study to the experiences of higher education institutions

   • Dylan Couck

   in Higher Education

   Article 23 March 2026

9. Experts, virtuous and vicious: the case for virtue metasemantics

   • Jeff Engelhardt
   • Emery Hutchins

   in Synthese

   Article Open access 23 March 2026

10. Why Nuclear Weapons Are Morally Neutral Means and Humans Bear Full Responsibility for Their Use

    • Martin Peterson

    in Philosophy & Technology

    Article 23 March 2026

11. Response to commentators on the blind spot: why science cannot ignore human experience

    • Evan Thompson

    in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences

    Article 23 March 2026

12. Complementary causal approaches to support biodiversity change attribution

    • Anne Thomas
    • Wilfried Thuiller
    • Andrew Gonzalez

    in Nature Reviews Biodiversity

    Article 19 March 2026

    

13. Of Epistemes and Insects: How Drosophila and Butterflies Shape Our Understanding of Radiation Risk

    • Donna M. Goldstein
    • Magdalena E. Stawkowski

    in Journal of the History of Biology

    Article Open access 19 March 2026

14. Reclaiming the critical review method: a reconceptualization

    • Ishaq Al Naabi
    • Joseph Crawford
    • Jo-Anne Kelder

    in Quality & Quantity

    Article Open access 18 March 2026

    

15. Can biased technological progress help China’s cities ease their carbon lock-in woes?

    • Huaping Sun
    • Ziqing Guo
    • Weiyi Yang

    in Environment, Development and Sustainability

    Article 18 March 2026

    

16. In defense of value-free analysis against a woke-like order of knowledge

    • Neema Parvini

    in Theory and Society

    Article 17 March 2026

17. Mistakes at work are judged more negatively in routine tasks than in complex tasks

    • Tim Hampel

    in SN Social Sciences

    Article 17 March 2026

    

18. LLMs displaying less cognitive bias are not necessarily better decision makers

    • Vittoria Dentella
    • Marco Marelli
    • Luca Rinaldi

    in Nature Machine Intelligence

    Article 17 March 2026

    

19. Is it too novel to succeed? How technological novelty affects observer responses to entrepreneurship failure

    • Yue Zhang
    • Bin Wang
    • Shanshan Su

    in Small Business Economics

    Article Open access 16 March 2026

    

20. From the Editor’s Desk — Why Good Manuscripts Get Rejected

    • Pankaj Kumar Garg
    • Pallvi Kaul
    • S P Somashekhar

    in Indian Journal of Surgical Oncology

    Article 14 March 2026

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