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Patricia Cheng

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#2056

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#2413

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#1072

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Cognitive Psychology

#319

World Rank

#333

Historical Rank

#91

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PhD Psychology Stanford University
Bachelors Psychology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Patricia Wenjie Cheng is a Chinese American psychologist. She is a leading researcher in cognitive psychology who works on human reasoning. She is best known for her psychological work on human understanding of causality. Her "power theory of the probabilistic contrast model," or power PC theory posits that people filter observations of events through a basic belief that causes have the power to generate their effects, thereby inferring specific cause-effect relations.

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Patricia Cheng's Published Works

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Pragmatic reasoning schemas (1985) (1300)
From covariation to causation: A causal power theory. (1997) (1194)
Pragmatic versus syntactic approaches to training deductive reasoning (1986) (487)
Covariation in natural causal induction. (1992) (428)
A probabilistic contrast model of causal induction. (1990) (334)
On the natural selection of reasoning theories (1989) (322)
Assessing interactive causal influence. (2004) (217)
Bayesian generic priors for causal learning. (2008) (195)
From covariation to causation: a test of the assumption of causal power. (2003) (188)
Causal learning and inference as a rational process: the new synthesis. (2011) (187)
Restructuring versus automaticity: Alternative accounts of skill acquisition. (1985) (167)
Causes versus enabling conditions (1991) (149)
Distinguishing Genuine from Spurious Causes: A Coherence Hypothesis (2000) (136)
Pragmatic Reasoning With a Point of View (1995) (97)
Separating Causal Laws from Casual Facts: Pressing the Limits of Statistical Relevance (1993) (94)
Causal learning in rats and humans: A minimal rational model (2008) (76)
Causal Mechanism and Probability: A Normative Approach (1998) (55)
Relative abundance, sex ratio and population structure of the Japanese eel Anguilla japonica in the Tanshui River system of northern Taiwan (1995) (53)
Causal Learning (2012) (48)
Causal induction: The power PC theory versus the Rescorla-Wagner model (1997) (46)
Constraints and Nonconstraints in Causal Learning: Reply to White (2005) and to Luhmann and Ahn (2005). (2005) (45)
Cue Competition in Human Categorization: Contingency or the Rescorla-Wagner Learning Rule? Comment on Shanks (1991) (1993) (45)
Why Causation Need not Follow From Statistical Association: Boundary Conditions for the Evaluation of Generative and Preventive Causal Powers (1999) (45)
Evoking the Permission Schema: The Impact of Explicit Negation and a Violation-Checking Context (1993) (40)
The emergence of inferential rules: The use of pragmatic reasoning schemas by preschoolers (2000) (39)
A psychophysical approach to dimensional separability (1984) (33)
Hypothesis-Testing Strategies: Why two Goals are Better than One (1993) (33)
The FERMI System: Inducing Iterative Macro-Operators from Experience (1986) (32)
A Causal-Power Theory of Focal Sets (1996) (32)
Causality in the mind: Estimating contextual and conjunctive causal power (2000) (30)
When Is a Cause the “Same”? (2007) (30)
Explaining Four Psychological Asymmetries in Causal Reasoning : Implications of Causal Assumptions for Coherence (2007) (28)
Knowledge-based assumptions in causal attribution (1992) (24)
Pragmatic constraints on causal deduction (1993) (22)
Causal learning in rats and humans (2008) (22)
The influence of virtual sample size on confidence and causal-strength judgments. (2009) (19)
Pictures of Ghosts: A Critique of Alfred Bloom's The Linguistic Shaping of Thought (1985) (18)
Causality in the mind: Estimating contextual and conjunctive power. (2000) (17)
Pragmatic reasoning from multiple points of view: A response (1995) (15)
Causal Invariance as an Essential Constraint for Creating a Causal Representation of the World (2017) (15)
Bayesian Models of Judgments of Causal Strength: A Comparison (2007) (13)
Categorization and response competition: Two nonautomatic factors. (1985) (11)
Inferential dependencies in causal inference: a comparison of belief-distribution and associative approaches. (2013) (10)
The induction of hidden causes: Causal mediation and violations of independent causal influence (2010) (8)
Causal Learning and Inference (2012) (7)
Cue Competition in Human Categorization : Contingency or the Rescorla-Wagner Learning Rule ? Comment on Shanks ( 1991 ) (2004) (6)
Logical Consistency and Objectivity in Causal Learning (2013) (6)
Preventative scope in causal inference (2009) (3)
Uncertainty and dependency in causal inference (2011) (3)
Causal invariance as a tacit aspiration: Analytic knowledge of invariance functions (2021) (3)
Constraints and nonconstraints in causal learning: Reply to White and to Luhmann and Ahn (2005) (3)
Revisiting Hume in the 21 century: The possibility of generalizable causal beliefs given inherently unobservable causal relations (2021) (2)
Uncertainty in causal inference: The case of retrospective revaluation (2010) (2)
Causal Information as a Constraint on Similarity (2001) (2)
There is more to thinking than propositions (2009) (2)
Preventative Scope in Causation (2009) (1)
A Psychophysical Approach to Form Perception: Incompatibility as an Explanation of Integrality. (1980) (1)
Equations Are Effects: Using Causal Contrasts to Support Algebra Learning (2014) (1)
Reasoning: Pragmatic Reasoning Schemas (2008) (1)
Causal Knowledge for Constructing Useable Empirical Causal Knowledge : Two Experiments on Preschoolers (2017) (1)
Analytic Causal Knowledge for Constructing Useable Empirical Causal Knowledge: Two Experiments on Pre-schoolers (2022) (1)
Revision of Simple Causal Hypotheses: Inferring Interaction Across Multiple Contexts (2007) (1)
Does Causal Discovery Result in Category Formation and Set the Basic Level (2006) (0)
ATTITUDES AND SOCIAL COGNITION A Probabilistic Contrast Model of Causal Induction (2004) (0)
The Role of Variable Type in Causal Learning (2017) (0)
Causal Information as a Constraint on Similarity - eScholarship (2001) (0)
How do humans want causes to combine their effects? The role of analytically-defined causal invariance for generalizable causal knowledge (2022) (0)
The role of subjective input in causal category formation (2008) (0)
Proceedings of the Experimental Psychology Society 2001 (2001) (0)
Assessing Simple and Interactive Causal Influence (1 因果推論をめぐって) (2000) (0)
Analytic knowledge for constructing useable empirical causal knowledge: Two experiments on preschoolers (2017) (0)
Causal Contrasts Promote Algebra Problem Solving (2016) (0)
Sensitivity to Confounding in Causal Inference: From Childhood to Adulthood (2004) (0)
Causal assumptions for coherence and compositionality: ：一貫性と合成 (2008) (0)
Estimating Causal Power between Binary Cause and Continuous Outcome (2017) (0)
DRAFT 3 / 4 / 07 Bayesian Generic Priors for Causal Learning (2007) (0)
Large-scale space and episodic memory (2017) (0)

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