Steven A. Sloman

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Steven A. Sloman

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#252

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PhD Cognitive Psychology Stanford University
Bachelors Psychology University of California, Berkeley

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The empirical case for two systems of reasoning. (1996) (3629)
The science of fake news (2018) (2192)
Causal Models: How People Think about the World and Its Alternatives (2005) (530)
Feature-Based Induction (1993) (463)
Two systems of reasoning. (2002) (416)
Base-rate respect: From ecological rationality to dual processes. (2007) (359)
Feature Centrality and Conceptual Coherence (1998) (356)
Knowing versus Naming: Similarity and the Linguistic Categorization of Artifacts (1999) (342)
Motion events in language and cognition (2002) (311)
The advantage of timely intervention. (2004) (253)
Political Extremism Is Supported by an Illusion of Understanding (2013) (245)
Do We "do"? (2005) (238)
Frequency illusions and other fallacies (2003) (229)
Similarity- versus rule-based categorization (1994) (226)
The probability of causal conditionals (2007) (215)
How bilinguals solve the naming problem (2005) (207)
Categorical Inference Is Not a Tree: The Myth of Inheritance Hierarchies (1998) (202)
Forgetting in primed fragment completion. (1988) (201)
Beyond covariation: Cues to causal structure. (2010) (196)
Time as a guide to cause. (2006) (188)
Causality in thought. (2015) (139)
Linguistic diversity and object naming by non-native speakers of English (2003) (128)
Similarity as an explanatory construct (1998) (116)
Universality and language specificity in object naming (2003) (113)
The Problem of Induction (2005) (112)
Causal reasoning through intervention (2007) (111)
Causal learning with local computations. (2009) (107)
Artifacts are not ascribed essences, nor are they treated as belonging to kinds (2003) (104)
When explanations compete: the role of explanatory coherence on judgements of likelihood (1994) (104)
Asymmetries in predictive and diagnostic reasoning. (2011) (93)
Decision makers conceive of their choices as interventions. (2009) (90)
Neglect of Alternative Causes in Predictive but Not Diagnostic Reasoning (2010) (87)
Typical versus atypical unpacking and superadditive probability judgment. (2004) (85)
Assessing the causal structure of function. (2004) (83)
The causal psycho-logic of choice (2006) (83)
Two systems of reasoning: An update. (2014) (80)
Explanation Fiends and Foes: How Mechanistic Detail Determines Understanding and Preference (2013) (77)
A Causal Model Theory of the Meaning of Cause, Enable, and Prevent (2009) (74)
The Meaning of Cause and Prevent: The Role of Causal Mechanism (2011) (66)
Mate selection in the service of human evolution (1988) (63)
Artifact categorization: The good, the bad, and the ugly (2007) (61)
Is Deontic Reasoning Special ? (1996) (59)
Congruency effects in part-list cuing inhibition. (1991) (58)
Speaking versus thinking about objects and actions (2003) (57)
Mechanistic beliefs determine adherence to the Markov property in causal reasoning (2013) (56)
The HIPE Theory of Function (2005) (54)
Evaluating everyday explanations (2017) (52)
Self-deception requires vagueness (2010) (52)
Two systems of reasoning: architecture and relation to emotion. (2010) (51)
Category essence or essentially pragmatic? Creator’s intention in naming and what’s really what (2007) (51)
Your Understanding Is My Understanding (2016) (47)
Explanatory Coherence and the Induction of Properties (1997) (46)
Similarity and symbols in human thinking (1998) (45)
When good evidence goes bad: The weak evidence effect in judgment and decision-making (2011) (39)
Feature centrality and property induction (2004) (38)
On the Evaluation of If p then q Conditionals (2001) (38)
Learning Causal Structure (2019) (37)
Chapter 1 Causal Models: The Representational Infrastructure for Moral Judgment (2009) (37)
Non-Bayesian Inference: Causal Structure Trumps Correlation (2012) (37)
Inside and Outside Probability Judgment (2008) (36)
A Causal Model of Intentionality Judgment (2012) (34)
Reasoning versus text processing in the Wason selection task: A nondeontic perspective on perspective effects (2000) (34)
Gathering Strength, Gathering Storms: The One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100) 2021 Study Panel Report (2022) (31)
Categorization versus similarity: the case of container names (2001) (30)
Individual Representation in a Community of Knowledge (2019) (30)
Feature centrality: Naming versus imagining (1999) (29)
Conversation and convention: Enduring influences on name choice for common objects (2004) (29)
Known Unknowns: A Critical Determinant of Confidence and Calibration (2017) (28)
Physicians' judgments of survival after medical management and mortality risk reduction due to revascularization procedures for patients with coronary artery disease. (2002) (27)
Causal invariance in reasoning and learning (2003) (26)
Effects of subliminal hints on insight problem solving (2013) (24)
Causal interactions (2014) (23)
Perspective effects in nondeontic versions of the Wason selection task (2000) (22)
Effort denial in self-deception (2014) (22)
Community Appeal: Explanation Without Information (2018) (21)
Learning Symbolic Inferences with Neural Networks (2005) (21)
Base-rate respect: From statistical formats to cognitive structures (2007) (20)
Revising Causal Beliefs (2004) (19)
Causal models frame interpretation of mathematical equations (2004) (18)
Causal explanation in the face of contradiction (2014) (17)
Refining the dual‐system theory of choice (2013) (17)
Concreteness and abstraction in everyday explanation (2017) (16)
Walking the party line: The growing role of political ideology in shaping health behavior in the United States (2021) (16)
The probative value of simultaneous contradictory belief: Reply to Gigerenzer and Regier (1996). (1996) (15)
Recent exposure affects artifact naming (2002) (13)
Causal Models of Decision Making: Choice as Intervention (2005) (13)
Part-set cuing inhibition in category-instance and reason generation (1991) (13)
The Causal Structure of Utility Conditionals (2013) (13)
How others drive our sense of understanding of policies (2020) (11)
Mutability and the Determinants of Conceptual Transformability (1995) (11)
Reasoning: When Explanations Compete: The Role of Explanatory Coherence on Judgments of Likelihood (2008) (11)
Human representation and reasoning about complex causal systems (2011) (10)
Categorical induction from uncertain premises: Jeffrey's doesn't completely rule (2014) (10)
Thought as a determinant of political opinion (2019) (9)
Opening editorial: The changing face of Cognition (2015) (9)
Iffy beliefs: Conditional thinking and belief change (2007) (9)
Counterfactuals and Causal Models: Introduction to the Special Issue (2013) (9)
Causality in Solving Economic Problems (2010) (8)
Knowledge overconfidence is associated with anti-consensus views on controversial scientific issues (2022) (8)
Managing evidence in food safety and nutrition (2019) (8)
Risk judgment in Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder: Testing a dual-systems account (2013) (7)
Similarity judgments reflect both language and cross-language tendencies: Evidence from two semantic domains (2010) (7)
Do Causal Beliefs Influence the Hot-Hand and the Gambler's Fallacy? (2008) (7)
Is deontic reasoning special (1996) (6)
Judging the Probability of Representative and Unrepresentative Unpackings (2001) (6)
Counterfactual Undoing in Deterministic Causal Reasoning (2019) (6)
Causal beliefs influence the perception of temporal order (2007) (6)
Analytical Thinking Predicts Less Teleological Reasoning and Religious Belief (2016) (6)
Evidence against risk as a motivating driver of COVID-19 preventive behaviors in the United States (2021) (6)
More than words, but still not categorization (2007) (6)
The value of rational analysis (2008) (6)
Don't throw out the Bayes with the bathwater (2011) (5)
Avoiding foolish consistency (2005) (5)
Think of the consequences: A decade of discourse about same-sex marriage (2019) (5)
Choices We Make in Times of Crisis (2021) (5)
Cognitive Neuroscience Meets the Community of Knowledge (2021) (4)
Feature-based induction 1 Feature-Based Induction (1993) (4)
Feature-based induction 1 Feature-Based Induction (1993) (4)
An illusion of control modulates the reluctance to tempt fate (2011) (4)
Do simple associations lead to systematic reasoning? (1993) (4)
Causal Models Drive Preference between Drugs that Treat a Focal versus Multiple Symptoms (2017) (4)
Opinion forming in the digital age (2018) (4)
Conditions for Backtracking with Counterfactual Conditionals (2014) (4)
Hierarchical Preferences in a Broad-Coverage Lexical Taxonomy (2005) (4)
Counterfactual and generative accounts of causal attribution (2011) (4)
Regular and random judgements are not two sides of the same coin: Both representativeness and encoding play a role in randomness perception (2021) (4)
Newcomb's Problem as Cognitive Illusion (2005) (4)
Are Humans Intuitive Philosophers? (2019) (3)
What Gives a Diagnostic Label Value? Common Use Over Informativeness (2020) (3)
How Do We Believe? (2021) (3)
Inductive Reasoning: Taxonomizing Induction (2007) (3)
Strategy games to improve environmental policymaking (2022) (2)
Using Reaction Times to Compare Two Models of Randomness Perception (2009) (2)
Comments on Quantum Probability Theory (2014) (2)
Causal reasoning without mechanism (2022) (2)
Opinion forming in the digital age: Fake news, echo chambers and populism - Key themes, concerns & recommendations for European research and innovation (2018) (2)
Causal Models can be Used to Predict Base-Rate Neglect (2003) (2)
Not so simple! Mechanisms increase preference for complex explanations (2020) (2)
Is political extremism supported by an illusion of understanding? (2022) (2)
Are voters influenced by the results of a consensus conference? (2021) (1)
Linguistic diversity and the bilingual lexicon: The Belgian Story (2004) (1)
Causal vs. Evidential Decision Making in Newcomb's Paradox (2006) (1)
Two Systems for Thinking with a Community: Outsourcing versus Collaboration (2019) (1)
Experimental examination of fear and judgement for long-term earthquake forecast (2019) (1)
The Basic Assumptions of Intuitive Belief: Laws, Determinism, and Free Will (2016) (1)
Causal Models and Screening-Off (2016) (1)
MP10: ANALYTICAL STYLE PREDICTS RELIGIOUS AND TELEOLOGICAL BELIEF (2016) (1)
Subject Index to Volume 29 (1981) (1)
Understanding Why: The cognitive science of explanation (2008) (1)
Two systems for thinking with a community (2020) (1)
How People Judge Institutional Corruption (2021) (1)
Running head: NON-DEONTIC PERSPECTIVE EFFECTS Perspective Effects in Non-Deontic Versions of the Wason Selection Task (2000) (1)
Reasoning as Collaboration (2018) (1)
Decision Making via Causal Consequences (2005) (1)
IFC as Pub info/Ed Board (2012) (0)
Causality and Conceptual Structure (2005) (0)
What Is a Cause (2005) (0)
Do People Care About Evidence? (2020) (0)
Linguistic diversity and object naming by Dutch-speaking, French-speaking and bilingual Belgians (2003) (0)
IFC as Pub info/Ed Board (2013) (0)
Progress within the bounds of memory (1994) (0)
Before the Next COP: How to Stop Missing our Environmental Policy Targets (2021) (0)
Conclusion: Causation in the Mind (2005) (0)
Locating Causal Structure in Language (2005) (0)
IFC as Pub info/Ed Board (2012) (0)
Known Unknowns in Judgment and Choice: (509992015-226) (2015) (0)
IFC as Pub info/Ed Board (2012) (0)
Learning Causal Structure - eScholarship (2002) (0)
Reasoning About Causation (2005) (0)
How bilinguals solve the naming problem q (2005) (0)
Causal Models Frame 1 Running head : CAUSAL INTERPRETATION OF EQUATIONS Causal Models Frame Interpretation of Mathematical Equations (2002) (0)
Editorial Board (2014) (0)
Undoing effect in causal reasoning 1 Submitted for publication . Do We “ do ” ? (2002) (0)
Anecdotes Ushered in Marijuana Legalization: A Machine Learning-aided Big Data Analysis of Reddit Discourse (2008-2019) (2022) (0)
On Counterfactuals and Cognitive Science: Rumlhart Prize Symposium in Honor of Judea Pearl (2011) (0)
Introducing a fund for open-access fees (2016) (0)
Editorial Board (2014) (0)
Editorial Board (2014) (0)
Universality and language specificity in object naming q (2003) (0)
IFC as Pub info/Ed Board (2014) (0)
IFC as Pub info/Ed Board (2012) (0)
Consequential Consensus: A Decade of Online Discourse about Same-sex Marriage (2019) (0)
Causal Bayes Nets as Psychological Theory (2022) (0)
IFC as Pub info/Ed Board (2013) (0)
Editorial response to "Representation of women in Cognition" (2015) (0)
Frequency illusions and other fallacies q (2003) (0)
IFC as Pub info/Ed Board (2014) (0)
Observation Versus Action (2005) (0)
Agency and the Role of Causation in Mental Life (2005) (0)
IFC as Pub info/Ed Board (2013) (0)
To Bend the Curve of Terrestrial Biodiversity, Place Agency Centre Stage (2020) (0)
A Novel Corpus of Discourse Structure in Humans and Computers (2021) (0)
IFC as Pub info/Ed Board (2012) (0)
IFC as Pub info/Ed Board (2013) (0)
IFC as Pub info/Ed Board (2013) (0)
IFC as Pub info/Ed Board (2013) (0)
Effects of subliminal hints on insight problem solving (2013) (0)
Values and Consequences: Frames for Korean Reunification (2019) (0)
IFC as Pub info/Ed Board (2014) (0)
Editorial Board (2015) (0)
Reasons and the "Motivated Reasoning Effect" (2017) (0)
IFC as Pub info/Ed Board (2013) (0)
Effects of unrecognized hints and metacognitive control in insight problem solving (2011) (0)
Subject index to Volume 33 (1979) (0)
Subject index to volume 33 (1985) (0)
Explaining without Information: The Role of Label Entrenchment (2019) (0)
Deepfakes: Vehicles for Radicalization, Not Persuasion (2023) (0)
IFC as Pub info/Ed Board (2014) (0)
The Information Is in the Invariants (2005) (0)
IFC as Pub info/Ed Board (2012) (0)
Using Human-Guided Causal Knowledge for More Generalized Robot Task Planning (2021) (0)
Concreteness and abstraction in everyday explanation (2017) (0)
Inductive Reasoning, Psychology of (2006) (0)
Linguistic categorization and similarity judgments in Dutch-speaking, French-speaking and bilingual Belgians (2003) (0)
Causal explanation in the face of contradiction (2014) (0)
Evidence for a Community of Knowledge Across Culture (2020) (0)
The Psychology of Judgment: Causality Is Pervasive (2005) (0)
IFC as Pub info/Ed Board (2012) (0)
IFC as Pub info/Ed Board (2013) (0)
Centrality and Property Induction (2020) (0)
Editorial Board (2014) (0)
Why we simulate: A commentary on Lustick and Tetlock 2021 (2021) (0)
IFC as Pub info/Ed Board (2012) (0)
Editorial Board (2014) (0)
IFC as Pub info/Ed Board (2012) (0)
IFC as Pub info/Ed Board (2013) (0)
Think of the consequences: A decade of discourse about same-sex marriage (2019) (0)
What does evolution tell us about age preferences? (1992) (0)
Evaluating everyday explanations (2017) (0)
IFC as Pub info/Ed Board (2012) (0)
Label Entrenchment and Categorical Explanation (2018) (0)
IFC as Pub info/Ed Board (2012) (0)
IFC as Pub info/Ed Board (2013) (0)
Observation vs. Intervention 1 Causal Reasoning through Intervention (2005) (0)
Problematic and Persistent Post-Secondary Program Performance Preconceptions (2022) (0)

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