Steven Sloman, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
Psychology Brown University, Providence, RI 
Area:
Decision Making
Website:
http://sites.google.com/site/slomanlab/

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2023 Zemla JC, Sloman SA, Bechlivanidis C, Lagnado DA. Not so simple! Causal mechanisms increase preference for complex explanations. Cognition. 239: 105551. PMID 37478697 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105551  0.76
2022 Light N, Fernbach PM, Rabb N, Geana MV, Sloman SA. Knowledge overconfidence is associated with anti-consensus views on controversial scientific issues. Science Advances. 8: eabo0038. PMID 35857847 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abo0038  0.67
2019 Rabb N, Fernbach PM, Sloman SA. Individual Representation in a Community of Knowledge. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 23: 891-902. PMID 31477385 DOI: 10.1016/J.Tics.2019.07.011  0.698
2018 Sloman S, Fernbach P. Reasoning as Collaboration American Journal of Psychology. 131: 493. DOI: 10.5406/Amerjpsyc.131.4.0493  0.67
2018 Taylor S, Pickering B, Grace P, Boniface M, Bakir V, boyd d, Engesser S, Epstein R, Fawzi N, Fernbach P, Fisher DR, Gardner BG, Jacobs K, Jacobson S, Krmer B, ... ... Sloman S, et al. Opinion forming in the digital age Ctit Technical Reports Series. DOI: 10.5281/Zenodo.1468575  0.7
2017 Bechlivanidis C, Lagnado DA, Zemla JC, Sloman S. Concreteness and abstraction in everyday explanation. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. PMID 28497364 DOI: 10.3758/S13423-017-1299-3  0.762
2017 Zemla JC, Sloman S, Bechlivanidis C, Lagnado DA. Evaluating everyday explanations. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. PMID 28275989 DOI: 10.3758/S13423-017-1258-Z  0.761
2017 Walters DJ, Fernbach PM, Fox CR, Sloman SA. Known Unknowns: A Critical Determinant of Confidence and Calibration Management Science. 63: 4298-4307. DOI: 10.1287/Mnsc.2016.2580  0.691
2016 Sloman SA, Rabb N. Your Understanding Is My Understanding: Evidence for a Community of Knowledge. Psychological Science. PMID 27670662 DOI: 10.1177/0956797616662271  0.324
2016 Steiner S, Zemla J, Sloman S. MP10: ANALYTICAL STYLE PREDICTS RELIGIOUS AND TELEOLOGICAL BELIEF Journal of Investigative Medicine. 64: 808.2-809. DOI: 10.1136/Jim-2016-000080.22  0.746
2014 Sloman S. Comments on quantum probability theory. Topics in Cognitive Science. 6: 47-52. PMID 24482328 DOI: 10.1111/Tops.12072  0.308
2014 Fernbach PM, Hagmayer Y, Sloman SA. Effort denial in self-deception Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 123: 1-8. DOI: 10.1016/J.Obhdp.2013.10.013  0.679
2013 Park J, Sloman SA. Mechanistic beliefs determine adherence to the Markov property in causal reasoning. Cognitive Psychology. 67: 186-216. PMID 24152569 DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2013.09.002  0.321
2013 Fernbach PM, Rogers T, Fox CR, Sloman SA. Political extremism is supported by an illusion of understanding. Psychological Science. 24: 939-46. PMID 23620547 DOI: 10.1177/0956797612464058  0.694
2013 Fernbach PM, Sloman SA, St. Louis R, Shube JN. Explanation fiends and foes: How mechanistic detail determines understanding and preference Journal of Consumer Research. 39: 1115-1131. DOI: 10.1086/667782  0.69
2012 Sloman SA, Fernbach PM, Ewing S. A Causal Model of Intentionality Judgment Mind and Language. 27: 154-180. DOI: 10.1111/J.1468-0017.2012.01439.X  0.696
2012 Sloman S, Fernbach PM. The value of rational analysis: An assessment of causal reasoning and learning The Probabilistic Mind: Prospects For Bayesian Cognitive Science. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199216093.003.0021  0.64
2011 Fernbach PM, Darlow A, Sloman SA. When good evidence goes bad: the weak evidence effect in judgment and decision-making. Cognition. 119: 459-67. PMID 21345428 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cognition.2011.01.013  0.709
2011 Fernbach PM, Darlow A, Sloman SA. Asymmetries in predictive and diagnostic reasoning. Journal of Experimental Psychology. General. 140: 168-85. PMID 21219081 DOI: 10.1037/A0022100  0.724
2011 Sloman SA, Fernbach PM. Human representation and reasoning about complex causal systems Information Knowledge Systems Management. 10: 85-99. DOI: 10.3233/Iks-2012-0187  0.712
2011 Fernbach PM, Sloman SA. Don't throw out the Bayes with the bathwater Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 34: 198-199. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X11000264  0.609
2011 Swirsky CL, Fernbach PM, Sloman SA. An illusion of control modulates the reluctance to tempt fate Judgment and Decision Making. 6: 688-696.  0.615
2010 Fernbach PM, Darlow A, Sloman SA. Neglect of alternative causes in predictive but not diagnostic reasoning. Psychological Science. 21: 329-36. PMID 20424064 DOI: 10.1177/0956797610361430  0.711
2010 Sloman SA, Fernbach PM, Hagmayer Y. Self-deception requires vagueness. Cognition. 115: 268-81. PMID 20097330 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cognition.2009.12.017  0.68
2009 Sloman S, Barbey AK, Hotaling JM. A causal model theory of the meaning of cause, enable, and prevent. Cognitive Science. 33: 21-50. PMID 21585462 DOI: 10.1111/J.1551-6709.2008.01002.X  0.587
2009 Fernbach PM, Sloman SA. Causal learning with local computations. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 35: 678-93. PMID 19379043 DOI: 10.1037/A0014928  0.66
2004 Lagnado DA, Sloman S. The advantage of timely intervention. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 30: 856-76. PMID 15238029 DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.30.4.856  0.354
2004 Sloman S, Rottenstreich Y, Wisniewski E, Hadjichristidis C, Fox CR. Typical versus atypical unpacking and superadditive probability judgment. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 30: 573-82. PMID 15099126 DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.30.3.573  0.362
2003 Sloman S, A. Lagnado D. Causal Invariance in Reasoning and Learning Psychology of Learning and Motivation - Advances in Research and Theory. 44: 287-325. DOI: 10.1016/S0079-7421(03)44009-7  0.414
1994 Sloman SA. When explanations compete: the role of explanatory coherence on judgements of likelihood. Cognition. 52: 1-21. PMID 7924197 DOI: 10.1016/0010-0277(94)90002-7  0.318
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