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Steven A. Sloman

Steven A. Sloman

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Psychology

D-Index
58
Citations
23767
World Ranking
3786
National Ranking
2118

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1974 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Steven A. Sloman is affiliated with Brown University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with a significant focus on Artificial Intelligence. Their work also encompasses Cognitive Neuroscience, Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology, and History and Philosophy of Science.

The central themes in Sloman's research involve Philosophy and History of Science, Climate Change Communication and Perception, COVID-19 and Mental Health, Embodied and Extended Cognition, Child and Animal Learning Development, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, and Social and Intergroup Psychology.

Sloman has published extensively in several academic venues. Notable frequent publication venues include arXiv (Cornell University), Cognition, Preprints.org, SSM - Population Health, and Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience.

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Gathering Strength, Gathering Storms: The One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100) 2021 Study Panel Report, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Walking the party line: The growing role of political ideology in shaping health behavior in the United States, 2021, SSM - Population Health
  • Cognitive Neuroscience Meets the Community of Knowledge, 2021, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
  • Evidence against risk as a motivating driver of COVID-19 preventive behaviors in the United States, 2021, Journal of Health Psychology
  • Is political extremism supported by an illusion of understanding?, 2022, Cognition

Frequent collaborators include Nathaniel Rabb, Jeffrey C. Zemla, Christos Bechlivanidis, David A. Lagnado, and Claude García.

In 1974, Sloman was recognized as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Best Publications

  • The empirical case for two systems of reasoning.

    Steven A. Sloman

  • The science of fake news

    David M. J. Lazer;Matthew A. Baum;Yochai Benkler;Adam J. Berinsky

  • Causal Models: How People Think About the World and Its Alternatives

    Steven A. Sloman

  • Two systems of reasoning.

    Steven A. Sloman

  • Feature-Based Induction.

    Steven A. Sloman

  • Motion events in language and cognition.

    Silvia P. Gennari;Steven A. Sloman;Barbara C. Malt;W. Tecumseh Fitch

  • Knowing versus Naming: Similarity and the Linguistic Categorization of Artifacts

    Barbara C. Malt;Steven A. Sloman;Silvia Gennari;Meiyi Shi

  • Base-rate respect: From ecological rationality to dual processes.

    Aron K. Barbey;Steven A. Sloman

  • Political Extremism Is Supported by an Illusion of Understanding

    Philip M. Fernbach;Todd Rogers;Craig R. Fox;Steven A. Sloman

  • Feature Centrality and Conceptual Coherence

    Steven A. Sloman;Bradley C. Love;Woo Kyoung Ahn

  • Comparing decision bound and exemplar models of categorization

    W. Todd Maddox;F. Gregory Ashby

  • The Advantage of Timely Intervention.

    David A. Lagnado;Steven Sloman

  • Frequency illusions and other fallacies

    Steven A. Sloman;David Over;Lila Slovak;Jeffrey M. Stibel

  • Similarity- versus rule-based categorization.

    Edward E. Smith;Steven A. Sloman

  • How bilinguals solve the naming problem

    Eef Ameel;Gert Storms;Barbara C. Malt;Steven A. Sloman

  • Forgetting in primed fragment completion.

    Steven A. Sloman;C. A. Gordon Hayman;Nobuo Ohta;Janine Law

  • The probability of causal conditionals.

    David E. Over;Constantinos Hadjichristidis;Jonathan St. B.T. Evans;Simon J. Handley

  • Causality in Thought

    Steven A. Sloman;David Lagnado

  • Beyond covariation: Cues to causal structure.

    DA Lagnado;Waldmann;Y Hagmaye;SA Sloman

  • Do We "do"?

    Steven A. Sloman;David A. Lagnado

Frequent Co-Authors

Barbara C. Malt
Barbara C. Malt Lehigh University
David A. Lagnado
David A. Lagnado University College London
Aron K. Barbey
Aron K. Barbey University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Craig R. Fox
Craig R. Fox University of California, Los Angeles
Jonathan St. B. T. Evans
Jonathan St. B. T. Evans Plymouth University
Lance J. Rips
Lance J. Rips Northwestern University
Dan Sperber
Dan Sperber Central European University
Woo-kyoung Ahn
Woo-kyoung Ahn Yale University
Simon J. Handley
Simon J. Handley Macquarie University
Hugo Mercier
Hugo Mercier School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences

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