Woo‐kyoung Ahn

Yale University — United States

Psychology · Social Sciences

31h-index3.5kcitations105works1.02yr avg
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Research Topics

Child and Animal Learning Development(36), Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference(19), Mental Health and Psychiatry(17), Mental Health Research Topics(17), Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics(12)

Publications105 total

Rebuilding trust in psychotherapy for biologically explained depression: A two-part experimental study examining the durability of an online psychoeducational intervention
Social Science & Medicine·2024· 1 cited
Explaining How Psychotherapy Affects the Brain Can Increase the Perceived Effectiveness of Psychotherapy: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Behavior Therapy·2023· 3 cited
Emphasizing Controllability over Biological Processes Underlying Depression: Effects on the Perceived Credibility of Psychotherapy
Cognitive Therapy and Research·2023· 2 cited
Reasons for the Belief that Psychotherapy is Less Effective for Biologically Attributed Mental Disorders
Cognitive Therapy and Research·2023· 4 cited
Impacts of Learning One’s Own Genetic Susceptibility to Mental Disorders
Current Directions in Psychological Science·2023· 3 cited
The effect of neuroscientific evidence on sentencing depends on how one conceives of reasons for incarceration
PLoS ONE·2022· 10 citedOpen Access
It’s Time to be disgusting about COVID-19: Effect of disgust priming on COVID-19 public health compliance among liberals and conservatives
PLoS ONE·2022· 8 citedOpen Access
Heuristics Used in Reasoning with Multiple Causes and Effects
2022· 6 cited
Symposium: Using Causal Knowledge
2022
The symptom discounting effect: what to do when negative genetic test results become risk factors for alcohol use disorder
Scientific Reports·2022· 6 citedOpen Access
The Symptom Discounting Effect : What to Do When Negative Genetic Test Results Become Risk Factors for Alcohol Use Disorder
Research Square (Research Square)·2021Open Access
Neurodualism: People Assume that the Brain Affects the Mind more than the Mind Affects the Brain
Cognitive Science·2021· 18 citedOpen Access
Effects of genetic information on memory for severity of depressive symptoms
PLoS ONE·2020· 13 citedOpen Access
Which grades are better, A’s and C’s, or all B’s? Effects of variability in grades on mock college admissions decisions
Judgment and Decision Making·2019Open Access
Causal Attribution As Mechanism-Based Story Construction: An Explanation Of The Conjunction Fallacy And The Discounting Principle
2019
Theories and Similarity: Categorization under Speeded Conditions
2019· 3 citedOpen Access
Which grades are better, A’s and C’s, or all B’s? Effects of variability in grades on mock college admissions decisions
Judgment and Decision Making·2019Open Access
Perceptions of the competent but depressed.
Emotion·2018· 2 cited
Testing positive for a genetic predisposition to depression magnifies retrospective memory for depressive symptoms.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology·2017· 43 citedOpen Access
An experiment assessing effects of personalized feedback about genetic susceptibility to obesity on attitudes towards diet and exercise
Appetite·2017· 30 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Matthew S. Lebowitz(13), Nancy S. Kim(8), Christian C. Luhmann(7), Jessecae K. Marsh(6), Benjamin M. Rottman(3), Charles A. Sanislow(3), Steven A. Sloman(2), Elizabeth Flanagan(2), Martin J. Dennis(2), William F. Brewer(2), E. G. R. Taylor(2), Bradley C. Love(1), Caroline Proctor(1), Susan Nolen–Hoeksema(1), Charles W. Kalish(1), Jeremy N. Bailenson(1), Douglas L. Medin(1), B LOVE(1), Jessica Rosenthal(1), Kevin Lee(1)