Steven A. Sloman

John Brown University — United States

Decision Sciences · Social Sciences

55h-index19.6kcitations209works0.32yr avg
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Research Topics

Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics(55), Child and Animal Learning Development(54), Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference(42), Philosophy and History of Science(32), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment(23)

Publications209 total

Zero-sum bias in politicized problem solving
Cognition·2025Open Access
Effects of scarcity on women’s cognitive ability to manage mental health and substance use after prison release
Scientific Reports·2025Open Access
Robot Planning Under Uncertainty for Object Assembly and Troubleshooting Using Human Causal Models
2025· 1 cited
Not so simple! Causal mechanisms increase preference for complex explanations
Cognition·2023· 7 cited
Gathering Strength, Gathering Storms: The One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100) 2021 Study Panel Report
arXiv (Cornell University)·2022· 142 citedOpen Access
Causal reasoning without mechanism
PLoS ONE·2022· 6 citedOpen Access
Is political extremism supported by an illusion of understanding?
Cognition·2022· 15 cited
Some collaborations just are not worth it. Comment on Clark et al.
Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition·2022
Causal Bayes Nets as Psychological Theory
ACM eBooks·2022
Anecdotes Ushered in Marijuana Legalization: A Machine Learning-aided Big Data Analysis of Reddit Discourse (2008-2019)
2022Open Access
Not so Simple! Mechanisms Increase Preference for Complex Explanations
SSRN Electronic Journal·2022· 3 citedOpen Access
How Do We Believe?
Topics in Cognitive Science·2021· 11 citedOpen Access
A Novel Corpus of Discourse Structure in Humans and Computers
arXiv (Cornell University)·2021Open Access
Walking the party line: The growing role of political ideology in shaping health behavior in the United States
SSM - Population Health·2021· 39 citedOpen Access
Cognitive Neuroscience Meets the Community of Knowledge
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience·2021· 24 citedOpen Access
Using Human-Guided Causal Knowledge for More Generalized Robot Task Planning
arXiv (Cornell University)·2021Open Access
Before the Next COP: How to Stop Missing our Environmental Policy Targets
Preprints.org·2021Open Access
Evidence against risk as a motivating driver of COVID-19 preventive behaviors in the United States
Journal of Health Psychology·2021· 15 cited
Regular and random judgements are not two sides of the same coin: Both representativeness and encoding play a role in randomness perception
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review·2021· 7 citedOpen Access
How People Judge Institutional Corruption
OpenCommons - UConn (University of Connecticut)·2021· 1 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

David A. Lagnado(8), Philip M. Fernbach(7), Barbara C. Malt(6), Thomas Gilovich(4), York Hagmayer(4), S. Gennari(3), Adam Darlow(3), Daniel Kahneman(2), Daniel T. Gilbert(2), Paul Slovic(2), Craig R. Fox(2), Woo‐kyoung Ahn(2), David E. Over(2), Constantinos Hadjichristidis(2), Michael R. Waldmann(2), Lance J. Rips(2), Nathaniel Rabb(2), David Lazer(1), Matthew Baum(1), Yochai Roberts Benkler(1)