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Causal Models: How People Think About the World and Its Alternatives by Sloman, Steven

“…Human beings are active agents who can think. To understand how thought serves action requires understanding how people conceive of the relation between cause…”
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The science of fake news by Lazer, David M J, Baum, Matthew A, Benkler, Yochai, Berinsky, Adam J, Greenhill, Kelly M, Menczer, Filippo, Metzger, Miriam J, Nyhan, Brendan, Pennycook, Gordon, Rothschild, David, Schudson, Michael, Sloman, Steven A, Sunstein, Cass R, Thorson, Emily A, Watts, Duncan J, Zittrain, Jonathan L

“…Addressing fake news requires a multidisciplinary effort The rise of fake news highlights the erosion of long-standing institutional bulwarks against…”
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Political Extremism Is Supported by an Illusion of Understanding by Fernbach, Philip M., Rogers, Todd, Fox, Craig R., Sloman, Steven A.

“…People often hold extreme political attitudes about complex policies. We hypothesized that people typically know less about such policies than they think they…”
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Base-rate respect: From ecological rationality to dual processes by Barbey, Aron K, Sloman, Steven A

“…The phenomenon of base-rate neglect has elicited much debate. One arena of debate concerns how people make judgments under conditions of uncertainty. Another…”
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Causal reasoning without mechanism by Dündar-Coecke, Selma, Goldin, Gideon, Sloman, Steven A

“…Unobservable mechanisms that tie causes to their effects generate observable events. How can one make inferences about hidden causal structures? This paper…”
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Cognitive Neuroscience Meets the Community of Knowledge by Sloman, Steven A., Patterson, Richard, Barbey, Aron K.

“…Cognitive neuroscience seeks to discover the biological foundations of the human mind. One goal is to explain how mental operations are generated by the…”
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Effects of subliminal hints on insight problem solving by Hattori, Masasi, Sloman, Steven A., Orita, Ryo

“…Two experiments tested a total of 509 participants on insight problems (the radiation problem and the nine-dot problem). Half of the participants were first…”
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Causality in Thought by Sloman, Steven A, Lagnado, David

“…Causal knowledge plays a crucial role in human thought, but the nature of causal representation and inference remains a puzzle. Can human causal inference be…”
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Do We “do”? by Sloman, Steven A., Lagnado, David A.

“…A normative framework for modeling causal and counterfactual reasoning has been proposed by Spirtes, Glymour, and Scheines (1993; cf. Pearl, 2000). The…”
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Your Understanding Is My Understanding: Evidence for a Community of Knowledge by Sloman, Steven A., Rabb, Nathaniel

“…In four experiments, we tested the community-of-knowledge hypothesis, that people fail to distinguish their own knowledge from other people's knowledge. In all…”
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Is political extremism supported by an illusion of understanding? by Sloman, Steven A., Vives, Marc-Lluis

“…Polarization is rising in most countries in the West. How can we reduce it? One potential strategy is to ask people to explain how a political policy works—how…”
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How Do We Believe? by Sloman, Steven A.

“…My first 30‐odd years of research in cognitive science has been driven by an attempt to balance two facts about human thought that seem incompatible and two…”
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Individual Representation in a Community of Knowledge by Rabb, Nathaniel, Fernbach, Philip M., Sloman, Steven A.

“…An individual’s knowledge is collective in at least two senses: it often comes from other people’s testimony, and its deployment in reasoning and action…”
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Regular and random judgements are not two sides of the same coin: Both representativeness and encoding play a role in randomness perception by Gronchi, Giorgio, Sloman, Steven A.

“…The overalternating bias is that people rate sequences with an excess of alternation as more random than prescribed by information theory. There are two main…”
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Community Appeal: Explanation Without Information by Hemmatian, Babak, Sloman, Steven A

“…Formal or categorical explanation involves the use of a label to explain a property of an object or group of objects. In four experiments, we provide evidence…”
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Thought as a determinant of political opinion by Sloman, Steven A., Rabb, Nathaniel

“…Recent political events around the world, including the apparently sudden rise of populism and decline of democratic zeal, have surprised many of us and…”
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Radical Collective Intelligence and the Reimagining of Cognitive Science by Rabb, Nathaniel, Sloman, Steven A.

“…To introduce our special issue How Minds Work: The Collective in the Individual, we propose “radical CI,” a form of collective intelligence, as a new paradigm…”
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Deepfakes: Vehicles for Radicalization, Not Persuasion by Nieweglowska, Maja, Stellato, Cal, Sloman, Steven A.

“…Deepfakes are an effective method of media manipulation because of their realism and also because truth is not a priority when people are consuming and sharing…”
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Not so simple! Causal mechanisms increase preference for complex explanations by Zemla, Jeffrey C., Sloman, Steven A., Bechlivanidis, Christos, Lagnado, David A.

“…Mechanisms play a central role in how we think about causality, yet not all causal explanations describe mechanisms. Across five experiments, we find that…”
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Universality and language specificity in object naming by Malt, Barbara C., Sloman, Steven A., Gennari, Silvia P.

“…Rather than having universal linguistic categories for sets of common objects, languages develop their own, idiosyncratic naming patterns for them. Accounting…”
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