Steven A. Sloman

General Decision Sciences · 1994–2022

A researcher in the Science corpus: 14 papers; trusts 27 researchers and is trusted by 60 researchers here, as inferred from the citation graph.

Subfields

• General Decision Sciences — 35 citations into it; #131 of 1,995 by trust here, #385 by citations
• Sociology and Political Science — 33 citations into it; #1,348 of 22,756 by trust here, #1,886 by citations
• Cognitive Science & Psychology — 29 citations into it
• Cognitive Neuroscience — 24 citations into it
• Artificial Intelligence — 23 citations into it; #6,482 of 35,345 by trust here, #15,542 by citations
• Experimental and Cognitive Psychology — 21 citations into it; #1,563 of 9,731 by trust here, #3,093 by citations
• Developmental and Educational Psychology — 18 citations into it; #548 of 8,223 by trust here, #1,112 by citations
• Philosophy — 17 citations into it

Whom Steven A. Sloman trusts overall

Their strongest outbound trust, strongest first, inferred from their citations.

1. Daniel Kahneman
2. Amos Tversky
3. Ellen M. Markman
4. Eleanor Rosch
5. Frank C. Keil
6. Philip Tetlock
7. Douglas L. Medin
8. Thomas Gilovich
9. Barbara C. Malt
10. Carolyn B. Mervis

Who trusts Steven A. Sloman overall

1. Tania Lombrozo
2. Daniel Kahneman
3. A. Glöckner
4. Peter Carruthers
5. K. Stanovich
6. Barbara C. Malt
7. Seth Chin-Parker
8. Alan Jern
9. Jonathan Evans
10. Robert R. Hoffman

Papers from Steven A. Sloman's perspective

Ordered by how strongly the researchers Steven A. Sloman trusts endorse each paper. Same corpus, a different order for every researcher.

1. Family Resemblances: Studies in the Internal Structure of Categories
2. Basic objects in natural categories
3. The psychology of interpersonal relations
4. Categories and Concepts
5. The role of theories in conceptual coherence.
6. The place of perception in children's concepts ☆
7. Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution
8. ALCOVE: an exemplar-based connectionist model of category learning.
9. Salience and relativity in classification
10. When explanations compete: the role of explanatory coherence on judgements of likelihood.

Their papers

• The science of fake news (2018) — 3,794 citations
• Two systems of reasoning. (2002) — 428 citations
• Gathering Strength, Gathering Storms: The One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100) 2021 Study Panel Report (2022) — 128 citations
• Evaluating everyday explanations (2017) — 96 citations
• Explanation Fiends and Foes: How Mechanistic Detail Determines Understanding and Preference (2013) — 93 citations
• Understanding Why: The cognitive science of explanation (2008)
• The probability of causal conditionals. (2007) — 286 citations
• The Problem of Induction (2005) — 89 citations
• How bilinguals solve the naming problem (2005) — 222 citations
• Causal Models: How People Think about the World and Its Alternatives (2005) — 577 citations
• Universality and language specificity in object naming (2003) — 118 citations
• Linguistic diversity and object naming by non-native speakers of English (2003) — 131 citations
• Artifacts are not ascribed essences, nor are they treated as belonging to kinds (2003) — 106 citations
• When explanations compete: the role of explanatory coherence on judgements of likelihood. (1994)