Steven Sloman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4290137 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven Sloman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven |
| FAMILY NAME | Sloman |
| SIGNATURE | SLOMAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences Brown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Zero-sum bias in politicized problem solving
Zero-sum bias refers to the tendency to believe that anything gained by one side is lost by the other when in fact win-win outcomes are available. Prior research has documented the bias in several domains but little is known about what triggers it. As politics is a hotbed of zero-sum beliefs, we hypothesized that politicizing problems would act as either a situational trigger or inhibitor for partisans and that this would lead them to propose qua…
Do We Appeal to the Knowledge of Our Political Rivals
Categorical explanations involve the use of labels to account for various properties of the explanandum. Prior research shows that the degree to which a label is perceived to be entrenched in society impacts the judged quality of the categorical explanation that invokes it regardless of how informative the explanation actually is. The aim of the present paper is to investigate whether the label entrenchment effect persists even when the label is …
Causal Models Drive Preference between Drugs that Treat a Focal versus Multiple Symptoms
This research examines the effects of causal beliefs on drug preference. In three studies, 374 undergraduate participants imagined that they suffered from a focal symptom and then indicated their preference between a drug claiming to treat only the focal symptom (single treatment) and a drug claiming to treat the focal symptom and a nonfocal symptom (dual treatment) they thought resulted from a common‐cause or from a different cause. Participants…
Causal Models Drive Preference between Drugs that Treat a Focal versus Multiple Symptoms
This research examines the effects of causal beliefs on drug preference. In three studies, 374 undergraduate participants imagined that they suffered from a focal symptom and then indicated their preference between a drug claiming to treat only the focal symptom (single treatment) and a drug claiming to treat the focal symptom and a nonfocal symptom (dual treatment) they thought resulted from a common‐cause or from a different cause. Participants…
Causal Models Drive Preference between Drugs that Treat a Focal versus Multiple Symptoms
This research examines the effects of causal beliefs on drug preference. In three studies, 374 undergraduate participants imagined that they suffered from a focal symptom and then indicated their preference between a drug claiming to treat only the focal symptom (single treatment) and a drug claiming to treat the focal symptom and a nonfocal symptom (dual treatment) they thought resulted from a common‐cause or from a different cause. Participants…
Zero-sum bias in politicized problem solving
Zero-sum bias refers to the tendency to believe that anything gained by one side is lost by the other when in fact win-win outcomes are available. Prior research has documented the bias in several domains but little is known about what triggers it. As politics is a hotbed of zero-sum beliefs, we hypothesized that politicizing problems would act as either a situational trigger or inhibitor for partisans and that this would lead them to propose qua…
Do We Appeal to the Knowledge of Our Political Rivals
Categorical explanations involve the use of labels to account for various properties of the explanandum. Prior research shows that the degree to which a label is perceived to be entrenched in society impacts the judged quality of the categorical explanation that invokes it regardless of how informative the explanation actually is. The aim of the present paper is to investigate whether the label entrenchment effect persists even when the label is …
Politics (2 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (2 works) · Appeal (1 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (1 works) · Categorical variable (1 works) · Causal model (1 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (1 works) · Clinical Psychology (1 works) · Clinical Psychology (1 works) · Cognitive bias (1 works)