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| Woo kyoung AhnSummaryAffiliation: Vanderbilt University Country: USA Publications
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Effect of causal structure on category constructionW K Ahn
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240, USA
Mem Cognit 27:1008-23. 1999..Such preferences suggest that the common-cause or the common-effect structures are considered more natural conceptual structures...- Causal status effect in children's categorizationW Ahn
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, 534 Wilson Hall, Nashville, TN 37240, USA
Cognition 76:B35-43. 2000..This study is the first direct demonstration of the causal status effect in children... - Effect of theory-based feature correlations on typicality judgmentsWoo kyoung Ahn
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, USA
Mem Cognit 30:107-18. 2002..It is concluded that in natural categories, feature correlations that are explicitly represented and affect typicality judgments are the ones about which people have theories... 
Theory-based categorization under speeded conditionsChristian C Luhmann
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Mem Cognit 34:1102-11. 2006..We argue that both causal knowledge and base-rate information, once precompiled during learning, can be used at roughly the same speeds during categorization, thus demonstrating an important parallel between these two types of knowledge...- Effect of grouping of evidence types on learning about interactions between observed and unobserved causesBenjamin Margolin Rottman
Department of Psychology, Yale University, USA
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 37:1432-48. 2011..Indeed, participants could even make precise predictions about the pattern of interaction (Experiments 5 and 6). Implications for theories of causal reasoning are discussed... - BUCKLE: a model of unobserved cause learningChristian C Luhmann
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Psychol Rev 114:657-77. 2007..The current results demonstrate that BUCKLE provides a better explanation of people's causal learning than the existing models... - Spontaneous assimilation of continuous values and temporal information in causal inductionJessecae K Marsh
Department of Psychology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409 2051, USA
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 35:334-52. 2009..This assimilation process was moderated by the strength of the upheld causal hypothesis (Experiment 2), could alter the overall perception of a causal relationship (Experiment 3), and could occur over temporal sequences (Experiment 4)... - Clinical psychologists' theory-based representations of mental disorders predict their diagnostic reasoning and memoryNancy S Kim
Department of Psychology, Yale University, 2 Hillhouse Avenue, P O Box 208205, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 8205, USA
J Exp Psychol Gen 131:451-76. 2002..Their memory for causally central symptoms was also biased. Clinicians are cognitively driven to use theories despite decades of practice with the atheoretical DSM... - Expectations and interpretations during causal learningChristian C Luhmann
Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794 25001, USA
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 37:568-87. 2011..We discuss implications for traditional models of causal learning and how a more top-down approach (e.g., Bayesian) would be more compatible with the current findings... - Causal learning about tolerance and sensitizationBenjamin Margolin Rottman
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 8205, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 16:1043-9. 2009..In the many-entity conditions, when the schemata were violated, participants made much weaker inferences. Implications for causal learning are discussed... - The meaning and computation of causal power: comment on Cheng (1997) and Novick and Cheng (2004)Christian C Luhmann
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
Psychol Rev 112:685-93; discussion 694-707. 2005..Therefore, the authors argue that people do not attempt to compute causal power... - Combining biomedical accounts of mental disorders with treatability information to reduce mental illness stigmaMatthew S Lebowitz
Department of Psychology, Yale University, 2 Hillhouse Ave, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
Psychiatr Serv 63:496-9. 2012..The authors tested whether information emphasizing the treatability of mental disorders could reduce stigma by contradicting the prognostic pessimism associated with biological attributions... - Can personality disorder experts recognize DSM-IV personality disorders from five-factor model descriptions of patient cases?Benjamin M Rottman
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 72:630-9. 2011..Dimensional models of personality are under consideration for integration into the next Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), but the clinical utility of such models is unclear... - Order effects in contingency learning: the role of task complexityJessecae K Marsh
Department of Psychology, Yale University, 2 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
Mem Cognit 34:568-76. 2006..It is concluded that a critical moderator for exhibition of the primacy effect is task complexity, presumably because it interferes with initial hypothesis development... - Understanding behavior makes it more normalWoo kyoung Ahn
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 10:746-52. 2003..Undergraduates, graduate students in clinical psychology, and expert clinicians all reliably perceived the patients as being more normal with these explanations than without them, confirming Meehl's prediction... - The effect of causal knowledge on judgments of the likelihood of unknown featuresCaroline Procror
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 8205, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 14:635-9. 2007..Implications for clinical reasoning and associative models of conceptual knowledge are discussed... - The influence of naive causal theories on lay concepts of mental illnessNancy S Kim
Yale University, USA
Am J Psychol 115:33-65. 2002..Implications of these results for current models of categorization and for research on lay theories of mental disorders are discussed, and future directions for research are suggested...