Steven Sloman
Steven A. Sloman is the co-author, with Aron Barbey, of the 2007 target article Base-rate respect: From ecological rationality to dual processes in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, which proposes a dual-process account of base-rate neglect.
Who they are
The article lists Sloman at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. His wider body of work has not been verified for this site, so this page does not describe it.
Key papers
Barbey, A. K., & Sloman, S. A. (2007). Base-rate respect: From ecological rationality to dual processes. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30(3), 241-254. doi:10.1017/S0140525X07001653
The article reviews competing perspectives on base-rate neglect and concludes that a dual-process model fits the evidence best.
Key ideas
The authors describe base-rate neglect as arising from associative judgment strategies that do not adequately capture how the categories in a problem nest within one another, with a smaller effect when the nested groups are readily represented. The authorship is shared, and this page does not try to separate the two authors' contributions. The concept is described on the page on base-rate neglect.
Sources
- Barbey, A. K., & Sloman, S. A. (2007). Base-rate respect: From ecological rationality to dual processes. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30(3), 241-254. doi:10.1017/S0140525X07001653