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Sloman, S. A., Lombrozo, T., & Malt, B. C. (in press). Mild ontology and domain-specific categorization. In M. J. Roberts (Ed.). Integrating the mind. Hove, UK: Psychology Press.

Sloman, S. A. & Hagmayer, Y. (2006). The causal psycho-logic of choice. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10, 407-412.

Over, D., Hadjichristidis, C., Evans, J. St BT. Handley, S. J., & Sloman, S. A. (in press). The probability of causal conditionals. Cognitive Psychology.

Lagnado, D. & Sloman, S.A.  (in press).  Time as a guide to cause.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Sloman, S.A., & Lagnado, D. (2005). The problem of induction.  In R. Morrison and K. Holyoak (Eds.).  Cambridge Handbook of Thinking & Reasoning, New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 95-116. 

Ameel, E., Storms, G., Malt, B. C., & Sloman, S. A. (2005).  How bilinguals solve the naming problem.  Journal of Memory and Language, 52, 309-329.

Sloman, S.A., & Lagnado, D. (2005). Do we 'do'?  Cognitive Science, 29, 5-39.

Mochon, D. & Sloman, S. A.  (2004).  Causal models frame interpretation of mathematical equations. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review,11, 1099-1104.

Chaigneau, S. E., Barsalou, L. W., & Sloman, S.A.  (2004).  Assessing affordance and intention in the HIPE theory of function.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 133, 601-625.

Sloman, S.A., & Lagnado, D. (2004). Causal invariance in reasoning and learning.  In B. Ross (Ed.) The psychology of learning and motivation, Vol. 44, 287-325.

Lagnado, D. & Sloman, S.A., (2004). Inside and outside probability judgment.  D. J. Koehler and N. Harvey (Eds.) Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making, pp.  157-176.  Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing. 

Lagnado, D. & Sloman, S.A.  (2004).  The advantage of timely intervention.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 30, 856-876.

Sloman, S.A., Rottenstreich, Y., Wisniewski, E., Hadjichristidis, C., & Fox, C. R. (2004).  Typical versus atypical unpacking and superadditive probability judgment.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 30, 573-582.

Hadjichristidis, C., Sloman, S.A., Stevenson, R.J., Over, D.E.  (2004).  Feature centrality and property induction.  Cognitive Science, 28, 45-74.

Malt, B.C., Sloman, S.A., & Gennari, S.  (2003).  Universality and language specificity in object naming.  Journal of Memory and Language, 49, 20-42.

Sloman, S. A. & Malt, B. C. (2003). Artifacts are not ascribed essences, nor are they treated as belonging to kinds.  Language and Cognitive Processes, 18, 563-582.

Malt, B.C., & Sloman, S.A. (2003).  Linguistic diversity and object naming by non-native speakers of English.  Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 6, 47-67.

Sloman, S. A., Over, D., & Slovak, L., (2003). Frequency illusions and other fallacies, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 91, 296-309..

Gennari, S. , Sloman, S. A., Malt, B. C., Fitch, T., (2002). Motion Events in Motion and Cognition. Cognition. 83, 49-79.

Sloman, S.A., & Lagnado, D. (2002). Counterfactual undoing in deterministic causal reasoning. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Maryland.

Malt, B. C., Sloman, S. A., Gennari, S., Shi, M., & Wang, Y. (1999). Knowing versus naming: similarity and the linguistic categorization of artifacts. Journal of Memory and Language, 40, 230-262.

Sloman, S. A., & Ahn, W. (1999). Feature centrality: naming versus imagining. Memory & Cognition, 27, 526-537.

Sloman, S. A. & Rips, L. J. (Eds.) (1998) Similarity and Symbols in Human Thinking, Cambridge: MIT Press.

Sloman, S. A., Love, B. C., & Ahn, W. (1998). Feature centrality and conceptual coherence, Cognitive Science, 22, 189-228.
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Sloman, S. A. (1998). Categorical inference is not a tree: The myth of inheritance hierarchies. Cognitive Psychology, 35, 1-33.

Sloman, S. A. (1996). The empirical case for two systems of reasoning. Psychological Bulletin, 119, 3-22.

Sloman, S. A. (1994). When explanations compete: The role of explanatory coherence on judgments of likelihood. Cognition, 52, 1-21.

Sloman, S. A. (1993). Feature-based induction. Cognitive Psychology, 25, 231-280.

Sloman, S. A., Bower, G. H., & Rohrer, D. (1991). Congruency effects in part-list cuing inhibition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 17, 974-982.

Sloman, S. A., Hayman, C. A. G., Ohta, N., Law, J., & Tulving E. (1988). Forgetting in primed fragment completion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 14, 223-239.