Steven Sloman
Cognitive scientist and author
Steven Sloman is a cognitive scientist at Brown University who studies how people think and decide. He wrote The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone.
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About Steven Sloman
Steven Sloman was born in Montreal and spent his childhood in Toronto. He has been at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, since 1992. His research looks at causal reasoning, collective cognition and decision making. Alongside The Knowledge Illusion (2017), he has written Causal Models: How People Think About the World and Its Alternatives (2005) and The Cost of Conviction: How Our Deepest Values Lead Us Astray (2025). At Brown he developed the Behavioral Decision Sciences concentration, which began in 2018, and he chaired the Faculty Executive Committee in 2023-2024. He is a Fellow of several psychology and cognitive science associations, including the Cognitive Science Society.