Benjamin Rottman

Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychology

Research Scientist, Learning Research & Development Center

Lab

http://www.lrdc.pitt.edu/rottman/

Education and Training

PhD, Yale University

Research Interests

• Causal learning, reasoning, and judgment
• Medical diagnosis and decision-making

Recent Publications

Jaramillo, S., Kuo, E., Rottman, B. M., & Nokes-Malach, T. J. (2021). Investigating causal inference difficulties with a simple, qualitative force-and-motion problem. In M. B. Bennett, B. W. Frank, & R. E. Vieyra (Eds.) Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings (pp. 197-202). American Association of Physics Teachers. https://doi.org/10.1119/perc.2021.pr.

Willett, C. L. & Rottman, B. M. (2021). The accuracy of causal learning over long timeframes: An ecological momentary experiment approach. Cognitive Science, , 45(7), e12985. 

Jaramillo, S., Kuo, E., Nokes-Malach, T., & Rottman, B. (2021). Using Causality to Map Difficulties in a Qualitative Physics Problem. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43.

Barnes, K., Rottman, B. M., & Colagiuri. (2021). The placebo effect: To explore or to exploit. Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104753

Chow, J. Y., Colagiuri, B., Rottman, B. M., Goldwater, M., & Livesey, E. J. (2021). Pseudoscientific health beliefs and the perceived frequency of causal relationships.  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health,  18(21), 11196.

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