Academic

Sat, Mar 30, 2019

As a graduate student, I worked with Benjamin Rottman at the University of Pittsburgh. I used a combination of behavioral experiments and computational modeling to investigate human learning, reasoning, and decision-making. In particular, I focused on how people made causal inferences from data.

Publications

• Soo, K. W. & Rottman, B. M. (in preparation). The role of granularity in causal learning.
• Soo, K. W. & Rottman, B. M. (2020). Distinguishing causation from correlation: Causal learning from time-series graphs with trends. Cognition, 195 (10479), 1-6. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104079 [pdf]
• Soo, K. W. & Rottman, B. M. (2018). Causal strength induction from time series data. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147 (4), 485-513. dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0000423 [pdf]
• Soo, K. W. & Rottman, B. M. (2018). Switch rates do not influence weighting of rare events in decisions from experience, but optional stopping does. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 31 (5), 644-661. dx.doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2080 [pdf]
• Soo, K. W. & Rottman, B. M. (2018). Causal learning from trending time series. In T. T. Rogers, M. Rau, X. Zhu, & C. W. Kalish (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2521-2526). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]
• Soo, K. W. & Rottman, B. M. (2016). Causal learning with continuous variables over time. In A. Papafrogou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, & J. C. Trueswell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 153-158). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]
• Soo, K. W. & Rottman, B. M. (2015). Elemental causal learning from transitions. In R. Dale, C. Jennings, P. Maglio, T. Matlock, D. Noelle, A. Warlaumont, & J. Yoshimi (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2254-2259). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]
• Soo, K. W. & Rottman, B. M. (2014). Learning causal direction from transitions with continuous and noisy variables. In P. Bello, M. Guarin, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1485-1490). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]

Web-app development

Together with Cory Derringer, I developed an app for teaching Research Methodology to psychology undergrads using simulations and interactive data visualizations. Check it out here.