Patricia Cheng Explained

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Birth Date:	1952
Alma Mater:	Barnard College, University of Michigan

Patricia Wenjie Cheng (born 1952) is a Chinese American psychologist.^[1] She is a leading researcher in cognitive psychology who works on human reasoning. She is best known for her psychological work on human understanding of causality. Her "power theory of the probabilistic contrast model," or power PC theory (1997)^[2] posits that people filter observations of events through a basic belief that causes have the power to generate (or prevent) their effects, thereby inferring specific cause-effect relations.

Biography

Cheng was born in Hong Kong in 1952. She received her B.A. from Barnard College, and her PhD in Psychology from the University of Michigan in 1980. She then taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. After post-doctoral training in the Department of Computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon University, she joined the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles in 1986, where she is now a Professor of Psychology. Cheng received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2000.^[3] She is also a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.^[4]

Selected works

• none. 10.1016/0010-0285(85)90014-3. 4064622. Pragmatic reasoning schemas. Cognitive Psychology. 17. 4. 391–416. 1985. Cheng. Patricia W.. Holyoak. Keith J.. Keith Holyoak. 2027.42/25556. 5316709. free.
• none. 10.1016/0010-0285(86)90002-2. 3742999. Pragmatic versus syntactic approaches to training deductive reasoning. Cognitive Psychology. 18. 3. 293–328. 1986. Cheng. Patricia W.. Holyoak. Keith J.. Nisbett. Richard E.. Richard E. Nisbett. Oliver. Lindsay M.. 2027.42/26121. 10376933. free.
• none. 10.1126/science.3672116. 3672116. Teaching reasoning. Science. 238. 4827. 625–631. 1987. Nisbett. R.. Fong. G.. Lehman. D.. Cheng. P.. 1987Sci...238..625N.
• none. 10.1016/0010-0277(89)90031-0. 2605884. On the natural selection of reasoning theories. Cognition. 33. 3. 285–313. 1989. Cheng. Patricia W.. Holyoak. Keith J.. 26131874.
• none. 10.1016/0010-0277(91)90047-8. Causes versus enabling conditions. Cognition. 40. 1–2. 83–120. 1991. Cheng. Patricia W.. Novick. Laura R.. 1786673. 15106017.
• none. 10.1037/0033-295X.104.2.367. From covariation to causation: A causal power theory. Psychological Review. 104. 2. 367–405. 1997. Cheng. Patricia W..
• none. 10.1037/a0013256. Bayesian generic priors for causal learning. Psychological Review. 115. 4. 955–984. 2008. Lu. Hongjing. Yuille. Alan L.. Alan Yuille. Liljeholm. Mimi. Cheng. Patricia W.. Holyoak. Keith J.. 18954210. 10871785 .
• none. 10.1146/annurev.psych.121208.131634. 21126179. Causal Learning and Inference as a Rational Process: The New Synthesis. Annual Review of Psychology. 62. 135–163. 2011. Holyoak. Keith J.. Cheng. Patricia W.. 15335444.

See also

• Causal reasoning

External links

• Patricia Cheng's UCLA home page
• Patricia Cheng's Research Lab

Notes and References

1. Web site: September, 2013 Vita Patricia Wenjie Cheng. UCLA Reasoning Lab. 2019-12-24.
2. Cheng, P.W. (1997). "From Covariation to Causation: A Causal Power Theory." Psychological Review 104: 367-405.
3. See list of Guggenheim Fellows on the Guggenheim Foundation website.
4. Web site: APS Fellows . Association for Psychological Science . 2018-05-19 . 2018-05-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180520060116/https://www.psychologicalscience.org/fellows/NewFellows.cfm . dead .