Psychology

I’m currently psychology / cognitive science faculty at a small liberal arts college deep in the trackless woods.

Previously I was a PhD student at NYU, where I worked with Yaacov Trope and Todd Gureckis.

Publications

Mastroianni, AM & Ludwin-Peery, EJ. (2022). Things could be better.

Ludwin-Peery, E., Bramley, N., Davis, E., & Gureckis, T.M. (2020). Broken Physics: A Conjunction Fallacy Effect in Intuitive Physical Reasoning. Psychological Science. (SAGE) (preprint)

Ludwin-Peery, E. (2020). Limited Domain Structure for Conjunction Errors. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (PsyArXiv preprint)

Ludwin-Peery, E., Bramley, N., Davis, E., & Gureckis, T.M. (2019). Limits on the Use of Simulation in Physical Reasoning. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (OSF preprint) (PsyArXiv preprint)

In the Acknowledgments

Before I was a graduate student, I worked in several labs as a research assistant. As a result, I ended up in the acknowledgments of a few papers. Here’s a selection:

Cooney, G., Gilbert, D. T., & Wilson, T. D. (2017). The Novelty Penalty: Why Do People Like Talking About New Experiences but Hearing About Old Ones?. Psychological Science, 28(3), 380-394.

Gino, F., Wilmuth, C. A., & Brooks, A. W. (2015). Compared to men, women view professional advancement as equally attainable, but less desirable. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(40), 12354-12359.

Brooks, A. W., Huang, L., Kearney, S. W., & Murray, F. E. (2014). Investors prefer entrepreneurial ventures pitched by attractive men. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(12), 4427-4431.

Brooks, A. W. (2014). Get excited: Reappraising pre-performance anxiety as excitement. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143(3), 1144.

Rim, S., Hansen, J., & Trope, Y. (2013). What happens why? Psychological distance and focusing on causes versus consequences of events. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104(3), 457.