Lecturer in Psychology 

BSc Psychology (University of Sheffield)
PhD Psychology (Trinity College Dublin)
Diploma Statistics (Trinity College Dublin)

Research Interests

My research falls into two broad categories. The first examines the cognitive processes involved in causal and counterfactual thinking in children and adults, and the second is focused on fast and frugal heuristics in judgment and decision making.

I am a member of the Judgment, decision making and social processes research group.

Publications

Frosch, C. A., McCormack, T., Lagnado, D. A. and Burns, P. (2012). Are Causal Structure and Intervention Judgments Inextricably Linked? A Developmental Study. Cognitive Science. 36, 261-285.

Frosch, C. A. & Johnson-Laird, P. N. (2011). Is everyday causation deterministic or probabilistic? Acta Psychologica. 137, 280 - 291.

McCormack, T., Frosch, C.A., & Burns, P. (2011). The relationship between children’s causal and counterfactual judgments. In C. Hoerl, T. McCormack, & S. R. Beck (Eds.), Understanding counterfactuals, understanding causation: Issues in Philosophy and Psychology. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Beaman, C.P., Smith, P. T., Frosch, C.A., & McCloy, R. (2010). Less-is-more effects without the recognition heuristic. Judgment and Decision Making, 5, 258-271.

McCloy, R., Beaman, C.P., Frosch, C.A., & Goddard, K. (2010). Fast and frugal framing effects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition. 36(4), 1043-1052.

Frosch, C.A., Beaman, C.P. & McCloy, R. (2007). A little learning is a dangerous thing: An experimental demonstration of ignorance-driven inference. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 6(10), 1329-1336.

Peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings

Frosch, C.A., & Johnson-Laird, P.N. (2009). Is causation probabilistic? In N. Taatgen, H. van Rijn, L. Schomaker & J. Nerbonne (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 195-200). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Egan, S.M., Frosch, C.A., & Hancock, E. (2008). Thinking counterfactually - how controllability affects the ‘undoing’ of causes and enablers. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1152-1157). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Frosch, C.A., Beaman, C.P., & McCloy, R. (2007). The Price of Fame: Do Celebrities always appear equally rich? In D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1001-1005). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Frosch, C.A., & Johnson-Laird, P.N. (2006). The revision of beliefs about causes and enabling conditions. In R. Sun (Ed.). Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1329-1333). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

External Funding

Frosch, C.A. (2008-2009). Postdoctoral Research Fellowship - Cognitive processes in causal and counterfactual thinking. Economic and Social Research Council, £100k for 15 months.