DEENA SKOLNICK WEISBERG is a doctoral candidate in psychology at Yale University. Her research focuses on adults' and children's abilities to interact with fictional events and situations, and on the relationships between this ability and other cognitive skills, like the ability to plan for the future and to predict others' behavior. She has also conducted research on adults' misinterpretations of scientific explanations, finding that the presence of irrelevant neuroscience information in an otherwise poor explanation can encourage people to judge this explanation much more positively.

Links: "Why Do Some People Resist Science" by Paul Bloom and Deena Skolnick Weisberg [5.24.07]

Beyond Edge: Deena Skolnick Weisberg's Home Page