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Tobias Gerstenberg

@tobigerstenberg

2 years

I've updated the course notes for the grad stats () class I help teach here at Stanford. You can find them compiled into a 📓 here: The lecture slides that go with the notes are here: #RStats

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Excited to gear up for another round of teaching my grad stats class at Stanford! 📖 You can find the course notes compiled into an online book here: 🛝 And the lectures slides that go with the notes here:

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Now out in Trends in Cognitive Sciences!

Tobias Gerstenberg

@tobigerstenberg

7 months

🚨 New preprint 🚨 In "Beyond the here and now: Counterfactual simulation in causal cognition", I discuss what role counterfactual simulation plays for how people judge causation and assign responsibility. 📰

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How do people make causal judgments? 🤔👉💨🎱 "A counterfactual simulation model of causal judgment" is finally out as a preprint (~ 9 years in the making!) with Noah Goodman, David Lagnado, and Joshua Tenenbaum. 📰 📎 1/7

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I'm so honored to receive this prize from the @socphilpsych ! I'm grateful to my mentors and all my colleagues 🙏 Special thanks to @Ericmandelbaum and @phillipsjs for pulling off an excellent zoom surprise 🤓 Can't wait to see many of you at the 50th SPP conference in Purdue ♥️

Eric Mandelbaum

@Ericmandelbaum

5 months

I'm delighted to announce the 2024 winner of the Stanton prize is… @tobigerstenberg ! The @socphilpsych Stanton Prize is awarded to a young scholar who has made significant contributions to interdisciplinary research & been active in the SPP. Please join me in congratulating Tobi!

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Congratulations Steven Roberts () on tenure @Stanford 🎈🌴

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9 months

The talk recordings from the "Causality in Minds and Machines" workshop are live now. Thanks again to all the speakers and to @socmathpsych for sponsoring the workshop!

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I'm in good hands 🤓 Thanks to all the wonderful people in the Causality in Cognition Lab ❤️

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🚨 New preprint 🚨 In "Beyond the here and now: Counterfactual simulation in causal cognition", I discuss what role counterfactual simulation plays for how people judge causation and assign responsibility. 📰

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1 year

Made it to Sydney! Excited for #cogsci2023

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3 years

How do people make causal judgments? I argue that counterfactuals are key & hypotheticals don't suffice. If you're like counterfactuals, hypotheticals, hipnoschweticals, what's the difference? 🙄This preprint is for you! 📰 📺 🧵👇

What explains causal judgments? Counterfactual versus hypothetical...

Video presentation for the Society of Philosophy and Psychology (SPP) conference. You can find more information about the work here: http://cicl.stanford.edu...

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Tobias Gerstenberg

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3 years

Now out in JEP:G. "Inference from Explanation" by @Lara_Kirfel w Thomas Icard & myself. 📰 📜 Also, I'm excited to announce that Lara will be joining the CiCL as a postdoc 🥳🎈🌴 I'm looking forward to many more projects together!

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4 years

To appear in Psychological Review 🥳 Updated pre-print: 👇Thank you!!

Tobias Gerstenberg

@tobigerstenberg

4 years

How do people make causal judgments? 🤔👉💨🎱 "A counterfactual simulation model of causal judgment" is finally out as a preprint (~ 9 years in the making!) with Noah Goodman, David Lagnado, and Joshua Tenenbaum. 📰 📎 1/7

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4 years

I'm excited to jointly teach "What makes a good explanation? Psychological and philosophical perspectives" with Thomas Icard starting next week. Check out the syllabus here What papers are we missing? 🤔

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11 months

Hi causality fans! I'm pleased to announce our @socmathpsych workshop on causality in minds 🤔 and machines 🤖 in San Francisco on November 16th. We have an amazing lineup of speakers, and we invite poster presentations (workshop is free)! Infos here:

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4 years

Make the beginning of your zoom lecture less awkward by 🎶 playing music from a collaborative spotify playlist that students can contribute songs to 💬 adding a prompt on something to chat about 🖼️ showing something fun/nice to look at

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3 years

🤓📣 Now out in Psychological Review ( @APA_Journals ): "A counterfactual simulation model of causal judgments for physical events" with Noah Goodman, @david_lagnado & Joshua Tenenbaum. 📰: 🗞️pre-print: 📎:

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7 years

Hot off the press: Our paper in Psychological Science shows how people spontaneously engage in counterfactual simulation when making causal judgments. @PsyArXiv preprint and paper

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@tobigerstenberg

2 years

Josh Tenenbaum asks "What kind of computation is cognition?" in his talk @Yale from a couple of days ago.

What Kind of Computation Is Cognition?

Recent successes in artificial intelligence have been largely driven by neural networks and other sophisticated machine learning tools for pattern recognitio...

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1 year

Excited to introduce the 'Counterfactual Simulation Model of Causal Language' 🎱➡️💬 (led by Ari Beller, ) which captures how people's causal representations of what happened translate into language. 📰 📎 🧵

GitHub - cicl-stanford/causal_language: This repository contains materials for the paper "A...

This repository contains materials for the paper "A counterfactual simulation model of causal language" by Ari Beller and Tobias Gerstenberg. - cicl-stanford/causal_language

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10 months

Congrats to my PhD student Sarah Wu on being awarded Stanford's Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship!

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3 years

ggplot() + geom_stanford_psych(alpha = start_date) #RStats

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The Causality in Cognition Lab is excited for #cogsci2024 🌷🌷🌷

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7 years

A brand new lab coming at @Stanford 🌲 this Fall: The Causality in Cognition Lab ()

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I met one of my intellectual heroes for lunch today! Phil Johnson-Laird () develops mental model theory -- an influential framework that explains how people reason. I expected that Phil would be smart & wise. Turns out he's incredibly funny, too!

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3 years

The recording of my HAI seminar talk "Counterfactual simulation in human cognition " is now available online here: Thanks @StanfordHAI for having me, and thanks everyone for joining in! 👇: 🗼🤓📺

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New preprint! "Mental Jenga: A counterfactual simulation model of physical support" by @itsaliang with @realkevinsmith & Josh Tenenbaum. Most work on causal judgments focuses on dynamic events. Support is different: it's causal but nothing happens! 🧵

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@tobigerstenberg

2 years

Just finished pre-recording 4 #NeurIPS2022 workshop talks (in 4 different shirts) 🤓 💚 💜 ❤️ 💛

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@tobigerstenberg

2 years

Just accepted at JEP:General 🎈🤓

Tobias Gerstenberg

@tobigerstenberg

3 years

New preprint! "Mental Jenga: A counterfactual simulation model of physical support" by @itsaliang with @realkevinsmith & Josh Tenenbaum. Most work on causal judgments focuses on dynamic events. Support is different: it's causal but nothing happens! 🧵

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What did I see? A fantastic keynote by #SPP2022 Stanton prize winner @chazfirestone on how perception is much more than seeing 'what' is 'where'. People also see 'how'! How things fit, relate, unfold over time, ... Congrats Chaz!!

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Tobias Gerstenberg

@tobigerstenberg

1 year

Sarah Wu's poster on how people assign responsibility to helping and hindering agents: Together with Shruti Sridhar she develops a computational model that combines counterfactual simulation & intention inference to predict responsibility. #CogSci2023

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11 months

Incredibly grateful for such a supportive lab ()!

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1 year

Just accepted in Cognition! 🥳

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@tobigerstenberg

2 years

New preprint ⏰ In "Making a difference: Criticality in groups" @RoiZultan , @david_lagnado and I study people's judgments of how critical individual group members are for joint outcomes. 📰 📎 🧵1/7

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The CiCL made it to #CogSci2022 🥳🇨🇦

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🐨 The Causality in Cognition Lab is ready for #cogsci2023 🦘 Catch us in person or online 👇🧵

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📣New preprint! In "If not me, then who? Responsibility and replacement" Sarah Wu () shows that responsibility judgments in groups relate to how easily a contribution could have been replaced. 📄: 💻: 1/7

GitHub - cicl-stanford/responsibility_replacement: Materials for the paper "If not me, then who?...

Materials for the paper "If not me, then who? Responsibility and replacement" by Sarah A. Wu & Tobias Gerstenberg - cicl-stanford/responsibility_replacement

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Responsibility judgments are driven by causal attributions and mental state inferences. Sarah Wu () & Shruti Sridhar develop a computational model demonstrating how these components work and connect. 📰 📎

GitHub - cicl-stanford/counterfactual_agents: Materials for the paper "A computational model of...

Materials for the paper "A computational model of responsibility judgments from counterfactual simulations and intention inferences" by Sarah A. Wu, Shruti Sridhar, & Tobi...

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2 years

Powerful talk by @emilymbender at #CogSci2022 on "Resisting dehumanization in the Age of AI" with concrete suggestions of what cognitive scientists can do.

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3 years

So happy to finally have an in person lab :) Newest lab member got a ride with me this morning.

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2 years

cogsigh 🙄

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3 years

First hybrid lab meeting worked well! 🧑‍🏫👩‍💻 👇 our setup

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The Causality in Cognition Lab is pumped for #CogSci2022 in Toronto 🇨🇦 You can catch us here 👇

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@tobigerstenberg

5 years

New paper out in #JEPG with Thomas Icard: "Expectations affect physical causation judgments". First 📰with @Stanford affiliation🍾🤓 Paper: Pre-print: Materials: Thread 1/7

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Tobias Gerstenberg

@tobigerstenberg

3 years

Sarah Wu () just gave an amazing first-year-project talk today on the role of counterfactual reasoning in responsibility judgments! Sarah studies what counterfactuals come to mind when we evaluate others' actions. Catch her at SPP & CogSci! 🧑‍🦰💭🐖🎈

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@tobigerstenberg

11 months

This paper was just accepted in Cognition ( @CognitionJourn )! Congrats to Sarah () for her first journal publication in the lab 🙏

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Tobias Gerstenberg

@tobigerstenberg

1 year

📣New preprint! In "If not me, then who? Responsibility and replacement" Sarah Wu () shows that responsibility judgments in groups relate to how easily a contribution could have been replaced. 📄: 💻: 1/7

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1 year

Very proud of my student Sarah Wu () who gave an awesome talk in our joint cog & neuro seminar. She presented a computational model that predicts responsibility judgments in social scenarios grounded in counterfactual simulations and intention inferences.

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Tobias Gerstenberg

@tobigerstenberg

3 years

Now accepted at JEP:General❣️ "Inference from explanation" spearheaded by @Lara_Kirfel and spearfollowed by Thomas Icard and myself. 📜 🐦🧵

Inference from explanation

What do we communicate with causal explanations? Upon being told, "E because C", one might learn that C and E both occurred, and perhaps that there is a causal relationship between C and E. In fact,...

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Lara Kirfel

@Lara_Kirfel

4 years

What do we learn from causal explanations? In a new pre-print with Thomas Icard and @tobigerstenberg , we find that causal explanations disclose much more than what is explicitly stated - “Inference from explanation”: A thread 🧵⬇️ #norms #causality

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"Psychology is about understanding human behavior; Law is about regulating human behavior; You'd think they have a lot to say to each other." In an equally insightful & funny keynote at #CogSci2023 @BobbiePoPS points out the many ways in which 👩‍⚖️ & 🤓 can learn from each other.

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@tobigerstenberg

1 year

Congrats @thesiyingzhg on your first conference poster presentation!! #CogSci2023 📄:

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@tobigerstenberg

3 years

Very excited to hold @nickchk 's "The effect" in my hand (depicted for scale)! Just in time to update my grad stats class here at Stanford: free online here 👉

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@tobigerstenberg

3 years

The CiCL is pumped for #SPP2021 ! Thanks Sarah Wu for making this slick flyer that shows where and when people can catch us. See you all zoom! 💻🤓

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@tobigerstenberg

2 years

Very excited to start working on this with @jiajunwu_cs , @chelseabfinn , Noah Goodman, Thomas Icard, and Rob MacCoun. Thanks for the support from @StanfordHAI !! Stay tuned for updates as we develop MARPLE 🕵️‍♀️

Stanford HAI

@StanfordHAI

2 years

Scholars will develop MARPLE, a computational framework that combines evidence from vision, audio, and language to develop human-understandable explanations. This could improve home assistants, support legal fact-finders, and even help us better understand human inference. (6/7)

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Thought-provoking 🤯 and funny 😂 talk by @YejinChoinka on modeling common sense, arguing for the importance of language and causality, and questioning GTP3's moral reasoning capabilities 🤔 at #NeuroHAI conference.

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1 year

Excited about the kickoff of HaCitS in London 🤓

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9 months

en route to the office this morning 🌈🌴

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3 years

I'm so looking forward to reading @david_lagnado 's upcoming book "Explaining the evidence" 🕵️ Dave is the most wonderful scientist, writer, advisor, and story-teller. The book will be a treat! 👇 Collage for a thank-you mug that sits in Dave's office :)

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@tobigerstenberg

3 years

I'm excited to give a talk tomorrow at 10am PT as part of the @StanfordHAI seminar series. I'll be talking about the role of counterfactual simulation in human cognition. Join me here and ask questions here

HAI Weekly Seminar with Tobias Gerstenberg

As humans, we spend much of our time going beyond the here and now. We dwell on the past, long for the future, and ponder how things could have turned out differently. In this talk, I will argue that...

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Check out Sarah Wu's () poster "That was close! A counterfactual simulation model of causal judgments about decisions" (P2-19-2241) in tomorrow's session from 1pm to 3pm @ #CogSci2022

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@tobigerstenberg

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Thanks @mjskay for a fabulous guest lecture in our graduate stats class here @Stanford (), showing us how to effectively visualize uncertainty. And thanks to the tidybayes package () we can all do it, too! 📈👍 #rstats

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Why did I do that? 🤔 Today in lab meeting we discussed "Rationalization is rational" (). Thanks @fierycushman for a thought-provoking and beautifully written paper!

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How many parameters do YOU need to explain memory? @timothyfbrady needs1⃣ At @StanfordPsych , Tim argued for continuous, population-based memory representations, and against the idea that we can only hold N discrete items in mind. much more here 👉📰:

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Congrats to our wonderful cohort of @StanfordPsych honors students 🎈🌴 I hope you'll all have a wonderful summer and I wish you all the best for your next 👟👟

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Are you the next Sherlock 🕵️‍♂️or Miss Marple 🕵️‍♀️? Check out our work that looks at how people combine evidence from vision 👀 and sound 👂to figure out what happened and who did it. Brought to you today as poster P1-LL-148 at #CogSci2024

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New preprint ⏰ In "Making a difference: Criticality in groups" @RoiZultan , @david_lagnado and I study people's judgments of how critical individual group members are for joint outcomes. 📰 📎 🧵1/7

GitHub - cicl-stanford/making_a_difference: Materials of the paper "Making a difference: Critical...

Materials of the paper "Making a difference: Criticality in groups". - GitHub - cicl-stanford/making_a_difference: Materials of the paper "Making a difference: Criticali...

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How do people figure out what happened in the past? Ari Beller, Yingchen Xu, @scott_linderman and I use 👀-tracking to show that people sometimes do so through mental simulation. 📰 📎 🧵 1/8 #CogSci2022 #SPP2022

GitHub - cicl-stanford/tracking_inference: Public repo for the Plinko tracking project

Public repo for the Plinko tracking project. Contribute to cicl-stanford/tracking_inference development by creating an account on GitHub.

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7 years

Finally unveiled: I'll be joining Stanford in the Fall of 2018 as Assistant Professor of Psychology.

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3 years

Thanks for the shout out! The book is a compilation of the course notes for @StanfordPsych Each chapter also has associated lecture slides that are available here: Happy leaRning! 📈👍

GitHub - psych252/psych252slides: Slides

Slides . Contribute to psych252/psych252slides development by creating an account on GitHub.

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R posts on blaze.email

@icymi_r

3 years

📚 Statistical Methods for Behavioral and Social Sciences 👤 Tobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg 🔗 #rstats #datascience

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Proud of what team MARPLE🕵️‍♀️has achieved in year 1! We study how people use multi-modal evidence to figure out what happened and why, and develop computational models that can do so, too. 📎 🎬

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The Moral Dynamics paper with @flxsosa , @TomerUllman , Josh Tenenbaum, and @gershbrain is now out in Cognition. Check it out! 📜preprint: 📰link: 📎repo: 🐦thread:

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Excited to share Moral Dynamics, a model predicting moral judgments of agents in video clips based on intuitive physics and psychology! w/ @tobigerstenberg @TomerUllman @gershbrain Josh Tenenbaum. Out as a preprint! 📄: 📎: (1/7)

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Excited to be holding the physical version of this paper in my hand. This was a surprise gift in my mailbox. Thanks to Jonathan Redshaw and Patricia Ganea for editing this special issue!

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@tobigerstenberg

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How do people make causal judgments? I argue that counterfactuals are key & hypotheticals don't suffice. If you're like counterfactuals, hypotheticals, hipnoschweticals, what's the difference? 🙄This preprint is for you! 📰 📺 🧵👇

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#CogSci2021 am i doing this right? 🤓

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Big shout-out to @AndyPerfors for the great keynote speaker intros and the smooth handling of the hybrid Q&As at #CogSci2022 . Thanks Andy!!

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📣Now out in Cognition: "A counterfactual simulation model of causation by omission" with @SimonStephan31 (we omitted the first 30 Simon Stephan's from the paper). 📰 📜 📎 1/8

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📣 New paper from the CiCL! Zach Davis and @KelseyRAllen show that when a group of agents failed to coordinate, people can infer actions, capacities, and aspects of the situation from judgments of blame. 📰 📎

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En route to the causality workshop 🚂

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Wonderful talk by @TamarKushnir at #CogSci2022 on how norms and obligations causally constrain actions, how the capacity to draw inferences from actions about mental states develops, and how this interacts with cultural experiences.

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En route to #SPP2022 via 🚂

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"Towards Singular Causal Explanations" @ZennaTavares shares his fascinating work with the Causality in Cognition Lab on marrying probabilistic programming languages with counterfactual inference to give birth to good explanations. Check it out 👉

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Brilliant psychology colloquium talk here @Stanford by @fierycushman telling us how we know what not to think, and that everything is possible (but only for philosophers).

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How I'm joining the #SPP2021 pre-conference workshop on Essentialism. On the #Amtrak from SF 🌴to Denver 🌄. Sacramento in the background and Susan Gelman () on the laptop.

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GPT3's prediction was correct! @LakeBrenden 's work presented in our Frisem @StanfordPsych is "shaking up the field". Brenden examines compositional generalization in humans, and builds machines that can do it, too. Thanks for a great talk!!

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I'm super excited about this paper with @Lara_Kirfel and Thomas Icard. People infer event normality and causal structure from causal explanations 🤔💡 📰: 📎: Thanks to @jfkominsky , @xphilosopher and @phillipsjs for feedback!

GitHub - cicl-stanford/inference_from_explanation: Materials for the paper "Inference from Explan...

Materials for the paper "Inference from Explanation" by Lara Kirfel, Thomas Icard, and Tobias Gerstenberg - cicl-stanford/inference_from_explanation

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Lara Kirfel

@Lara_Kirfel

4 years

What do we learn from causal explanations? In a new pre-print with Thomas Icard and @tobigerstenberg , we find that causal explanations disclose much more than what is explicitly stated - “Inference from explanation”: A thread 🧵⬇️ #norms #causality

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Back from SPP @socphilpsych with many warm and fuzzy feelings 🧸❤️ What a wonderful meeting it was! I'm already excited for the next one at Cornell University 🥳

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Tobias Gerstenberg

@tobigerstenberg

3 years

The Causality in Cognition Lab () is pumped for #CogSci2021 Check out this flyer👇to see where you can catch us in action.

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Tobias Gerstenberg

@tobigerstenberg

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I hope you were able to catch @ErikBrockbank and @justintheyang at the poster presentation session at #CogSci2024 In "Without cookies, he's just a monster", they develop a counterfactual simulation model of how people explain behavior. w Mishika Govil & @judyefan 🚫🍪🧌

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Tobias Gerstenberg

@tobigerstenberg

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Are LLMs more likely to categorize based on essential properties or described appearance? @thesiyingzhg , Jingyuan She & David Rose find that just like people, LLMs care more about what something is for than what it's made of. 📰 📎

GitHub - cicl-stanford/essentialism_in_llms: Materials for the paper "You are what you're for:...

Materials for the paper "You are what you're for: Essentialist categorization in large language models" by Siying Zhang, Jingyuan She, Tobias Gerstenberg and David Rose. -...

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Tobias Gerstenberg

@tobigerstenberg

3 years

Great talk by @James__Dunlea in our Developmental Psychology Brownbag on "Children's and adults' reasoning about punishment's messages". James' work unites social, moral, and dev psychology to answer questions at the heart of jurisprudential inquiry. Thanks for joining us! 👍

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Tobias Gerstenberg

@tobigerstenberg

3 years

What a wonderful #SPP2021 keynote by Stanton prize winner @phillipsjs !! I can't wait to see all the future possibilities that will take shape on the white board behind him (it looks like there is still some space).

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Tobias Gerstenberg

@tobigerstenberg

5 years

poster tube ☑️ surf board ☑️ May the @Stanford to San Diego road trip begin. #SPP2019 👨‍🏫🏄

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Tobias Gerstenberg

@tobigerstenberg

4 years

New preprint with @SimonStephan31 "A counterfactual simulation model of causation by omission". When do people say that something happened because something else didn't happen? 📰 📎 🧵1/7

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Tobias Gerstenberg

@tobigerstenberg

2 years

I'm excited to give a talk tomorrow at the Commonsense Representation & Reasoning Workshop () @aclmeeting . @csrr_workshop

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Tobias Gerstenberg

@tobigerstenberg

5 months

If you're headed to #CDS2024 make sure to catch @thesiyingzhg 's poster presentation on Saturday (P3-99). Siying will share a super cool new paradigm that probes children's counterfactual thinking without asking counterfactual questions! w David Rose, Sophie Bridgers & @hyogweon

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Tobias Gerstenberg

@tobigerstenberg

2 years

It was great to spend time with @NeilBramley @Stanford ! ☀️🌴🛹🤓

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Tobias Gerstenberg

@tobigerstenberg

4 years

Brilliant colloquium talk @StanfordPsych by @gershbrain today on "How to never be wrong", arguing that robustness to disconfirmatory evidence can arise from purely rational principles. @gershbrain is never wrong! 📰

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Tobias Gerstenberg

@tobigerstenberg

3 years

Very excited to be part of this! I'll be talking about the role of counterfactual simulation in cognition. I hope to see you there :)

Elias Bareinboim

@eliasbareinboim

3 years

The WHY'21 workshop "Causal Inference & Machine Learning: Why now?" will take place this Monday at #NeurIPS2021 . Our goal is to bring CI & ML researchers together to discuss the nextgen AI! Program (joint w/ @yudapearl , @bschoelkopf , Y Bengio, T Sejnowski)

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Tobias Gerstenberg

@tobigerstenberg

2 years

Congrats @outa_joseph for killing it at your first conference talk!! So proud of you 😊 #CogSci2022

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Tobias Gerstenberg

@tobigerstenberg

5 years

Today we had rockstar scientist (🚀⭐️👩‍🔬) Ishita Dasgupta () remotely present her work on "Causal reasoning from meta-reinforcement learning". Check it out here:

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Tobias Gerstenberg

@tobigerstenberg

5 years

Taken together, we've spent 48 years and 9 months in the same office. #herbclark #legend

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Tobias Gerstenberg

@tobigerstenberg

4 years

Fascinating talk today in our lab meeting by Megha Srivstava () on "Fairness and Robustness with Missing Information" showing how to build better ML algorithms by incorporating human causal knowledge. 📰

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