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Tobias Gerstenberg is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University, with additional affiliations as a Member of Bio-X, Faculty Affiliate at the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), and Member of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute. His research focuses on causal cognition, counterfactual reasoning, and moral psychology, exploring how people make causal judgments, assign responsibility, and interpret social evaluations.
- PhD in Cognitive Science from University College London (2013).
- Postdoctoral work at MIT (2013-2018).
Gerstenberg’s recent work examines causal language and communication, human-AI interaction, and developmental aspects of counterfactual thinking. His Counterfactual Simulation Model (CSM) explains causal judgments through dynamic physical and social scenarios, emphasizing the role of intuitive physics and intuitive psychology.
He teaches courses like PSYCH 198 Senior Honors Research, PSYCH 252 Statistical Methods, and PSYCH 275 Graduate Research. His lab, Causality in Cognition Lab, investigates how causal reasoning shapes human understanding of the world.
Selected Publications (2023-2025):
- A Framework for Blaming Willful Ignorance (2025) - explores moral responsibility in epistemic contexts.
- Inference From Social Evaluation (2025) - computational models of praise/blame interpretation.
- Causation, Meaning, and Communication (2025) - causal language pragmatics.
- Children Use Disagreement to Infer What Happened (2024) - developmental social reasoning.
- Counterfactual Simulation in Causal Cognition (2024) - dynamic systems and responsibility.
