Dr Tobias Gerstenberg
NOTE: I am now a Postdoctoral Fellow at Josh Tenenbaum's Computational Cognitive Science Group at MIT. Please find my current homepage here.
Curriculum Vitae
Research Interests
I am interested in questions related to causality.
How do people learn about the causal structure of the world?
How can they use their causal knowledge to act upon the world in order to achieve their goals? How can we best model people’s causal
representations?
Furthermore, I am exploring the complex relationship between causality and responsibility attribution in situations of collective
responsibility. How much should an individual within a group be held responsible for a collectively brought about outcome?
Contact
Tobias Gerstenberg
PhD Student
Cognitive, Perceptual, and Brain Sciences Department
26, Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AP, UK
University College London, UK
Publications
Pdfs are available for all published papers.
Demos of the experiments are available for most papers.
The raw data are available for the papers where I was first author.
Forthcoming
Gerstenberg, T., Bechlivanidis, C. & Lagnado, D. A. (submitted). Back on track: Backtracking in counterfactual reasoning.
Gerstenberg, T. & Lagnado, D. A. (accepted). Attributing responsibility: Actual and counterfactual worlds. In J. Knobe, T. Lombrozo & S. Nichols (Eds.), Oxford Studies of Experimental Philosophy
Lagnado, D. A., Gerstenberg, T. & Zultan, R. (accepted). Causal responsibility and counterfactuals. Cognitive Science
2013
Gerstenberg, T. (2013). Making a difference: Responsibility, causality and counterfactuals. Unpublished PhD thesis. [pdf]
2012
Zultan, R., Gerstenberg, T. & Lagnado, D. A. (2012). Finding fault: Causality and counterfactuals in group attributions. Cognition, 125(3), 429-440.[pdf] [demo] [data] [bibtex]
Gerstenberg, T. & Lagnado, D. A. (2012). When contributions make a difference: Explaining order effects in responsibility attributions. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 19(4), 729-736. [pdf] [demo] [data] [bibtex]
Gerstenberg, T., Goodman, N. D., Lagnado, D. A. & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2012). Noisy Newtons: Unifying process and dependency accounts of causal attribution. In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R. P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society, 378-383. [pdf] [demo] [data] [bibtex]
Gerstenberg, T. & Goodman, N. D. (2012). Ping Pong in Church: Productive use of concepts in human probabilistic inference. In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R. P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society, 1590-1595. [pdf] [demo] [data] [bibtex]
McCoy*, J., Ullman*, T., Stuhlmüller, A., Gerstenberg, T. & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2012). Probabilistic generative models for counterfactual reasoning and blame attribution.In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R. P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society,1996-2001. [pdf] [bibtex]
2011
Gerstenberg, T., Lagnado, D. A, Speekenbrink, M. & Cheung, C. (2011). Rational order effects in responsibility attributions. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society, 1715-1720. [pdf] [data] [demo] [bibtex]
Gerstenberg, T., Ejova, A. & Lagnado, D. A. (2011). Blame the skilled. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society, 720-725. [pdf] [data] [demo] [bibtex]
Schächtele, S., Gerstenberg, T. & Lagnado, D. A. (2011). Beyond outcomes: The influence of intentions and deception. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society, 1860-1865. [pdf] [bibtex]
2010
Gerstenberg, T. & Lagnado, D. A. (2010). Spreading the blame: The allocation of responsibility amongst multiple agents. Cognition, 115, 166-171. [pdf] [data] [bibtex]
Gerstenberg, T., Lagnado, D. A. & Kareev, Y. (2010). The dice are cast: The role of intended versus actual contributions in responsibility attribution. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society, 1697-1702. [pdf] [data] [demo] [bibtex]
Meder, B., Gerstenberg, T., Hagmayer, Y. & Waldmann, M. (2010). Observing and intervening: Rational and heuristic models of causal decision making. The Open Psychology Journal, 3, 119-135. [pdf] [bibtex]
2008
Gerstenberg, T. (2008). The allocation of responsibility amongst multiple causes. Unpublished MSc thesis. [pdf]
Posters
2012
Gerstenberg, T. & Goodman, N. (2012). Ping Pong in Church: Productive use of concepts in human probabilistic inference. [pdf]
2011
Gerstenberg, T., Lagnado, D. A., Speekenbrink, M. & Cheung, C. (2011). Rational order effects in responsibility attributions. [pdf]
Gerstenberg, T., Ejova, A. & Lagnado, D. A. (2011). Blame the skilled. [pdf]
Schächtele, S., Gerstenberg, T. & Lagnado, D. A. (2011). Beyond outcomes: The influence of intentions and deception. [pdf]
2010
Gerstenberg, T. & Lagnado, D. A. (2010). The allocation of responsibility amongst multiple agents. [pdf] - Overview poster
Gerstenberg, T., Lagnado, D. A. & Kareev, Y. (2010). The dice are cast: The role of intended versus actual contributions in responsibility attribution. [pdf]
2009
Gerstenberg, T. & Lagnado, D. A. (2009). Spreading the Blame: The allocation of responsibility amongst multiple agents. [pdf]
Press
2012
Are you responsible for the outcome of the election? [link] (05.11.2012) - Blog entry written by Tania Lombrozo which covers the Zultan, Gerstenberg & Lagnado (2012) paper.
2010
AXA Talent Day Video [link] (08.10.2010) - Video created in the context of a talent day organized by AXA in Paris.
Who is to blame when groups succeed or fail? [link] (02.03.2010) - Blog entry written by Art Markman in Psychology Today summarising the Gerstenberg & Lagnado (2010) paper.