Publications

T. Gerstenberg, S. Stephan (submitted). A counterfactual simulation model of causation by omission.

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J. F. Kominsky, T. Gerstenberg, M. Pelz, M. Sheskin, H. Singmann, L. Schulz, F. Keil (submitted). The trajectory of counterfactual simulation in development.

L. Kirfel, T. F. Icard, T. Gerstenberg (submitted). Inference from explanation.

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K. A. Smith, J. B. Hamrick, A. N. Sanborn, P. W. Battaglia, T. Gerstenberg, T. D. Ullman, J. B. Tenenbaum (submitted). Probabilistic models of physical reasoning.

T. Gerstenberg, N. D. Goodman, D. A. Lagnado, J. B. Tenenbaum (submitted). A counterfactual simulation model of causal judgment.

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F. A Sosa, T. D Ullman, J. B Tenenbaum, S. J Gershman, T. Gerstenberg (submitted). Moral dynamics: Grounding moral judgment in intuitive physics and intuitive psychology.

A. F. Langenhoff, A. Wiegmann, J. Y. Halpern, J. B. Tenenbaum, T. Gerstenberg (submitted). Predicting responsibility judgments from dispositional inferences and causal attributions.

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A. Beller, E. Bennett, T. Gerstenberg (2020). The language of causation. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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S. Bridgers, C. Yang, T. Gerstenberg, H. Gweon (2020). Whom will Granny thank? Thinking about what could have been informs children's inferences about relative helpfulness. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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L. Niemi, J. Hartshorne, T. Gerstenberg, M. Stanley, L. Young (2020). Moral values pervade implicit and explicit causal attribution: Evidence from basic language processing. Cognitive Science.

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G. Grinfeld, D. A. Lagnado, T. Gerstenberg, J. F. Woodward, M. Usher (2020). Causal responsibility and robust causation. Frontiers in Psychology.

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T. Gerstenberg, T. F. Icard (2019). Expectations affect physical causation judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

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J. F. Kominsky, T. Gerstenberg, M. Pelz, H. Singmann, M. Sheskin, F. Keil (2019). The trajectory of counterfactual simulation in development. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

A. Morris, J. Phillips, T. Gerstenberg, F. Cushman (2019). Quantitative causal selection patterns in token causation. PLoS ONE.

N. R. Bramley, T. Gerstenberg, R. Mayrhofer, D. A. Lagnado (2019). Intervening in time. Time and Causality Across the Sciences.

I. Yildirim, B. Saeed, G. Bennett-Pierre, T. Gerstenberg, J. B. Tenenbaum, H. Gweon (2019). Explaining intuitive difficulty judgments by modeling physical effort and risk. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

N. R. Bramley, T. Gerstenberg, R. Mayrhofer, D. A. Lagnado (2018). Time in causal structure learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

N. R. Bramley, T. Gerstenberg, J. B. Tenenbaum, T. M. Gureckis (2018). Intuitive experimentation in the physical world. Cognitive Psychology.

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T. Gerstenberg, T. D. Ullman, J. Nagel, M. Kleiman-Weiner, D. A. Lagnado, J. B. Tenenbaum (2018). Lucky or clever? From expectations to responsibility judgments. Cognition.

K. Koskuba, T. Gerstenberg, H. Gordon, D. A. Lagnado, A. Schlottmann (2018). What's fair? How children assign reward to members of teams with differing causal structures. Cognition.

A. Morris, J. Phillips, T. Icard, J. Knobe, T. Gerstenberg, F. Cushman (2018). Judgments of actual causation approximate the effectiveness of interventions. PsyArXiv.

T. Gerstenberg, M. H. Siegel, J. B. Tenenbaum (2018). What happened? Reconstructing the past from vision and sound. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

M. A Gates, T. L Veuthey, M. Henry Tessler, K. A Smith, T. Gerstenberg, L. Bayet, J. B Tenenbaum (2018). Tiptoeing around it: Inference from absence in potentially offensive speech. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

T. Gerstenberg, M. Peterson, N. D. Goodman, D. A. Lagnado, J. B. Tenenbaum (2017). Eye-tracking causality. Psychological Science.

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I. Yildirim, T. Gerstenberg, B. Saeed, M. Toussant, J. B. Tenenbaum (2017). Physical problem solving: Joint planning with symbolic, geometric, and dynamic constraints. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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S. Stephan, P. Willemsen, T. Gerstenberg (2017). Marbles in inaction: Counterfactual simulation and causation by omission. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

T. Gerstenberg, J. B. Tenenbaum (2017). Intuitive Theories. Oxford Handbook of Causal Reasoning.

T. Gerstenberg, L. Zhou, K. A. Smith, J. B. Tenenbaum (2017). Faulty towers: A hypothetical simulation model of physical support. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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D. A. Lagnado, T. Gerstenberg (2017). Causation in legal and moral reasoning. Oxford Handbook of Causal Reasoning.

N. R. Bramley, R. Mayrhofer, T. Gerstenberg, D. A. Lagnado (2017). Causal learning from interventions and dynamics in continuous time. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

T. Gerstenberg, J. B. Tenenbaum (2016). Understanding ``almost'': Empirical and computational studies of near misses. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

S. J. Gershman , T. Gerstenberg, C. L. Baker, F. Cushman (2016). Plans, habits, and theory of mind. PLoS ONE.

N. R. Bramley, T. Gerstenberg, J. B. Tenenbaum (2016). Natural science: Active learning in dynamic physical microworlds. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

L. Niemi, J. Hartshorne, T. Gerstenberg, L. Young (2016). Implicit measurement of motivated causal attribution. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

T. Gerstenberg, J. Y. Halpern, J. B. Tenenbaum (2015). Responsibility judgments in voting scenarios. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

M. Kleiman-Weiner, T. Gerstenberg, S. Levine, J. B. Tenenbaum (2015). Inference of intention and permissibility in moral decision making. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

T. Gerstenberg, N. D. Goodman, D. A. Lagnado, J. B. Tenenbaum (2015). How, whether, why: Causal judgments as counterfactual contrasts. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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K. Allen, J. Jara-Ettinger, T. Gerstenberg, M. Kleiman-Weiner, J. B. Tenenbaum (2015). Go fishing! Responsibility judgments when cooperation breaks down. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

N. D. Goodman, J. B. Tenenbaum, T. Gerstenberg (2015). Concepts in a probabilistic language of thought. The Conceptual Mind: New Directions in the Study of Concepts.

J. F. Kominsky, J. Phillips, T. Gerstenberg, D. A. Lagnado, J. Knobe (2015). Causal superseding. Cognition.

M. D. Alicke, D. R. Mandel, D. Hilton, T. Gerstenberg, D. A. Lagnado (2015). Causal conceptions in social explanation and moral evaluation: A historical tour. Perspectives on Psychological Science.

D. A. Lagnado, T. Gerstenberg (2015). A difference-making framework for intuitive judgments of responsibility. Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility.

T. Gerstenberg, T. D. Ullman, M. Kleiman-Weiner, D. A. Lagnado, J. B Tenenbaum (2014). Wins above replacement: Responsibility attributions as counterfactual replacements. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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N. R. Bramley, T. Gerstenberg, D. A. Lagnado (2014). The order of things: Inferring causal structure from temporal patterns. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

T. Gerstenberg, N. D. Goodman, D. A. Lagnado, J. B Tenenbaum (2014). From counterfactual simulation to causal judgment. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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J. F. Kominsky, J. Phillips, J. Knobe, T. Gerstenberg, D. A. Lagnado (2014). Causal supersession. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

T. Gerstenberg, D. A. Lagnado (2014). Attributing responsibility: Actual and counterfactual worlds. Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy.

T. Gerstenberg (2013). Making a difference: Responsibility, causality, and counterfactuals. Unpublished PhD thesis.

D. A. Lagnado, T. Gerstenberg, R. Zultan (2013). Causal responsibility and counterfactuals. Cognitive Science.

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T. Gerstenberg, C. Bechlivanidis, D. A. Lagnado (2013). Back on track: Backtracking in counterfactual reasoning. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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J. McCoy* , T. D. Ullman* , A. Stuhlmüller, T. Gerstenberg, J. B. Tenenbaum (2012). Why blame Bob? Probabilistic generative models, counterfactual reasoning, and blame attribution. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

T. Gerstenberg, D. A. Lagnado (2012). When contributions make a difference: Explaining order effects in responsibility attributions. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

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T. Gerstenberg, N. D. Goodman (2012). Ping Pong in Church: Productive use of concepts in human probabilistic inference. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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T. Gerstenberg, N. D. Goodman, D. A. Lagnado, J. B. Tenenbaum (2012). Noisy Newtons: Unifying process and dependency accounts of causal attribution. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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R. Zultan, T. Gerstenberg, D. A. Lagnado (2012). Finding fault: Counterfactuals and causality in group attributions. Cognition.

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T. Gerstenberg, D. A. Lagnado, M. Speekenbrink, C. Cheung (2011). Rational order effects in responsibility attributions. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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T. Gerstenberg, A. Ejova, D. A. Lagnado (2011). Blame the skilled. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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S. Schächtele, T. Gerstenberg, D. A. Lagnado (2011). Beyond outcomes: The influence of intentions and deception. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

T. Gerstenberg, D. A. Lagnado, Y. Kareev (2010). The dice are cast: The role of intended versus actual contributions in responsibility attribution. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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T. Gerstenberg, D. A. Lagnado (2010). Spreading the blame: The allocation of responsibility amongst multiple agents. Cognition.

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B. Meder, T. Gerstenberg, Y. Hagmayer, M. R. Waldmann (2010). Observing and Intervening: Rational and Heuristic Models of Causal Decision Making. Open Psychology Journal.

T. Gerstenberg (2009). The allocation of responsibility amongst multiple causes. Unpublished MSc thesis.