Dr. Tobias Gerstenberg

Biography

Tobias Gerstenberg is the Principal Investigator of the Causality Cognition Lab at Stanford University, where he studies how people understand and represent causal structures in the world. His research focuses on questions about how causal thinking and counterfactual simulations influence judgments about responsibility. He employs a mix of large-scale online experiments and interactive lab experiments to formalize people's mental models and develop computational models that yield quantitative predictions across various scenarios.

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