Tea drinking assistant professor of cognitive psychology at Stanford.
https://cicl.stanford.edu
Tobias Gerstenberg
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Excited (and cold) for my first ever #CDS2026!
I'll be presenting work by the 'Dropping Things' dream team in the workshop on "Counterfactual thinking: What is it good for?"
Paper sneak peek: cicl.stanford.edu/papers/rose2...
Looking forward to it!! Thank you for organizing 🙏
It was such an honor and so much fun to participate in Phil Johnson-Laird's 90th birthday conference. Thank you @ruthbyrne.bsky.social and Sunny Khemlani for organizing the event, and the folks at NYU for hosting it.
Here is Phil asking whether people are smarter than logic. Phil certainly is!
Congratulations to Dr. Dr. David Rose! 🥳
David (davdrose.github.io) first got a PhD in Philosophy, and now added another one in Psychology.
Congratulations Dr. Sarah Wu 🎓🎉 (sarahawu.github.io)
Some notes from the wonderful celebration of John Flavell's life and work at #CDS2026.
"Age early and get it over with." (John on his looks not having changed in many years.)
"Use the simplest word to get the idea across."
"If I could only step into a child's mind even if just for a moment."
From Susan Gelman's talk (who met John thrice 📖☎️👨🏫):
1) Don't be afraid to ask questions.
2) "Research is hard (and fun!)"
3) Appearances can be deceiving.
From Alison Gopnik's comments:
John showed us that it's possible to be a good man and a good scientist.
The Causality in Cognition Lab -- a supportive, bluesky-colored team -- is looking for a predoc to join us! Here are infos about the lab (cicl.stanford.edu) and the position (careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p...). The application deadline is May 1st.
Please share, thank you 🙏
Tobias Gerstenberg
Tobias Gerstenberg
Tobias Gerstenberg
Tobias Gerstenberg
Tobias Gerstenberg
Tobias Gerstenberg
Tobias Gerstenberg
Tobias Gerstenberg
Thrilled to be sharing my latest work at #CogSci2026!
Many of the spaces we move through, from kitchens to airports, were designed with specific uses in mind. How do people create such environments, and how do users figure out what they were designed for?
📃 osf.io/preprints/ps...
Our new paper with @maxtaylordavies.bsky.social introduces a resource-rational model of Theory of Mind.
The model can explain many of the successes and failures of mindreading in human adults and children, and non-human primates. 🧵
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
royalsocietypublishing.org
Abstract. The capacity to represent the mental states of other individuals, known as ‘mindreading’ or ‘theory of mind’, is key to successful social predict
The Unfolding World: Causal & Physical Cognition in Humans and Other Animals (April 24-25)
We're bringing together comparative, computational, developmental, vision science & philosophy for a workshop on causal reasoning + intuitive physics!
If you're in the Cambridge (UK) area, check it out! ⬇️
The Unfolding World: Causal & physical cognition in humans and other animals 🐦⬛
This workshop brings together experts from animal cognition, developmental psychology, computational modelling, and philosophy to investigate
24-25 April 2026
Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
https://bit.ly/4by8cCM
