A Communication-First Account of Explanation - Jacqueline Harding; Tobias Gerstenberg; Thomas Icard (CoRR, 2025)

Causal-PIK: Causality-based Physical Reasoning with a Physics-Informed Kernel - Carlota Parés-Morlans; Michelle Yi; Claire Chen; Sarah A. Wu; Rika Antonova; Tobias Gerstenberg; Jeannette Bohg (CoRR, 2025)

Anticipating the Risks and Benefits of Counterfactual World Simulation Models (Extended Abstract) - Lara Kirfel; Rob MacCoun; Thomas Icard; Tobias Gerstenberg (Proceedings of the Seventh AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES-24) - Full Archival Papers, October 21-23, 2024, San Jose, California, USA - Volume 1, 2024)

Self-Supervised Alignment with Mutual Information: Learning to Follow Principles without Preference Labels - Jan-Philipp Fränken; Eric Zelikman; Rafael Rafailov; Kanishk Gandhi; Tobias Gerstenberg; Noah D. Goodman (Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2024, NeurIPS 2024, Vancouver, BC, Canada, December 10 - 15, 2024, 2024)

MARPLE: A Benchmark for Long-Horizon Inference - Emily Jin; Zhuoyi Huang; Jan-Philipp Fränken; Weiyu Liu; Hannah Cha; Erik Brockbank; Sarah Wu; Ruohan Zhang; Jiajun Wu; Tobias Gerstenberg (Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2024, NeurIPS 2024, Vancouver, BC, Canada, December 10 - 15, 2024, 2024)

STaR-GATE: Teaching Language Models to Ask Clarifying Questions - Chinmaya Andukuri; Jan-Philipp Fränken; Tobias Gerstenberg; Noah D. Goodman (CoRR, 2024)

Procedural Dilemma Generation for Evaluating Moral Reasoning in Humans and Language Models - Jan-Philipp Fränken; Kanishk Gandhi; Tori Qiu; Ayesha Khawaja; Noah D. Goodman; Tobias Gerstenberg (CoRR, 2024)

Self-Supervised Alignment with Mutual Information: Learning to Follow Principles without Preference Labels - Jan-Philipp Fränken; Eric Zelikman; Rafael Rafailov; Kanishk Gandhi; Tobias Gerstenberg; Noah D. Goodman (CoRR, 2024)

To Err is Robotic: Rapid Value-Based Trial-and-Error during Deployment - Maximilian Du; Alexander Khazatsky; Tobias Gerstenberg; Chelsea Finn (CoRR, 2024)

Human-like Affective Cognition in Foundation Models - Kanishk Gandhi; Zoe Lynch; Jan-Philipp Fränken; Kayla Patterson; Sharon Wambu; Tobias Gerstenberg; Desmond C. Ong; Noah D. Goodman (CoRR, 2024)

MARPLE: A Benchmark for Long-Horizon Inference - Emily Jin; Zhuoyi Huang; Jan-Philipp Fränken; Weiyu Liu; Hannah Cha; Erik Brockbank; Sarah Wu; Ruohan Zhang; Jiajun Wu; Tobias Gerstenberg (CoRR, 2024)

Imagining and building wise machines: The centrality of AI metacognition - Samuel G. B. Johnson; Amir-Hossein Karimi; Yoshua Bengio; Nick Chater; Tobias Gerstenberg; Kate Larson; Sydney Levine; Melanie Mitchell; Iyad Rahwan; Bernhard Schölkopf; Igor Grossmann (CoRR, 2024)

Explanations Can Reduce Overreliance on AI Systems During Decision-Making - Helena Vasconcelos; Matthew Jörke; Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin; Tobias Gerstenberg; Michael S. Bernstein; Ranjay Krishna (Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2023)

Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models - Aarohi Srivastava; Abhinav Rastogi; Abhishek Rao; Abu Awal Md Shoeb; Abubakar Abid; Adam Fisch; Adam R. Brown; Adam Santoro; Aditya Gupta; Adrià Garriga-Alonso; Agnieszka Kluska; Aitor Lewkowycz; et al. (Trans. Mach. Learn. Res., 2023)

A Semantics for Causing, Enabling, and Preventing Verbs Using Structural Causal Models - Angela Cao; Atticus Geiger; Elisa Kreiss; Thomas Icard; Tobias Gerstenberg (Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2023, Sydney, NSW, Australia, July 26-29, 2023, 2023)

Causal Reasoning Across Agents and Objects - Bryan Gonzalez; Tobias Gerstenberg; Jonathan Phillips (Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2023, Sydney, NSW, Australia, July 26-29, 2023, 2023)

Father, don't forgive them, for they could have known what they're doing - Lara Kirfel; Xenia Bunk; Ro'i Zultan; Tobias Gerstenberg (Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2023, Sydney, NSW, Australia, July 26-29, 2023, 2023)

Show and tell: Learning causal structures from observations and explanations - Andrew Nam; Christopher Hughes; Thomas Icard; Tobias Gerstenberg (Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2023, Sydney, NSW, Australia, July 26-29, 2023, 2023)

Teleology and generics - David Rose; Siying Zhang; Qi Han; Tobias Gerstenberg (Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2023, Sydney, NSW, Australia, July 26-29, 2023, 2023)

Learning what matters: Causal abstraction in human inference - Steven M. Shin; Tobias Gerstenberg (Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2023, Sydney, NSW, Australia, July 26-29, 2023, 2023)

A computational model of responsibility judgments from counterfactual simulations and intention inferences - Sarah A. Wu; Shruti Sridhar; Tobias Gerstenberg (Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2023, Sydney, NSW, Australia, July 26-29, 2023, 2023)

You are what you're for: Essentialist categorization in large language models - Siying Zhang; Jingyuan Selena She; Tobias Gerstenberg; David Rose (Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2023, Sydney, NSW, Australia, July 26-29, 2023, 2023)

Realism of Visual, Auditory, and Haptic Cues in Phenomenal Causality - Elyse D. Z. Chase; Tobias Gerstenberg; Sean Follmer (IEEE World Haptics Conference, WHC 2023, Delft, Netherlands, July 10-13, 2023, 2023)

Understanding Social Reasoning in Language Models with Language Models - Kanishk Gandhi; Jan-Philipp Fränken; Tobias Gerstenberg; Noah D. Goodman (Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2023, NeurIPS 2023, New Orleans, LA, USA, December 10 - 16, 2023, 2023)

MoCa: Measuring Human-Language Model Alignment on Causal and Moral Judgment Tasks - Allen Nie; Yuhui Zhang; Atharva Amdekar; Chris Piech; Tatsunori B. Hashimoto; Tobias Gerstenberg (Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2023, NeurIPS 2023, New Orleans, LA, USA, December 10 - 16, 2023, 2023)

Understanding Social Reasoning in Language Models with Language Models - Kanishk Gandhi; Jan-Philipp Fränken; Tobias Gerstenberg; Noah D. Goodman (CoRR, 2023)

Social Contract AI: Aligning AI Assistants with Implicit Group Norms - Jan-Philipp Fränken; Sam Kwok; Peixuan Ye; Kanishk Gandhi; Dilip Arumugam; Jared Moore; Alex Tamkin; Tobias Gerstenberg; Noah D. Goodman (CoRR, 2023)

MoCa: Measuring Human-Language Model Alignment on Causal and Moral Judgment Tasks - Allen Nie; Yuhui Zhang; Atharva Amdekar; Chris Piech; Tatsunori Hashimoto; Tobias Gerstenberg (CoRR, 2023)

Do Humans Trust Advice More if it Comes from AI?: An Analysis of Human-AI Interactions - Kailas Vodrahalli; Roxana Daneshjou; Tobias Gerstenberg; James Zou (AIES '22: AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, Oxford, United Kingdom, May 19 - 21, 2021, 2022)

Inferences from Disagreement - Jamie Amemiya; Gail D. Heyman; Tobias Gerstenberg (Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2022, Toronto, ON, Canada, July 27-30, 2022, 2022)

Looking into the past: Eye-tracking mental simulation in physical inference - Ari Beller; Yingchen Xu; Scott Linderman; Tobias Gerstenberg (Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2022, Toronto, ON, Canada, July 27-30, 2022, 2022)

Stop, children what's that sound? Multi-modal inference through mental simulation - Joseph Outa; Xijia Zhou; Hyowon Gweon; Tobias Gerstenberg (Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2022, Toronto, ON, Canada, July 27-30, 2022, 2022)

That was close! A counterfactual simulation model of causal judgments about decisions - Sarah A. Wu; Shruti Sridhar; Tobias Gerstenberg (Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2022, Toronto, ON, Canada, July 27-30, 2022, 2022)

Uncalibrated Models Can Improve Human-AI Collaboration - Kailas Vodrahalli; Tobias Gerstenberg; James Y. Zou (Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2022, NeurIPS 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA, November 28 - December 9, 2022, 2022)

Uncalibrated Models Can Improve Human-AI Collaboration - Kailas Vodrahalli; Tobias Gerstenberg; James Zou (CoRR, 2022)

Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models - Aarohi Srivastava; Abhinav Rastogi; Abhishek Rao; Abu Awal Md Shoeb; Abubakar Abid; Adam Fisch; Adam R. Brown; Adam Santoro; Aditya Gupta; Adrià Garriga-Alonso; Agnieszka Kluska; Aitor Lewkowycz; et al. (CoRR, 2022)

Explanations Can Reduce Overreliance on AI Systems During Decision-Making - Helena Vasconcelos; Matthew Jörke; Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin; Tobias Gerstenberg; Michael S. Bernstein; Ranjay Krishna (CoRR, 2022)

Eye-Tracking Multi-Modal Inference - Ari Beller; Yingchen Xu; Tobias Gerstenberg (Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2021, virtual, July 26-29, 2021, 2021)

In Touch with Causation: Understanding the Impact of Kinesthetic Haptics on Causality - Elyse D. Z. Chase; Phillip Wolff; Tobias Gerstenberg; Sean Follmer (Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2021, virtual, July 26-29, 2021, 2021)

Who went fishing? Inferences from social evaluations - Zachary Davis; Kelsey R. Allen; Tobias Gerstenberg (Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2021, virtual, July 26-29, 2021, 2021)

The role of counterfactual reasoning in responsibility judgments - Sarah A. Wu; Tobias Gerstenberg (Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2021, virtual, July 26-29, 2021, 2021)

A Causal Feeling: How Kinesthetic Haptics Affects Causal Perception - Elyse D. Z. Chase; Phillip Wolff; Tobias Gerstenberg; Sean Follmer (IEEE World Haptics Conference, WHC 2021, Montreal, QC, Canada, July 6-9, 2021, 2021)

Do Humans Trust Advice More if it Comes from AI? An Analysis of Human-AI Interactions - Kailas Vodrahalli; Tobias Gerstenberg; James Zou (CoRR, 2021)

Moral Values Reveal the Causality Implicit in Verb Meaning - Laura Niemi; Joshua K. Hartshorne; Tobias Gerstenberg; Matthew Stanley; Liane Young (Cogn. Sci., 2020)

The language of causation - Ari Beller; Erin Bennett; Tobias Gerstenberg (Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society - Developing a Mind: Learning in Humans, Animals, and Machines, CogSci 2020, virtual, July 29 - August 1, 2020, 2020)

Whom will Granny thank? Thinking about what could have been informs children's inferences about relative helpfulness - Sophie Bridgers; Chuyi Yang; Tobias Gerstenberg; Hyowon Gweon (Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society - Developing a Mind: Learning in Humans, Animals, and Machines, CogSci 2020, virtual, July 29 - August 1, 2020, 2020)

Learning from explanations - Lara Kirfel; Thomas Icard; Tobias Gerstenberg (Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society - Developing a Mind: Learning in Humans, Animals, and Machines, CogSci 2020, virtual, July 29 - August 1, 2020, 2020)

Explaining intuitive difficulty judgments by modeling physical effort and risk - Ilker Yildirim; Basil Saeed; Grace Bennett-Pierre; Tobias Gerstenberg; Josh Tenenbaum; Hyowon Gweon (Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2019: Creativity + Cognition + Computation, Montreal, Canada, July 24-27, 2019, 2019)

The trajectory of counterfactual simulation in development - Jonathan F. Kominsky; Tobias Gerstenberg; Madeline Pelz; Henrik Singmann; Mark Sheskin; Frank Keil (Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2019: Creativity + Cognition + Computation, Montreal, Canada, July 24-27, 2019, 2019)

When circumstances change, update your pronouns - Joshua K. Hartshorne; Mariela V. Jennings; Tobias Gerstenberg; Josh Tenenbaum (Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2019: Creativity + Cognition + Computation, Montreal, Canada, July 24-27, 2019, 2019)

Explaining intuitive difficulty judgments by modeling physical effort and risk - Ilker Yildirim; Basil Saeed; Grace Bennett-Pierre; Tobias Gerstenberg; Joshua B. Tenenbaum; Hyowon Gweon (CoRR, 2019)

Tiptoeing around it: Inference from absence in potentially offensive speech - Monica A. Gates; Tess L. Veuthey; Michael Henry Tessler; Kevin A. Smith; Tobias Gerstenberg; Laurie Bayet; Josh Tenenbaum (Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2018, Madison, WI, USA, July 25-28, 2018, 2018)

What happened? Reconstructing the past through vision and sound - Tobias Gerstenberg; Max H. Siegel; Josh Tenenbaum (Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2018, Madison, WI, USA, July 25-28, 2018, 2018)

Moral Dynamics: A Computational Model of Moral Judgment - Felix Sosa; Tomer D. Ullman; Samuel Gershman; Josh Tenenbaum; Tobias Gerstenberg (Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2018, Madison, WI, USA, July 25-28, 2018, 2018)

Causal learning from interventions and dynamics in continuous time - Neil Bramley; Ralf Mayrhofer; Tobias Gerstenberg; David A. Lagnado (Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2017, London, UK, 16-29 July 2017, 2017)

Faulty Towers: A hypothetical simulation model of physical support - Tobias Gerstenberg; Liang Zhou; Kevin A. Smith; Joshua B. Tenenbaum (Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2017, London, UK, 16-29 July 2017, 2017)

Eye movement-based probabilistic models for physical scene understanding - Eghbal Hosseini; Eli Pollock; Tobias Gerstenberg (Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2017, London, UK, 16-29 July 2017, 2017)

Marbles in Inaction: Counterfactual Simulation and Causation by Omission - Simon Stephan; Pascale Willemsen; Tobias Gerstenberg (Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2017, London, UK, 16-29 July 2017, 2017)

Physical problem solving: Joint planning with symbolic, geometric, and dynamic constraints - Ilker Yildirim; Tobias Gerstenberg; Basil Saeed; Marc Toussaint; Josh Tenenbaum (Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2017, London, UK, 16-29 July 2017, 2017)

Physical problem solving: Joint planning with symbolic, geometric, and dynamic constraints - Ilker Yildirim; Tobias Gerstenberg; Basil Saeed; Marc Toussaint; Josh Tenenbaum (CoRR, 2017)

Natural science: Active learning in dynamic physical microworlds - Neil Bramley; Tobias Gerstenberg; Joshua B. Tenenbaum (Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Recognizing and Representing Events, CogSci 2016, Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 10-13, 2016, 2016)

Understanding "almost": Empirical and computational studies of near misses - Tobias Gerstenberg; Josh Tenenbaum (Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Recognizing and Representing Events, CogSci 2016, Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 10-13, 2016, 2016)

Implicit measurement of motivated causal attribution - Laura Niemi; Joshua K. Hartshorne; Tobias Gerstenberg; Liane Young (Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Recognizing and Representing Events, CogSci 2016, Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 10-13, 2016, 2016)

Go fishing! Responsibility judgments when cooperation breaks down - Kelsey R. Allen; Julian Jara-Ettinger; Tobias Gerstenberg; Max Kleiman-Weiner; Joshua B. Tenenbaum (Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015, Pasadena, California, USA, July 22-25, 2015, 2015)

How, whether, why: Causal judgments as counterfactual contrasts - Tobias Gerstenberg; Noah D. Goodman; David A. Lagnado; Joshua B. Tenenbaum (Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015, Pasadena, California, USA, July 22-25, 2015, 2015)

Responsibility judgments in voting scenarios - Tobias Gerstenberg; Joseph Y. Halpern; Joshua B. Tenenbaum (Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015, Pasadena, California, USA, July 22-25, 2015, 2015)

Inference of Intention and Permissibility in Moral Decision Making - Max Kleiman-Weiner; Tobias Gerstenberg; Sydney Levine; Joshua B. Tenenbaum (Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015, Pasadena, California, USA, July 22-25, 2015, 2015)

The order of things: Inferring causal structure from temporal patterns - Neil Bramley; Tobias Gerstenberg; David A. Lagnado (Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2014, Quebec City, Canada, July 23-26, 2014, 2014)

From counterfactual simulation to causal judgment - Tobias Gerstenberg; Noah D. Goodman; David A. Lagnado; Joshua B. Tenenbaum (Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2014, Quebec City, Canada, July 23-26, 2014, 2014)

Wins above replacement: Responsibility attributions as counterfactual replacements - Tobias Gerstenberg; Tomer D. Ullman; Max Kleiman-Weiner; David A. Lagnado; Joshua B. Tenenbaum (Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2014, Quebec City, Canada, July 23-26, 2014, 2014)

Causal Supersession - Jonathan F. Kominsky; Jonathan Phillips; Tobias Gerstenberg; David A. Lagnado; Joshua Knobe (Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2014, Quebec City, Canada, July 23-26, 2014, 2014)

Causal Responsibility and Counterfactuals - David A. Lagnado; Tobias Gerstenberg; Ro'i Zultan (Cogn. Sci., 2013)

Back on track: Backtracking in counterfactual reasoning - Tobias Gerstenberg; Christos Bechlivanidis; David A. Lagnado (Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013, Berlin, Germany, July 31 - August 3, 2013, 2013)

Computational Models of Intuitive Physics - Peter W. Battaglia; Tomer D. Ullman; Joshua B. Tenenbaum; Adam Sanborn; Kenneth D. Forbus; Tobias Gerstenberg; David A. Lagnado (Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2012, Sapporo, Japan, August 1-4, 2012, 2012)

Ping Pong in Church: Productive use of concepts in human probabilistic inference - Tobias Gerstenberg; Noah D. Goodman (Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2012, Sapporo, Japan, August 1-4, 2012, 2012)

Noisy Newtons: Unifying process and dependency accounts of causal attribution - Tobias Gerstenberg; Noah D. Goodman; David A. Lagnado; Joshua B. Tenenbaum (Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2012, Sapporo, Japan, August 1-4, 2012, 2012)

Probabilistic generative models for counterfactual reasoning and blame attribution - John McCoy; Tomer D. Ullman; Andreas Stuhlmüller; Tobias Gerstenberg; Joshua B. Tenenbaum (Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2012, Sapporo, Japan, August 1-4, 2012, 2012)

Blame the Skilled - Tobias Gerstenberg; Anastasia Ejova; David A. Lagnado (Proceedings of the 33th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, July 20-23, 2011, 2011)

Rational Order Effects in Responsibility Attributions - Tobias Gerstenberg; David A. Lagnado; Maarten Speekenbrink; Catherine Cheung (Proceedings of the 33th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, July 20-23, 2011, 2011)

Beyond Outcomes: The Influence of Intentions and Deception - Simeon Schaechtele; Tobias Gerstenberg; David A. Lagnado (Proceedings of the 33th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, July 20-23, 2011, 2011)