12 Apr
2022
12 Apr
'22
1:55 p.m.
Time: 4pm (to 5:30pm) Budapest/Vienna time
Date: Wednesday, April 20, 2022
Venue: Online, Zoom meeting 942 7892
8352<https://us06web.zoom.us/j/94278928352?pwd=ckljaElMYnJtYW41b25sVGZNU09kQT09>,
pw: xfhq44
Chair: Laura Schlingloff
Speaker: Tobias Gerstenberg<https://cicl.stanford.edu/member/tobias_gerstenberg/>
(Stanford University)
Title: Going beyond the here and now: Counterfactual simulation in human cognition
Abstract: As humans, we spend much of our time going beyond the here and now. We dwell on
the past, long for the future, and ponder how things could have turned out differently. In
this talk, I will argue that people's knowledge of the world is organized around
causally structured mental models, and that much of human thought can be understood as
cognitive operations over these mental models. Specifically, I will highlight the
pervasiveness of counterfactual thinking in human cognition. Counterfactuals are critical
for how people make causal judgments, how they explain what happened, and how they hold
others responsible for their actions.
Let me know if you would like to schedule an online meeting with the speaker.
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