Assistant Professor
Stanford Departments and Centers:
Psychology
Research Interests:
The Causality in Cognition Lab at Stanford University studies the role of causality in our understanding of the world, and of each other.
Some of the questions that guide our research:
- How does the mind learn to represent the causal structure of the world?
- What is the relationship between causal thinking and counterfactual simulation?
- How do we hold others responsible for the outcomes of their actions?
In our research, we formalize people’s mental models as computational models that yield quantitative predictions about a wide range of situations. To test these predictions, we use a combination of large-scale online experiments, interactive experiments in the lab, and eye-tracking experiments.