The Workshop on Mental Models and Learning from Observations is an invitation-only event, requiring an RSVP due to space constraints.

Location

19 West 4th Street (Room 517), New York NY 10012

Program

8:30-9:00 – Breakfast

9:00-9:40 – Tania Lombrozo (Princeton) | Learning by Thinking

9:40-10:20 – Sevgi Yuksel (UCSB/NYU) | Extracting Models From Data Sets: An Experiment

10:20 – 10:40 – Break

10:40-11:20 – Benjamin Rottman (Pittsburgh) | The Accuracy of Causal Learning and Judgment from Experiences Gathered over Weeks

11:20-12:00 – Peter Andre (Frankfurt) | Mental Models of the Stock Market

12:00-13:10 – Lunch

13:10-13:50 – Laura Schulz (MIT) | TBA

13:50-14:30 – Sandro Ambuehl (Zurich) | Choosing Between Causal Interpretations: An Experimental Study

14:30-14:50 – Break

14:50-15:30 – Kai Barron (WZB) |  Narrative Persuasion

15:30-16:10 – Tobias Gerstenberg (Stanford) | Show and tell: Learning about causality from observations and explanations

16:10-16:30 – Break

16:30-17:10 – Chad Kendall (USC) | Causal Narratives

17:30-20:00 – Dinner

Support for this event has been generously provided by: 

• The U.S. National Science Foundation
• The NYU Center for Experimental Social Science