Reposted by Yang XiangTobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I'm so grateful for the continued support from my lab, and for everyone who helped along the way, now as an associate professor with tenure at Stanford 🧑🏫🥂🌲 222204
Reposted by Yang XiangAmitai Shenhav @ashenhav.bsky.social · 28/09/20262 yrs ago, I briefly laid out a new theory of how motivation works (AGH). Here, I expand on the problems AGH was trying to solve, why they are hard to solve, what my solution looks like, and how this should change our understanding of thoughts & actions. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵A few highlights: 16637
Reposted by Yang XiangTobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Excited and grateful to be part of this initiative by the Toyota Research Institute 🙏 Together with Thomas Icard, @noahdgoodman.bsky.social, and @yangxiang.bsky.social our team will explore what role responsibility plays in supporting effective collaboration. 📃 www.tri.global/news/elevati...tri.globalElevating Human Growth: Human-AI Kaizen Initiative | Toyota Research InstituteBy Matthew Lee, Program Director, Human-AI Kaizen Initiative Today, Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announces the proposals selected for the Human-AI Kaizen Initiative, a multi-year collaboration with... 0202
Reposted by Yang XiangTomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 08/12/2025fun pre-print for your start of week reading: "People Make Graded Judgments About The Inconceivable" (by Hu, Sosa, and me) doi.org/10.31234/osf... 13812
Reposted by Yang XiangSam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Another fun project from @yangxiang.bsky.social. She asks the question: do people assign responsibility to personality traits in the same way that they assign reponsibility to people? The answer: sort of! osf.io/preprints/ps...osf.ioOSF 0227
Reposted by Yang XiangSam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 04/12/2025The Harvard Gazette has a nice story on my student @yangxiang.bsky.social and her work with @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...news.harvard.eduCracking the code of why, when some choose to ‘self-handicap’ — Harvard GazetteNew research also offers hints for devising ways to stop students from creating obstacles to success. 0235
Reposted by Yang XiangSam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 19/09/2025This is one of the most outstanding examples of circuit understanding I've seen in a long time. The unification of theory and experiment is beautiful. When Malcolm presented this in my lab, the audience was cheering at the end, and one person shouted (non-ironically) "You did it!" 510621
Yang Xiang @yangxiang.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Now out in Cognition, work with the great @gershbrain.bsky.social @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social on formalizing self-handicapping as rational signaling! 📃 authors.elsevier.com/a/1lo8f2Hx2-...kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me 13613
Yang Xiang @yangxiang.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Our latest on the cognitive science of LLMs! To be presented @CogSci2025 🎉 LLMs are increasingly involved in human collaborations. How do LLMs assign responsibility and reward to collaborators? Is it similar to how humans do it? 🤖🧑 📃 gershmanlab.com/pubs/XiangBi... (1/4) 2399
Reposted by Yang XiangTomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 02/07/2025🎈 Out now: 🎈 "The capacity limits of moving objects in the imagination" (by Balaban & me) of interest to people thinking about the imagination, intuitive physics, mental simulation, capacity limits, and more www.nature.com/articles/s41... 612228
Reposted by Yang XiangLiu, Shuze @liushuze.bsky.social · 23/03/2025@gershbrain.bsky.social, @yangxiang.bsky.social, and I have a new project out in preprint form! osf.io/preprints/ps... Here are the main takeaways: (1/6)osf.ioOSF 4134
Yang Xiang @yangxiang.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Really excited about this project, and thanks so much to my wonderful collaborators @gershbrain.bsky.social @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social for making this happen! Some main takeaways in thread 🧵 (1/5) 4131
