Tomer D Ullman
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Ullman T, Bass I
Am Psychol
. 2024 Dec;
79(9):1322-1336.
PMID: 39715379
The standard model of theory of mind posits that we attribute mental states to other people to explain their behavior. However, what of cases in which we think the other...
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Balaban H, Smith K, Tenenbaum J, Ullman T
Open Mind (Camb)
. 2024 Dec;
8:1425-1446.
PMID: 39664257
Starting in early infancy, our perception and predictions are rooted in strong expectations about the behavior of everyday objects. These intuitive physics expectations have been demonstrated in numerous behavioral experiments,...
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Sosa F, Gershman S, Ullman T
Cognition
. 2024 Nov;
254:105995.
PMID: 39499976
How are people able to understand everyday physical events with such ease? One hypothesis suggests people use an approximate probabilistic simulation of the world. A contrasting hypothesis is that people...
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Qian P, Bridgers S, Taliaferro M, Parece K, Ullman T
Cognition
. 2024 Aug;
252:105914.
PMID: 39178715
Loopholes offer an opening. Rather than comply or directly refuse, people can subvert an intended request by an intentional misunderstanding. Such behaviors exploit ambiguity and under-specification in language. Using loopholes...
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Bass I, Espinoza C, Bonawitz E, Ullman T
Cogn Sci
. 2024 Jun;
48(6):e13470.
PMID: 38862266
When people make decisions, they act in a way that is either automatic ("rote"), or more thoughtful ("reflective"). But do people notice when others are behaving in a rote way,...
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Ullman T, Bridgers S
Behav Brain Sci
. 2024 May;
47:e86.
PMID: 38738355
We propose that the logic of a genie - an agent that exploits an ambiguous request to intentionally misunderstand a stated goal - underlies a common and consequential phenomenon, well...
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De Freitas J, Uguralp A, Oguz-Uguralp Z, Paul L, Tenenbaum J, Ullman T
Nat Hum Behav
. 2023 Aug;
7(12):2126-2139.
PMID: 37653146
A current proposal for a computational notion of self is a representation of one's body in a specific time and place, which includes the recognition of that representation as the...
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Li Y, Wang Y, Boger T, Smith K, Gershman S, Ullman T
J Exp Psychol Gen
. 2023 Jun;
152(11):3074-3086.
PMID: 37307336
People make fast and reasonable predictions about the physical behavior of everyday objects. To do so, people may use principled mental shortcuts, such as object simplification, similar to models developed...
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Bigelow E, McCoy J, Ullman T
Cognition
. 2023 May;
238:105498.
PMID: 37209446
We examine non-commitment in the imagination. Across 5 studies (N > 1, 800), we find that most people are non-committal about basic aspects of their mental images, including features that...
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Gershman S, Ullman T
PLoS One
. 2023 May;
18(5):e0286067.
PMID: 37200364
Correlation does not imply causation, but this does not necessarily stop people from drawing causal inferences from correlational statements. We show that people do in fact infer causality from statements...