📣 New preprint 📣 Happy to share our new preprint "Altered adaptive mentalization in autistic adults" from my postdoc lab (Prof Christian Ruff, University of Zurich), led by Niklas Buergi. See below for the link and details!

Niklas Buergi@niklasbuergi.bsky.social · last mo.

Autism has long been linked to difficulties with Theory of Mind. But what exactly is driving these differences? And what happens in the brain? In our new preprint, we show that adaptive mentalization might be key. A 🧵 #CogSci #CogNeuro osf.io/preprints/ps...

Autism has long been linked to difficulties with Theory of Mind. But what exactly is driving these differences? And what happens in the brain? In our new preprint, we show that adaptive mentalization might be key. A 🧵 #CogSci #CogNeuro osf.io/preprints/ps...

Very excited to share our new work (my first @arxiv-cs-ai.bsky.social!) We compared mentalising abilities across human and LLMs across two games and models. We thought the field'd re-embrace the interdisciplinarity of cognitive science. Curious? Read here! 👇 arxiv.org/abs/2608.26291

Excited to see this out after a while (evident in the LLMs tested!). Grateful for the support of my supervisors @lei-zhang.bsky.social and @thepsychologist.bsky.social, as well as @arkadykonovalov.bsky.social and Xintong 'Janice' Zhong for help with data collection and modeling!

Arkady Konovalov@arkadykonovalov.bsky.social · last mo.

📣 New preprint 📣 An exciting collaboration with Lei Zhang's lab spearheaded by Aamir Sohail. We use game tasks and models typically used to estimate mentalization ability in humans, and we test them across a variety of commercially available LLMs. arxiv.org/abs/2608.26291

📣 New preprint 📣 An exciting collaboration with Lei Zhang's lab spearheaded by Aamir Sohail. We use game tasks and models typically used to estimate mentalization ability in humans, and we test them across a variety of commercially available LLMs. arxiv.org/abs/2608.26291

Update: the book is now officially out! Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions is available from Springer here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Huge thanks again to @thepsychologist.bsky.social, @dfareri.bsky.social, and all of the contributors.

David V. Smith@dvsmith.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨📚 New book! I’m thrilled to share that our edited volume, Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions (Springer Nature), will be out later this year. Co-edited with @thepsychologist.bsky.social and @dfareri.bsky.social — huge thanks to all our brilliant contributors. 🧵 (1/12)

Proof by presence 🤖👁️🙅 Check out our new position piece on webcam eye tracking for AI bot detection! 🧵 below:

Krajbich Lab@krajbichlab.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Autonomous AI agents are now built into many browsers. A naive user can take an online survey with as little as the click of a button. For behavioral research, which depends heavily on online samples, this is a real problem. (1/7)

"Proof by presence" is an encouraging way forward in the age of AI. Check out our compendium of eye-tracking tools (including a plug-and-play Qualtrics survey!) to safe-guard your research against AI agents. Huge shoutout to @kiante.bsky.social @taroyang3302.bsky.social and @krajbichlab.bsky.social

Krajbich Lab@krajbichlab.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Autonomous AI agents are now built into many browsers. A naive user can take an online survey with as little as the click of a button. For behavioral research, which depends heavily on online samples, this is a real problem. (1/7)

Autonomous AI agents are now built into many browsers. A naive user can take an online survey with as little as the click of a button. For behavioral research, which depends heavily on online samples, this is a real problem. (1/7)

📣 New preprint 📣 "Neural Dynamics of Belief and Value Computations Guiding Strategic Social Decisions" We use EEG and computational modeling (combining learning + DDM) to explain participants' choices, RT, and neural signals in a strategic game. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Neural Dynamics of Belief and Value Computations Guiding Strategic Social Decisions https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.08.723744v1

I see the blue/red button discourse is picking up on social media again. Just wanted to remind that a couple of years ago we ran this as a study with real stakes (small sums of money) and replicated the results (with some extras!). See the preprint: www.econstor.eu/handle/10419...

How do people search for information to make efficient decisions? Our new theory, now out in Psychological Review, suggests that an efficient search rule is (at the core of) the answer. And eye-tracking data support our theory. Check out here (it's open access): psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Successful social interaction relies on predicting others’ behavior. A study in Nature Neuroscience shows how humans adjust to changing strategies, revealing a neural signature of adaptive belief updating. go.nature.com/3P7U0aG #Neuroskyence 🧪

A new study reveals what brain networks govern social mentalization and adaptation, making it possible to predict how flexibly one person reacts to others. Published in @natneuro.nature.com 👉 www.econ.uzh.ch/en/news/rese...

📣 New publication 📣 Very excited to share our new paper "A neural signature of adaptive mentalization" out now in Nature Neuroscience (the project started all the way back in 2018!); with @niklasbuergi.bsky.social @drgokhanaydogan.bsky.social @christianruff.bsky.social (1/4)

How does the brain decide which mental strategy to use when inferring others' beliefs? Excited to (finally!) see my first first-author paper out @natneuro.nature.com Summary below 🧵 #CogSci #CogNeuro www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📣 New book chapter Excited to see my chapter "The Neural Mechanisms of Strategic Decision-Making" finally out in a new book, "Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions", edited by @dvsmith.bsky.social, @thepsychologist.bsky.social, and Dominic Fareri. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

📣 Funded PhD position (competitive, UK students only!) Reach out to me via a.konovalov@bham.ac.uk by February 20th, attaching your CV and cover letter if you are interested in applying for a PhD position to study cooperation and prosocial behavior using neuroimaging (1/2)

Interested in applying for a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship (deadline September 2026) with me in decision neuroscience and economics (social and strategic decision making, cooperation, value-based choice, fMRI, computational modeling)? (1/2)

Very sad to hear that John Kagel passed away. He was one of the towering figures of experimental and behavioral economics and a true leader in the field. I was extremely lucky to have John on my PhD committee, and I will never forget his support and unique sense of humor.

📢 New preprint! 📢 Very excited to be a part of the project led by @saurabhbedi.bsky.social on how the brain learns from multimodal inputs (e.g. audiovisual): Separable neurocomputational mechanisms underlying multisensory learning biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📢 New (economics) preprint 📢 (with Jiaxin Yu) Excited to share our study on the cooperation in the infinitely repeated Prisoner's Dilemma, where we use payoff manipulations and all kinds of methods to disentangle strategies, beliefs, and preferences: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

📢 New preprint 📢 (with Daniil Luzyanin) We use a new task to distinguish between the instantaneous and instrumental (goal-oriented) value of the same choice option in the brain using fMRI: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Today's the day we welcome over 80 participants, instructors & keynote speakers from all over the world to @uob-sop.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social for the Computational Social Cognition (CSC) Summer School with @leidenpsychology.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social #CSC2025 www.compsoccog.com

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Excited to share our new lab website! Konovalov Neuroeconomics Lab konelab.org Our research covers quite a few topics and methods across neuroeconomics, decision neuroscience, and behavioral economics:

🚨 PhD opportunity for Fall 2025 🚨 Send me your CV and cover letter by May 30th to apply to work on neural mechanisms of altruism and cooperation (fMRI, eye-tracking, computational). ONLY open to UK (home) students. Funded by @UoB_SoP Please share and RT!

The application deadline for our summer school in Computational Social Cognition is today! 👇

Jo Cutler@drjocutler.bsky.social · last yr.

⏰ Deadline Monday (28th) for @unibirmingham.bsky.social & @unileiden.bsky.social Computational Social Cognition summer school. Don't miss keynotes by Matthew Rushworth, @dianatamir.bsky.social & @davidamodio.bsky.social www.compsoccog.com ⬇️ Only text response questions in the short application:

Funded PhD, UK applicants only this time 🚨 @mgsesrcdtp.bsky.social Apply by May 19 for a PhD with James Goulding, Evgeniya Lukinova (Nottingham) and myself (Birmingham) to work on consumer behavior, big data, machine learning, behavioral experiments, and eye-tracking www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMT549/p...

PhD Studentship: Bridging Attitudes and Actions: Using Smart Data, Eye-Tracking, and Machine Learning to Understand Non-Sustainable Consumer Behaviour at Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Par...

jobs.ac.uk now advertising a PhD Studentship: Bridging Attitudes and Actions: Using Smart Data, Eye-Tracking, and Machine Learning to Understand Non-Sustainable Consumer Behaviour Visit jobs.ac.uk to ...

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🚨 New preprint 🚨 "Unrewarded Cooperation" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Remember the poll that went viral in 2023? We reproduced these results using real monetary rewards in an online lab experiment (sorry, no life and death).