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

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...

Join us in beautiful Montreal for the 2026 S4SN Conference (Aug 23–26)! Share your latest research, spark new collaborations, and engage with a vibrant social neuroscience community! Symposium proposals and individual abstract submissions are underway: event.fourwaves.com/s4sn2026/pages

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Join S4SN 2026, August 23-26, 2026. Learn more on Fourwaves.

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Come work with @tsawallis.bsky.social, Frank Jäkel and myself! 3 yr Postdoc on category learning w/ structured, program-like representations. Funded by the www.theadaptivemind.de Excellence Cluster! Deadline is Mar 15th, details 👇 Please share widely 🙏

Tom Wallis@tsawallis.bsky.social · 7mo ago

**Postdoc position in human category learning** @thecharleywu.bsky.social, Frank Jäkel and I are seeking a postdoctoral fellow to lead a joint project on human category learning at the Centre for Cognitive Science @tuda.bsky.social. www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt...

🚨 JOB alert: 📢 We are looking for a PhD student to work on our international @wellcometrust.bsky.social project on information gathering in OCD and Schizophrenia! If you have a background in computational psychiatry / neuroimnaging and speak German, apply here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

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We are recruiting! Postdoctoral research fellow at www.sdn-lab.org, studying the computational & neural basis of social decision-making. Birmingham is a fantastic & affordable place to live, with one of the youngest populations in Europe & over 600 parks. Please share! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO275/p...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Social Decision Neuroscience at University of Birmingham

Explore an exciting academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Social Decision Neuroscience. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

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New @sdnl.bsky.social paper: Humans are more prosocial in poor foraging environments 👇

Todd Vogel@toddvogel.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🎉 New paper in Nature Communications 🎉 rdcu.be/e24jT Does our environment influence how likely we are to help others?

So excited that this textbook, edited by @dfareri.bsky.social @dvsmith.bsky.social & @thepsychologist.bsky.social is out now! And so happy to have been invited to contribute. Here’s my chapter on the role of memory, esp. semantic memory, in temporal discounting: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

The Role of Memory in Temporal Discounting

A widely observed phenomenon in intertemporal choice is temporal discounting; people prefer to have rewards sooner rather than later, even if the delayed rewards are larger. Despite the universality o...

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Check out @orielf.bsky.social & I's chapter "Emotion and Choice: The Integral Role of Emotion in Constructing Value" in the new volume, Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions, edited by @dvsmith.bsky.social @thepsychologist.bsky.social & @dfareri.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Emotion and Choice: The Integral Role of Emotion in Constructing Value

In the centuries-long history of decision-making research, emotion’s role in choice has only been investigated relatively recently. Early theories of decision-making, which conceived of emotions...

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The new book, "Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions" is out! Here is my chapter on consumer attention. 👀Thanks to @dvsmith.bsky.social @thepsychologist.bsky.social @dfareri.bsky.social for their excellent leadership as editors. #science #attention #eyetracking #marketing

Attention Dynamics: Antecedents to Consumer Choice

This chapter reviews four decades of research on consumer attention and decision-making, focusing on how visual information influences preferences, attitudes, and choice. It traces methodological adva...

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📣 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...

Chapter 📖 "Decomposing Economic Choices with Drift-Diffusion Models" with @krajbichlab.bsky.social and Xiaozhi (Taro) Yang is out in, "Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions" edited by @dvsmith.bsky.social, @thepsychologist.bsky.social, @dfareri.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yey56tup

Decomposing Economic Choices with Drift-Diffusion Models

Many decisions arise from a dynamic process of information accumulation and comparison. Thus, to fully understand decision-making, we must decompose the choice process into its parts. Here, we review ...

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🎉 New book chapter 🎉 Very thrilled to share our new chapter ‘The neuroeconomics of social influence and contagion’ co-authored with @thepsychologist.bsky.social, now out in the edited volume, ‘Neuroeconomics: Core topics and current directions’! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

The Neuroeconomics of Social Influence and Contagion

People often adjust their behaviours and preferences to align with others, a phenomenon termed social influence or social contagion. Social influence can have a profound effect on our economic prefere...

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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)

How can we encourage people to put in effort to benefit the climate? Our new task can help tell us how...

Jo Cutler@drjocutler.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🌎 New paper in @commspsychol.nature.com 🌍 doi.org/10.1038/s442... There is an urgent need to choose behaviours that mitigate climate change, but these are often more effortful. Can we increase pro-environmental motivation? Joint w/ Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta & amazing international team 👇🧵

🌎 New paper in @commspsychol.nature.com 🌍 doi.org/10.1038/s442... There is an urgent need to choose behaviours that mitigate climate change, but these are often more effortful. Can we increase pro-environmental motivation? Joint w/ Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta & amazing international team 👇🧵

Nearly ready to go! Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025!

Does dopamine modulate the willingness to help? New Psychology Today post, "How Dopamine Affects Our Motivation to Help Others", written by me, with special thanks to @drjocutler.bsky.social and @thepsychologist.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-...

How Dopamine Affects Our Motivation to Help Others

New research shows patients with Parkinson's disease were more willing to help others after taking their dopamine-boosting medication.

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Looking for a PhD? Interested in cognitive computational neuroscience, motivation and decision-making? See our project listed in the BBSRC MIBTP competition for funding for a 4-year PhD in the @msnlab.bsky.social in the @thechbh.bsky.social. Deadline 27/11. More info: tinyurl.com/5d5vz8m7

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PhD Project - The computational and neural dynamics of human motivation and cognitive control at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Great to see this out! Exciting work led by @shawnrhoadsphd.com on how we learn when actions affect ourselves and others 🧠 w/ @aa-marsh.bsky.social, @k-oconnell.com, Kathryn Berluti, & Lin Gan plus @thepsychologist.bsky.social & me @sdnl.bsky.social, @thechbh.bsky.social, @uob-sop.bsky.social

Shawn Rhoads@shawnrhoadsphd.com · 12mo ago

📢 Thrilled to share our paper is out now in @natcomms.nature.com Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly 🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ

Very happy to see this published! Registered report led by the fantastic Sophie Sowden-Carvalho (and with @thepsychologist.bsky.social & @brainapps.bsky.social) looking at effort-based prosocial decision-making in autistic and non-autistic adults. tinyurl.com/3upvukt2 See thread below for more info⭐️

Autistic and non-autistic prosocial decision-making: The impact of recipient neurotype

A body of research suggests cross-neurotype interpersonal interactions may be more challenging, and non-autistic individuals show less interest in int…

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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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🚨📚 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)

I am delighted to announce registration and abstract submission is open for "The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025" to be held at the Edgbaston Park Hotel, University of Birmingham, UK on 3-5th November 2025. uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis...

“Relying on PRIME young adults limits cognitive science” www.cell.com/trends/cogni... new @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social piece with @connectedmindslab.bsky.social we highlight how a focus on young adults as a benchmark of ‘human’ behaviour has shaped cognitive science in several ways 👇

Relying on PRIME young adults limits cognitive science

Cognitive science has made remarkable strides in understanding cognition and behaviour. However, a critical issue persists. Most studies focus on PRIME populations – young adults who are productive, r...

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Less than a week left to apply for this PhD studentship in my lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social ! Deadline Sun 6th July

Daniel Yon@danieljamesyon.bsky.social · last yr.

Looking for a PhD in #psychology or #cogneuro ? I’m recruiting a fully-funded @leverhulme.ac.uk PhD student to join my lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social. If you’re interested in metacognition, learning, social cognition and culture I’d love you to apply 🧠👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNJ330/p...

A key takeaway from 20+ years of computational RL is: model-free=automatic, model-based=deliberate. My new paper w/ @benedek.bsky.social challenges this view, suggesting that MB algos are more ubiquitous, & automatic processing more sophisticated, than currently thought: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Model-based algorithms shape automatic evaluative processing | PNAS

Computational theories of reinforcement learning suggest that two families of algorithm—model-based and model-free—tightly map onto the classic dis...

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Important comment on an impressive new paper! People looking to measure incentivised, effortful actions might be interested in our preprint inc. new online task and effect of pro-environmental interventions 💪🌍 osf.io/preprints/ps... w/ @thepsychologist.bsky.social, @brainapps.bsky.social & many more

Dorsomedial and ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions differentially impact social influence and temporal discounting journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... new lab paper from the fantastic @zhilinsu.bsky.social with wonderful collaborators 🌟

Dorsomedial and ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions differentially impact social influence and temporal discounting

The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is involved in economic and social decision-making in humans but the specific functions of its subregions are not clear. This study shows that the dorsal mPFC is ca...

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🏆 Early Career Award nominations now open! 🏆 Until June 15, we are inviting applications recognizing new approaches or paradigms within the field of social neuroscience, and/or the advancement of research that cuts across multiple fields of neuroscience to understand social cognition and behavior.

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