Rahul Bhui

@rbhui.bsky.social

Associate Professor @MIT Sloan exploring principles of rationality and irrationality. Cognitive science, computational neuroscience, and behavioral economics. https://mitmgmtfaculty.mit.edu/rbhui/

Recent preprint with Oriel FeldmanHall and Matt Nassar, showing clear neural evidence that adolescent (13-15 yrs) social media and smartphones use are associated with blunted reward signaling in the ventral striatum, the brain's reward processing hub, and worse mental health. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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🌵🏜️🌵 Out now in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social with @rbhui.bsky.social! If your advisor sends you an unclear email, do you interpret it as good or bad? 😏😱 In a new paper, we show how people make inferences about this type of ambiguous feedback during learning. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ambiguity and confirmatory reward learning

We tend to interpret feedback in ways that confirm our pre-existing beliefs. Such confirmatory tendencies are often viewed as cognitive flaws, but mig…

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Our lab (w/ @patrickgbissett) is hiring a full-time research coordinator to work with us on cognitive control, dense fMRI, computational modeling, and human-AI interaction. Designed for post-bacs looking to start a Ph. D in ~2 years. Please repost. phxc1b.rfer.us/STANFORDNLbWAG

Social Science Research Coordinator (Hybrid Opportunity) in School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford, California, United States

Professor Russ Poldrack’s lab is seeking a new full-time Research Coordinator. The RC will work closely with and report directly to Dr. Patrick...

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🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨 I'm hiring a cogsci/philosophy/compneuro postdoc at @ucl.ac.uk @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH486/p... Come to London & work on frameworks for "testing" for consciousness using Bayesian belief updating & latent variable modeling. Pls share!

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UCL

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1/ New review paper out today! "Mental Models of Causal Structure in Economics and Psychology" with MIT cognitive scientist @RahulBhui and econ theorist @HeidiThysen. How do people come to believe that one thing causes another—and what happens when those beliefs are wrong? 🧵

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MIT looking for applicants to Michael Hammer Postdoctoral Fellowship (combining social science knowledge with technical analyses of complex social and technological systems). academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29104 apps due: March 21, 2025 Your name does not need to be Michael Hammer

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society

Job #AJO29104, Michael Hammer Postdoctoral Fellowship, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

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