New paper on how #stress affects #moral inference. Beliefs about „bad people“ are typically more volatile, but acute stress transiently increased belief #volatility for good people - an effect correlated with cortisol reactivity. #BayesianModeling #BeliefUpdating doi.org/10.1016/j.ps...

SNE is pleased to announce the creation of a new Committee for Early Career Researchers. ECRs are invited to help launch the committee & share ideas for programming, mentorship, networking, and advocacy within the Society. Volunteer by July 10, 2026 #SNE2026 #Neuroeconomics #EarlyCareerResearchers

Happy to see this paper out in #JNeurosci! We combine computational modeling of behavior and fMRI to better understand maladaptive decisions about what to eat.

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#JNeurosci: Muratore et al. compare food decision-making processes in healthy people vs. patients with anorexia nervosa. They found that the brain regions active during the process of mulling over food options were different in people with anorexia. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0441-26.2026

New paper in Nature Communications 🎉 Led by @romanececchi.bsky.social, with @sgluth.bsky.social, we show that attention shapes value normalization in human reinforcement learning. Eye-tracking models explain nonlinear reward scaling better than an ad hoc parameter. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bottom line: the human brain goes far beyond simple duration tracking. It actively integrates temporal dynamics AND choice difficulty to decode what others prefer. 🧠 Many thanks to @sgluth.bsky.social for years of patience, guidance, and support with this project! Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

🚨 New preprint with @sgluth.bsky.social on social learning and EEG! 🧠 We've recently found out that, to learn about others' preferences, humans don't just look at WHAT they choose, but also HOW FAST they make a decision. How does the brain actually process this? 👇 osf.io/preprints/ps...

In this work, I combined eye-tracking with fMRI to investigate how information search differs between within-domain and across-domain choices in value-based decisions. I also looked at the link between subjective value and neural activity during these decisions.

Over the past two weeks, I had the great opportunity to present my work at both #SBDM2026 in iconic Paris and #PuG2026 in picturesque Heidelberg. Thank you to the organizers for providing this environment for scientific exchange, and to everyone who stopped by to share their insightful feedback.

An interesting must-read spotlight connecting sampling rhythmicity to computational models of decision-making!

Marcus Siems@marcussiems.bsky.social · 3mo ago

„Rhythmic sampling of decision alternatives through attention“ 🔦 Spotlight of our recent work in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social by Alireza Valizadeh www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

📣 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...

Did you know that this is the first year the Society for Neuroeconomics conference will be in California? Seize the day, left coasters! Decide to come talk about decisions with us... and keynote speaker, the brilliant Carlos Brody! neuroeconomics.org/2026-meeting/

2026 Meeting - Society For Neuroeconomics

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Now published at Scientific Reports 🚀 If you ever wondered whether and how hunger affects your decision-making beyond food choices, make sure to check out our paper! 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🧵below

Domain-specific effects of hunger on attention and choice - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Domain-specific effects of hunger on attention and choice

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Jennifer March@jennamarch.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨New preprint alert🚨 Does hunger affect your decisions beyond food? We tested whether being hungry affects attention & choice across food, intertemporal and social domains. Spoiler: the effects of hunger state on attention and choice are more limited than you might think🧵👇

Meet the SNE 2026 invited speakers: Carlos Brody of Princeton University, Cary Frydman of the University of Southern California, and Daniela Schiller of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Join us Oct 9-11 in Pasadena! #Neuroeconomics #SNE2026 neuroeconomics.org/speakers/

🚨New preprint alert🚨 Does hunger affect your decisions beyond food? We tested whether being hungry affects attention & choice across food, intertemporal and social domains. Spoiler: the effects of hunger state on attention and choice are more limited than you might think🧵👇

I always had the vague feeling that Scientific Reports and Nature Communications are mainly APC business models. A paper estimated the total APC for gold/hybrid Open Access per journal 2015–2018: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Surprise, surprise - there are 2 outliers at the top😐

Interested in information search? 👀🔍 Make sure to check out our latest theory explaining how people search for information; now out in Psychological Review! @sgluth.bsky.social @jordantdeakin.bsky.social and Jörg Rieskamp

Sebastian Gluth@sgluth.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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...

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...

Did someone want systematic reviews of the effects of psychedelics? We have two: A review of electrophysiology, out now in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral reviews www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... And a review of cognitive effects in J of Psychopharmacology journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Electrophysiological Mechanisms of Psychedelic Drugs: A Systematic Review

Serotonergic psychedelics are known for their profound effects on consciousness and are gaining renewed interest as potential psychiatric treatments. …

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Curious about how context influences decision-making? 👀🧠 Make sure to check out our symposium on Wednesday 11:00-12:30 at Room N2 #TeaP2026 Featuring✨ @tiborstoe.bsky.social @nunobusch.bsky.social @dmding.bsky.social @barbaraoberbauer.bsky.social

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...

Thought-provoking talk at our research colloquium yesterday! 🧠 @lilweb.bsky.social presented ambitious work on testing and improving methods in computational psychiatry. We thank Lilian for her visit and the valuable discussions throughout the day in our lab!

🚨Friends, we’re happy to share that our book is available for pre-order! 🎉 We aimed to cover all the foundations of the topic in an accessible manner for a large audience. It could help set up a bachelor-level curriculum on the topic. Pre-orders are very key for the fate of books: shorturl.at/Dxbif

Check out our new preprint, led by Romy Froemer and in collaboration with Chih-Chung Ting and Sebastian Gluth: “Goals shape dynamics of attention and selection for value-based decision-making”. 🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Read our paper if you're curious or reach out if you have any questions. Kudos to my great coauthor team Tobia Spampatti @tspampatti.bsky.social, Sebastian Gluth @sgluth.bsky.social , Kim-Pong Tam & Ulf Hahnel. Happy Halloween everyone 🎃🧛 /end

Our new paper is out as a reviewed preprint in @elife.bsky.social! elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... Congrats to @hashimsat.bsky.social and our amazing collaborators on this great team effort. Special shout-out to @haukeren.bsky.social, who made this possible through his generous support 🙌

Muhammad Hashim Satti@hashimsat.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Excited to announce that this is now out in eLife as a reviewed preprint 🚀 doi.org/10.7554/eLif... Huge thanks to the eLife editors, reviewers and our fantastic collaborators: Katharina Wille, @nicoschuck.bsky.social, Matt Nassar, Radoslaw Cichy, Peter Dayan and @rasmusbruckner.bsky.social

In contrast, we found only response deliberation to increase for behaviorally less effective numeric translations (carbon emissions in kg).

Our modeling results suggest that a translation in form of an evaluative rating caused participants to make more ecological choices as a result of a shift in attribute weights in favor of the translated attribute, a decreased attentional bias on the attended option, and increased deliberation.

Attribute translations promote behavior change by translating decision-relevant information into more meaningful units and have been widely adopted by policy makers (e.g., EU energy label). However, little is known about the computational mechanisms that underlie their effects on behavior.

Excited to share joint work with Ulf Hahnel and @sgluth.bsky.social on investigating how attribute translations - a widely implemented behavior intervention - lead to more ecological consumer choices. Main results are below, but check out our preprint 👇 www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...