🎉 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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Excited to share our preprint on variability in patch leaving decisions! Check out the 🧵 below

Mark D Humphries@markdhumphries.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🧪Preprint! How foragers depart from optimal models can tell us a lot about how they compute their decisions. A strong but underexplored departure is that foragers widely vary when they leave identical patches. A 🧵 doi.org/10.1101/2025... With @emmavscholey.bsky.social @brainapps.bsky.social

🌎 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 👇🧵

The medial #PFC is involved in economic & social #DecisionMaking in humans. @zhilinsu.bsky.social @sdnl.bsky.social &co show that dorsal mPFC is causally implicated in susceptibility to social influence, while ventral mPFC is involved in temporal discounting @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3GwXqQ7

🧠 My second PhD paper out 🧠 What causal roles does the mPFC play in social influence and temporal discounting? journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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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Nature research paper: Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial frontal cortex https://go.nature.com/3FsvUTi

Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial frontal cortex - Nature

A study combining group decision-making tasks with fMRI shows that the brain’s dorsomedial prefrontal cortex uses basis functions, similar to those in the visual, motor and spatial domains, to represent patterns of social interaction.

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So excited to announce Curiosity, Information Seeking & Exploration conference: 30th Sept-1st Oct @Brown University. Amazing speakers sites.google.com/view/informa... and free! Abstract submissions open until 7th July w/ Romy Frömer, Ohad Dan, @hayleydorfman.bsky.social, Matt Nassar. Please share!

🚨 SUMMER SCHOOL! Announcing the 2nd Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition, Sep 2-5, 2025. Fantastic line-up of keynote: Matthew Rushworth, Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social, and David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social . 👇 Apply by 18 April (compsoccog.com) and RT!

People with higher incomes and people who describe themselves as “living comfortably” are more likely to report donating, volunteering, and helping strangers than people with lower incomes and people who are merely “getting by.” In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky 1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research Open Access journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

New paper! Greater (objective and subjective) wealth is consistently associated with higher prosocial preferences and behaviours across 76 countries. Resource scarcity (precarity) also has an effect. bit.ly/410jni3 @thepsychologist.bsky.social @fabiankosse.bsky.social @drjocutler.bsky.social

Greater income and financial well-being are associated with higher prosocial preferences and behaviors across 76 countries

Abstract. Prosocial preferences and behaviors—defined as those that benefit others—are essential for health, well-being, and a society that can effectively

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📢 New Preprint 📢 Delighted to share our preprint of a chapter co-authored with @thepsychologist.bsky.social @sdnl.bsky.social for the forthcoming book 'Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions'! The neuroeconomics of social influence and contagion osf.io/preprints/ps...