Bio Postdoc, Social Decision Neuroscience Lab @TheCHBH @UoB_SoP.
Previously @OxExpPsy, @Sussex_Psych.
Prosocial decisions, learning, neuroscience, charity, kindness
Location Birmingham, UK
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Twitter Web App : How do we learn about the impact that our actions can have on others?
In this video Dr Daniel Martins (NIHR Maudsley BRC) explores the relationship between #oxytocin and the effects that it can have on prosocial behaviour.
#MHAW22
TweetDeck : Being generous has its perks for both the giver and the recipient. Here are just a few, write Patricia Lockwood and Jo Cutler bit.ly/3woygtZ
Twitter Web App : Just finished writing job descriptions for 3 new posts in my lab🤩 We’ll be looking for 2 postdocs and a lab manager. Adverts will be coming out soon 🥼🐝🧠
Twitter Web App : 4 Reasons We Give to Charity | Psychology Today
NEW blog with Jo Cutler and Patricia Lockwood
psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-he…
Twitter Web App : It's been a while since I wrote about one of my favourite topics - why we give to #charity
New blog post with Patricia Lockwood on Psychology Today reveals 4 different reasons people give - psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-he…
Might be of interest for #fundraising twitter & #CharityTuesday
Twitter Web App : Way back in April 2020 I celebrated getting promoted to Prof with my cats &zoom toasts. Now I get to celebrate in real life with my public inaugural lecture (with online option).
Everyone is welcome 25th May 4:30pm
birmingham.ac.uk/university/col…
TweetDeck : We are excited to kickoff day 2 of #SANS2022 with a Live 90 minute session on Social Learning and Decision-Making with Jo CutlerLushaZhu LabValeria Gazzola and Ziv Williams! Symposium #4 begins in 15 minutes (9am ET/6am PT)!
Twitter Web App : Excited that my first preprint is now available online PsyArXiv, featuring another project from my PhD Oxford ExpPsychology, with Masud Husain and Matthew Apps!🎉 'Preferences for seeking effort or reward information bias the willingness to work' psyarxiv.com/8p4dc/. Mini thread below.
Twitter for iPhone : Our latest paper is out in #JNeurosci ! We show that the dopamine antagonist haloperidol affects emotion recognition from dynamic whole-body stimuli. Importantly, drug effects depended on participants’ baseline levels of dopamine👇🏻
Twitter for iPhone : Latest work from the lab, on 'Testosterone eliminates strategic prosocial behavior' led by Hana Kutlikova & Lei Zhang | 张磊, w/ Jack van Honk Claus Lamm ,
using a psychopharmacological + joint reinforcement learning drift diffusion modeling approach
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Twitter for iPhone : We have two new postdoc positions (6 and 3 years) to be filled at the SCAN Unit 🧠 Further details here: tinyurl.com/2p84u25k and here: tinyurl.com/2p8kbrd4
For informal inquiries, do not hesitate to get in touch with the lab head at [email protected]
Twitter Web App : Finally got round to updating our lab website so you can see what we've been getting up to: jencooklab.com/blog/ jencooklab.com/publications/ If this floats your boat DM me for details about 2 new post doc positions on 'Building social brains' that we'll be advertising soon
Twitter Web App : Looking forward to presenting A. Dawn Ryan's work on episodic simulation & willingness to help at the 'Prosocial motivation and cognition in healthy aging' symposium this afternoon @CognitiveAging
Twitter Web App : Lots of benefits of online / hybrid but also nice to have in-person conferences back! After brilliant #CPPC in March, I'm excited to be on the way (on a ✈️😲) to Cognitive Aging Conference and then looking forward to British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience in May & ESCAN 2022 @ Vienna in July. Hope to see / meet some of you soon
Twitter Web App : Last call!!
Only 16 tickets left for the conference and discounted hotel prices only until the end of this week.
Hope to see you there!
Twitter for iPhone : New guest blog by the brilliant Daniel Martins (MD, PhD), “Could oxytocin change how our brains learn to help others?” With Jo Cutler psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-he… read the study that inspired the blog here sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Twitter Web App : 🎉 New preprint! 🎉
We investigated how cognitive maps are used to enable flexible avoidance of dynamic threats
w/ Dr. Caroline Charpentier, Peter Dayan & Prof Dean Mobbs
📰 : psyarxiv.com/6d4z7
👇 thread
