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New paper w/affective.brain Bastien Blain: During stress (COVID-19 and personal events), people ask more "How" questions online. This pattern reflects a search for actionable information. Read more: rdcu.be/dMyMr

Are humans behaving more like foragers even on typical reinforcement learning tasks? Work by Zid et al. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Updated my painting page for the first time in awhile with 7 new artworks! I hope you enjoy them :) rachelbedder.com/painting

Our newest preprint explores whether feelings (affect) may be the only form of value you need to motivate thoughts and actions. "The affective gradient hypothesis: An affect-centered account of motivated behavior." osf.io/preprints/psya… See 🧵 below to learn more:

Prediction is likely the most basic cognitive process, but we almost always think of it as applied forwards In some environments, though, it's more efficient to apply it backwards - estimating the actions that will likely precede a given outcome It turns out that's what we do👇

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🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 “Considering information-sharing motives to reduce misinformation” out now in Current Opinion in Psychology with affective.brain. doi.org/10.1016/j.cops… (1/n)

Beyond discrete-choice options Review by AH Hadian Rasanan , NJ Evans, laura fontanesi, Catherine (Cathy) Manning, C Huang-Pollock, Dora Matzke, Andrew Heathcote, Jörg Rieskamp, Maarten Speekenbrink, MJ Frank, Stefano Palminteri, C Lucas, J Busemeyer, R Ratcliff, & JA Rad tinyurl.com/3dsbs3zm

Computational psychiatry friends: I am teaching a seminar on CPSY for the 2nd time (previous: 2021) and want to update my syllabus. Can you help? What are your favorites* (can be your own papers!) on the following: *Ideally: easy to read & informative on both model and disorder

What drives 4-year-olds to explore? We show that children's curiosity is fuelled by novelty and learning progress, out now in Child Development! 🧵1/6 Society for Research in Child Development doi.org/10.1111/cdev.1…

The affective gradient hypothesis: an affect-centered account of motivated behavior Opinion by Amitai Shenhav (Amitai Shenhav) Free access before Nov 13: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jpv%7E_V1r-…

Our paper on the Affective Gradient Hypothesis is now out on Trends in Cognitive Sciences! 🧠 ➡️sciencedirect.com/science/articl… For a short summary of how this theory originated and what it proposes, see this 🧵: x.com/amitaishenhav/…

I’m thrilled to see this out now, & couldn’t be happier that it landed in TiCS! I already wrote a 🧵on the positive case I’m making (below). I want to briefly elaborate on the negative case: why the status quo on goals & value is in need of a new account. From my conclusion: