We Motivation & Social Neuroscience (MSN) lab are seeking a postdoc to work on Wellcome trust/ERC grants to examine the cognitive, computational & neural basis of human motivation & decision-making. jobs.ac.uk/job/DDS251/r.... This is a 2.5 year post initially with possibility of extension. Deadline November 17th.

Science supports Bob Marley's claim that "one great thing about music" is "when it hits you, you feel no pain" - new work McGill University by Mathieu Roy, Darius Valevicius and others is getting lots of attention this week including this The Washington Post article: washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/11…

We (Margot Guéguen Todd Vogel, and I, The Centre for Human Brain Health) are @ the Nobel Symposium on The Social Brain, celebrating 50 years since the Nobel Prize for individual and social behaviour patterns. Amazing line up Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore Valeria Gazzola Oriel FeldmanHall Weizhe Hong Catherine Dulac and many others!

Discussion Forum on my "Rethinking Norm Psychology", edited by Daniel Kelly. journals.sagepub.com/topic/collecti…. 14 great commentaries by Pete Richerson, Kim Sterelny, Ross Pain, Kati Kish Bar-On, Ehud Lamm إيهود 🟣, Jonathan Birch, Susana Monso, Richard Moore, Patricia Lockwood ...

“Social psychology: Predicting other people’s attention to understand their mind” new commentary, and first PhD paper!! With the wonderful Margot Guéguen in Communications Psychology nature.com/articles/s4427…

“Older adults are more susceptible to impulsive social influence” new pre-print led by brilliant PhD student Zhilin Su | 蘇致霖 and fun collaboration with many others! Inc. Mona Garvert Lei Zhang | 张磊 (@lei-zhang.bsky.social) Prof. Matthew Apps Todd Vogel Sanjay Manohar Masud Husain osf.io/preprints/psya…

⭐️One week left to apply!!⭐️Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition will take place on the beautiful Uni of Birmingham campus 15th-17th July compsoccog.com. Fantastic set of speakers & instructors inc. Wolfram Schultz Cecilia Heyes Christian Ruff.

Neural and computational mechanisms of effort under the pressure of a deadline biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci

🌟🌟🌟Research Assistant/Lab manager position in sdn-lab.org 🌟🌟🌟Details and application here: tinyurl.com/RAsdnlab. We are looking for a new research assistant to join our team and contribute to projects on decision-making. Deadline 19th May. Please RT!

Our new preprint shows that nature exposure relieves acute pain🌳 Watching virtual nature leads to lower pain ratings and less activity in brain patterns linked to early stages of pain processing 🧠 A short🧵 (1/5) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🚨 Our School (UoB) has several funded 4y PhD positions, with a substantial teaching component, starting this fall; UK ONLY APPLICANTS. Please email me (CV + cover letter + any questions) by May 20 if you are interested in a PhD in neuroeconomics/decision neuro. Please RT!

🌎New preprint!🌍 osf.io/preprints/psya… There is an urgent need to choose behaviours that mitigate climate change. But these actions are often more effortful. How can we increase pro-environmental motivation? Jointly led with L. Sebastian Contreras-Huerta & amazing international team 👇🧵

Human ventromedial prefrontal cortex is necessary for prosocial motivation nature.com/articles/s4156… with Jo Cutler Sanjay Manohar + many others. We show multiple causal roles of vmPFC in prosocial motivation, effort and reward in a rare large cohort with focal vmPFC damage

Finally out!🤩✨ Check out my first paper at: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Many thanks to my awesome collaborators 💖 Choong-Wan (Wani) Woo Jae-Joong Lee tor wager Myunghwan (Mark) Choi and Dr. Han!!

Excited to share a new preprint with Selma Lugtmeijer (she/her) and Prof. Matthew Apps! osf.io/preprints/psya… Our review synthesises recent findings to build a neuroeconomic framework of effort-based decisions The Centre for Human Brain Health School of Psychology, University of Birmingham

CSC summer school group projects featuring our own Todd Vogel The Centre for Human Brain Health School of Psychology, University of Birmingham Leiden University

Does learning context bias cognitive effort evaluations? A study with Sophie Desjardins and with Mathieu Roy (among others) suggests that effort evaluation, like everything else, "is all relative" link.springer.com/article/10.375…

Our new meta-analysis suggests that mental effort feels unpleasant across a VERY wide range of populations and tasks. 🙇👎 Now in Psychological Bulletin: psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/bu… APA Journals w/ Louise David and Eliana Vassena 👏 (1/8)

Join us!!! The ACC B Lab is looking for a postdoc to work with us on the neural and computational mechanisms of flexible decision-making, collaborating with Shenhav Lab and General Psychology Lab . Learn more and apply here: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

🌟 Research Assistant opportunity 🌟 I'm looking for an RA to support new projects The Centre for Human Brain Health School of Psychology, University of Birmingham on social information seeking and decision making inc. fMRI and MEG 🧠 Details: tinyurl.com/ra-uob-chbh Deadline: 24th September ⏳ Get in touch w/ questions 👋 Please share 🔁