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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…

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 @GenPsychLab . 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 🔁

Older adults were more influenced by impulsive economic decisions made by others in comparison to young adults. Zhilin Su | 蘇致霖 | zhilinsu.bsky.social Mona Garvert Lei Zhang | 张磊 (@lei-zhang.bsky.social) Sanjay Manohar Todd Vogel Dr Lou Thomas (she/they) Dr Joshua Henk Balsters Masud Husain Prof. Matthew Apps Patricia Lockwood nature.com/articles/s4427…

🎉 My first ever PhD paper is finally live 🎉 How does ageing affect susceptibility to social influence?

💥I'm thrilled to announce that our paper "A reward self-bias leads to more optimal foraging for ourselves than others" is now published in Scientific Reports! 🧵Curious how self-bias shapes dynamic decision-making? Read it here: nature.com/articles/s4159…