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We review how social identity can help change norms, promote cooperation, downplaying partisanship, or leverage other identities to promote pro-climate change beliefs & behaviors. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Via Kim Doell Philip Pärnamets @EHarrisNYU Leor Hackel Jay Van Bavel, PhD

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In work now in press, we find that people generalize reward associations from individuals to groups--and this influences their interaction choices even when past rewards no longer predict future outcomes. w/ Drew Kogon, David Amodio, & Wendy Wood: hackellab.org/groups-jesp

Our latest paper examines learning from social acceptance and rejection feedback

Delighted to have presented the work I’ve been doing at USC SLAC Lab at #SPSP2023 Thanks for stopping by and asking your questions!

Proud to share that our paper on toddlers' theory of mind has been published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology! This is my first+second year project at USC USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences ❤️A huge thanks to my advisor, Dr. Henrike Moll, and everyone who contributed to this project!

We are hiring a lab manager! This will be a joint position at the USC SLAC Lab (PI: Leor Hackel) and my lab Social Connection Lab & a wonderful opportunity to gain experience in social psych/social neuro research. Please spread the word! Apply here: usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-angele…

We're hiring a full-time lab manager at USC, to work with Elisa Baek (@elisabaek.bsky.social) and me! We study social connection & information sharing (Social Connection Lab) and social learning & choice (USC SLAC Lab) across behavior, brain, & social networks. Please share! More info: hackellab.org/application

Congratulations to PhD student Jean Luo on receiving an Honorable Mention from the NSF GRFP! 🎉

Our new work bridges Fuzzy Trace Theory and social impressions: people form two kinds of impressions (relative or categorical), which can lead to very different patterns of social choice.

We naturally size each other up, trying to figure out who we like, who's honest, who's competent. This week on the podcast, Leor Hackel shares his work on how we learn about other people and the different impressions we end up forming of them.

Implications of our latest work: 1) Social concepts make complex choices easier 2) The balance of model-based vs model-free learning may reflect conceptual ease of a model, rather than confusion re: instructions 3) RL looks different in familiar (vs novel) environments

Our latest work out in Trends in Cognitive Sciences: Simplifying Social Learning — we consider how social expertise simplifies complex reinforcement learning.

Looking forward to our symposium tomorrow at #APS24SF on "How Semantic Meaning Shapes and Is Shaped By Social Learning"! We'll explore how language facilitates social learning and develops through interaction, across self-concept, reinforcement learning, and emotion labels.

Happy to have presented our work from USC SLAC Lab at #SNE2024 which investigated learning computations guiding who people choose to connect with after rejection or acceptance

Social rejection hurts, but it also offers information we can learn from. Our latest work links the brain’s ‘social rejection’ network to learning, giving a computational account of neural responses to social rejection. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…