New paper accepted in Current Directions Association for Psychological Science, with Anastasia Shuster @diegoareinero Jay Van Bavel, PhD : "A value-based framework for understanding cooperation" Pre-print: psyarxiv.com/bkn3j/ 1/3

Both an inspiring and terrifying thread for someone like me who’s in the beginning of my academic career!

Not only viruses spread! Our new Nature Rev Neurosci paper with Ewelina Knapska and @B_Lindstroem reviews cross-species research on the spread of threats, and other value-based information through social learning rdcu.be/b2SSZ

"Is there a 'social' brain? implementations and algorithms' new paper with Prof. Matthew Apps & Steve W. C. Chang in Trends in Cognitive Sciences! sciencedirect.com/science/articl… thread below👇

Super happy to announce our new paper "Integration of social cues and individual experiences during instrumental avoidance learning" w Andreas Olsson out now #openaccess in PLOS Comp Biol journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a… 1/

Great new work by PhD-student Lisa Espinosa and Johan Kleberg @bjo_hof Steve Berggren @bolte_sven out in Molecular Autism showing stronger vicarious threat learning in individuals with ASD vs controls in spite of less attention to the demonstrators' face rdcu.be/b7Kiv

Excited about our new findings on vicarious extinction with postdoc Yafeng Pan and former postdoc Armita Golkar, now out in Behaviour Research and Therapy. See thread below..

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It is a myth that humans should be negatively biased in their judgements of potential sickness in strangers. We show that hunter–gatherers with no experience of sick Westerns can be entirely objective in their assessments.

Social observation (in humans and rats) recovers memories previously shaped by first-hand experiences pnas.org/content/118/30… Our new study led by @janhaaker & Lorenzo Diaz-Mataix out in PNASNews! Together with a great Int'l team Joseph E. LeDoux "The Four Realms of Existence" Gemma Guillazo-Blanch Sara Stark Lea Kern

📢Check out our new preprint "Help or flight: Neural defensive circuits promote helping under threat in humans" bioRxiv Neuroscience, with Andreas Olsson. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Excited about our next speaker at the Karolinska Institutet Psychology Speaker Series - DanielKahneman ki.se/cns/karolinska… More info and sign up 👇!

Excited to share our new paper on prosocial decision-making in alcohol use disorder (AUD) in Biological Psychiatry: CNNI, doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc… w/ @B_Lindstroem, Lotfi Khemiri, Philip Pärnamets, Nitya Jayaram-Lindström and Andreas Olsson.

Our paper Neural defensive circuits underlie helping under threat in humans elifesciences.org/articles/78162 is now out in eLife - the journal! with Andreas Olsson

Super happy to see our paper "Acute anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with higher levels of everyday altruism" rdcu.be/cYTWh finally published at Scientific Reports. With Stephen Pierzchajlo Simon Jangard Abigail Marsh and Andreas Olsson 🧵

Glad to be part of this preprint looking at some of the consequences of political polarization during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Soon there will be a PhD position opening up in our group at Stockholm University on the neural mechanism during social emotion regulation with Armita Golkar - keep your eyes open!

Excited to share a new paper on Striatal Dopamine D2 receptor availability as a predictor in the development of alcohol use disorder (AUD) in Addiction: doi.org/10.1111/add.16… w/ N. J-Lindström, Nils Hentati Isacsson, Granville Matheson, P. P-Sigray, J. Franck, J. Borg, and Simon Cervenka

Our opinion paper The convergence between defence and care in mammals is out today at Trends in Cognitive Sciences! With Andreas Olsson 🧵 authors.elsevier.com/a/1j5He4sIRvTA…