In the first #SANS2026 session on social learning @csavasegal.bsky.social shows that self-generated interpretations anchor how we remember ambiguous social info, even when others offer a different take, and how neural shifts help us make the shift

The Cognitive Tools Lab at Stanford (cogtoolslab.github.io) is recruiting two new research staff members to join in AY 26-27.
Full-Time Lab Manager: forms.gle/UVwfx5wbY9Km....
IRiSS Predoc Researcher: iriss.stanford.edu/predoc/2026-....
Please share widely in your networks, thank you!!

Saving SBE Starts Before the Bill Is Written The FY2027 NSF budget request is alarming, but Congress has not made it law. That means there is still time for researchers and universities to act.

I wrote this article to explain in plain English what is happening with the proposed 2027 NSF budget & why so many social psychologists are alarmed.

THE GOOD NEWS: Congress has not finalized this yet. We have time to change Republican politicians’ minds.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/saving...

Very happy that this paper from our lab is now out in @pnas.org! What happens when the *same* person experiences the *same* information with a *different* interpretation? Nearly the whole 🧠—well, at least nearly all association cortex—changes how it represents that information! tinyurl.com/p8chj2j7

Thrilled to release this year’s program for the Shared Reality Virtual Conference (Mar 24-25)!!

Register here to receive the Zoom link (free!):
universityofhouston.iad1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Organized with: @emmamiller.bsky.social @abdoe.bsky.social @changlu-cl.bsky.social

Excited to share new work on how the brain makes social inferences from visual input! 🧠👯‍♂️
(With @lisik.bsky.social , @shariliu.bsky.social, @tianminshu.bsky.social , and Minjae Kim!) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I highly recommend working with Emma, she is amazing! So kind and so brilliant.

If you're interested in studying conversation, there is no one better.

Apply apply apply!!!

New preprint from Lindsey Tepfer (@ltjaql.bsky.social) and me! We silenced portions of internal monologues in two films to manipulate participants' access to characters' thoughts. Using ISC and RSA, we found that this aligned later neural processing of the narrative & encoding of trait impressions.

Just a human here 🙏 Writing this with my actual hands—no AI involved ✨
Key takeaways:
- Authenticity matters
- Connection is key
- I have real emotions
At the end of the day, genuine expression is what sets us apart 🫶 Thoughts? 👇

Birth Lottery If you were reborn today, where would you land? And how would that change your life?

Giving what we can has implemented a fun game where you spin a globe to see how your starting point in life would compare if you were reborn today, randomly somewhere on earth.

www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery

Frog & Toad is out with this shirt in the wake of this weekend’s tragedy at Brown, an homage to the Mad Peck & the spirit of Providence.

Congrats Alex!!!!

🧠 New paper alert! Can people infer others’ values not from what they choose, but simply from what comes to mind? Across four studies, we show they can—drawing on an intuitive theory of how options are generated.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106238
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😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

LIVE: Zohran Mamdani delivers victory speech in New York City YouTube video by ABC News

Listen to the whole speech. This is history. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7ys...

sososo well deserved!! love your insta posts :-) congrats lindsay!!

I will be recruiting 🌟PhD students🌟 for my newish lab! If you're interested in learning & memory mechanisms applied to individual, interactive & collective behavior using computational modeling, real-world experiments and fMRI, email me! RTs much appreciated 🙏 rouhanilab.com

We're excited to announce that Cognitive Science at Dartmouth is recruiting PhD students to work collaboratively with me, Steven Frankland, and Fred Callaway. Come study the principles and mechanisms that enable us to understand, plan, and act in the world! Info: sites.dartmouth.edu/cogscigrad/

Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others Nature Communications - When learning to make choices that simultaneously affect the self and others, asymmetric encoding of information guides future social behaviors across mutually beneficial,...

📢 Thrilled to share our paper is out now in @natcomms.nature.com

Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly

🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ

Fully-funded 4-year #PhD in Cultural Evolution! Join my @erc.europa.eu project exploring how compression & compositionality drive cultural innovation: hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur...
Apply by Nov 12!
Maybe of interest to folks from #COSMOS2025 or @eslr.bsky.social? Please feel free to share! 🙏

1/6 Excited to see our NMH paper featured here for #WorldMentalHealthDay! rdcu.be/dYl7T

Many psychiatric symptoms are inherently social. @xiaosigu.bsky.social, @joebarnby.com, & I call for cognitive models that reflect processes most relevant to our questions, esp. for those about social symptoms🧵

I'm recruiting grad students!! 🎓

The CoDec Lab @ NYU (codec-lab.github.io) is looking for PhD students (Fall 2026) interested in computational approaches to social cognition & problem solving 🧠

Applications through Psych (tinyurl.com/nyucp) are due Dec 1. Reach out with Qs & please repost! 🙏

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Ahhh congrats Haoxue!!! 👏

Best summer school ever!! Thanks so much to @thecharleywu.bsky.social and @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social for being amazing organizers and for cultivating such a lovely community 💗

📢 My lab at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine is considering graduate student applications this fall

We welcome applicants interested in using computational modeling & fMRI to study social connection

🗓️ Deadline: December 1, 2025
🔗 Learn more: sinclaboratory.com/apply

#comppsychiatry #socialneuro

How to make a choice when the options suck | Amitai Shenhav | TEDxNewEngland YouTube video by TEDx Talks

I'm happy to now be able to share a talk I gave at TEDx New England last Fall! 

The talk is about our lab's work on what makes decisions costly, and how to make them less so.

I discuss lessons for all kinds of decisions, including getting people to vote.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeHg...

New Open dataset alert:
🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience!

N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks!

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Information for prospective graduate students The Translational Lab will be reviewing applications this cycle! Prospective students can apply through Clinical Science or Cognitive and Computational Sciences in the Emory Psychology Department to ...

I'll be reviewing computational/cognitive and clinical psychology applications this year for the Translational Lab at Emory 💭🔬

Please share broadly and send applicants my way! 🔄

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I emailed them yesterday and they said they're updating it to "reflect new guidelines." Also mentioned that the deadline would likely be pushed back for this cycle