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Posts by Amitai Shenhav

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Behavioral Lab Manager in Los Angeles, California | The Regents of the University of California on behalf of their Los Angeles Campus UCLA is hiring a Behavioral Lab Manager in Los Angeles, California. Review all of the job details and apply today!

The Behavioral Lab at the UCLA Anderson School of Management is looking to hire its next Lab Manager! Applications will be reviewed starting April 30th.

jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/10354?l...

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Excited for @ncmsociety.bsky.social in ~3 weeks, in Kobe Japan! Here is a preview of my labs' posters this year:

#NCMKobe

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For those attending @ncmsociety.bsky.social this week, come check out posters and talks from the Physical Intelligence Lab! #NCM #MotorLearning #CognitiveNeuroscience

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Excited to be at #SANS2026! Looking forward to talking about information seeking about threat and reuniting with lovely colleagues. Come say hi!

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If anyone is looking for a lab manager or RA (full or part-time), let me know. One of the most meticulous and detailed people that I know is looking for a position. They did a M.A. in psych with me here at Cornell.

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Congratulations Sydney!! 🎉🎉 U-Minnesota is lucky to have you.

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How children remember time changes dramatically as they grow up & understanding that shift matters more than you might think.

Two new papers from the lab's newest PhD, Dr. Owen Friend, explore what that difference looks like & what it tells us about the developing brain 🧠

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PhD researcher for the project: Cognitive Control and Multitasking in the Digital Age We are looking for a motivated PhD researcher to study the behavioral and neural dynamics between cognitive control and multitasking in young and aging populations.

We’re hiring!
Interested in conducting research on cognitive control, multitasking and aging with @gethinhughes.bsky.social, @sarahdepue.bsky.social and me?
We are looking for a PhD candidate to join our lab @cogtex.bsky.social at KU Leuven.
RTs much appreciated!
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

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We’ve got an exciting new thing to share! We have causal evidence (using TMR) that memory reactivation during sleep promotes abstract understanding of underlying structure, allowing transfer learning in a new domain with zero superficial feature overlap with the learned one.

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New paper: Jamil Zaki and I integrate theories of empathy + emotion regulation to describe how therapists have to regulate a "therapeutic emotional circuit" in each session. Lots of applications and avenues for new research. Just published in CPS! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Really excited about our new work on aphasia! Even in fairly profound aphasia, we can recover semantic maps through visual stimuli and use them to decode language. This is a big step! Language BCIs in aphasia might be possible!

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My amazing @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social colleague--Gio Ramos @gramos.bsky.social--has been selected for two highly competitive, NIH-funded training opportunities. The mHealth Training Institute (mHTI) and the Research in Implementation Science for Engagement (RISE)!
Congratulations, Gio!

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Blunted anticipatory pleasure, but not consummatory pleasure, is longitudinally linked to depression symptoms in college students - Motivation and Emotion Motivation and Emotion - Blunted anticipatory and consummatory pleasure has been linked to depression symptoms, particularly anhedonic depression. The current study (1) investigated whether such...

New paper lead by my fab grad student Quynh Nguyen (who is on the postdoc job market btw) 🧵link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11031-0...

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Very excited to share our newest preprint, from @angelashen.bsky.social & me!

In this project, we want to ask how multiple sources of uncertainty--internal & external--combine to influence the quantitative relationship between visual performance and metacognition.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

🧵👇

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At #ADAA2026? Friday 8:30a (Sup B) see exciting new results presented by @dalezhou.bsky.social, with @talliezee.bsky.social, Laura Glynn, Elysia Davis, Daniel Stout, Victoria Risbrough & @mikeyassa.bsky.social: "Early-Life Unpredictability and the Neural and Computational Timescales of Integration"

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about the lab – cognitive tools lab

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!!

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Protect Academic Life in Iran We, the undersigned academics and researchers from around the world, express our profound concern over recent military strikes on Iran, the retaliatory responses, and the reported impact on civilian l...

Academic friends,
It's beyond heartbreaking to watch what's unfolding in Iran & the region.
A few of us drafted an open letter calling for protection of civilians & of educational, research, medical & cultural institutions.

Please read & sign if you agree:
sites.google.com/view/protect...

#IranWar

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CAMP Lab | about The CAMP Lab at the University of Iowa uses computational, neuroimaging, pharmacological, and neuromodulation approaches to understand motivation, affect, and decision-making — and how these processes...

I'm SO pleased to announce that I'll be starting as an Asst Prof at @psychiowa.bsky.social this August.

The lab will focus on neural & computational mechanisms of motivation, affect, & decision-making, with the aspirational goal of translation to neuropsychiatric disorders. 🧠
yeelabneuro.com

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Cerebellar contributions to action and cognition: Prediction, timescale, and continuity | PNAS The cerebellum is implicated in nearly every domain of human cognition, yet our understanding of how this subcortical structure contributes to cogn...

Link to paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Come check out the lab's work at CDS!

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Dataset of cortical and subcortical single neuron activity during value-based tasks in macaque monkey - Scientific Data Scientific Data - Dataset of cortical and subcortical single neuron activity during value-based tasks in macaque monkey

Want a dataset to test ideas on neural basis of decision making or how areas interact as we make choices? Check out our data published today @rudebecklab.bsky.social. >16,000 single neurons from 22 anatomically confirmed areas in macaques performing a decision task. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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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...

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The Causality in Cognition Lab -- a supportive, bluesky-colored team -- is looking for a predoc to join us! Here are infos about the lab (cicl.stanford.edu) and the position (careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p...). The application deadline is May 1st.

Please share, thank you 🙏

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How Kids Learn the Power of Persistence Teaching: Lesson plans to teach students cutting-edge research on parenting and introduce feedback loops and expectancy-value theory.

A new Teaching Current Directions highlights a paper from @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social and @reutshachnai.bsky.social and offers an opportunity to teach students about cutting‑edge research on #parenting. #Psychology #Teaching

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Full-time research coordinator position at UC Berkeley.
Ideal for folk aiming 4 graduate study in clinical/health psychology who enjoys managing data and using R.

This job posting is now listed on UC Berkeley Careers! In case helpful, you can use the Job ID #85111 to find the listing.

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I’m a little late on this announcement, but ...

🚨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT!🚨

Our work looking at the (in)stability of the evidence accumulation process over the course of a single decision is finally out at PLoS Comp Bio.

See thread below for the summary.

journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

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APA PsycNet

How do people search for information to make efficient decisions?

Our new theory, now out in Psychological Review, suggests that an efficient search rule is (at the core of) the answer. And eye-tracking data support our theory.

Check out here (it's open access): psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

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new preprint! 🐍
In a dynamic Snake game inspired task, we show participants flexibly replan their behaviors after distraction, but this ability is constrained by memory load and distraction strength.
EEG results coming soon👀

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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New lab paper! We built a new computational model that explains several disparate observations about the conditions that promote (or hinder) associative learning. Main finding is that different kinds of experience (blocked, interleaved) have opposing effect at high vs low memory capacity. 🧵 below!

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🚨NEW PREPRINT (w/ Fleming Peck & Hongjing Lu)

"Spontaneous emergence of context-dependent statistical learning in humans and neural networks"

We are constantly predicting what will happen next. Yet the same cue can lead to different predictions depending on context.

How might this work...? 🧵1/8

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