Tali Sharot wins the 2016 Early Career Award from the Society for Neuroeconomics
Posted: 25/09/2017
Why Facts Don’t Unify Us
A New York Times article by Cass Sunstein and Tali Sharot.
Posted: 23/08/2017
ABL will take on new PhD students
The ABL will be taking on PhD & MSc students in September 2018. Preference for students with a degree in psychology, neuroscience, biology or computer science. To apply send a short email with your CV to affective.brain (at) gmail.com
Are Choosers Losers? – A new Journal of Risk and Uncertainty paper by Bobadilla-Suarez et al.
New paper exploring the decision to delegate a decision to someone else published.
(The intrinsic value of choice: The propensity to under-delegate in the face of potential gains and losses.)
Posted: 23/08/2017
New Nature Neuroscience paper – The brain adapts to Dishonesty – by Garrett et al
New paper exploring how the brain adapts to dishonesty.
Ranked #1 (at time of publication) out of all Nature Neuroscience articles ever (~3K) to be tracked on the Altmetric Score measuring quality and quantity of online attention.
Posted: 16/03/2017
Optimistic Update for Positive Life Events?
New paper exploring asymmetric belief updating for everyday life events.
Posted: 02/06/2016
How Do Feelings Predict Choice?
New paper published in Psychological Science examines how feelings are transformed into decisions when we make choices.
Posted: 14/04/2016
Forming Beliefs: Why Valence Matters
New opinion piece, published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Forming Beliefs: Why Valence Matters.
Posted: 23/12/2015
Frontal subcortical circuity associated with asymmetric belief updating
New paper, published in Journal of Neuroscience, examining frontal–subcortical circuity associated with asymmetric belief updating.
Posted: 03/11/2015
Beliefs about self-creation inflate value in the human brain
New paper, published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience examining how beliefs about self-creation inflate value in the human brain.
Posted: 03/11/2015
