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My Ph.D at the Affective Brain Lab explored how valence \u2013 whether a piece of news is good or bad \u2013 influences the extent to which information is integrated and used to revise beliefs about ourself, our future and the future of those around us. Alongside this I pursued a separate strand of research examining the role of emotional adaptation in dishonesty (read more about this project here<\/a>).<\/p>\n I am excited to continue these areas of research and others as I continue my career as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute.<\/p>\n Contact: <\/strong>Contact: ngarrett (at) princeton.edu\u00a0(email<\/a>)<\/p>\n Website: www.neilgarrett.org<\/a><\/p>\n Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n Garrett, N.,<\/strong> Lazzaro, S., Ariely, D. & Sharot, T. (2016) The brain adapts to dishonesty<\/a>. Nature Neuroscience.<\/em><\/p>\n Garrett, N.<\/strong>\u00a0&\u00a0Sharot, T.\u00a0(in press)\u00a0Optimistic Update Bias Holds Firm: Three Tests of Robustness Following Shah et al (for a concise version of this paper, see:\u00a0<\/em>The Myth of a Pessimistic View of Optimistic Belief Updating \u2013 a Commentary on Shah et al.<\/a>\u00a0SSRN<\/em>.)<\/p>\n Garrett, N.<\/strong> &\u00a0Sharot, T. (2016)\u00a0Optimistic Update for Positive Life Events? An Unbiased Test<\/a>,\u00a0SSRN.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Sharot, T.\u00a0<\/strong>&\u00a0Garrett, N.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(2016)\u00a0Forming Beliefs: Why Valence Matters<\/a>,\u00a0Trends in Cognitive Sciences.\u00a0<\/em>20(1).<\/p>\n Moutsiana, C.,\u00a0Charpentier, C.,\u00a0Garrett, N.<\/strong>, Cohen, M.X. &\u00a0Sharot, T.\u00a0<\/strong>(2015)\u00a0Human frontal-subcortical circuit and asymmetric belief updating<\/a>,\u00a0Journal of Neuroscience<\/em>.\u00a035<\/i>(42): 14077-14085.<\/p>\n Garrett, N.<\/strong>, Sharot, T., Faulkner P., Korn C. W., Roiser J. P. & Dolan R. J. (2014)\u00a0Losing the rose tinted glasses: neural substrates of unbiased belief updating in depression.<\/a> Frontiers in Human Neuroscience,<\/i> 8:639.<\/p>\n Garrett, N.\u00a0<\/strong>&\u00a0Sharot, T.\u00a0(2014) How robust is the optimistic update bias for estimating self-risk and population base rates?<\/a>\u00a0PLoS ONE<\/em>, \u00a09(6): e98848.<\/p>\n Charpentier, C.,\u00a0Moutsiana, C.,\u00a0Garrett, N.<\/strong>\u00a0&\u00a0Sharot, T.\u00a0(2014)\u00a0The Brain’s Temporal Dynamics from a Collective Decision to Individual Action<\/a>.\u00a0Journal of Neuroscience<\/em>, 34(17): 5816-5823.<\/p>\n Moutsiana, C., Garrett, N.<\/strong>, Clarke, R.C., Lotto, R.B., Blakemore, S.J. & Sharot, T. (2013) Human development of the ability to learn from bad news<\/a>. Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em>,\u00a0110 (41): 16396\u201316401.<\/p>\n