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Jo Cutler

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Wellcome Trust Early Career Research Fellow @thechbh.bsky.social, University of Birmingham tinyurl.com/Helpful-Brain Prosocial decisions, kindness, charity, neuroscience, modelling, ageing

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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
New paper! With @drdanielcm.bsky.social we asked: 📰 how brains respond to news that people’s lives are at risk 📈 if responses increase with the number of people at risk (like amounts of money) 🌍 whether responses differ for people in your own country compared to abroad Find out below 🧵👇
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
One week left to apply!
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
@thechbh.bsky.social @uob-sop.bsky.social
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Please note this is a role suited for pre-PhD research experience. The start date is unfortunately not flexible and applicants will need the right to work in the UK to start the role in person in September. Visa sponsorship to extend an existing visa during the post is possible.
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
🌟 Research Assistant opportunity 🌟 I'm looking for an RA to support research at The Centre for Human Brain Health (CHBH) on social information seeking and decision making, including fMRI and MEG 🧠 tinyurl.com/uob-chbh-ra Deadline: 19th July, 23:59 UK time ⏳ Start: 7th September 🗓️ Please share 🔁
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Research Associate - School of Psychology - 104433 - Grade 6
We welcome applications for a Research Associate / Lab Manager in the Centre for Human Brain Health (CHBH). The CHBH is a friendly, productive, and supportive environment where all colleagues can thri...
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Hayley Dorfman @hayleydorfman.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
🔭 Did you miss out on the inaugural Curiosity, Information-Seeking, & Exploration conference? Videos of our entire 2-day program are now available: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #CISE2025 @socforneuroecon.bsky.social @drjocutler.bsky.social
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Curiosity, Exploration and Information Seeking Conference 2025 - YouTube
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Damian Cruse @damiancruse.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
🚨 Fully funded PhD scholarship to work with me, Ali Mazaheri, Dhruv Parekh, and Katrien Segaert at the University of Birmingham on new brain-based tools to improve diagnoses of consciousness after severe brain injury. 🚨 Deadline: 9th January 2026 Full details and application form: lnkd.in/ejZkfFbW
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Humanities & Social Sciences @hss.springernature.com · 19/11/2025
🔍 Behind the Paper: 'Boosting climate motivation with psychological interventions'. Actions that protect the environment are crucial but often require effort, which people avoid. 🔗Read more here: go.nature.com/4ou8b6K. #AcademicPublishing #psychresearch @drjocutler.bsky.social
Flooded road with a red and white triangular "Flood" sign in the foreground. Water covers the road and surrounding fields, reaching up to a wooden fence line. Bare trees and buildings are visible in the distance under a clear sky.
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Emma Scholey @emmavscholey.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Excited to share our preprint on variability in patch leaving decisions! Check out the 🧵 below
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Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · 06/11/2025
Pro-environmental actions often require effort. Participants were less motivated to help the climate than a food charity, but two interventions removed this bias. Computational modelling linked climate motivation with pro-environmental traits. @drjocutler.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Psychological interventions that decrease psychological distance or challenge system justification increase motivation to exert effort to mitigate climate change - Communications Psychology
Pro-environmental actions often require effort. Participants were less motivated to help the climate than a food charity, but two interventions removed this bias. Computational modelling linked climat...
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
All resources needed to run and analyse the Pro-Environmental Effort Task are publicly available for future research: osf.io/zv2tu/
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Read more about the story behind the project here - communities.springernature.com/posts/boosti... Thanks to all the co-authors across @sdnl.bsky.social, @msnlab.bsky.social, @thechbh.bsky.social, @uob-sop.bsky.social, @scanunit.bsky.social & others
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Boosting climate motivation with psychological interventions
Actions that protect the environment are crucial but often require effort, which people avoid. In a large international collaboration, we identified psychological interventions that can effectively bo...
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Finally, we found that people who believe climate change is man-made and support policies to protect the planet had higher pro-environmental motivation specifically. People lower in trait apathy and who rated the task as less effortful were more likely to help both causes.
Figure showing plots for the correlations described in the post text
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Using computational modelling, we showed that these effective interventions changed how rewards 💰 for the climate 🌍 (vs. food charity) were devalued by effort 💪. This was independent of how noisy participants' choices were 🤔
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Two interventions robustly decreased the preference to help food over climate, across measures and analyses. These interventions: - decreased psychological distance to the negative effects of climate change - used system justification theory to promote pro-environmental action
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
We tested the 11 expert-sourced interventions from the International Climate Psychology Collaboration led by @madalina.bsky.social, @kimdoell.bsky.social, @jbakcoleman.bsky.social & @jayvanbavel.bsky.social See doi.org/10.1126/scia... & doi.org/10.1038/s415... (all the data are freely available!)
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The International Climate Psychology Collaboration: Climate change-related data collected from 63 countries - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - The International Climate Psychology Collaboration: Climate change-related data collected from 63 countries
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
People were more willing to exert effort when: 💪 the effort required was 🔽 💰 the reward available was 🔼 In the control group without intervention, motivation was higher to provide food than mitigate climate change 🌍 ➡️ Interventions that promote climate motivation are key
Effort, reward, and cause determine choices to exert effort for the climate and food charities | a Participants in the control group, who did not experience a pro-environmental intervention, chose to exert physical effort for rewards more when the level of effort required was lower. b Choices to work were also higher when the reward available was larger. c Control participants were more willing to choose work to help the food charity compared to the climate charity.
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
3,055 ppts from 6 countries 🇧🇬🇬🇷🇳🇬🇸🇪🇬🇧🇺🇸 did our new online Pro-Environmental Effort Task ✨ the PEET ✨ On each trial, they choose between rest or work: exerting effort by clicking boxes to earn more credits 💪 Credits were donations to a climate charity 🌍 or a matched control food charity
Task diagram of the PEET with choices between work and rest for the climate and food charities
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
With @todorova.bsky.social, @jonasnitschke.bsky.social, @katerinamichalaki.bsky.social, @linakoppel.bsky.social, @tgkinopoulos.bsky.social, @toddvogel.bsky.social, @clauslamm.bsky.social, @danielvastfjall.bsky.social, @mtsakiris.bsky.social, @brainapps.bsky.social & @thepsychologist.bsky.social
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
🌎 New paper in @commspsychol.nature.com 🌍 doi.org/10.1038/s442... There is an urgent need to choose behaviours that mitigate climate change, but these are often more effortful. Can we increase pro-environmental motivation? Joint w/ Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta & amazing international team 👇🧵
Images show effortful pro-environmental behaviours of recycling and cycling and alternatives of an overflowing bin or driving
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Kübra Fethiye Karataş @kubrafkaratas.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Does dopamine modulate the willingness to help? New Psychology Today post, "How Dopamine Affects Our Motivation to Help Others", written by me, with special thanks to @drjocutler.bsky.social and @thepsychologist.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-...
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How Dopamine Affects Our Motivation to Help Others
New research shows patients with Parkinson's disease were more willing to help others after taking their dopamine-boosting medication.
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Matthew Apps @brainapps.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Looking for a PhD? Interested in cognitive computational neuroscience, motivation and decision-making? See our project listed in the BBSRC MIBTP competition for funding for a 4-year PhD in the @msnlab.bsky.social in the @thechbh.bsky.social. Deadline 27/11. More info: tinyurl.com/5d5vz8m7
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The computational and neural dynamics of human motivation and cognitive control at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - The computational and neural dynamics of human motivation and cognitive control at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Great to see this out! Exciting work led by @shawnrhoadsphd.com on how we learn when actions affect ourselves and others 🧠 w/ @aa-marsh.bsky.social, @k-oconnell.com, Kathryn Berluti, & Lin Gan plus @thepsychologist.bsky.social & me @sdnl.bsky.social, @thechbh.bsky.social, @uob-sop.bsky.social
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Thank you so much to everyone who came and to our sponsors @carneyinstitute.bsky.social, Brown CoPsy, Brown Neuro, @unibirmingham.bsky.social, UoB College of Life & Environmental Sciences & @thechbh.bsky.social
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
… George Loewenstein, @modirshanechi.bsky.social, @russell-golman.bsky.social, @vgonzalez.bsky.social, @carocharp.bsky.social, @doctor-bob.bsky.social, @katenuss.bsky.social, @haoxuefan.bsky.social plus so many great short & blitz talks and posters
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I had so much fun organising #CISE2025 conference on Curiosity, Information Seeking & Exploration with Romy Frömer, @hayleydorfman.bsky.social, Ohad Dan, Matt Nassar, Tali Sharot & Jacqueline Gottlieb at beautiful Brown University then hearing about all the amazing research from our speakers…
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Thank you so much for your great talk Valeria and it was lovely to meet you!
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Hayley Dorfman @hayleydorfman.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
We’re kicking off day 2 of #CISE2025 🔭 with a fun talk from George Loewenstein on his tour de force research program on information gap theory
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
George Loewenstein summarizing 30 yrs of brilliant studies on curiosity and desire for information (or a desire to not know, eg likely bad news) #CISE2025 at Brown Univ
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Hayley Dorfman @hayleydorfman.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Successful first CISE poster session at beautiful Brown! #CISE2025 🔭
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Great start to the travels @univ-amu.fr in beautiful Marseille. Next up Providence for CISE 2025, Boston @socforneuroecon.bsky.social, and New York
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Emma Scholey @emmavscholey.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Early bird registration for "The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025" conference ends on 30th September! This meeting provides a multidisciplinary perspective on the neural, behavioural and computational mechanisms of foraging across species. uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis... Please share!
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Great to have @mjgruber.bsky.social visit @chbh.bsky.social @uob-sop.bsky.social today and give a great talk on curiosity, exploration & memory 🧠
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David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I had a fantastic time at the Computational Social Cognition Summer School at U of Birmingham! What an amazing resource & opportunity for students. Thanks to organizers @drjocutler.bsky.social Lei Zhang and @thepsychologist.bsky.social & the speakers, instructors, and students!
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Bethan Barrett @bethanbarrett.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
So great to share plans for my upcoming online study and broader PhD with brilliant minds at my first conference #BAP2025 and fantastic computational modelling workshop #CSC2025! osf.io/7fqbe
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felixhermans.bsky.social @felixhermans.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Had a great time attending the Birmingham-Leiden Computational Social Cognition Summer School this week! Thanks to everyone who was part of #CSC2025 and especially to @drjocutler.bsky.social & @lei-zhang.bsky.social for leading the organization! 10/10 would recommend! More info on www.compsoccog.com
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Kartik Rai @krai13.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
#Day2 #CSC2025 keynote on on modelling prejudices in social interactions by @davidamodio.bsky.social followed by a comprehensive tutorial on drifting diffusion modelling. 📊 Day ended with a walking tour of the city ✌️
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
#CSC2025 participants enjoying a @positivelybrum.bsky.social walking tour around the city centre
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Kartik Rai @krai13.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
#Day1 #CSC2025 Amazing insights on neural dynamics of good conversation by Prof. Diana Tamir from Princeton Uni. Followed by lectures on effort based discounting modelling.
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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 03/09/2025
🧠 We're hiring a computational postdoc! 3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN. Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data. DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5
Computational postdoc ad for KCL funded by the Wellcome Trust on the NEPTUNE project
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Social Decision Neuroscience Lab @sdnl.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Amazing kick start to the Birmingham - Leiden #CSC2025 summer school from @drjocutler.bsky.social with her introductory lecture "Introduction to Computational Modelling: Theory"
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Evidence-based advice for #CSC2025 participants at the start of @dianatamir.bsky.social’s keynote: over the next few days just get into conversations with people - you’ll probably both enjoy it more than you expected!
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Meghna, Lily and Jonny are ready to greet everyone in the Link for our poster reception 👋
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
@brainapps.bsky.social, Jennifer Cook, Romy Froemer, @toddvogel.bsky.social, @annesaulin.bsky.social, Alicia Rybicki, @selmalugtmeijer.bsky.social, @emmavscholey.bsky.social, @kdudzikowska.bsky.social & @meghnaa.bsky.social
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Featuring @dianatamir.bsky.social, @davidamodio.bsky.social, Matthew Rushworth, @lei-zhang.bsky.social, @arkadykonovalov.bsky.social, Anna van Duijvenvoorde, @alosecaatv.bsky.social, Marc-Lluís Vives Moya, @mkwittmann.bsky.social, Franz Wurm, Ili Ma, @thepsychologist.bsky.social ...
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Today's the day we welcome over 80 participants, instructors & keynote speakers from all over the world to @uob-sop.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social for the Computational Social Cognition (CSC) Summer School with @leidenpsychology.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social #CSC2025 www.compsoccog.com
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Motivation and Social Neuroscience (MSN) Lab @msnlab.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Abstract submission open for The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025 (University of Birmingham, 3–5 November) A multidisciplinary event exploring the neural, behavioural and computational foundations of foraging across species: uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis... Deadline: August 17, 2025
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Ali Mahmoodi @alimahmoodi.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
We have a Research Assistant position available in Rushworth Lab to help us with projects involving fMRI, TMS, and TUS. Find out more here my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Andy Bagshaw @bagshaap.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham is looking for a new Head of School: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNS973/h... Get in touch if you have any questions and please circulate. @uob-sop.bsky.social @thechbh.bsky.social ‬
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Matthew Apps @brainapps.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I am delighted to announce registration and abstract submission is open for "The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025" to be held at the Edgbaston Park Hotel, University of Birmingham, UK on 3-5th November 2025. uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis...
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