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Hayley Dorfman

@hayleydorfman.bsky.social
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ORISE Intelligence Community Postdoc @Harvard || agency, affect, & uncertainty in learning, decision-making, & computational psychiatry || www.hayleydorfman.com

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David Levari @davidlevari.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm hoping to recruit a new PhD student to join my lab at Brown (@browncopsy.bsky.social) this cycle. Applications are due Nov 15. Please apply! To read about our whole deal: levarilab.com
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Levari Lab
The Levari Lab at Brown University uses social and cognitive psychology to study the behavioral science of performance evaluation, improvement, and learning.
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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Excited to be launching our new PhD program in Minds and Machines at UCL with co-Directors Tali Sharot and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social To apply, find out more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc... Our launch event is on Nov 10th, with a cracking lineup of speakers: luma.com/cikzcth0
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RLDM @rldmparis2027.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
📣 Save the date! RLDM 2027, the Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making, is coming to Paris, July 6-9, 2027 🎉 Stay tuned for submission deadlines and more updates on our website rldm.org 👀
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Katie Insel @katieinsel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The CATS Lab is moving to Columbia next year, and I am recruiting a PhD student this cycle to start Fall 2027 in the Department of Psychology. Learn more about how to apply here: psychology.columbia.edu/content/prep... I am also recruiting a postdoc and staff for 2027. More info coming soon!
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Preparing to Apply | Department of Psychology
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Brandon Woo @brandonwoo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
New paper with Liz Spelke, @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social, and @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social! We find that when 4- to 6-month-old infants observe two individuals share saliva, they infer that those individuals have a close relationship. Free access link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1niQg_Oow0...
A conceptual schematic illustrating the logic of the studies. (A) Infants observe a central actor who shares saliva with one actor and does not share saliva with another actor. (B) From such observations, infants may infer and represent whether the actors are connected and how thick each connection is. (C) These representations support infants' expectations of who will respond to the central actor's distress.
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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 24/08/2026
One week left to apply to the @sinaiccp.bsky.social New York Computational Psychiatry workshop! 💡 Learn more here: center-for-computational-psychiatry.github.io/course_nycpw/ 📝 Apply here by 8/31: airtable.com/appU8UxfDSQh...
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Anne Billot, PhD @annebillot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
📣 New study out today! We show that the brain's language network stays remarkably stable with age — same topography, lateralization, selectivity and connectivity as in younger adults — while the domain-general multiple demand network showed altered activity patterns. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Preserved topography, lateralization, selectivity, and functional connectivity of the language network in older brains - Nature Communications
Here, the authors show that aging affects brain networks differently, with neural changes mirroring the preservation or decline of the cognitive functions they support. The multiple demand network exh...
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Akram Bakkour @akrambakkour.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
📢New paper out today in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social led by Seoyoung Lee! Does reward spread across multiple links in memory organized in a cognitive graph? Yes! We see graded spread through a recalled (even if incorrect) learned graph. Reward preserves proximal structure to support decisions.
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Reward selectively preserves relational structure in memory
Memories tend to form networks that reflect relationships between experiences. These networks, or cognitive graphs, have been used to study how struct…
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Nora Harhen @noraharhen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
How do we make good decisions with little experience? Adults can rely on memories of past choices. In our new study in @pnas.org we show kids & teens do something similar–but what they remember turns out to be quite different! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Developmental changes in memory structure and precision alter the use of retrieved episodes during decisions for reward | PNAS
Most widely studied option evaluation strategies rely on knowledge accumulated across repeated experiences. But how should options be evaluated in ...
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Charley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
🚨Now out in Science Advances @science.org: #Parkinson's patients off dopamine medication (PD-) explore too much and exploit too little. Modeling shows they overvalue uncertainty, not that they choose randomly. On levodopa (PD+) they become comparable to controls www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵👇
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Dopamine depletion in Parkinson’s increases directed but not random exploration
Levodopa restores the balance between exploration and exploitation in Parkinson’s disease.
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Hayley Dorfman @hayleydorfman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
If you’re at #CCN2026 come stop by Sep’s poster at 2pm today! 🌵🤖👥
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Jennifer Bussell PhD @jenbussell.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
How does the brain represent the value of knowledge? In our paper--out now at Nature Neuroscience--we identify a representation of intrinsic information value within neural population structures in the orbitofrontal cortex in mice. www.nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02377-y #neuroskyence 🧠🧪 (1/8)
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Representations of the intrinsic value of information in mouse orbitofrontal cortex - Nature Neuroscience
Mice are motivated to seek information of no extrinsic value. Recording neural activity in orbitofrontal cortex reveals a representation of the value of information that is distinct from the value of ...
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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
New paper alert! In this paper we were interested to formally test some of the assumptions made by computational psychiatrists - assumptions about parameter recoverability, reliability and validity. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The recoverability, reliability, and generalizability of reward processing parameters and relation to mental health symptoms | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
The recoverability, reliability, and generalizability of reward processing parameters and relation to mental health symptoms - Volume 56
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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher who wants to innovate at the intersection of cognitive science, neuroscience, and machine learning. 📍Munich 📅Flexible start: 10/2026–03/2027 ⏳Full consideration by 14/08/2026 💼Funded for 2 years, extension possible Discover, grow, collaborate, eat cake.
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Karolina Lempert @klempert.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Hi all! I’m looking for a full-time RA / lab manager (start date: late Aug or Sept, 1 year of funding guaranteed). Ideal candidate is a recent grad w/ relevant research experience. App review has begun, so if you’re interested, please apply here ASAP, by 7/12! Thx! phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf02/ats/ca...
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Hiring Research Assistant, - Garden City, N.Y.
View job details and apply now
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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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Charley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Some of the first work related to my ERC is now available as a preprint 👉 arxiv.org/pdf/2606.20623 We model the learning of real-world melodies as resource-constrained inference over generative programs, with new implications for Rate-distortion theory: learning changes what is cheap to encode! 🧵👇
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Kate Nussenbaum @katenuss.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
📝 New preprint (co-led with Hannah Hamling as her NYU honors thesis!) 📝 🧠 Do adolescents learn differently in volatile versus stable environments? 🧠 Yes, and they seem to adapt their learning computations to a greater extent than adults! 😮 🤔 Preprint for deets (+ 👁️ data) osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Ali Cohen @aliocohen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Postdoc job ad is now live! faculty-emory.icims.com/jobs/168298/...
The Learning, Understanding, Memory, & Neurodevelopment Lab (LUMeN Lab, PI: Dr.
Alexandra Cohen) in the Department of Psychology at Emory University (Atlanta, GA) is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow to work on NIH-funded studies examining emotion-related learning, memory, and brain function across development.
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Cognition @cognitionjournal.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Post 6 “Ambiguity and confirmatory reward learning” New paper from Hayley Dorfman (@hayleydorfman.bsky.social ) and Rahul Bhui ( @rbhui.bsky.social ) Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Ambiguity and confirmatory reward learning
We tend to interpret feedback in ways that confirm our pre-existing beliefs. Such confirmatory tendencies are often viewed as cognitive flaws, but mig…
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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Postdoc position available at postlab.psych.wisc.edu. Pls send cv to postle@wisc.edu
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PO-STL-AB
Our interests in human memory and cognition encompass the cognitive and neural basis of working memory, attention, control, and consciousness.News  Madison Symposium on Memory & Control. On 30 May 202...
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Cognition @cognitionjournal.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
We often interpret ambiguous feedback in ways that confirm what we already believe. A laugh can feel supportive or mocking. A neutral email can feel encouraging or disappointing. A new paper studies how this happens during reward learning.
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Hayley Dorfman @hayleydorfman.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
🌵🏜️🌵 Out now in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social with @rbhui.bsky.social! If your advisor sends you an unclear email, do you interpret it as good or bad? 😏😱 In a new paper, we show how people make inferences about this type of ambiguous feedback during learning. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Ambiguity and confirmatory reward learning
We tend to interpret feedback in ways that confirm our pre-existing beliefs. Such confirmatory tendencies are often viewed as cognitive flaws, but mig…
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Wouter Kool @wouterkool.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
🚨Paper alert!🚨 Across 5 expts, @mileritayar.bsky.social's new JEPG paper shows that people explicitly avoid switching between attention control states. Using demand selection tasks, we find that people don't just avoid cognitive conflict, but also switching between congruent and incongruent trials.
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Ali Cohen @aliocohen.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The LUMeN Lab at Emory is hiring ✨ We’re seeking a full-time RA/lab manager and a postdoc to work on new NIH-funded studies! Formal job ads/apps forthcoming. We’re eager to hit the ground running so please share these flyers and/or reach out if interested!
The Learning, Understanding, Memory, & Neurodevelopment Lab (LUMeN Lab, Pl: Dr.
Alexandra Cohen) in the Department of Psychology at Emory University (Atlanta, GA) is seeking a full-time Research Assistant (RA) to work on studies examining how motivation and emotion influence learning, memory, and brain function across development. The RA will gain experience with all components of the research process, providing excellent preparation for graduate studies.

The expected start date for the position is Summer/Fall 2026. A two-year commitment is requested. Application review will take place on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

Please reach out to
ali.cohen@emory.edu
with a CV and cover letter if you are interested
in this position.The Learning, Understanding, Memory, & Neurodevelopment Lab (LUMeN Lab, PI: Dr.
Alexandra Cohen) in the Department of Psychology at Emory University (Atlanta, GA) is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow to work on NIH-funded studies examining emotion-related learning, memory, and brain function across development.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

Please reach out to
ali.cohen@emory.edu
with a CV and cover letter if interested.
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Kate Nussenbaum @katenuss.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
How do we predict what’s going to happen next? In a new paper, we @arikahn.bsky.social @licezhang.bsky.social @nathanieldaw.bsky.social @catehartley.bsky.social ask how kids, teens, and adults solve this problem. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Developmental Change in Structure Learning Reflects a Shift From Recency‐Based to Relational Prediction
Children are adept statistical learners, capable of parsing streams of structured input into meaningful units, but the cognitive processes they engage during learning may differ from those of adults...
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Hayley Dorfman @hayleydorfman.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Join us tomorrow afternoon at #APS2026BCN! @psychscience.bsky.social @ninarouhani.bsky.social @camillephaneuf.bsky.social @katieinsel.bsky.social
APS 2026 symposium poster on Computational insights into how motivational and socio-emotional factors shape decision-making
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Camille Phaneuf-Hadd (she/her) @camillephaneuf.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I'm super excited for @psychscience.bsky.social this week! If you're interested in how motivational, emotional, and social contexts shape decision-making, come see computational models from @ninarouhani.bsky.social @hayleydorfman.bsky.social @katieinsel.bsky.social at our Thursday symposium. 💰😨👯⚖️⚙️
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nurasidarus.bsky.social @nurasidarus.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
If interested in #MentalHealth, join us at #pint26 on 18 May to hear my talk on Rethinking Mental Health Narratives! pintofscience.co.uk/event/beauti...
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Beautiful Minds
From paintings to apologies, tonight we're exploring what makes us human. Can art make us kinder? What shapes our mental health? And are sorry really the h…
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Deepu Murty @vpmurty.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Our first foray into horror movies was recently published. Former grad student David Gregory used them as a means to study temporal memory for threatening events. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41965942/
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Arousal and valence differentially shape temporal memory for naturalistic events - PubMed
While emotional arousal and negative valence both alter episodic memory, their contributions to different facets of temporal memory remain unclear. Here, we examined two components of temporal memory ...
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Social Development and Wellbeing Lab @socialdevlab.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Dr. Alexandra Rodman seeks a postdoc (Fall ’26/Spring ’27) for the Social Development & Wellbeing Lab, focused on leading independent research on adolescent social neurodevelopment with a focus on fMRI pipelines, mentorship, & dissemination! Learn more here: www.socialdevlab.com/prospective-...
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Prospective Postdocs — Social Development and Wellbeing Lab
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Caroline Charpentier, PhD @carocharp.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
🚨🚨 The Social Learning and Decisions Lab is hiring! 🚨🚨 We're looking for a postbacc project coordinator/research assistant to join our team this summer. More details about the position and how to apply here: drive.google.com/file/d/1ySeA... Please share widely and reach out with any questions!
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RA_ad_2026-2027_Charpentier.pdf
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Hayley Dorfman @hayleydorfman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Congrats to @thephelpslab.bsky.social on her election to the NAS!!! 👑🎉👏
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Brandon Woo @brandonwoo.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
My current lab manager is heading to grad school this fall, so I'm hiring a new one (shared with Zoe Liberman)! There's one week left to apply. We hope that this experience will help prepare someone for graduate studies and/or careers in research.
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Akram Bakkour @akrambakkour.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
🚨🚨 Job Alert! 🚨🚨 We are seeking a full-time Study Coordinator for a NIMH-funded project that aims to uncover cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying maladaptive food-choice behavior in anorexia nervosa using behavior, eye tracking, fMRI, and computational models. Pls spread the word!
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Study Coordinator
Department SSD Institute for Mind and Biology: Staff and Temporary Employees About the Department The Eating Disorders Program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the Univer...
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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Now @hayleydorfman.bsky.social presents on affect and uncertainty in threat-related information seeking
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Rahul Bhui @rbhui.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
What makes adaptive decision-making possible? New preprint connecting cognitive, social, biological, and computational views! w/ Dorst, FeldmanHall, @smfleming.bsky.social, @catehartley.bsky.social, Gottlieb, Lejarraga, Müller-Trede, @angelaradulescu.bsky.social, and Rosati osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Hayley Dorfman @hayleydorfman.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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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Camille Phaneuf-Hadd (she/her) @camillephaneuf.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I'm thrilled to be attending #SANS2026 this week! I'll be presenting "Prospection Explains Age-Related Increases in the Use of Situation Selection for Emotion Regulation" (P1-A-f-62) on Thursday, 4/16. Catch the highlights at the 3pm spotlight or come chat at the boards from 3:30-5pm!
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Debbie Yee @debyee.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Relatedly, I will be hiring a post-bacc / lab manager starting this Fall 2026. This is a great chance to get hands-on didactic training in computational psychiatry, clinical science, computational cognitive neuroscience, fMRI, & psychopharmacology. Job ad below, Please share with your networks!
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Tobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
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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Yaniv Abir @yanivabir.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This is finally out as Version of Record 🎉 Read to find out how and when humans strategically switch between approaching and avoiding uncertainty with Michael Shadlen and Daphna Shohamy elifesciences.org/articles/94231 🧵:
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Human exploration strategically balances approaching and avoiding uncertainty
Strategic avoidance of uncertainty emerges under high cognitive demands, enabling faster decisions without impairing learning.
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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
🚨 1/ Check out a new paper on perceptual and value-based mechanism of generalization by the amazing @luiantaverra.bsky.social ! A very very proud for moment for me - Lui is my first PhD student and this is her first paper ^^ Pls repost to spread the word :)
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Pete Hitchcock @pf-hitchcock.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Thrilled that this first empirical paper out of the lab is posted, led by Sandarsh Pandey, asking: Depression (and other internalizing disorders) involve profound changes to sense of self. How can we study these differences using rigorous decision-making methods? (alt link: tinyurl.com/2kk59dje)
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Cognition @cognitionjournal.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Changes in our feelings, or "affective surprise," may act as a learning signal that influences what we remember. Large magnitude deviations in experienced valence during encoding relate to better long-term associative memory.
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Charley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
🚀 Postdoc Alert! Are you passionate about social learning & cultural evolution? @dominikdeffner.bsky.social & I have a 3-year position with freedom to develop your research and work on cutting-edge multiplayer and immersive experiments. Apply by March 30! hmc-lab.com/SocialLearni... Pls share 🙏
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Postdoc position -- Social Learning and Cultural Evolution
Postdoc position -- Social Learning and Cultural Evolution posted on March 2, 2026 We are currently seeking a highly motivated individual...
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Yael @yaelniv.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive NeuroPsychiatry (ccnp.princeton.edu) is looking for a new clinical research coordinator! This is a long-term (at least 2 years, more is preferred) position for someone with a BA or MA who is interested in... /1
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Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive Neuropsychiatry
Visit the post for more.
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Patricia Lockwood @thepsychologist.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
We are recruiting! Postdoctoral research fellow at www.sdn-lab.org, studying the computational & neural basis of social decision-making. Birmingham is a fantastic & affordable place to live, with one of the youngest populations in Europe & over 600 parks. Please share! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO275/p...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Social Decision Neuroscience at University of Birmingham
Explore an exciting academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Social Decision Neuroscience. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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Social Development and Wellbeing Lab @socialdevlab.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
We are hiring! Join the Social Development and Wellbeing Lab this summer as a Research Technician. Read more about the opening at www.socialdevlab.com/prospective-... and submit a preliminary application at forms.gle/vYDzQXHav2XG.... Please share! #researchjobs #postbacc
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Prospective RA — Social Development and Wellbeing Lab
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Phil Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel @philjrdb.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
New paper from lab on how VTA dopamine neurons + GABA inhibition contribute to punishment learning. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Disinhibition of ventral tegmental area during initial punishment learning causes enduring punishment insensitivity - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - Disinhibition of ventral tegmental area during initial punishment learning causes enduring punishment insensitivity
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