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Rahul Bhui

@rbhui.bsky.social
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Associate Professor @MIT Sloan exploring principles of rationality and irrationality. Cognitive science, computational neuroscience, and behavioral economics. mitmgmtfaculty.mit.edu/rbhui

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Michelle Meyer @michellemeyer.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
🚨POSTDOC HIRING: Our lab in the Dept. of Bioethics & Decision Sciences in Geisinger's College of Health Sciences is hiring a Postdoct in the Behavioral Science of Health-Related Beliefs, Judgment & Decision-Making. Start date is asap. Can be remote from anywhere in U.S. tinyurl.com/MeyerChabris...
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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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Marlene Cohen @marlenecohen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I have always believed that ideas from basic systems neuroscience could eventually help people. But for years that felt more like hope than reality. But look! This is one of the most personally satisfying papers my lab has produced because we’re getting there. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧪🧵 1/
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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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Amrita Lamba @amritalamba.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Recent preprint with Oriel FeldmanHall and Matt Nassar, showing clear neural evidence that adolescent (13-15 yrs) social media and smartphones use are associated with blunted reward signaling in the ventral striatum, the brain's reward processing hub, and worse mental health. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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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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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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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 27/04/2026
Our lab (w/ @patrickgbissett) is hiring a full-time research coordinator to work with us on cognitive control, dense fMRI, computational modeling, and human-AI interaction. Designed for post-bacs looking to start a Ph. D in ~2 years. Please repost. phxc1b.rfer.us/STANFORDNLbWAG
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Social Science Research Coordinator (Hybrid Opportunity) in School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford, California, United States
Professor Russ Poldrack’s lab is seeking a new full-time Research Coordinator. The RC will work closely with and report directly to Dr. Patrick...
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Uma Karmarkar @umakarma.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Did you know that this is the first year the Society for Neuroeconomics conference will be in California? Seize the day, left coasters! Decide to come talk about decisions with us... and keynote speaker, the brilliant Carlos Brody! neuroeconomics.org/2026-meeting/
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2026 Meeting - Society For Neuroeconomics
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨 I'm hiring a cogsci/philosophy/compneuro postdoc at @ucl.ac.uk @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH486/p... Come to London & work on frameworks for "testing" for consciousness using Bayesian belief updating & latent variable modeling. Pls share!
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UCL
Discover Postdoctoral Research Fellow jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
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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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Sandro Ambuehl @sandroecon.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
11/ Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2603.29070
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Mental Models of Causal Structure in Economics and Psychology
A burgeoning literature in economics studies how people form beliefs about the causal structures linking economic variables, and what happens when those beliefs are mistaken. We survey this research a...
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Rahul Bhui @rbhui.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Super excited to share this! I really enjoyed how interdisciplinary this project was, bringing together classic questions in cognitive science and a newer perspective from economics.
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Sandro Ambuehl @sandroecon.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
1/ New review paper out today! "Mental Models of Causal Structure in Economics and Psychology" with MIT cognitive scientist @RahulBhui and econ theorist @HeidiThysen. How do people come to believe that one thing causes another—and what happens when those beliefs are wrong? 🧵
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Reed Orchinik @rorchinik.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Very excited to share that I'll be joining Social and Decision Sciences @cmu.edu as an assistant professor in the Fall! So grateful to everyone who has supported me, particularly my amazing advisors @dgrand.bsky.social & Rahul Bhui, family, & friends!
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Rahul Bhui @rbhui.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
MIT looking for applicants to Michael Hammer Postdoctoral Fellowship (combining social science knowledge with technical analyses of complex social and technological systems). academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29104 apps due: March 21, 2025 Your name does not need to be Michael Hammer
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
Job #AJO29104, Michael Hammer Postdoctoral Fellowship, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
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