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Todd Vogel

@toddvogel.bsky.social
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Postdoc at SDN lab, Centre for Human Brain Health, University of Birmingham Social behaviour, effort, context, decision-making, neuroscience, modelling

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Todd Vogel @toddvogel.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
🥳 Many thanks to the great team involved in this: Luke Priestley, @drjocutler.bsky.social, Tabitha Hogg, Neil Garrett, @brainapps.bsky.social, Matthew Rushworth, & @thepsychologist.bsky.social
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Todd Vogel @toddvogel.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Overall, we find that our immediate environment has a significant impact when making prosocial decisions, and that poorer environments can drive greater generosity.
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Todd Vogel @toddvogel.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
We found that: • People were more willing to help in poor environments. • Opportunity costs were distinctly encoded for self and other, and for both environments. • Those higher in empathy and utilitarian thinking were generally more likely to stop to help in both environments.
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Todd Vogel @toddvogel.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Across 3 studies (n=500+), we tested how willing people were to stop a movie to put in effort to help someone else while we changed the richness of the environment. In poor environments, opportunities to help were generally lower in quality, whereas in rich environments, they were generally higher.
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Todd Vogel @toddvogel.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
We wondered whether these same mechanisms drive our decisions for when we stop to help other people, and if they did so more strongly than decisions for when to help ourselves. 🤔
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Todd Vogel @toddvogel.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Existing tasks that measure prosocial behaviour often ask people to choose between two options: to help or not help. However, theories from behavioural ecology suggest that our willingness to help isn't fixed, but changes depending on the kinds of opportunities we encounter in our environment.
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Todd Vogel @toddvogel.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
🎉 New paper in Nature Communications 🎉 rdcu.be/e24jT Does our environment influence how likely we are to help others?
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Humans are more prosocial in poor foraging environments
Nature Communications - People constantly decide whether to stop what they are doing to do something else. Here, the authors show that the quality of available options has a greater influence on...
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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 · 26/06/2025
🌟 Research Assistant opportunity 🌟 I'm looking for an RA to support research @thechbh.bsky.social on social information seeking and decision making, including fMRI and MEG 🧠 Details: tinyurl.com/chbh-ra-uob Deadline: 20th July ⏳ Start: From September 🗓️ Please share 🔁
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Research Associate - School of Psychology - 104433 - Grade 6
The role is to provide Research Assistant services to Dr Jo Cutler for her projects on social decision-making and information seeking. Tasks include helping with participant recruitment and testing, c...
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Paul Vanags @paulvanags.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
New paper! Greater (objective and subjective) wealth is consistently associated with higher prosocial preferences and behaviours across 76 countries. Resource scarcity (precarity) also has an effect. bit.ly/410jni3 @thepsychologist.bsky.social @fabiankosse.bsky.social @drjocutler.bsky.social
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Greater income and financial well-being are associated with higher prosocial preferences and behaviors across 76 countries
Abstract. Prosocial preferences and behaviors—defined as those that benefit others—are essential for health, well-being, and a society that can effectively
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Zhi-Lin Su (蘇致霖) @zhilinsu.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
📢 New Preprint 📢 Delighted to share our preprint of a chapter co-authored with @thepsychologist.bsky.social @sdnl.bsky.social for the forthcoming book 'Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions'! The neuroeconomics of social influence and contagion osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Matthew Apps @brainapps.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Funded PhD (UK students only). Interested in a PhD working in the MSN lab, co-supervised by Dr. Romy Froemer? Topic is flexible around themes of motivation and decision-making, using techniques such as computational modelling, brain imaging, or brain stimulation. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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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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Todd Vogel @toddvogel.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
Huge thanks to the co-authors Luke Priestley, @drjocutler.bsky.social , Tabitha Hogg, Nima Khalighinejad, Neil Garrett, @brainapps.bsky.social , Matthew Rushworth, & @thepsychologist.bsky.social as well as @thechbh.bsky.social & others not on Bluesky!
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Todd Vogel @toddvogel.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
Combining approaches from behavioural ecology 🐦 and decision neuroscience 🧠, here we show that deciding when to engage in prosocial behaviours depends on one's environment, which is critical to understand as environments change.
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Todd Vogel @toddvogel.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
Computational modelling showed that opportunity costs of different environments were distinctly valued for others vs oneself. Opportunity costs for others also related to levels of utilitarianism and empathy/motivation.
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Todd Vogel @toddvogel.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
We found a robust environmental influence on decisions that benefit others. People were more willing to interrupt their behaviour to help others in poor compared to rich environments.
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Todd Vogel @toddvogel.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
Across 3 studies (total n=510) we used an ecological framework see how one's environment influences when we decide to help others vs ourselves.
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Todd Vogel @toddvogel.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
Prosocial behaviours are essential for solving global challenges 🌎. Yet, these behaviours are typically measured using self-report or economic games which may not reflect the kinds of decisions from everyday life.
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Todd Vogel @toddvogel.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
New preprint! 🚨 osf.io/preprints/ps... Does deciding when to help others depend on our environment? (spoiler: yes!)
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
🌟 Research Assistant opportunity 🌟 I'm looking for an RA to support new projects @thechbh.bsky.social on social information seeking and decision making inc. fMRI and MEG 🧠 Details: tinyurl.com/ra-uob-chbh Deadline: 24th September ⏳ Get in touch w/ questions 👋 Please share 🔁
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Research Associate - College of Life and Environmental Sciences - 104433 - Grade 6
The role is to provide Research Assistant services to Dr Jo Cutler for her projects on social decision-making and information seeking. Tasks include helping with participant recruitment and testing, c...
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 16/05/2024
🌎 New preprint! 🌍 osf.io/preprints/ps... There is an urgent need to choose behaviours that mitigate climate change. But these actions are often more effortful. How can we increase pro-environmental motivation? Jointly led by Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta & amazing international team 👇🧵
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Social Decision Neuroscience Lab @sdnl.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
Hello! We are a team of researchers based at The Centre for Human Brain Health (@thechbh.bsky.social) studying the cognitive, computational and neural mechanisms of social learning and decision-making. We'll start by introducing our lab...
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Margot Gueguen @margotgueguen.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
Very excited to share this commentary written with @thepsychologist.bsky.social on predicting others' attention! 👀🎉
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Patricia Lockwood @thepsychologist.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
“Social psychology: Predicting other people’s attention to understand their mind” new Research Highlight, and first PhD paper!! With the wonderful @margotgueguen.bsky.social in @commspsychology www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Social psychology: Predicting other people’s attention to understand their mind - Communications P...
Humans are highly social beings who are interested in what others are saying, thinking, and doing. A recent study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that we can easily tell w...
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Celia Heyes @celiaheyes.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
Discussion Forum on my "Rethinking Norm Psychology", edited by @dryan149.bsky.social. 14 great commentaries by @duhe.bsky.social @evanwestra.bsky.social @kristinandrews.bsky.social @thepsychologist.bsky.social Molly Crockett, Kim Sterelny...#neuroskyence #philsky journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...
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Vincent Taschereau-Dumouchel @vincenttd.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
In our new decoded neurofeedback study, we used a MNI-space decoder of pain (SIIPS) for the purpose of neuro-reinforcement. We showed that (1) we can modulate SIIPS independently from another decoder of pain intensity (NPS) and (2) have some influence over pain perception #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
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Matthew Apps @brainapps.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
My lab is seeking a postdoc to work on Wellcome trust/ERC grants to examine the cognitive, computational & neural basis of human motivation and decision-making. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDS251/r.... This is a 2.5 year post initially with possibility of extension. Deadline is November 17th. Please repost!
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Research Fellow at University of Birmingham
An academic position as a Research Fellow is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
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