How do people search for information to make efficient decisions? Our new theory, now out in Psychological Review, suggests that an efficient search rule is (at the core of) the answer. And eye-tracking data support our theory. Check out here (it's open access): psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Successful social interaction relies on predicting others’ behavior. A study in Nature Neuroscience shows how humans adjust to changing strategies, revealing a neural signature of adaptive belief updating. go.nature.com/3P7U0aG #Neuroskyence 🧪

A new study reveals what brain networks govern social mentalization and adaptation, making it possible to predict how flexibly one person reacts to others. Published in @natneuro.nature.com 👉 www.econ.uzh.ch/en/news/rese...

📣 New publication 📣 Very excited to share our new paper "A neural signature of adaptive mentalization" out now in Nature Neuroscience (the project started all the way back in 2018!); with @niklasbuergi.bsky.social @drgokhanaydogan.bsky.social @christianruff.bsky.social (1/4)

How does the brain decide which mental strategy to use when inferring others' beliefs? Excited to (finally!) see my first first-author paper out @natneuro.nature.com Summary below 🧵 #CogSci #CogNeuro www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📣 New book chapter Excited to see my chapter "The Neural Mechanisms of Strategic Decision-Making" finally out in a new book, "Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions", edited by @dvsmith.bsky.social, @thepsychologist.bsky.social, and Dominic Fareri. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

📣 Funded PhD position (competitive, UK students only!) Reach out to me via [email protected] by February 20th, attaching your CV and cover letter if you are interested in applying for a PhD position to study cooperation and prosocial behavior using neuroimaging (1/2)

Interested in applying for a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship (deadline September 2026) with me in decision neuroscience and economics (social and strategic decision making, cooperation, value-based choice, fMRI, computational modeling)? (1/2)

Very sad to hear that John Kagel passed away. He was one of the towering figures of experimental and behavioral economics and a true leader in the field. I was extremely lucky to have John on my PhD committee, and I will never forget his support and unique sense of humor.

📢 New preprint! 📢 Very excited to be a part of the project led by @saurabhbedi.bsky.social on how the brain learns from multimodal inputs (e.g. audiovisual): Separable neurocomputational mechanisms underlying multisensory learning biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📢 New (economics) preprint 📢 (with Jiaxin Yu) Excited to share our study on the cooperation in the infinitely repeated Prisoner's Dilemma, where we use payoff manipulations and all kinds of methods to disentangle strategies, beliefs, and preferences: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

📢 New preprint 📢 (with Daniil Luzyanin) We use a new task to distinguish between the instantaneous and instrumental (goal-oriented) value of the same choice option in the brain using fMRI: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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

Excited to share our new lab website! Konovalov Neuroeconomics Lab konelab.org Our research covers quite a few topics and methods across neuroeconomics, decision neuroscience, and behavioral economics:

🚨 PhD opportunity for Fall 2025 🚨 Send me your CV and cover letter by May 30th to apply to work on neural mechanisms of altruism and cooperation (fMRI, eye-tracking, computational). ONLY open to UK (home) students. Funded by @UoB_SoP Please share and RT!

The application deadline for our summer school in Computational Social Cognition is today! 👇

Funded PhD, UK applicants only this time 🚨 @mgsesrcdtp.bsky.social Apply by May 19 for a PhD with James Goulding, Evgeniya Lukinova (Nottingham) and myself (Birmingham) to work on consumer behavior, big data, machine learning, behavioral experiments, and eye-tracking www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMT549/p...

🚨 New preprint 🚨 "Unrewarded Cooperation" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Remember the poll that went viral in 2023? We reproduced these results using real monetary rewards in an online lab experiment (sorry, no life and death).

🚨 New paper 🚨 Out in @commspsychol.bsky.social: "Manipulating attention facilitates cooperation" with Claire Lugrin and @ccruff.bsky.social We use gaze data and display manipulations in one-shot Prisoner's Dilemma games and find that these manipulations can drive choices through attention 👇

In a one-shot prisoner’s dilemma game, manipulating the location of payout information on computer screens changed participants’ gaze pattern sequences and resulted in greater cooperation when more focus was given to others’ outcomes. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Final call to UK and international candidates (Closing date: 2nd March 2025)! Join us as Full Professor in Human/Cognitive/Translational Neuroscience with the opportunity to step in as (Co-)Director at the @thechbh.bsky.social 👇 edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Final call for a Full Professor position in our school! See details below

🌟 Join us for the 2nd Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition! Amazing line-up of keynote speakers and instructors, new topics, and only £480 with 4 nights accommodation, social events and meals included! 🌟 www.compsoccog.com

Funded PhD: Apply by Feb 24th for a PhD with James Goulding, Evgeniya Lukinova (Nottingham) and myself (Birmingham) to work on consumer behavior, big data, machine learning, behavioral experiments, and eye-tracking: jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ917/p.... Please share with anyone who might be interested!

We are excited to announce the 2nd Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition, Sep 2-5, 2025. Fantastic keynotes: Matthew Rushworth, @dianatamir.bsky.social , @davidamodio.bsky.social Apply by April 18 (compsoccog.com) Please share with anyone who might be interested!

🚨 SUMMER SCHOOL! Announcing the 2nd Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition, Sep 2-5, 2025. Fantastic line-up of keynote: Matthew Rushworth, Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social, and David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social . 👇 Apply by 18 April (compsoccog.com) and RT!

Please repost this open PhD studentship.

Hello #neuroeconomists and decision (neuro)scientists - did I miss you in this starterpack? Just reply to this post or DM if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/1K9Suh

Thanks for the responses - found the starter packs now.

Not really following the migration to Bsky - how did I suddenly get followed by many people? Is there some migration service or list?

Do adolescents learn better from reward or punishment? New blog post in Psychology Today with @drjocutler.bsky.social and Ruth Pauli on our recent study nature.com/articles/s41... featuring work by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Cate Hartley, @arkadykonovalov.bsky.social, and inspired by many others!

For my first post on bsky I am thrilled to advertise an NIMH-funded open postdoc position in my lab in collaboration with Jen Wildes at UChicago. Please spread the word! For more info and instructions to apply, please see: bakkourlab.uchicago.edu/join-us/post...

An updated version of GLM-Spectrum - now shorter and better thanks to three reviewers! very grateful for their input. In addition to clean-ups & improvements, a notable new addition is spectra of effect sizes in multivariate models. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroscience #neuroimaging

⭐️New PhD position⭐️ on Understanding and disrupting Social Decision-Making in Health and Disorder, joint with the wonderful @arkadykonovalov and funded by BBSRC warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa.... Details of our lovely lab www.sdn-lab.org. Send your CV + cover letter to me by Dec 5th. Pls RT!

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!