Join us in Rome for the ESCAN Pre-Conference Symposium on Social Neuroscience 🧠 How can we bridge basic research and societal impact? 📅 June 3 | 13:30–17:15 📍 Rome Topics: AI & human interaction • Clinical & health • Climate • Societal & political applications 🔗 escan2026.eu/pre-conferen...

In a world where politicians with clearly #antisocial #personalities run our governments and economies, understanding how they trust—and punish—has become more important than ever. We studied exactly this in our paper doi.org/10.1073/pnas....

Delighted that “Anticipatory Anxiety and Wishful Thinking” is forthcoming in the American Economic Review. Easily the most demanding paper of my career! Thankful to my co-authors for the collaboration and the fun. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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!

New paper on the neural basis of the valence-induced confidence bias: Neural and computational underpinnings of biased confidence in human reinforcement learning. Thanks to an amazing team: Chih-Chung Ting, Mael Lebreton, Stefano Palminteri and Nahuel Salem-García. www.nature.com/articles/s41...