Jo Cutler
@drjocutler.bsky.social
Wellcome Trust Early Career Research Fellow
@thechbh.bsky.social, University of Birmingham
http://tinyurl.com/Helpful-Brain
Prosocial decisions, kindness, charity, neuroscience, modelling, ageing
@thechbh.bsky.social, University of Birmingham
http://tinyurl.com/Helpful-Brain
Prosocial decisions, kindness, charity, neuroscience, modelling, ageing
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🔍 Behind the Paper: 'Boosting climate motivation with psychological interventions'. Actions that protect the environment are crucial but often require effort, which people avoid. 🔗Read more here: go.nature.com/4ou8b6K. #AcademicPublishing #psychresearch @drjocutler.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🔍 Behind the Paper: 'Boosting climate motivation with psychological interventions'. Actions that protect the environment are crucial but often require effort, which people avoid. 🔗Read more here: go.nature.com/4ou8b6K. #AcademicPublishing #psychresearch @drjocutler.bsky.social
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Excited to share our preprint on variability in patch leaving decisions! Check out the 🧵 below
🧪Preprint!
How foragers depart from optimal models can tell us a lot about how they compute their decisions.
A strong but underexplored departure is that foragers widely vary when they leave identical patches.
A 🧵
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
With
@emmavscholey.bsky.social @brainapps.bsky.social
How foragers depart from optimal models can tell us a lot about how they compute their decisions.
A strong but underexplored departure is that foragers widely vary when they leave identical patches.
A 🧵
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
With
@emmavscholey.bsky.social @brainapps.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Excited to share our preprint on variability in patch leaving decisions! Check out the 🧵 below
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Pro-environmental actions often require effort. Participants were less motivated to help the climate than a food charity, but two interventions removed this bias. Computational modelling linked climate motivation with pro-environmental traits.
@drjocutler.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
@drjocutler.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Psychological interventions that decrease psychological distance or challenge system justification increase motivation to exert effort to mitigate climate change - Communications Psychology
Pro-environmental actions often require effort. Participants were less motivated to help the climate than a food charity, but two interventions removed this bias. Computational modelling linked climat...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Pro-environmental actions often require effort. Participants were less motivated to help the climate than a food charity, but two interventions removed this bias. Computational modelling linked climate motivation with pro-environmental traits.
@drjocutler.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
@drjocutler.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
🌎 New paper in @commspsychol.nature.com 🌍
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
There is an urgent need to choose behaviours that mitigate climate change, but these are often more effortful. Can we increase pro-environmental motivation?
Joint w/ Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta & amazing international team 👇🧵
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
There is an urgent need to choose behaviours that mitigate climate change, but these are often more effortful. Can we increase pro-environmental motivation?
Joint w/ Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta & amazing international team 👇🧵
November 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM
🌎 New paper in @commspsychol.nature.com 🌍
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
There is an urgent need to choose behaviours that mitigate climate change, but these are often more effortful. Can we increase pro-environmental motivation?
Joint w/ Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta & amazing international team 👇🧵
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
There is an urgent need to choose behaviours that mitigate climate change, but these are often more effortful. Can we increase pro-environmental motivation?
Joint w/ Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta & amazing international team 👇🧵
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Does dopamine modulate the willingness to help?
New Psychology Today post, "How Dopamine Affects Our Motivation to Help Others", written by me, with special thanks to @drjocutler.bsky.social and @thepsychologist.bsky.social
www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-...
New Psychology Today post, "How Dopamine Affects Our Motivation to Help Others", written by me, with special thanks to @drjocutler.bsky.social and @thepsychologist.bsky.social
www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-...
How Dopamine Affects Our Motivation to Help Others
New research shows patients with Parkinson's disease were more willing to help others after taking their dopamine-boosting medication.
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October 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Does dopamine modulate the willingness to help?
New Psychology Today post, "How Dopamine Affects Our Motivation to Help Others", written by me, with special thanks to @drjocutler.bsky.social and @thepsychologist.bsky.social
www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-...
New Psychology Today post, "How Dopamine Affects Our Motivation to Help Others", written by me, with special thanks to @drjocutler.bsky.social and @thepsychologist.bsky.social
www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-...
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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
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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October 23, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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
Great to see this out! Exciting work led by @shawnrhoadsphd.com on how we learn when actions affect ourselves and others 🧠
w/ @aa-marsh.bsky.social, @k-oconnell.com, Kathryn Berluti, & Lin Gan plus @thepsychologist.bsky.social & me @sdnl.bsky.social, @thechbh.bsky.social, @uob-sop.bsky.social
w/ @aa-marsh.bsky.social, @k-oconnell.com, Kathryn Berluti, & Lin Gan plus @thepsychologist.bsky.social & me @sdnl.bsky.social, @thechbh.bsky.social, @uob-sop.bsky.social
📢 Thrilled to share our paper is out now in @natcomms.nature.com
Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly
🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ
Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly
🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ
Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others
Nature Communications - When learning to make choices that simultaneously affect the self and others, asymmetric encoding of information guides future social behaviors across mutually beneficial,...
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October 23, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Great to see this out! Exciting work led by @shawnrhoadsphd.com on how we learn when actions affect ourselves and others 🧠
w/ @aa-marsh.bsky.social, @k-oconnell.com, Kathryn Berluti, & Lin Gan plus @thepsychologist.bsky.social & me @sdnl.bsky.social, @thechbh.bsky.social, @uob-sop.bsky.social
w/ @aa-marsh.bsky.social, @k-oconnell.com, Kathryn Berluti, & Lin Gan plus @thepsychologist.bsky.social & me @sdnl.bsky.social, @thechbh.bsky.social, @uob-sop.bsky.social
I had so much fun organising #CISE2025 conference on Curiosity, Information Seeking & Exploration with Romy Frömer, @hayleydorfman.bsky.social, Ohad Dan, Matt Nassar, Tali Sharot & Jacqueline Gottlieb at beautiful Brown University then hearing about all the amazing research from our speakers…
October 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I had so much fun organising #CISE2025 conference on Curiosity, Information Seeking & Exploration with Romy Frömer, @hayleydorfman.bsky.social, Ohad Dan, Matt Nassar, Tali Sharot & Jacqueline Gottlieb at beautiful Brown University then hearing about all the amazing research from our speakers…
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We’re kicking off day 2 of #CISE2025 🔭 with a fun talk from George Loewenstein on his tour de force research program on information gap theory
October 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
We’re kicking off day 2 of #CISE2025 🔭 with a fun talk from George Loewenstein on his tour de force research program on information gap theory
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George Loewenstein summarizing 30 yrs of brilliant studies on curiosity and desire for information (or a desire to not know, eg likely bad news) #CISE2025 at Brown Univ
October 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
George Loewenstein summarizing 30 yrs of brilliant studies on curiosity and desire for information (or a desire to not know, eg likely bad news) #CISE2025 at Brown Univ
Great start to the travels @univ-amu.fr in beautiful Marseille. Next up Providence for CISE 2025, Boston @socforneuroecon.bsky.social, and New York
September 27, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Great start to the travels @univ-amu.fr in beautiful Marseille. Next up Providence for CISE 2025, Boston @socforneuroecon.bsky.social, and New York
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Early bird registration for "The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025" conference ends on 30th September!
This meeting provides a multidisciplinary perspective on the neural, behavioural and computational mechanisms of foraging across species.
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This meeting provides a multidisciplinary perspective on the neural, behavioural and computational mechanisms of foraging across species.
uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis...
Please share!
Home - The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging
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September 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Early bird registration for "The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025" conference ends on 30th September!
This meeting provides a multidisciplinary perspective on the neural, behavioural and computational mechanisms of foraging across species.
uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis...
Please share!
This meeting provides a multidisciplinary perspective on the neural, behavioural and computational mechanisms of foraging across species.
uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis...
Please share!
Great to have @mjgruber.bsky.social visit @chbh.bsky.social @uob-sop.bsky.social today and give a great talk on curiosity, exploration & memory 🧠
September 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Great to have @mjgruber.bsky.social visit @chbh.bsky.social @uob-sop.bsky.social today and give a great talk on curiosity, exploration & memory 🧠
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I had a fantastic time at the Computational Social Cognition Summer School at U of Birmingham!
What an amazing resource & opportunity for students.
Thanks to organizers @drjocutler.bsky.social Lei Zhang and @thepsychologist.bsky.social & the speakers, instructors, and students!
What an amazing resource & opportunity for students.
Thanks to organizers @drjocutler.bsky.social Lei Zhang and @thepsychologist.bsky.social & the speakers, instructors, and students!
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
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#CSC2025
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CSC 2025
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September 9, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I had a fantastic time at the Computational Social Cognition Summer School at U of Birmingham!
What an amazing resource & opportunity for students.
Thanks to organizers @drjocutler.bsky.social Lei Zhang and @thepsychologist.bsky.social & the speakers, instructors, and students!
What an amazing resource & opportunity for students.
Thanks to organizers @drjocutler.bsky.social Lei Zhang and @thepsychologist.bsky.social & the speakers, instructors, and students!
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So great to share plans for my upcoming online study and broader PhD with brilliant minds at my first conference #BAP2025 and fantastic computational modelling workshop #CSC2025! osf.io/7fqbe
September 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
So great to share plans for my upcoming online study and broader PhD with brilliant minds at my first conference #BAP2025 and fantastic computational modelling workshop #CSC2025! osf.io/7fqbe
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Had a great time attending the Birmingham-Leiden Computational Social Cognition Summer School this week! Thanks to everyone who was part of #CSC2025 and especially to @drjocutler.bsky.social & @lei-zhang.bsky.social for leading the organization! 10/10 would recommend! More info on www.compsoccog.com
September 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Had a great time attending the Birmingham-Leiden Computational Social Cognition Summer School this week! Thanks to everyone who was part of #CSC2025 and especially to @drjocutler.bsky.social & @lei-zhang.bsky.social for leading the organization! 10/10 would recommend! More info on www.compsoccog.com
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#Day2 #CSC2025 keynote on on modelling prejudices in social interactions by @davidamodio.bsky.social followed by a comprehensive tutorial on drifting diffusion modelling. 📊
Day ended with a walking tour of the city ✌️
Day ended with a walking tour of the city ✌️
September 4, 2025 at 10:48 PM
#Day2 #CSC2025 keynote on on modelling prejudices in social interactions by @davidamodio.bsky.social followed by a comprehensive tutorial on drifting diffusion modelling. 📊
Day ended with a walking tour of the city ✌️
Day ended with a walking tour of the city ✌️
#CSC2025 participants enjoying a @positivelybrum.bsky.social walking tour around the city centre
September 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
#CSC2025 participants enjoying a @positivelybrum.bsky.social walking tour around the city centre
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🧠 We're hiring a computational postdoc!
3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN.
Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data.
DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5
3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN.
Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data.
DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5
September 3, 2025 at 7:13 AM
🧠 We're hiring a computational postdoc!
3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN.
Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data.
DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5
3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN.
Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data.
DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5
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Amazing kick start to the Birmingham - Leiden #CSC2025 summer school from @drjocutler.bsky.social with her introductory lecture "Introduction to Computational Modelling: Theory"
September 3, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Amazing kick start to the Birmingham - Leiden #CSC2025 summer school from @drjocutler.bsky.social with her introductory lecture "Introduction to Computational Modelling: Theory"
Evidence-based advice for #CSC2025 participants at the start of @dianatamir.bsky.social’s keynote: over the next few days just get into conversations with people - you’ll probably both enjoy it more than you expected!
September 3, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Evidence-based advice for #CSC2025 participants at the start of @dianatamir.bsky.social’s keynote: over the next few days just get into conversations with people - you’ll probably both enjoy it more than you expected!
Meghna, Lily and Jonny are ready to greet everyone in the Link for our poster reception 👋
September 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Meghna, Lily and Jonny are ready to greet everyone in the Link for our poster reception 👋
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
#CSC2025
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CSC 2025
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September 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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
#CSC2025
www.compsoccog.com