David V. Smith
@dvsmith.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience at Temple University. Using fMRI and tES to understand how we make social and economic decisions.
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🧠💸 Launching the RewardSignals feed
RewardSignals is a custom feed collecting posts about reward processing and decision making.
To appear in the feed, tag your post with #RewardSignals.
You can find and pin the feed from the Feeds tab as “RewardSignals”.
#RewardSignals
RewardSignals is a custom feed collecting posts about reward processing and decision making.
To appear in the feed, tag your post with #RewardSignals.
You can find and pin the feed from the Feeds tab as “RewardSignals”.
#RewardSignals
November 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
🧠💸 Launching the RewardSignals feed
RewardSignals is a custom feed collecting posts about reward processing and decision making.
To appear in the feed, tag your post with #RewardSignals.
You can find and pin the feed from the Feeds tab as “RewardSignals”.
#RewardSignals
RewardSignals is a custom feed collecting posts about reward processing and decision making.
To appear in the feed, tag your post with #RewardSignals.
You can find and pin the feed from the Feeds tab as “RewardSignals”.
#RewardSignals
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Very excited to hear about this! We find Bayesian multi-level modeling at the ROI level super helpful (e.g. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... ), will be nice to not have to artificially carve the data into parcels a priori!
November 20, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Very excited to hear about this! We find Bayesian multi-level modeling at the ROI level super helpful (e.g. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... ), will be nice to not have to artificially carve the data into parcels a priori!
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It's time to remove laptops from classrooms.
24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images.
The pen is mightier than the keyboard.
24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images.
The pen is mightier than the keyboard.
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It's time to remove laptops from classrooms.
24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images.
The pen is mightier than the keyboard.
24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images.
The pen is mightier than the keyboard.
🚨 New and ongoing work from my lab will be at #SfN25! If you’re attending, come by our posters to talk social decision making, reward, and mood — details in the thread 👇
November 15, 2025 at 11:11 PM
🚨 New and ongoing work from my lab will be at #SfN25! If you’re attending, come by our posters to talk social decision making, reward, and mood — details in the thread 👇
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Super pleased with this one, led by the amazing PhD student and foraging expert @emmavscholey.bsky.social!
🧪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 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Super pleased with this one, led by the amazing PhD student and foraging expert @emmavscholey.bsky.social!
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🚀 New paper (open access) out in Cognitive Therapy & Research: we (@herzog.bsky.social, @evalottabrakemeier.bsky.social, @hudsongolino.bsky.social and me) ask whether group‑level symptom‑change networks in CBT actually capture what happens inside each patient. #Psychology #CBT
Must We Always Go Idiographic? - Cognitive Therapy and Research
Purpose While psychological change processes are increasingly assumed to be “non-ergodic”, prompting a shift toward idiographic approaches, the assumption of ergodicity is often accepted a priori rath...
link.springer.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:11 AM
🚀 New paper (open access) out in Cognitive Therapy & Research: we (@herzog.bsky.social, @evalottabrakemeier.bsky.social, @hudsongolino.bsky.social and me) ask whether group‑level symptom‑change networks in CBT actually capture what happens inside each patient. #Psychology #CBT
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Is social media to blame for teens’ mental health decline?
Intuition says yes—but RCTs find only small short-term effects when users quit.
This new preprint argues these studies don’t prove social media isn’t to blame.
Here’s why: 3 reasons.
Intuition says yes—but RCTs find only small short-term effects when users quit.
This new preprint argues these studies don’t prove social media isn’t to blame.
Here’s why: 3 reasons.
November 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Is social media to blame for teens’ mental health decline?
Intuition says yes—but RCTs find only small short-term effects when users quit.
This new preprint argues these studies don’t prove social media isn’t to blame.
Here’s why: 3 reasons.
Intuition says yes—but RCTs find only small short-term effects when users quit.
This new preprint argues these studies don’t prove social media isn’t to blame.
Here’s why: 3 reasons.
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Really delighted to share our new article in Current Biology showing that the cingulate-to-dorsolateral prefrontal pathway is not involved in trial-to-trial short-term adaptation but rather in sustained motivational control.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
Redirecting
doi.org
November 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Really delighted to share our new article in Current Biology showing that the cingulate-to-dorsolateral prefrontal pathway is not involved in trial-to-trial short-term adaptation but rather in sustained motivational control.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
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I am recruiting a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara for an NIH-funded project on the organization of lateral PFC function--across emotion and cognition--using representational fMRI & TMS. I’d love to find someone w/ a background in cognitive control & computational modeling to complement our team! 🏝️ 🧠 🧲
October 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I am recruiting a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara for an NIH-funded project on the organization of lateral PFC function--across emotion and cognition--using representational fMRI & TMS. I’d love to find someone w/ a background in cognitive control & computational modeling to complement our team! 🏝️ 🧠 🧲
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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
www.findaphd.com
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
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This article is quite good and balanced, but I find these numbers pretty insane.
October 22, 2025 at 9:52 AM
This article is quite good and balanced, but I find these numbers pretty insane.
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Next Week: Don’t miss @angeladuckworth.bsky.social & @katymilkman.bsky.social in conversation with Nobel Laureate @rthaler.bsky.social and Professor @aleximas.bsky.social about their new book, The Winner’s Curse.
📅 Thurs Oct 23 | 4-5PM
📍 Huntsman Hall G06
📩RSVP: https://bit.ly/4nbI9EG
📅 Thurs Oct 23 | 4-5PM
📍 Huntsman Hall G06
📩RSVP: https://bit.ly/4nbI9EG
October 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Next Week: Don’t miss @angeladuckworth.bsky.social & @katymilkman.bsky.social in conversation with Nobel Laureate @rthaler.bsky.social and Professor @aleximas.bsky.social about their new book, The Winner’s Curse.
📅 Thurs Oct 23 | 4-5PM
📍 Huntsman Hall G06
📩RSVP: https://bit.ly/4nbI9EG
📅 Thurs Oct 23 | 4-5PM
📍 Huntsman Hall G06
📩RSVP: https://bit.ly/4nbI9EG
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Out today at Neuron, our experiments show that frontal cortical representation of economic variables is jointly determined by spatial organization and downstream
connectivity of neurons, revealing a structured, multi-scale code for economic variables. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
connectivity of neurons, revealing a structured, multi-scale code for economic variables. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
October 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Out today at Neuron, our experiments show that frontal cortical representation of economic variables is jointly determined by spatial organization and downstream
connectivity of neurons, revealing a structured, multi-scale code for economic variables. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
connectivity of neurons, revealing a structured, multi-scale code for economic variables. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
“We propose a new model in which public communication and advocacy are considered as essential to our mission as rigor and reproducibility—critical not only for safeguarding science, but also for ensuring that its benefits reach all segments of the societies we serve”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Science must break its silence to rebuild public trust - Nature Neuroscience
This Comment calls on scientists to acknowledge how insufficient communication and limited engagement beyond academia have deepened the divide between science and the public. Restoring trust requires ...
www.nature.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:44 AM
“We propose a new model in which public communication and advocacy are considered as essential to our mission as rigor and reproducibility—critical not only for safeguarding science, but also for ensuring that its benefits reach all segments of the societies we serve”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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I'm interviewing applicants for clinical psych for this next cycle! Come to South Bend to study how and why people use substances in their everyday lives
Learn more about the lab: spiel-lab.nd.edu
Learn more about our program: psychology.nd.edu/graduate/are...
Learn more about the lab: spiel-lab.nd.edu
Learn more about our program: psychology.nd.edu/graduate/are...
Clinical Science
Notre Dame’s Department of Psychology offers graduate programs in cognitive, clinical, developmental, and quantitative psychology, joint doctoral programs in peace studies and in computer science / en...
psychology.nd.edu
October 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I'm interviewing applicants for clinical psych for this next cycle! Come to South Bend to study how and why people use substances in their everyday lives
Learn more about the lab: spiel-lab.nd.edu
Learn more about our program: psychology.nd.edu/graduate/are...
Learn more about the lab: spiel-lab.nd.edu
Learn more about our program: psychology.nd.edu/graduate/are...
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Nature Reviews Psychology is encouraging authors to include a citation diversity statement to draw attention to citation imbalances and confirm that they made efforts to cite publications from a diverse group of researchers.
Read more in our editorial: go.nature.com/4mTIpr2
Read more in our editorial: go.nature.com/4mTIpr2
October 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Nature Reviews Psychology is encouraging authors to include a citation diversity statement to draw attention to citation imbalances and confirm that they made efforts to cite publications from a diverse group of researchers.
Read more in our editorial: go.nature.com/4mTIpr2
Read more in our editorial: go.nature.com/4mTIpr2
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Congratulations to the 2026 APS Mentor Award recipients 🎉 John F. Dovidio, @kathyhirshpasek.bsky.social, Marci Lobel, Paul A.M. van Lange, John R. Weisz
APS Mentor Award
The APS Mentor Award honors the importance of mentoring in our field as well as the dedication and impact of individuals with a distinguished record of teaching, advising, and encouraging students and...
www.psychologicalscience.org
October 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Congratulations to the 2026 APS Mentor Award recipients 🎉 John F. Dovidio, @kathyhirshpasek.bsky.social, Marci Lobel, Paul A.M. van Lange, John R. Weisz
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We're a month further into the job market - how are things looking? The good news is that the market does seem to have been delayed: ~150 new listings have appeared since my last post. The bad news is that the total is still substantially lower than what it was during the covid dip.
October 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
We're a month further into the job market - how are things looking? The good news is that the market does seem to have been delayed: ~150 new listings have appeared since my last post. The bad news is that the total is still substantially lower than what it was during the covid dip.
📊 Attending #SNE2025? Check out @jameswyngaarden.bsky.social 's poster this afternoon (Session 1):
P1.E.17 – Trait reward sensitivity and behavioral motivation shape DMN–striatal connectivity during reward anticipation
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@socforneuroecon.bsky.social
P1.E.17 – Trait reward sensitivity and behavioral motivation shape DMN–striatal connectivity during reward anticipation
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@socforneuroecon.bsky.social
Trait reward sensitivity and behavioral motivation are associated with connectivity between the default mode network and the striatum during reward anticipation
Individuals vary substantially in their responses to rewarding events and their motivation to pursue rewards. While the ventral striatum (VS) plays a central role in reward anticipation, its functiona...
www.biorxiv.org
October 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
📊 Attending #SNE2025? Check out @jameswyngaarden.bsky.social 's poster this afternoon (Session 1):
P1.E.17 – Trait reward sensitivity and behavioral motivation shape DMN–striatal connectivity during reward anticipation
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@socforneuroecon.bsky.social
P1.E.17 – Trait reward sensitivity and behavioral motivation shape DMN–striatal connectivity during reward anticipation
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@socforneuroecon.bsky.social
🚨 New from the lab! Excited to share work led by @jenyangyi.bsky.social, debuting today at #SNE2025 (Poster Session 1):
P1.F.38 – Emotion regulation and age shape trustee identity–related decision bias in the trust game
Come check it out this afternoon!
@socforneuroecon.bsky.social
P1.F.38 – Emotion regulation and age shape trustee identity–related decision bias in the trust game
Come check it out this afternoon!
@socforneuroecon.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 11:58 AM
🚨 New from the lab! Excited to share work led by @jenyangyi.bsky.social, debuting today at #SNE2025 (Poster Session 1):
P1.F.38 – Emotion regulation and age shape trustee identity–related decision bias in the trust game
Come check it out this afternoon!
@socforneuroecon.bsky.social
P1.F.38 – Emotion regulation and age shape trustee identity–related decision bias in the trust game
Come check it out this afternoon!
@socforneuroecon.bsky.social
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Reward-reset interval timing drives patch foraging decisions through neural state transitions in dorsomedial striatum https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.679309v1
October 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Reward-reset interval timing drives patch foraging decisions through neural state transitions in dorsomedial striatum https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.679309v1
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NIH will spend its full $48B budget — but multi-year funding means fewer projects, record-low grant success, and a warning for U.S. science.👉 lfdn.org/3KOs2hT
💜Learn how you can support NIH funding: www.lustgarten.org/forging-ahead
#ResearchMatters
💜Learn how you can support NIH funding: www.lustgarten.org/forging-ahead
#ResearchMatters
October 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM
NIH will spend its full $48B budget — but multi-year funding means fewer projects, record-low grant success, and a warning for U.S. science.👉 lfdn.org/3KOs2hT
💜Learn how you can support NIH funding: www.lustgarten.org/forging-ahead
#ResearchMatters
💜Learn how you can support NIH funding: www.lustgarten.org/forging-ahead
#ResearchMatters
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💬 Viewpoint: Academic medicine should adopt the "s-index" to recognize and reward nonresearch contributions like service, mentorship, and diversity initiatives, promoting equity and improving faculty retention.
ja.ma/4nRApYo
ja.ma/4nRApYo
October 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
💬 Viewpoint: Academic medicine should adopt the "s-index" to recognize and reward nonresearch contributions like service, mentorship, and diversity initiatives, promoting equity and improving faculty retention.
ja.ma/4nRApYo
ja.ma/4nRApYo
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Here is NIDA
They were relatively effective in maintaining R01 numbers with little or no multi-year funding, but substantially increased UG1, UG3, and U24 cooperative agreements.
11/n
They were relatively effective in maintaining R01 numbers with little or no multi-year funding, but substantially increased UG1, UG3, and U24 cooperative agreements.
11/n
October 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Here is NIDA
They were relatively effective in maintaining R01 numbers with little or no multi-year funding, but substantially increased UG1, UG3, and U24 cooperative agreements.
11/n
They were relatively effective in maintaining R01 numbers with little or no multi-year funding, but substantially increased UG1, UG3, and U24 cooperative agreements.
11/n
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Here is NIA.
NIA made on 51% as many new R01 awards in FY25 compared with FY24.
7/n
NIA made on 51% as many new R01 awards in FY25 compared with FY24.
7/n
October 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Here is NIA.
NIA made on 51% as many new R01 awards in FY25 compared with FY24.
7/n
NIA made on 51% as many new R01 awards in FY25 compared with FY24.
7/n