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Amitai Shenhav
@ashenhav.bsky.social
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Associate Professor, Dept of Psychology, UC Berkeley. PI of @shenhavlab.bsky.social https://www.shenhavlab.org/
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Amitai Shenhav @ashenhav.bsky.social · Sep 8
I'm happy to now be able to share a talk I gave at TEDx New England last Fall! 

The talk is about our lab's work on what makes decisions costly, and how to make them less so.

I discuss lessons for all kinds of decisions, including getting people to vote.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeHg...
How to make a choice when the options suck | Amitai Shenhav | TEDxNewEngland
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 5d
New job 🚨:

Our #SCIMaP (scienceimpacts.org) team is searching for a Research Communications and Media Outreach Specialist to facilitate public engagement related to federal investment in science and health research.

Application review starts Oct 10:
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Research Communications and Media Outreach Specialist
Job Description Summary Organization's Summary Statement: The Science & Community Impacts Mapping Project (SCIMaP: https://scienceimpacts.org/) is committed to visualizing and communicating the lo...
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Shenhav Lab @shenhavlab.bsky.social · 5d
➡️P3.I.45: Validating predictions of a flexible decision-making model for varying decision goals and choice set properties by Ana Hernandez at 11:15 on 10/5.

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Shenhav Lab @shenhavlab.bsky.social · 5d
At #SNE2025? Check out our lab's presentations!

➡️O.03.02: "Competitors or Opportunities? Mutual exclusivity alters neural and attentional processing of choice alternatives" by @jasonleng.bsky.social at 9:00 on 10/4.

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Anna Schapiro @annaschapiro.bsky.social · 5d
Members of the Penn community: please sign this actionnetwork.org/petitions/ju...
Just Say No to Trump's Compact for Academic Extortion
Yesterday, the University of Pennsylvania was one of nine targets of the Trump Administration's "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." Through it, Trump asks once again for universitie...
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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 5d
Are you an early career scholar interested in learning more about peer review?

Join us for our virtual @reviewerzero.bsky.social workshop! We will help you understand how peer review works and give advice on responding to reviewer comments.

9-10:30am PT / 12-1:30pm ET on October 30th. Register👇🏼
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Peer Review 101. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Peer Review 101. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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Lexi Decker @lexidecker.bsky.social · 7d
Excited to share that I'm joining WashU in January as an Assistant Prof in Psych & Brain Sciences! 🧠✨!

I'm also recruiting grad students to start next September - come hang out with us! Details about our lab here: www.deckerlab.com

Reposts are very welcome! 🙌 Please help spread the word!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7d
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Uma Karmarkar @umakarma.bsky.social · Nov 23
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!

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Michael Wong @miquai.bsky.social · 8d
Advance reading copies have arrived! 📚
A stack of “Time’s Second Arrow: Evolution, Order, and a New Law of Nature” by Robert M. Hazen and Michael L. Wong sits on a wooden table
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Dr. Sarah Sperry @drsarahsperry.bsky.social · 14d
Don't miss the EmoTe Lab/Prechter Program presentations at #SRP2025 this year!
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Dr. Allison G. Harvey @allisonharvey.bsky.social · 14d
Are you applying to a PhD in Clinical or Counseling Psychology? Here is a list of mentors who are taking students. Please circulate widely (and on X) so all applicants can benefit 😀. If you are mentoring please do add your name!
#clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social
Accepting Clinical or Counselling Psychology Grad Student?
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 16d
The backlash to ABC/Disney canceling Kimmel has been swift, and severe. The whole episode underscores something I've been blogging about for a while: A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...
A lot of people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is
The backlash to ABC/Disney canceling Kimmel shows why it's important for businesses and the public to understand that two-thirds of Americans are not Trump voters
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Carlos Brody @carlosbrody.bsky.social · 19d
What happens in your brain when you make up your mind?

Postdoc (soon faculty at U. of Utah) @thomas-zhihao-luo.bsky.social and ex-grad student (now Shanahan Fellow at Allen Institute) @timkimd.bsky.social have some answers in this new paper out in Nature!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Shenhav Lab @shenhavlab.bsky.social · 20d
New preprint led by Ivan Grahek!

Shifting demands of daily life require constant adjustments in how we allocate cognitive resources. Here we show that slower transitions between different cognitive strategies limit cognitive flexibility across the lifespan: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Slower transitions between control states lead to reductions in cognitive flexibility over the lifespan
Declines in cognitive flexibility are a hallmark of cognitive aging, but their causes remain elusive. Here, we examine a previously untested source of aging-related cognitive inflexibility, building o...
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Adrienne Wood @adriennewood.bsky.social · 22d
We're now accepting data blitz and poster abstracts for @spspnews.bsky.social Emotion Preconference (Feb 26 in Chicago)! We've got an exciting lineup of invited speakers, including a themed panel on emotions in groups. Abstract portal closes October 23. spsp.org/events/annua...
The SPSP Annual Emotion Preconference is on Feb 26, 2026 in Chicago, Illinois. Speaker lineup: Elisa Baek, Belinda Campos, Hillary Elfenbein, Shigehiro Oishi, Jennifer MacCormack, Brian Parkinson. No accepting data blitz and poster submissions!
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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 22d
How do we update our predictions when our environment changes?

The hippocampus rapidly integrates previously distinct sequences to support updated predictions.

Proud of this work with Hannah Tarder-Stoll & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The Hippocampus Rapidly Integrates Sequence Representations During Novel Multistep Predictions
Memories for temporally extended sequences can be used adaptively to predict future events on multiple timescales, a function that relies on the hippocampus. For such predictions to be useful, they sh...
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Sam McDougle @actlab.bsky.social · 23d
Thrilled that our new review "Motor Working Memory" is now in press at TiCS!

@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social
@cellpress.bsky.social

By me +
Hanna Hillman

We argue that a dedicated research program on 'working memory for movements' is long overdue

Link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lmMX4sIRv...
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Wanja Wolff @wanjawolff.bsky.social · 23d
📢 Now accepted at Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 🤩

Our proposal offers a framework for understanding how fundamental regulatory sensations, such as boredom & effort, shape temporal experience through interoceptive mechanisms.

Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

TL;DR: Check 🧵 below
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Carlos Brody @carlosbrody.bsky.social · 23d
The Trump administration's assaults on great American successes, like this one, leave many of us scientists bewildered and not knowing how to respond.

But inaction is not an option. If you don't know what to do, put time and effort into figuring out what to do.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
How the Trump Administration Is Dismantling America’s Cancer-Research System
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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 26d
Come work with us! UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09896

I'm not on the committee, but happy to talk if you're interested.
Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
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Amitai Shenhav @ashenhav.bsky.social · 26d
Update: the deadline for the Biological Basis of Behavior has been extended to Sept 18th! ✨

aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05054

Please reach out to Linda Wilbrecht if you have any questions about the position.
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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 27d
The call for abstracts for the 2026 SAS Annual Conference is now open!! If you haven't already, start thinking about what you'll submit--we're so excited to see what everyone has to share this year👀

Repost & share with you colleagues--the most affect science, the merrier☺️
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Harrison Ritz @hritz.bsky.social · 28d
Awesome new preprint from @jasonleng.bsky.social!

Deadlines in decision making often truncate too-slow responses. Failing to account for these omissions can (severely) bias your DDM parameter estimates.

They offer a great solution to correct for this issue.

doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Calvin Lai @calvinklai.bsky.social · 28d
🚨We're hiring!🚨 The Dept of Psychology at Rutgers is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology. Review of applications begin on Oct 18. Details here: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/259...

I'm chairing the search committee and am happy to field questions about the position. 🧵
Assistant Professor in Social Psychology, Tenure-Track
The Department of Psychology at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, NJ, plans to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor in SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, with a start date of September 1, 2026. We seek a candidate...
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Shenhav Lab @shenhavlab.bsky.social · 29d
In a TEDx talk just out, @ashenhav.bsky.social discusses what research from our lab teaches us about “How to choose when choosing is hardest” (the talk’s original title 😆):

➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeHg...
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