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Kartik Rai

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PhD Candidate @hein-lab.bsky.social | University Hospital | Wuerzburg, Germany | Translational Social Neuroscience Unit | Approach-avoidance conflict

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Kartik Rai @krai13.bsky.social · 20d

Congratulations Jasper. Many more to come ✌️🙌

Jasper Bischofberger @jasbisch.gitlab.io · 21d

🥳 Super excited that today the first paper of my PhD has been published in @royalsociety.org: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Can learning from rewards and punishments change how people approach (or avoid) in-group vs. out-group members?

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Learning from financial rewards and punishments reduces the in-group bias in social approach without changing the in-group bias in impressions | Royal Society Open Science

Humans’ approach behaviour and impressions are biased towards individuals from their own group (in-group) compared with different groups (out-group). There is evidence that learning from specific interactions with in-group and out-group members can reduce ...

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felixhermans.bsky.social @felixhermans.bsky.social · Sep 5

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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Kartik Rai @krai13.bsky.social · Sep 5

#Day3 #CSC2025 Last day. Fantastic tutorial on bayesian modeling by @lei-zhang.bsky.social. Lectures on basis functions for social decisions @mkwittmann.bsky.social and social learning mechanisms. We presented our group work on empathy RL, thanks to @annesaulin.bsky.social for her mentorship. 🤗

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Kartik Rai @krai13.bsky.social · Sep 4

#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 ✌️

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Kartik Rai @krai13.bsky.social · Sep 3

#Day1 #CSC2025
Amazing insights on neural dynamics of good conversation by Prof. Diana Tamir from Princeton Uni. Followed by lectures on effort based discounting modelling.

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Kartik Rai @krai13.bsky.social · Sep 2

Kicking off! Day0, Poster Presentations at Computational Social Cognition Summer school at @thechbh.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social.

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Kartik Rai @krai13.bsky.social · Aug 22

Stumbled upon this file today. Over 9 months, I made several PhD applications, successful in 2, but secured funding in 1. Things have changed a lot since. It required a lot of discipline to curate an application, knowing that you're competing against the world that too immense social pressure.

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Tobias Hauser @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social · Jul 24

We are hiring for several research positions for this grant, starting early next year. Please reach out if you're interested!
More details on the jobs here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

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Kartik Rai @krai13.bsky.social · Jul 22

At the Dfg visit in Würzburg.

Kartik Rai @krai13.bsky.social · Jun 20

#PUG2025 Day2, POSTER IS UP!!
Please drop by my poster (146) if you are interested in facial morphing and prosocal behaviour 🧑‍🦱🧠

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Kartik Rai @krai13.bsky.social · Jun 20

#PUG2025, Day1. My first in person psychology conference. Lots of interesting talks on cognitive and computational neuroscience.